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and another which is overawed when Villa parades through the streets of Mexico forty thousand ragged men; feels that the national economic structure is collapsing when the oil wells fall ofl in production and possesses a war fleet which, at the first stir of a Norther in the Gulf, takes refuge in any port.
The North american Political Geography teaches that, with a Naval Base in Key West, on the Florida Peninsula; another at Guantanamo and positions in Puerto Rico, Haiti, Santo Domingo, occupied by North America, the Virgin Islands, unloading coasts in Nicaragua and the Panama Canal on the Atlantic; and this, the Ladrones Islands, Hawaii and the Philippines in the Pacific, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and part of Columbia, are nothing more than a shoal of small fish fattening within the net of the United States, among which Mexico has the role of a gold fish. PUR, SI MUOVE. sphere of action in the traitorous terminology of moderu Diplomacy, is a part or the whole of a country which has been invaded peacefully, courteously and thoroughly by the money and commerce of another stronger country, capable of protecting that invasion as far as circumstances will permit.
One of influence is something more; the country, subjected to it, enjoys apparently complete independence; but in reality it is a political and economic serſ, with all the considerations of an equal. And a sphere of influence is the same as being installed in the house of a neighbor as though it were one own, in order to manage it freely.
To cite examples would be to hurt sisters of lyric fraternity.
It is enough to point out that mexico, fortunately, up to the present, has only come within the sphere of North American action, although with the discomfiture of Mercury in proximity to the sun.
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