Is Mexico Worth SavingBobbs-Merrill Company, 1920 - 239 páginas |
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Página 16
... bil- lion and a half dollars into the country . Why are we being rapidly driven to a point where we must both understand and take action on these questions whether we want to or not ? Because a 16 IS MEXICO WORTH SAVING.
... bil- lion and a half dollars into the country . Why are we being rapidly driven to a point where we must both understand and take action on these questions whether we want to or not ? Because a 16 IS MEXICO WORTH SAVING.
Página 22
... half a dozen generals , any one of whom could have pushed the Supreme Chief off his rickety pedestal by the raising of a little finger . What saved him for a meteoric rise and an inevitable crash ? His difficulties and the echoing ...
... half a dozen generals , any one of whom could have pushed the Supreme Chief off his rickety pedestal by the raising of a little finger . What saved him for a meteoric rise and an inevitable crash ? His difficulties and the echoing ...
Página 39
... he reaps corn or tares and to his amazement what he thought was a frijole turns out to have been an acorn . This happened to Carranza . In propitiating the military with over half the sugar in the national barrel he did WHAT IS SHE 39.
... he reaps corn or tares and to his amazement what he thought was a frijole turns out to have been an acorn . This happened to Carranza . In propitiating the military with over half the sugar in the national barrel he did WHAT IS SHE 39.
Página 40
George Agnew Chamberlain. over half the sugar in the national barrel he did not reckon on the creation of a mastering brute through fattening the belly of banditry ; in sticking pins into the softest portion of the United States while ...
George Agnew Chamberlain. over half the sugar in the national barrel he did not reckon on the creation of a mastering brute through fattening the belly of banditry ; in sticking pins into the softest portion of the United States while ...
Página 42
... half of its states were overrun by outlaws and if over the other half the national army were turned loose to bleed graft from every producer ? Such was the unhappy condition of Mexico under Carranza ; yet in the face of it she did ...
... half of its states were overrun by outlaws and if over the other half the national army were turned loose to bleed graft from every producer ? Such was the unhappy condition of Mexico under Carranza ; yet in the face of it she did ...
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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.