The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-10-28
BAKERS CHARGE.

The charge that the enemies ot the Administration's Mexican policy in the United States have been plan ing and plotting with Villa in order to provoke intervention has been explicitly made by the Secretary of War. Wilson himself made similar charges long ago. Why do not they act? What gcod is it to accuse men of treason to the republic and after the little ripple of excitement has died down to forget all about it.
 How is it that the machinery of thg government can move SC swiftly and so relertlessly and so unjusti> and so cruelty against the Wagons and the other members of the Mex icaa revolutionary junta in the United States, and the great inter- vent;onist interests that have no higher aspiration than to increase their dirty pile of dollars another inch or so, can continue their opera lions unscatned We have seen lots of talk about secret diplomacy and hidden government, why is Baker afraid to speak out and mention the names of the guilty ones? Why are they not proceeded against in due form with the same switftness that 2 labor agitator would have to face should any such reasonable acts be brought home to him?
 Isn't it fact that these guilty ones who represent great interests and demand the conquest of Mexico are more powerful than the govern ment and because like the great trusts. they are immune from con- yiction under the law?
 That is precisely the situation, and it is one that needed no state ment from Baker to enlighten us. Hasn't every one known this long while that only from the United States have Naxicars EilIatist or otherwise. obtained their arms and ammunition. Only a short time ago Villa was a fugitive without arms, without an army, without means without munitions. Through the operations of certain agents he has ample means, ample forces, ample munitions of war. Those were not donated him by his followers. They did not come like mama to the 1sraeiite from Heaven. They did not spontaneously develop within Mexican territory. They came from the United States They came from Americans loud in their patriotic mouthings who armed the MeXicans that they might attack American: and attacking Americans force in tervention. They came from tre mendously powerful interests who possess enormously extensive Mex ican holdings in land, i'll mines, 1T oil, in railroads. They came from the same great and wealthy source that has been faking news dis patches, boosting Texan real estate corruptirg the press and working day and night for American inter vention that would mean the con quest of Mexico. They come iron the same interests that gloated II inc Columbus attack, that glowet with delight when American troops crossed the border and which called for g war, They came from the same identical interests which when the peace envoyG arrived in the United States from Mexico, ridiculed tho mission and endeavored to obstruc it's work.
 Where else did the money and tht munitions come from if not from them? It is about time Americans took a tumble to the fraud that | being imposed upon them. Is there any reason why the United State should send it's citizens into Mexico to defend million acre rancl owned by the Hearst family. Ism apt hot A Arna IF