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Title: The Forum
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York, N.Y.: (Events Pub. Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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he decent and patriotic Liberal elements, that will initiatea policy of reconstruction, with our accepted help not onlyin mere money, but work and co-operation. This newadministration can be made to command the support ofall the main armed elements against Carranza: the Statesof Oaxaca and Meixueiro, Felix Diaz and his supporters, theZapatistas, Pelaez, and even Villa and Angeles. To pro-tect such a rehabilitating Mexican administration, a stabil-izing center must be had, but not of the despotic type; we 426 THE FORUM can with our friendship and resources become that center,and yet in a way that will not violate Mexicos independentpolitical self-determination, nor-submit her to consciencelessand usurious financial control. STRANGE FACES By Jeannette Marks There! That is the face for me,— That face I shall never see In this world again! All that I miss is there, Touch of life and its kiss! O, mysterious love in our heart Found for us both as we pass,— As we part! THE HOPE OF MEXICO
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When Mexico sees the light. Prize Cartoon by Walter Wilhelm, Wheeling, W. Va. sa A TONIC FOR MEXICO A PLEA FOR PEACEFUL ARMED OCCUPATIONBy Arthur Stanley Riggs, F. R. G. S. EVEN the coldest of logicians must admit that, so faras her foreign relations are concerned, Mexico hasnot one sound brick in her national structure. ThatMexico presents to the United States a problem of thegravest sort cannot be denied. The causes of that problemare fairly familiar in a general way, but the remedy that caneffect permanent and satisfactory solution of such an irritant—not only to ourselves but to our increasingly impatientand restive transatlantic neighbors—is something yet to beadduced. The underlying reason for Mexicos condition todayis to be found as far back as the days of the Spanish Con-quest. Spain built up her vast colonial empire by force ofarms, chicanery, exploitation of the native, oppressive legis-lation, confiscatory measures of many sorts, and a super-cilious refusal to admit tha

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