Is Mexico Worth SavingBobbs-Merrill Company, 1920 - 239 páginas |
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Página 36
... issue should be con- strued as advocating the annexation by conquest of all or part of Mexico under any conceivable eventuality . We must do something ; the time is upon us when we have it in our power to do something tremendously ...
... issue should be con- strued as advocating the annexation by conquest of all or part of Mexico under any conceivable eventuality . We must do something ; the time is upon us when we have it in our power to do something tremendously ...
Página 55
... issues of $ 41,472,690 , money and interest . owed on railways in the sum of $ 421,319,878 and you will get a total national obligation exclusive of claims of only $ 768,864,648 , a mere bagatelle in the face of her resources . Why is ...
... issues of $ 41,472,690 , money and interest . owed on railways in the sum of $ 421,319,878 and you will get a total national obligation exclusive of claims of only $ 768,864,648 , a mere bagatelle in the face of her resources . Why is ...
Página 66
... issue so confused and how is the man - in - a - hurry to seize it long enough to determine in his own mind and for himself what is really what ? Will he have to tabulate a hundred different view - points taken by proxy ? If so , Heaven ...
... issue so confused and how is the man - in - a - hurry to seize it long enough to determine in his own mind and for himself what is really what ? Will he have to tabulate a hundred different view - points taken by proxy ? If so , Heaven ...
Página 67
... issue is further confused by that weird group of crusaders , some of them well - meaning , all of them untrained and with one exception as innocent of Spanish as of Sanskrit , who were sent by our President as special envoys and were ...
... issue is further confused by that weird group of crusaders , some of them well - meaning , all of them untrained and with one exception as innocent of Spanish as of Sanskrit , who were sent by our President as special envoys and were ...
Página 69
... slogan does not get you anywhere ? Have you considered that the mere shouting of a slogan is man's favorite method of shirking re- sponsibility and putting himself to sleep on a troublesome issue GOVERNMENT BY BANDITRY 69 *
... slogan does not get you anywhere ? Have you considered that the mere shouting of a slogan is man's favorite method of shirking re- sponsibility and putting himself to sleep on a troublesome issue GOVERNMENT BY BANDITRY 69 *
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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.