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Rh tears herself within her own prison walls, we stuff cotton in our ears and give her over to the I.W.W and the crazy, illogical brains of such as Lincoln Steffens.

With many of the richer states in Mexico cut off from support to the central de facto government, where shall Carranza raise revenue to pay his soldiers and maintain law and order?

It is a mystery to everybody in and out of Mexico how Carranza can exist. I have very reliable reports from abroad that some German money has come into his hands. Only recently he took $38,000,000 Mexican silver from the banks in Mexico City, and it was figured that this would last him only so many weeks and that then Villa would again be raiding over the country. When Carranza has troops and money, Villa takes to the hills, but when the money is gone and his soldiers clamor for pay, Villa appears on the scene and promises the compensation of loot; and our Mr. Wilson says that these good patriots, both of whom have been his allies, must fight it out as did our forefathers.

I wonder if Mr. Wilson's forefathers would really have sat up on the top rail of a fence and