The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-05-28
CHICAGO DAY BOOK ASKS
SOME PERTINENT CUES
TI0NS.

Ihls 10 what the Chicago Day Book
says about Hearst and his fellow con.
spirators against the Mexican people
The real purpose of the rich Ameri.
cans who have been turning every
trick possible to bring about war
with Mexico is made clear by the edi-
torials In the newspapers of w. II.
Hearst, the brazen mouthpiece of spe-
cial privilege.
| don't know how many men will
give up their lives, gladly, although
don't believe any we'll man gives up
his life gladly. Many viii enlist glad
ly; they will 30 to war gladly. But
only u few, If any, of them will ex-
pect to give up his life.
Very few of those who will 20 to
war will perhaps they wouldn't
care If they did know--that back of
all this war of conquest is the money.
madness, the cunning greed, the des-
perate avarice of big gamblers who
have invested millions in Mexico
men who have bought Mexican land
for song, and expect to reap an enor-
nous harvest by having this govern
ment pacify and police "barbarous"
Mexico, so that mineral wealth can be
dug from the mines and agricultural
wealth reaped fromthe soil.
Take Hearst, for illustration. He
owns vast tracts of land in Mexico
that were bought for a song. There
couldn't be much profit in that invest
ment so long as the MeXicans were at
war among themselves. There can
and will be, however, enormous profit
If this country annexes Mexico and
keeps big army in that country for
many years to keep the peace while
Hearst and his pals cultivate that
land.
Every American boy killed during
an invasion of Mexico may mean sew
eral dollars in Hearst's pocket. 1t
may mean like profit for Harrison
Gray Otis of the Los Angeles Times.
Every American life sacrificed in
pacifying and conquering Mexico may
mean thousands of dollars in the peck
cts of the Guggenheims and Rookie
fellers.
When Hearst says these American
boys will give up their lives gladly to
add to the greatness and territory of
their country and to the permanent
welfare and happiness of the land that
is to be conquered" do YOU think
Hearst is thinking of any land but the
acres he himself owns?
Do YOU think he is thinking of the
welfare and happiness of either the
American or the Mexican people, or OF
the happiness of Hearst himself over
more millions jingling in his own
pockets?
How are we going to make the Mex
lean people happy by killing them?
And how will we make American
soldiers happy, or their folks back
home happy, by sending them into
that country to be killed off by thou
sands by disease and Mexican bullets?
Suppose we do annex all of the
many millions of acres of land in Mex
leo, how many arces will YOU get?
How many acres will YOUR country
get?
Won't Hearst and Otis and Taft and
and Guggenheim and all
of hte others who have got in on the
ground floor, own all then that they
owned before they brought on this
war?
And suppose we do pacify the Mexi
can people, will we see that the land
taken from them by the favored Mex
leans and Americans is given back to
them?
If we are to be the great pacifiers
of this continent, why not pacfy Colo
RADIO, Michigan, West Virginia and
every other state in the union where
the poor are dispossessed of the land
and then held in Industrial bondage?
Our forefathers, or somebody's fore
fathers, fought to free this country
from British rule. How free are we
now?
We say the union army saved this
glorious union-but for whom? Whose
is it now? How much of it belongs to
YOU?
Paooiuipu nam Truth 4. o5diYo n