New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-07-08
official Paper of the City Of New Ulm.
THE REAL QUESTION.


tween H. Clay Pierce, the oil magnate,
and the Constitutionalist leader in
Mexico, Carranza, amounts to nothing
much. Pierce was trying to protect his
avn interests with the rebels and to do so
pointed out that the Lord Cowdray, or
English oil interests, were aligned with
Huerta. Everybody knew of the oil war
behind the Mexican situation. The
alleged lawyer who was supposed to be
dealing with Pierce and Carranza was in
TACT "confdencing' both men, pretending
30 influence he didn't have, reporting as
information direct from United States
efficials things he took out of published
material. This lawyer was taking much
as Mulhall faxed his influence to the
Manufacturers Association in fighting
labor bills. Pierce was willing to pay for
position with Carranza by attacking
Huerta. In all human probability other
agents of Pierce were dickering with
Huerta against Cararnza. It's a way
sorporationists have. But admitting all
The facts, there is nothing in the revela-
sions to show us that this country should
60 into Mexico in force and wipe things
up by eliminating both Huerta and Carr
ANA andre establishing the oil corpora
lions in power. For that is the purpose
sf the exposure. It is to stop the negoti-
atoms looking especially to dividing up
the land of Mexico. 1t is to show that
there is no fight of poems for the land. It
is to discredit the revolutionists who
fight for liberty and to ALLEVIATE sympathy
here for the rebellion. The scheme will
not work. Carranza may be cientifco,
rich mans champion, conservative
But Villa is the man Of the people, a
fighter who is really dividing up the land
OF the great estates as he goes along.
The people are with him because he
promises to bring them into their own
Garranza has blocked mediation and
Huertatistas are going over to him as he
seems to break from Villa. They seem to
aaciendas, to eliminate Villa. And plu-
Socracy here furthers the scheme so far as
It can by making out Carranza as tarred
With the same stick as Huerta, thus dis
srediting the revolution. If mediation
does fail, particularly as it seems destined
TO fail because the mediators are opposed
TO land division that will start agrarian re-
xolution in Argentine, Brazil and Chile,
then maybe this country will have to go
mtoMexico and supervise the election of a
president and congress that will ratify the
}and division made by Villa and extend
the system constitutionally. The Pierce
letters only emphasize the Importance of
the land monopoly question. To clear
seeing persons the New York Herald and
st. Louis Republic exposure of oil maneu-
yers only strengthens the position of Pres.
Wilson, in his interview with Samuel G.
Blythe, that the way to permanent peace
10 Mexico is thru the establishment and
enforcement of a system of land for the
peon. The oil question in Mexico is
land question and the landed interest gen
orally is doing what Pierce did, trying to
abort the revolution. The Pierce expos
are strengthens rather than weakens the
Presidents position. 1t may force inter-
vention, but if so, the intervention will be
for the Mexican people, not for the land
monopolists. The President has been
out played in diplomacy. He went above
and without the law in not recognizing