. Review of reviews and world's work. nd easilyrepelled. We had meanwhile, .^me weeks..go, strengthened the border forces untilabout 20,000 men were scattered along thel50(J-mile line, in addition to the 15.000 ofwhose services we were deprived because wehad placed them where they could accomplishnothing except to provoke the Mexicans and make the guard duty of the 20,000 vastlymore difficult. If the 15,000 had beenpromptly brought back to reinforce the longpatrol on our side of the boundary, we shouldhave had nothing further to fear from raids,and the people of Mexico would have becomemore fr
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. Review of reviews and world's work. nd easilyrepelled. We had meanwhile, .^me weeks..go, strengthened the border forces untilabout 20, 000 men were scattered along thel50(J-mile line, in addition to the 15.000 ofwhose services we were deprived because wehad placed them where they could accomplishnothing except to provoke the Mexicans and make the guard duty of the 20, 000 vastlymore difficult. If the 15, 000 had beenpromptly brought back to reinforce the longpatrol on our side of the boundary, we shouldhave had nothing further to fear from raids, and the people of Mexico would have becomemore friendly in their feeling. j^^ It is not strange that the IVIexi-Oominuting cans should have been distrustfuland provoked to the point ofdesperation. There is no nation on the earth, civilized or savage, that could have enduredsuch an indignity with greater self-restraintthan the Mexicans have shown. Theirs isa chaotic country, wholly incapable of demo-cratic self-government; but they have intensesentiment, and we have treated them with. unnro statfs moon MARonNc nwoir^ a pufjmjo in mf.xico 16 Tin. .IMIRIC.IX Rtiltlf Ul Rh.l n.us too little understanding. Nc have said thatwe do not mean to annex an part of Mex-ico; but we have created conditions whichseem to have made armed intervention un-avoidable and annexation probable. Texasand the Southwest are the dt>minatinp forcesat present in the Democratic party. 1 hereal purposes of the Southwest towardsnorthern Mexico are not much dispuised.No country ever avows armed occupation andannexation as its ultimate object. Elnplandtook Ep, pt on the pretext of restoring order.Austria took Hosnia for temporar> purposesof administrative reform. We can onlyawait developments in order to discover whatis the real purpose of the Democratic admin-istration toward Mexico, It was at least reasonable to con- Interventioit 1, 1 • -i- i- th*Apparent clude that the militar- expedi-^^^ tion under (ieneral Pershing wasdesigned to bring about arme