Page:The Mexican Problem (1917).djvu/121

Rh Canada is young but has the soul of an elephant.

Mexico will never be for the Mexicans or for humanity until American and European enterprise has had fair play in that country and been permitted to pay fair wages to her willing people who are longing for light, enlightenment, and education. Without education leading to usefulness there can be no patriotism.

Carranza is in a difficult situation. We of the United States have struck down all credit for Mexico.

Had we deliberately gone about a diabolical scheme to wreck a billion of foreign capital in Mexico, to give forty thousand foreigners over to plunder, and to decree misery, poverty, and sorrow for more than fifteen million Mexicans, we could have conceived of no more effective plan than that which we have executed toward her without ever planning anything against her.

Because the Guggenheim smelting interests could make some millions of dollars more a year with peace in Mexico, nobody must speak a word for peace in Mexico, for the Guggenheims