The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-10-17


Ole. Later formal proposal to the
same effect and with like promises,
was sent to him in writing from
American Masonry through one of his
officials, but that officer knew better
than present it, Soon thereafter the
rising in the North began to take
shape, and it is a matter OF public
record that a deputation OF American
Masons conferred at that time with
7 Villa and CarranZa and other rebel
leaders on the border with results
that were mutually satisfactory,
More than a hundred Masonic men,
bers of the Mexican Congress, who
were in touch with the rebels, hav-
ing refused to vote the necessary
supplies, were promptly discharged
and imprisoned by Huerta, as his
powers and necessity justified. This
act of defence against traitors was
later made a ground by President
Wilson for refusing him recognition.
Our Governments Advisers.
Just at this period the late Mr..
Richardson, Sovereign Grand Com
mander of the Scottish Rite, prof
fered the services of the Councils of
his Rite throughout the world and of
allied societies, to the President and
Secretary of State in forwarding their
plans for peace treaties and interna-
tional arbitration. The time selected
for this offer was significant Richard
son had been empowered, he said, two
years before. President Taft was as
keen on arbitration as Messrs. Wilson
and Bryan, and was himself Mason,
yet the offer was not made to him.
1t was delayed until Masonic policy
in Mexico needed government sup
port. \ This it got. Thereafter our
government followed, no doubt uncon-
sciously, the lines of Masonic policy
in Mexico. Ambassador Wilson who,
in agreement with all his consular
colleagues, held and advised that the
Huerta government ensured stability,
and the Carranza-Villa bandits an
archy, was recalled. The advice of
the very competent Charge d'Affaires
who replaced him, and whose long
experience and intimate knowledge of
Hnerta and Mexico had led to the
same convictions, was disregarded for
the counsels of men who had ac-
quaintance with neither the land nor
it's language, but had Masonic affilia-
tions and violent anti-Catholic preju-
dices.
Among these advisers was the Rev.
William Bayard Hale, a preacher OF I'M
enviable notoriety, who fitted through
the country, associated with Masonry
and priest haters, and having report
ed to Washington boasted in pub
lished article that he had decided
President Wilson against Huerta, a
boast that has not been contradicted.
Mr.. Lind, likewise a Mason and I'M
acquainted with Spanish or with Mex
leo, was despatched as a personal
representative, and he also assOciat-
ed exclusively with the same class,
fraternized with Huerta's Masonic
foes, manifested, with his family, his
hostility to Mexican Catholics and
their clergy, assured the rebels OF
American support, and devised means
by which they could evade our Gov
ernment's public guarantee during the
4NldSdId LACCAy
arms from the United States. This
craftsmanship and this breach of faith
by confidential agent of our govern.
ment, was proved to the hilt in the
New York Herald revelations of June
%, 20 and 80, and was virtually ad-
mitted over his own signature; yet
he seems in no degree to have lost
thereby the confidence of his employ
ers. u. S. Consul Silliman also fra
ternized with his brother Masons in
Mexico whose avowed purpose is to
eXtirpate the Catholic Church, was a
public supporter and adviser of the
rebels throughout the whole contest
and at a critical period gave a pub
lie banquet to Carranza, complimented
him on his success and assured him
of our friendship. General Pershing
u. S. A., performed like service al
Fort Bliss, Texas, for Villa and OBJ
RECON on the very day that some coo
priests and nuns, refugees from their
vengeance, had entered Vera Cruz.
American Supporters.
These men were ELUSIVE in their
thanks, as we'll they ought. Ameri
cans had directed their movements
aimed their artillery and supplied
their ammunition, while our govern
ment was proclaiming neutrality
Villa, Angeles and their friends were
supplied with arms and funds by Ger
tain well-known American interests
who sought control of the rich radi
UNI mines and the inexhaustible oil
fields of Mexico and their connecting
railroads; Carranza was generously
financed by the Evangelical Union
and their American clientele, in re
ward for his acceptance of their pro
gram to de-Catholicize Mexico; anG
both received powerful support from
the Masonic fraternity, whose purpose
of making another Portugal of Mexico
they were eager to adopt and quail
fed to execute. Masonic activities
were mainly directed towards infiu
encing American public opinion anG
government policies. The moment
Huerta refused to become a Mason OF
accept their program, they determined
on Carranza, a more or less respect
able figurehead who would be putty
in their hands, and they spread broad