The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
Newspaper Men Say When Truth Is Known Wilson
 Will Loom Larger
OIL SHEARS GRIMY COURSE EVERYWHERE
If Uncle Sam Is Dragged Into War It Will be Because of Conflict Between Big Oil Interests.
 Drawing to Climax

Vera Cruz. Mexico, July 5.-tSpecial .)-Declaring his belief
 that the policies of President Wilson and Secretary Bryan would be fully vindicated when all the light was thrown on the canvass, a prominent newsgatherer today gave me the story of the oil interests here. which for sordidness cannot be equalled in the history of any country, not even barring the Castro deal when certain interests were fighting for su- premacy in the asphalt business. 1t will
 be recalled that Castro was deposed, and l saw a man recently who tells me that the machinery of the Barber Asphalt com pany is now being used as dump carts by large city.
 This newsgatherer knows the Hopkins who has apparently had some letters stolen and which have been published in l a certain New York paper, and he unhes- | itatingly states that no honest man need | fear anything that man of the Hop kins type might say about him. i I know another newspaper man. who l stands in the front rank of his profession who can tell of Thanksgiving dinners in
 a London holstery noted for it's exclusive
 ness, where an attempt was made to bribe him to take up service in the firm of lawyers who posed as international
 and who seem now to have poked their I fingers in the eye of the head of an oil
 concern whose holdings in this war torn | country are large.
 Oil Can Everywhere l Wherever one turns the trail of oil can
 be seen where men congregate the talk
 is of oil, and the war it has created. and
 the pity of it is that numberless poor men | have been shot to pieces, died in miser- | able hospitals for the want of care, chil-
 dren have been made fatherless in this struggle for dollar supremacy between l factions which now have more than it is good for any country that they should possess.
 l In all the inunendo of the Hopkins let l ters not a word of proof is offered, so this l newspaper man points out, and the whole l scheme seems to be run on the idea that 1 the public will believe anything disreputa l Lle of its public men, without waiting for proof which 1t is said that legal ghouls l cannot furnish.
 l It now seems clear that had Carranza been made provisional president there | would have been no sensational letters to blazen to the world, but now that the leaders of the United States cannot be forced into war to protect the soulless dollars of souless corporations an at tack must be made to try and smear the | good names of the Christian men who 1 lead this country.
 | It will fall as it deserves to fail and I when Congressman Kahn gets the light l he is seeking turned on, and he gets two | newsgatherers here on the stand, things | might com eout that would put all the pol | itioians to gabbing, and make of Wood l row 4ison in the eyes of all the world l what he is in thousands, and that Is one | of the great figures of American history 1 In the meantime the case of the jingo has gone glimmering, for it Is certain that l the taxpayers of the United States will not allow their congressman to appropri-
 ate moneys for war to rescue imperilled l oily dollars.
 Even as I a mwriting this one of the l reporters is writing his story on What | I Know of Hopkins" and when it ap- pears there will be such rush for pa pers as has never been before, because he has the facts, the capacity to marsha | them and the ability to make one of the
 readable articles of the day.
 only wish that I could give to the folks back home the story as 1t was given ms today,