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Rh thousand wheels in motion and light millions of happy homes.

How can the necessary order, effective courts, and national sanitation be provided for such great ends of justice?

The United States brought these things to Cuba and see the result, peace and prosperity without annexation and with complete autonomous independence for the Cuban people. Give the Mexican people the same chance, the same opportunity, a like period in which new institutions, new courts, new security, new sanitation come into being, and Mexico will show the same marvel of abounding progress.

The United States just a half-century ago saved Mexico from the foreign invader. To-day Mexico must be saved from the internal destroyer. One task was accomplished without invasion. The other may be. Accomplished it must be. Moral responsibilities know no boundary lines.

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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY July 1, 1917