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Rh say with safety how much of a squint he may take around the horizon when he gets really fighting mad in the interest of universal peace.

Meanwhile, it may be well to point out for financial interests the benefit to oil producers in that country of the American policy to date of non-intervention and of general disorder.

The great oil gushers of Mexico are near the coast. They are thus of world-wide value, but there is no storage capacity in the world that might not be quickly exhausted by a full run from one of these gushers. The Mexican Petroleum Company has storage for nine million barrels, and it is full. The Cowdray interests likewise are full up to their six million storage capacity.

Nature is wonderful in concealing her natural resources until the world is prepared for them. Then it is discovered that she has all the while been hanging out invitation signs for man to dig and produce.

To-day, however, the world can see and scientifically figure the possibilities of both coal and oil exhaustion for all known sources of supply on this planet.