Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-04-09
WAR WITH MEXICO?
! rs UP TO YOU!
Socialist Party Press service.)
(Ry Lucien .Saint.l

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| Washington, d. c., April 2.-(Spl.)
The United States will go to war
with Mexico if some, but by no means
all eNploiters of Mexico If Hearst, if
the war lobby in Washington, if the
manufacturers who will get rich off
war, and if those diplomatic patriots
to whom the Monroe Doctrine and
What Europe thinks Of us" weighs
more heavily than human life and hap
lpiness-if these and their allies have
their way.
The United States will mot go to
war with Mexico if the people of this
country will let the Administration,
Hearst, the war lobby, the manufac-
turers and the diplomatic patriots
know that they will not support war.
The object of war talk which is eman-
ating from Washington and Wall
street to- day is to get the people ex-
cited SO as to make war with Mexico
popular The interests that want in
Prevention know that Intervention can
not come without clamor, however
unthinking, from the men in the street
on the farm, in the mill and below
ground. Then the workers begin to
shake their heads and say: well let's
go down and wipe UP the earth with
those dagoes war will come. But not
till then.
Wilson does not want war-vyet. His
arm does want war. Many people
who do not believe politically with
Wilson are trying to embarrase him
and his jay Secretary Of State, Bryan,
by showing that Wilson's policy of
"watchful waiting" is driving us to-
ward war which Wilson's critics hope
to see declared. But Wilson has his
ear to the ground, and, if he keeps
his present wisdom, he will not urge
Intervention till he hears the signal
which means that he~can send the
troops in, backed by the reused en-
thusiasm of capitalism on the ram
page A popular war would re-elect
Wilson. An unpopular war would
drive him out of public life. This is
the situation in a nutshell.
Exports Greater Than Ever.
It is significant to know that in
spite of the pictures of the anarchy
which Hearts says is. raging in Mex
leo, the exports of that country were
greater in 1913 than in any former.
year in Mexico's history, a fact which
means that people are. being peace
fully exploited. From these exports
lPresident Hureta derives a heavy tax
which is sustaining his government.
ION the other side the Maderos and
their wealthy land-owning friends are.
aiding CarranZa. Below them, appar-
class movement which is civilizing
entity, is, a slowly growing working
Mexico in the only way in which
Mexico can be civilized-from the bot
tom UP; for the top is too rotten to
be improved. Hureta may give way to
Carranza just as Taft gave way to
Wilson, and the need for revolution
in Mexico will go on just the same
must go on till the Mexican people
arise and throw out the grafters, pos
sess the land for themselves, and es-
tablish cooperation. No Intervention
by the United States can do this.
/ Rich Spoil From Spain.
The last war that the interests pull
ed off was the war with Spain in
Cuba, the spoil from which was fat
and good. Since 1898. however, a
new spirit has invaded the United
States spirit which says to the
working man: you furnish food for
powder and your killing profits not
you but your eXploiters. Refuse to
go to war; talk against war; preach
peace; practice peace, and there will
be no war" If the workers of the
United States will act on this princi-
pal we will not go to war with Mex
| leo. The power to prevent war is in
their hands-just as they have the
power to create wealth or to stop
creating it. Power is no use till it
it used.