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Rh President Wilson, who declares, "They must fight it out among themselves."

Nobody in this country desires any military intervention in Mexico, and the only thing that can at the present time invite it would be the German activities. All governments and forms of government in Mexico must understand the danger in this. German dynamite would do more damage to rulers and would-be rulers in Mexico than it would to the military forces of the United States.

It is said that the new Carranza constitution, with its confiscatory measures, in effect May 1, 1917, is primarily an attack upon Spanish, British, French, and Belgian interests in Mexico and only incidentally an attack upon the interests of citizens of the United States in that country.

While the new constitution decrees that there shall be no retroactive measures it declares that all wealth beneath the surface, mineral and oil, is the property of the State.

There are also provisions in the new constitution dealing with the amounts of land any