Is Mexico Worth SavingBobbs-Merrill Company, 1920 - 239 páginas |
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Página 13
... foreign observer , has ever prophesied with success as to the course she would take in any crisis unless he prophesied disaster on the theory that what has been , will be . The average American for whom this book is written has neither ...
... foreign observer , has ever prophesied with success as to the course she would take in any crisis unless he prophesied disaster on the theory that what has been , will be . The average American for whom this book is written has neither ...
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... foreign obligation , revivify industry , and substitute for the tradi- tional enrichment of the few by graft a wave of almost universal prosperity . He could have done all this . But he could not estimate his chances of holding the ...
... foreign obligation , revivify industry , and substitute for the tradi- tional enrichment of the few by graft a wave of almost universal prosperity . He could have done all this . But he could not estimate his chances of holding the ...
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... foreign blood , money and energy which took place during the last quarter of the nine- teenth century she experienced a resurrection of which the average American is surprisingly ignorant . Here is a country that lies cheek by jowl with ...
... foreign blood , money and energy which took place during the last quarter of the nine- teenth century she experienced a resurrection of which the average American is surprisingly ignorant . Here is a country that lies cheek by jowl with ...
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... foreign countries put to- gether ! How have we defended it ? Ever since President Wilson applied the invidious tag of Big Interests against the fifty thousand Americans who were employed throughout Mexico ten years ago on railways ...
... foreign countries put to- gether ! How have we defended it ? Ever since President Wilson applied the invidious tag of Big Interests against the fifty thousand Americans who were employed throughout Mexico ten years ago on railways ...
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... was outrageous . Incidentally the sugar- pill which he handed this country to quiet its well - founded solicitude for the welfare of our largest and most productive foreign colony has induced the murder WHAT IS SHE 47.
... was outrageous . Incidentally the sugar- pill which he handed this country to quiet its well - founded solicitude for the welfare of our largest and most productive foreign colony has induced the murder WHAT IS SHE 47.
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action actual administration affront altruism Ambassador American American Red Cross Armenia arms assertion Banco banditry bandits Carranza Government cash cent century chapter chicle commerce constitution of 1857 Constitutionalist government decree Department Diaz doctrine dollars economic control established export face fact finance Fletcher force foreign friendship graft hand Huerta hundred individual industries intention intervention issue Jenkins justice Latin laws leader loans Luna County maladministration of public means ment merchant Mexican affairs Mexican government Mexico City military military occupation millions mind murdered natural negotiation by ultimatum never Nieto Obregon official oligarchy outrages pacifists peace peon pepper-box President of Mexico President Wilson protection railways relations with Mexico religious robbery San Luis Potosi self-determination Senate single stand Tampico tariff thousand tion to-day trade United Vera Cruz watchful waiting words
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Página 136 - I, therefore, come to ask your approval that I should use the armed forces of the United States in such ways and to such an extent as may be necessary to obtain from General Huerta and his adherents the fullest recognition of the rights and dignity of the United States, even amidst the distressing conditions now unhappily obtaining in Mexico.
Página 127 - In the Nation is vested direct ownership of all minerals or substances which in veins, layers, masses, or beds constitute deposits whose nature is different from the components of the land...
Página 144 - The religious institutions known as churches, irrespective of creed, shall in no case have legal capacity to acquire, hold, or administer real property or loans made on such real property ; all such real property or loans as may be at present held by the said religious institutions, either on their own behalf or through third parties, shall vest in the nation, and anyone shall have the right to denounce property so held.
Página 143 - No minister of any religious creed may inherit either on his own behalf or by means of a trustee or otherwise, any real property occupied by any association of religious propaganda or religious or charitable purposes. Ministers of religious creeds are incapable legally of inheriting by will from ministers of the same religious sect or from any private individual to whom they are not related by blood within the fourth degree.
Página 209 - The first duty of a government is to protect life and property. This is a paramount obligation. For this governments are instituted, and governments neglecting or failing to perform it become worse than useless.
Página 130 - Mexican authorities, it becomes the function of the Government of the United States most earnestly and respectfully to call the attention of the Mexican Government to the necessity which may arise to impel it to protect the property of its citizens in Mexico divested or Injuriously affected by the decree above cited.
Página 130 - ... expropriation of private property for sound reasons of public welfare, and upon just compensation and by legal proceedings before tribunals, allowing fair and equal opportunity to be heard and giving due consideration to American rights, nevertheless the United States cannot acquiesce in any procedure ostensibly or nominally in the form of taxation or the exercise of eminent domain, but really resulting in the confiscation of private property and arbitrary deprivation of vested rights.
Página 144 - Places of public worship are the property of the Nation, as represented by the Federal Government, which shall determine which of them may continue to be devoted to their present purposes. Episcopal residences, rectories, seminaries, orphan asylums or collegiate establishments of religious institutions, convents or any other buildings built or designed for the administration, propaganda, or teaching of any religious creed...
Página 124 - Art. 33. Aliens are those who do not possess the qualifications prescribed by Article 30. They shall be entitled to the guarantees granted by Chapter I, Title I, of the present Constitution ; but the Executive shall have the exclusive right to expel from the Republic forthwith, and without judicial process, any foreigner whose presence he may deem inexpedient.
Página 126 - The following substances are the exclusive property of the owner of the land, who may therefore develop and enjoy them, without the formality of entry (denuncio) or special adjudication: . . . SUBDIVISION 4.