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BW-"" ONE MAN'S OPINIONS BY N. D. COCHRAN. Grabbing Mexico. Of course, it wouldn't be quite the proper thing to say it out loud, hut you understand, don't you, that when we get through going through all the motions we wijl take Mexico and tie it on to our southern border as we quietly march along toward the canal? It will cost us hundreds of millions in dollars and thousands' of American lives, but just think what we'll get. Mexico is wonderfully rich in min eral wealth. There are millions of acres of perfectly good land, and mil lions of people down there who can be persuaded to work hard for small pay at the point of a gun. At a few millions of expense, but with infinite glory to the army and navy, we can train the Mexican peons to take the places of the good Amer ican citizens we have educated in our public schoqls Up to a point where they wanfcfto live like human beings. You'll get all this if you only un derstand the game of modern indus trialism. You see, folks, that as states like Oregon,. Washington, California and other states in the West become pro gressive and human, it becomes nec essary to take on more states to strike a balance. The immigrants get educated too darned quick and want to live up to an American instead of an European standard. But there is plenty of taw human material in Mexico. And the minute we take Mexico we have that raw material -without immigrating it. The peons will be our distinguished fellow citizens then,- and immigration laws won't keep them out. We may, have to kill off many of them in order to conquer all of them, but just think what we'll have when we get through. Just think what a great increase in the. supply of hu man labor as compared with the de mand. But if Mexicans are our brothers, isn't our 'family a funny family? But civilization must go on. If we can't benevolently assimilate our be nighted brethren we can civilize them. Just look how we have civi lized the great American Indian. "Our Mexican brother, however, will have six feet of earth left when we get through with him. And that's all all any of us will have when we cash in. "Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching; t'Cheer up comrades and be gay." Harper's Weekly. Norman Hap good is gradually hitting his gait in Harper's Weekly, and is evidently working around to the free and easy swing that helped make Collier's. As most of the magazines have gone to the dogs, and Collier's ap pears to be pretty thoroughly tamed by advertising, it is refreshing to see indications of some freedom of thought in Harper's though as yet a bit timid. Take off the lid and go to it, Hap good. Put your culture on ice and pump a lot of red blood into Harper's. This good old world isn't cultured; it only cons itself into th ng it is cultured. Under that ve-., thin ve neer of alleged culture, it is human, clear through. - The more brains you put between the covers of Harper's, the less, money you will need to spend on Ted, white and blue ink for the outside. Manufacturing News. Here's a story that shows- how some news papers mould public opinion. The Cincinnati Enquirer, owned by John R. McLean, is playing the Hearst game of fighting President Wilson's policy of repealing the canal tolls exemption clause- The Enquirer instructed its cor respondents in various cities to dig up interviews with Democrats against Wilson and the repeal of the tolls exemption. The Enquier-correspondent jilTp- i-teA