Excerpt from The Devil in Mexico Mexico is one-sixteenth of an inch nearer hell than any country I have ever visited in my round-the-world travels. M in Mexico means murder and misrule. Her flag - green, white and red-stands for jealousy, cowardice and butchery. The national bird should be a buzzard, the coat of arms a skull and cross-bones, and her national hymn, Gringo, Damn the Gringo! Mexico is a land of dirt, disease, destitution, dishonesty, dilapidation, darkness, despots, delay, debt, deviltry and degeneracy. God has blessed it as one of the wealthiest and most beautiful countries in the world, and man has cursed it. The country has gone back to the days before Porfirio Diaz. Mexico has mines of untold wealth, but she is bankrupt; oil, but gross mental darkness; lovely climate, but spiritual atmosphere; forests of every valuable tree but the tree of kwledge. Her bloom and charm are gone - so are most of the best Americans. This garden of Eden has become a back-yard ash-heap. The cities are dens of thieves from the highest official to the lowest office boy. The government chokes the people with one hand and picks their pocket with the other. From the Rio Grande to Guatemala, Mexico is a Jericho highway of robbery. Many cities are rubbish heaps of huddling, starving, pest-stricken paupers and desperate thieves-mere homes of vermin and vice. Mexico is the white man's burden - a burden of famine, fever, poverty, igrance, bankruptcy, war and superstition. When the Canaanites were dying of corruption and contaminating the surrounding nations, God commanded Israel to destroy them. This Bible incident may be Uncle Sam's authority for trying to preserve the better part of Mexico for herself, as well as to protect his own borders. We were our brother's keeper in the Philippines and Cuba, and our responsibility includes intervention In Mexico whenever it may be necessary. This Tropic of Cancer country is a tropical cancer, and it may be that the only cure is Uncle Sam's sword. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.