THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO.
[To 1111 EDITOR OF TRH " SIMC7ATOR."1
Sin,—In your issue of June 18th, under the heading "president Wilson's Good Fortune," you urge, as you have frequently urged in the past, intervention by the United States in Mexico. It would probably be a sound policy if it were possible. The question arises, Is it possible ? Can the United States put sufficient men in the field at a few months' notice ? The strength of their regular army certainly would not admit of this, so that perhaps now intervention is not so much a matter of choice as you seem to suppose. As to the Monroe Doctrine, is not this a very desirable policy to set forth But also is it not somewhat in the nature of a. bluff, inasmuch as there is not the necessary force to make it good? After a residence of ten years in the United States, with fairly good opportunities of mixing with all sorts and condi- tions of men from the Pacific to the Atlantic, it always
seemed so to me.—I am, Sir, (ie., N. M. M.
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