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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 12, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 18.

J. O. C

By J. O. C.

THE war with Mexico has now begun in great earnestness, and will surely reveal more fully than before the strongly organized selfishness of humanity. For instance, a few days ago a local board of labor passed a resolution urging laboring men not to take up arms against "Mexican working men." This is a significant expression, and means much to other fraternities of the same complexion. Without doubt this association sentiment will prevail to considerable extent in other parts, and create some friction in governmental administration. War is terrible at best, especially when two nations so strongly unyielding as are both Mexico and the United States face each other in bitter field contest. How much better were carnal strife avoided! But how bad when any government must be embarrassed in its administrative burdens by internal influences, so strong as to divide the sentiment of otherwise loyal citizens! It is to be feared that the present war-cloud holds much sorrow and anguish that will yet drop upon thousands of as yet unsuspecting heads of this and other countries.