# Regeneración, 16 August 1913, "La Invasion Americana" front page

The front page of Regeneración, the Los Angeles weekly of the Mexican Liberal Party, for 16 August 1913. Its lead article predicts a U.S. invasion of Mexico, a reprinted cartoon asks who is "Next?", and a column titled "El Peligro Amarillo" blames Chinese and Japanese merchants. Huntington Library via the Internet Archive.

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      Regeneración, weekly, front page (Los Angeles, 16 August 1913)

      Regeneración, 16 August 1913, "La Invasion Americana" front page
      Regeneración, Los Angeles, 16 August 1913: a Mexican Liberal Party weekly predicts a U.S. invasion of Mexico and runs a "Yellow Peril" column.

## Techniques named on the archive record

Name-callingFear appealScapegoating
      DateAugust 16, 1913Made byRegeneración (weekly of the Mexican Liberal Party, Los Angeles, edited by Anselmo L. Figueroa); article by Antonio de P. AraujoMediumNewspaper pagesCountryUnited StatesRegimeWilson AdministrationSourceIdentified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they areSourceInternet Archive (Huntington Library via California Revealed) , retrieved October 2, 2026SourcePublic domain (US, pre-1931; holder: no restrictions on use) Huntington Library via California Revealed / Internet Archive; record csmha_000317 rights field reads 'Public Domain. No restrictions on use.' (https://archive.org/details/csmha_000317)
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  The front page of Regeneración, the Los Angeles weekly of the Mexican Liberal Party, for 16 August 1913. Its lead article predicts a U.S. invasion of Mexico, a reprinted cartoon asks who is "Next?", and a column titled "El Peligro Amarillo" blames Chinese and Japanese merchants. Huntington Library via the Internet Archive.

Content note: the page includes a column titled "El Peligro Amarillo" (The Yellow Peril) that blames Chinese and Japanese merchants. Its wording appears below unaltered.

## A revolutionary weekly in Los Angeles

Regeneración called itself a revolutionary weekly "written by workers and for workers." The record names it as the paper of the Mexican Liberal Party, edited by Anselmo L. Figueroa, and credits the lead article to Antonio de P. Araujo. This is issue No. 154, dated Saturday, 16 August 1913.

La Invasion Americana

[...] El canal de Panamá que se abrirá en 1915, demanda la posesion de los paises de México y la América Central, por los americanos; [...] todo grita la invasión de México.

[...] Woodrow Wilson, Bryan, y demás ridículos reformistas demócratas á la hora precisa que lo demande la poderosa plutocracia americana, ordenarán el desembarque de sus marinos en las costas de México y la invasion de sus cuerpos de ejército por la frontera del norte.

[English, from the archive's translation:] [...] The Panama Canal, which will open in 1915, demands the possession of the countries of Mexico and Central America by the Americans; [...] everything cries out invasion of Mexico. [...] Woodrow Wilson, Bryan, and the other ridiculous Democratic reformists, at the precise hour that the powerful American plutocracy demands it, will order their marines landed on the coasts of Mexico and their army corps to invade across the northern border.

Transcription and translation in the FRAME record, read from a scan of page 1. The archive labels the English a machine translation not verified by a fluent reader. Full record at propagandaarchive.org.

## Three pieces on one page

The lead article argues that American property in Mexico, built, in its words, on the slavery of Mexican workers and corrupt concessions, will draw the United States into an invasion once the revolution threatens it. Beside it, a cartoon reprinted from the Oakland Tribune shows crosses for Madero and Suárez next to a fallen figure labeled "Mexican Rebels," under the word "Next?" Lower down, the column "El Peligro Amarillo" says Wilhelm II was right about a "yellow peril" and blames "Chinese capitalism" and "the Japanese bourgeoisie" (the archive's translation).

The archive tags the page with name-calling, fear appeal, and scapegoating. The name-calling runs at Wilson and Bryan, called "ridiculous" reformers. The fear is of invasion. The scapegoating is in the column, which takes a racial slogan and points it at Asian merchants.

## What a free press carried

This is a paper published inside the United States predicting that the President would invade a neighbor at the bidding of "plutocracy." It is sharp, partisan, and in places ugly. It is also the kind of speech a republic is supposed to tolerate: a minority press attacking the government in its own language. The column's racism is a separate wrong from the paper's politics.

The Wilson administration essay covers the government's record on speech in these years. The 1880 Puck cover on the Chinese shows how much older the hostility toward Chinese immigrants in American print was.

## Sources

- FRAME object record, Regeneración, weekly, front page (Los Angeles, 16 August 1913). Regeneración (weekly of the Mexican Liberal Party, Los Angeles, edited by Anselmo L. Figueroa); article by Antonio de P. Araujo. English translation as given by the archive, labeled a machine translation not verified by a fluent reader.

- Internet Archive, Huntington Library via California Revealed, record csmha_000317, archive.org, retrieved by the archive 2 October 2026. Rights as recorded: public domain ("Public Domain. No restrictions on use.").

Canonical: https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/regeneracion-la-invasion-americana-1913/