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Governor Morrow, in his recent announcement, pointed out that the great increase in Canal traffic was largely traceable to the oil trade which has sprung up between California and the Atlantic states since the decline of production in the Mexican oil region around Tampico. In addition to this there was a 10% increase in the amount of other cargoes which passed through the Canal. The month of May set a new high record for tolls collected, $1,972,216. Sixty per cent, of the vessels using the Canal were United States ships...
...Company, of Delaware, organized in 1919, is about to undertake active exploitation of a tract of one million acres near the DcMares field; and the British Balfour group, which is interested in Peru, also holds a claim in that vicinity. This upper Magdalena basin may well become a second Tampico-Tuxpan...
...Haitian scandal is surely the traditional "last straw". Even without it the Wilson record in foreign affairs has been the most humiliating in all our history, dotted with the graves of our unavenged dead on land and sea. The mere mention of the names of Columbus, Tampico, Vera Cruz, and Carrizal, of Villa and of Carranza; of Lenine and Trotzky, and our soldiers who died in Russia without knowing why they were sent there or for whose cause they fought, is enough to make all Americans, "who never fight," blush with shame and bitter humiliation. And now to these awful...
What have we done in Mexico? Our initial purpose was to befriend a sister republic; we have ended by incurring a hatred which generations of painstaking diplomacy may not obliterate. Our refusal to recognize Huerta, our brazen attempt to regulate) Mexican politics, our bluster at Tampico and Vera Cruz and our subsequent undignified withdrawal, --these are acts which defy interpretation in terms of any national and con- sistent policy. We befriended Villa, we countenanced Carranza, and we failed utterly to protect American rights and American lives. After the massacres at Santa Ysabel and Columbus, we started out to "get Villa...