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is difficult to interest the people of the United States in the sufferings of the people of Mexico when our sympathies and pocketbooks are engaged in behalf of five million men in the hospitals of Europe, six million in prison camps, and seven million war cripples, a total of eighteen million daily sufferers, all making the strongest appeals through war-relief movements organized in the United States.

This is an appalling number of sick, maimed, and in prison, aggregating more than the total population of Mexico. There are forty million more headed in the same direction and behind there must be two hundred million in suffering families.

This is the only explanation I can give for the dulled and deaf ears upon which fall the appeals in the name of humanity to give sympathetic aid to the people of Mexico now adrift in political, financial, and social seas with no chart or compass and no directing voice except that of