Through these momentous years of history-making in Mexico, I have been in constant touch with many of Mexico's leading citizens; it has been my deepest regret that I could not reach the ear of this Administration. Through these years I could think of but one national policy on the part of this government towards Mexico, that policy being that the Administration recognize that faction which by nature and education is equipped to control; that the Administration recognize that faction without restriction as to Mexico's domestic affairs; that the Administration support that faction, and its candidate for the Presidency, by moral force, by financial force, by all the force in the possession of this world-powerful government; feeling assured that then, and not till then, could intelligent Mexicans work out for themselves and their fellow-countrymen Mexico's glorious destiny.

"For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,

Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;
Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew
From the nation's airy navies grappling in the central blue;

Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm,
With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunder-storm;
'Till the war-drum throb'd no longer, and the battle flags were furled
In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world."

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: In 1909 the Honorable Charles Sumner Young was "The Nominee of The Pacific Coast States for the Mexican Ambassadorship." Our Company at that time, in pamphlet form, published "A Letter to the President" under the official direction of the then Secretary of State, Honorable Charles F. Curry, now a member of Congress from California. The endorsement of the nominee carried the names of U. S. Senators, Congressmen, Governors, ex-Governors, University Presidents, Justices of State Supreme Courts, Church Bishops and others from every part of the United States; and included also a reference to the endorsement of the nominee by the Republic of Mexico-through the Secretary of Foreign Relations, and the Mexican Embassy at Washington, D.C. The publisher of "THE TWO REPUBLICS" also acknowledges the courtesy of the International Film Service in the use of several of the photographs used in this book.