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74 cheered on the Indian tribes against the American pioneer bringing the white man's civilization into the jungle? Would they have called out, "Bully for you, old Puritan, over goes your meeting-house and some children in the flames! Buck up there, old Sioux, there are more scalps for you! more women to torture! more fields to burn! more plunder ahead! fight it out!" Now, individual reader, please don't blame MF. Wilson; he represents you, calloused and hard to the sufferings of your neighbor, rejoicing in the sacrifice of your fathers and the prosperity of your present position. You have not and you do not take any more interest in Mexico than you do in a famine in India. You think Mexico is a good joke on the Guggenheims, the Standard Oil Company, and Wall Street, but when a long war in Europe, where you are now to take the forefront of the battle, has softened your heart and the income taxes have come down to the smallest savings, you will be less of an Indian, less of a savage, less of a Mexican, yourself. You will be more thoughtful, more tender of heart, and a more worthy son of the men who first brought freedom and true democratic government into the American jungle.

The pity about it all is that Mexico was