New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-03-29
HISTORIAN BARES
\WALL STREET PLOT
INTERESTS TRY TO STRANGLE
Poems FIGHT FOR MEXICAN
FREEDOM.
s'WERE-WOLVES"O OF FINANCE RE-
SPONSIBLE FOR RAID BY
VILLA.

VILLA.
Official Washington is at present in
cerlsed over what is believed to be a plan
by sinister and INSCRIPTIONS interests
to force intervention in Mexico by the
United States in the interest of certain
American owners of Mexican property
While it is possible that the President OF
his advisors came to this conclusion oil
their own accord as the result of study
of the situation, the recent article by
Edgcumb Brandon of San Francisco is
so to the point it is quite as likely that
th9 officials received their enlightenment
through it. Mr.. Pinehon is Mexican
historian and author. His book, "The
Mexican People: Their Struggle for
Freedom" created a sensation at the time
and is said to have induced President
Wilson to follow his waiting policy in
regard to the Mexican situation. The
article follows:
WALL STREET planned the Villa
raid and paid for it. The American
monopolists of Mexican land, oil and
mining concessions and hennequin plan
tations have everything to lose by the
present democratic regime in Mexico,
which boldly proposes to restore the
land and it's resources to the whole people
on equal terms.
The monopolists have now but one
recourse to force American interven-
ton in Mexico to destroy the new popu-
lar government and reinstate the reign
of privilege under the American flag and
backed by the American army.
! To bring this about in the teeth of
the common people of this country they
employed every device short of melting
deliberate Mexican invasion of American
territory. Now we have the Villa raid
the last desperate trick of baked greed.
Villa Willing Tool.
Villas ignorance, daring and execu-
tive ability marked him from the first
as the fttest possible tool for the pur-
pose. Long before he broke with Car
rama he was surrounded night and day
by the agents of the Interests" They
fattered his vanity, nurtured his am
bition, goaded his avarice, while the
same press which is now shouting for his
blood lauded him as the coming "strong
man of Mexico, ''the true successor of
the mighty Diaz.'
But the Mexican poems have become
wise. They care little for leaders. 1t
is the land they want. When Villa fell
under their suspicion they deserted him
promptly and focked to the banner of
C2rranza. The attempted counter revo-
Nution failed for lack of men. Of money
it always had enough and to spare.
Wall Street changed its methods. The
first indication was the massacre of
score of Americans at Santa Ysobel in
Sonora. Flaring headlines, pathetic sob
stories, penny-a-line indignation articles
filled the press. The administration and
the American people sat firm.
Interests Ordered Raid.
Then as a man tempting another to
fight, Wall Street turned from this slight
tap on the nose and hit the American
people blow square in the face. 1t
ordered Villa to raid an American army
camp and kill United States soldiers in
uniform.
Will the trick work? That is the
only question Wall Street is asking itself
today. And who is Wall Street? Wall
Street is the land, oil, mining and henne-
quin monopolists of the United States
Who is supremely interested in Mexican
oil concessions? Who is it covets the
<control of the hennequin plantations,
Whence comes the fiber for harvester
Irvine? What great newspaper owners
hold enormous haciendas in Mexico?
Answer these questions and you lay
your hand on those responsible for the
killing of score of United States SOL
diers and the would-be sponsors for the
death of several hundred thousand more.
Poems in Long Struggle.
Can President Wilson stem the tide?
Intervention means the assured safety
of all the great blood-wrung concessions
owned by the interests in Mexico
and it means the abortion of a struggle
for the land which the Mexican people
have waged increasingly for 100 years!
Nonintervention means that hence
forth every Mexican may have to occupy
~ acres of suburban land or 80 acres of
rural land, which he can neither sell,
rent nor lease, nor mortgage, but which
is his to use and live upon so long as he
wills and for his heirs after him. It
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