File No. 812.00/18332
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125. With due appreciation necessity propriety conservative statement would say general résumé condition Mexico to-day is as follows: Financial chaos threatened and impending, graft principally through army rampant, executive inefficiency pronounced, beneficial coordination departments lacking, foreign treaty rights through ignorance or design being disregarded, State Governments usurping Federal authority, aggression against property and vested privileges prevalent, public confidence almost disappearing, food supply insufficient and precarious, bandits operating boldly and successfully and political antagonism to general Government gaining strength.
Every allegation this can be proven by many evidences and instances. Indefinite prolongation general condition the present seems impossible.