The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-08
LET MEXICO ALONE!


million Socialist voters of the nation
to armed Intervention in Mexico, the
Socialist party national executive
committee adopted and forwarded to
President Wilson a memorial on the
question of his recent mandate on the
Mexican situation. The memorial was
In full as follows:
To the Honorable Woodrow Wilson
President Of the United States
We, the members of the executive
committee of the Socialist party OF
the United States, in regular meeting
assembled, and speaking for more
than one million voters, view with
grave alarm the implied threat con
tanned in your recent warning to the
contending elements among the lib.
erty seeking people of war-torn Mex.
leo.
The Socialist party is unalterably
opposed to armed Intervention, and If
that is the hidden meaning of your
changed attitude on the Mexican stu
alton, then we do hereby solemnly
protest against your mandate, issued
from the White House on June 2, 1915,
in which you declare that 'It is time,
therefore, that the government of the
United States should frankly state the
policy which in these extraordinary
circumstances it becomes it's duty to
adopt. 1t must presently do what it
has not hitherto done or felt at lib
erty to do, lend it's active moral sup
port to some man or group of men, If
such may be found, who can rally the
suffering people Of Mexico to their
support in an effort to ignore, if they
cannot unite, the warning factions of
the country, return to the constitu-
ton of the republic so long in abey-
ance, and set up a government at
Mexico City which the great powers
of the world can recognize and deal
with, a government with whom the
program of the revolution will be a
business and not merely a platform"
We have, since the evacuation Of
Vera Cruz, Mexico, felt with deep
satisfaction that your administration
of the affairs of government at Wash
ington intended honestly to assist, in
every way possible, without resort to
arms, the enslaved people of Mexico
in achieving their liberty 60
We feel now, more than ever, that
the United States will best serve the
interests of the Mexican people by not
meddling or interfering in the pres
ent crisis.
You say, Mexico is starving" We
say, 1.-The United States is starving"
The national government can better
engage itself by attending to condi-
lions at home rather than interfering
with the internal affairs of our neigh
boring nation. In the United States
millions are idle for want of employ
ment. We do not know how many
are starving in the dark places of our
cities; but this number must far ex-
coed the number who are in want in
Mexico.
We feel that armed Intervention in
Mexico by the United States means
the practical assassination of the as
pirations of the liberty-loving Mexican
people; just as the sending of the
troops into West Virginia, Michigan,
Colorado and elsewhere, meant the
crushing of the hopes of our own citi-
zens for better working conditions,
increased wages and an ever widen
ing industrial liberty.
This course we earnestly protest
and will oppose with all the power at
our command, no matter upon what
pretext such action may be based.
Respectfully submitted,
National Executive Committee, Social
list Party,
JAMES H. MAURER,
ADOLPH GERMER,
GEO. H. GOEBEL,
ARTHUR LeSUEIJR