3are drifting slowly, but very slowly, toward better conditions and are badly handicapped, due to a lack of constructive minds and capital.
MIVES 06 For the purposes of comparison the following references are made to the Mexican situation: Events would indicate that uncertainty as to our intent existed when the Mexican problem confronted our Government in 1911 and 1912, and found it without a policy so far as the above mentioned convicA map tion, that of a possible annexation, is concerned.
of Mexioo hung in another Senator office and the northern half of Mexico was marked as that which should be ours, the price of intervening to put Mexico house in order. When the storm broke in Mexico. 1910) serious events followed each other in such quick succession that no policy of a practical nature which would indicate a settled conviction on the part of this Government seems to have been clearly outlined.
Had our intent been clear and friendly it would have encouraged the Mexicans toward confiäence in our aims, with its resultant stimulation to that people to endeavor to settle their affairs internally.
But for the European war, the Mexican situation would have been one of the foremost foreign issues of our time, for many reasons.
Not the least powerful one being that it involved the basio question of giving opportune protection to Americans