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...political or sentimental one, and it seems likely that the new Mexican regime realizes this as well as the necessity for negotiating help from the United States. If this be true we see no reason why we should not be able to assist Mexico to escape from the revolutionary morass and go forward on firm ground. Mexico greatly needs foreign capital and we cannot afford that other foreign capital than ours should predominate. We can afford to provide capital for Mexican development and thereby serve both Mexico's welfare and our own. There need be no exploitation, in the evil...
...effusions on the subject of deported aliens. Has it occurred to the gentlemen that their metaphor may be inapplicable, that instead of being a class of people standing "on the fence," the liberals are steadily traversing the road of progress, while on one side the reactionaries flounder in the morass of outgrown institutions, and on the other the radicals flit along in pursuit of the elusive mirage of Utopia...
...wade. We think that this state of things, so often spoken of and so well known, ought to receive at least a trifling consideration from the authorities. If our rustic gardener is ignorant of the state of the walks, our geographical editor will conduct him to the "Chapel Morass," the "Holyoke Pond," the "Library Bog," and many other noted spots. We want this taken seriously; - it will deprive us of many editorials in the future if it is, but we are willing to sacrifice them to the public good...
...plunged in the morass...
Swam through stream and deep morass...