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Rh and English filed claims and the strongest nations of the world filed theirs at Washington; but where will the millions of the good people of Mexico who want work, wages, and human progress lodge their claims or cries?

I shall never forget the sincere, earnest emphasis of Edward L. Doheny, controlling owner in the Mexican Petroleum Company, as on March 16, 1917, he declared, on his yacht Casiana heading into the "northers" on the Gulf of Mexico: "I would sink all my interest on this coast ten thousand feet deep in the sea to give the good people of Mexico right, justice, and freedom in a modern system of civilization."