The Demand for War with Mexico
The demand for war with Mexico, the New York World points out, does not come from missionaries, students, investigators, and travelers for health. It comes, on the most part, from those who are in Mexico only with their money. They have agents and employees in Mexico, but personally they are absent. The World says that moneyed men are in Mexico not because of the fabulous value of Mexico's undeveloped resources, but because they can get men there to work for a pittance. It is the cheap labor that they are working in Mexico for a profit, rather than the great, undeveloped resources of nature. And the World concludes that before we talk seriously of war with Mexico we must be sure that Americans have been wronged in that country because they are Americans.