to Americans who left good homes to seek their fortunos in foreign fields not solely to advance their own interest but to extend the busine88 of their country by doing constructivo good in other countries.
When the war close 8, the Mexican situation will soon again become one of our most important foreign problems, because it will involve not only Mexican conditions but those of the countries to the south of Mexico, Guatomala, Honduras, Nioaragua, Sal.
vador and Costa Rica. These Republics need development and will attract the cupidity of commercially ambitious nations.
We have been imposed upon by the lines appearing about the colored sections oť America which goographically divides the countries, in reality united by a common need for development and improved political conditions.
Satisfying both of these great needs, in spite of anything Mexicans and Central Americans may think, rests very largely upon the attitude of the United States toward them.
The probloms of Contral America and of Moxico, the need of development and improved political conditions, begin to appear as one and the same, making due allowances for the different soveraiguties and the varying civilizations which have grown up under them.
The natives spring from the same root, having similar, if not identic, infusions of blood, and the same general standards.