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72 represent capital and the securities of their companies are in Wall Street. Because the Standard Oil people with peace in Mexico might build pipe lines therein and buy Mexican oil and make money refining it, it is better to have anarchy in Mexico than that the Standard Oil Company should have any more capital, wealth, or earnings.

Therefore, Mexico must be cut asunder, Carranza must rule or tumble down in Mexico City; Villa may overrun Chihuahua and even raid into the United States; Pelaez may govern in the oil fields, Felix Diaz may operate from Vera Cruz, Zapata may rule to the south of Mexico City, and Cantu may run Lower California.

If we had meditated a diabolical plan to ruin Mexico, and all the friends of Mexico, how successful would have been the most wicked machination if it could have accomplished the present disunited and hopeless situation!

If Mexico had been permitted to be truly free by an assisting hand from the United States, what a power to-day would be her food and mineral resources in health and help for the whole world!

We have declared ourselves brother-keeper of Mexico and have imprisoned her; and as she