The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-06
WAR
PLOT NOW BEING
UNCOVERED
VILLA AND HIS RAID WERE
BOUGHT AND PAID FOR BY
POWERFUL AMERICAN IN
TERESTS.


al conspiracy to force the government
of the United States to send an army
of intervention into Mexico.
The broad facts of the conspiracy
are in the possession of the President
and his Cabinet
The facts have been collected by
agents Of the Secret Service who have
combed the border ever since Villa
raided Columbus.
The information submitted by the
Secret Service agents has been supple
mented by reports from United States
Consuls in Mexico.
Program Is Broad
The program of the capitalist
scheme of armed Intervention, ire
futable proofs of which have been sub
mitted to the President by the officials
of the State Department and the Sc
cret Service, is a broad one.
Here is the information now in the
possession of President Wilson:
American capitalists of the Gug-
genheim Rockefeller Hearst type own
over one billion dollars worth Of the
income producing wealth of Mexico
These income producing properties
are located principally in northern
Mexico.
Profits Were Stopped
When the industrial workers and
poems of Mexico revolted against the
slavery under Diaz, the American cap
italists and investors owning the bill
lion dollars worth of Mexican proper
ties were drawing $1OO,0O0,000 a year
in interest and dividends out of Mex
leo.
Since the revolt of the Mexican
workers but little interest and mighty
few dividends have come from Mexico
The capitalists feared the industrial
liberty guaranteed the Mexican work
ers by Carranza and his officials.
President Wilson recognized Car
rama.
The American capitalists doubted
their ability to exploit to the limit the
Mexican workers if Carranza were
permitted to put the reforms Of the
revolution into operation.
So these American capitalists got
busy with their conspiracy.
What They Did
They established agencies with
wealthy Mexicans in Mexico who were
hostile to the program of Carranza.
They bought the services of Villa.
They supplied Villa with money.
They furnished Villa with supplies.
They furnished Villa with machine
guns, rifles and ammunitions.
They hired Villa to raid Columbus
at midnight.
They hired Villa to murder twenty
three American citizens, soldiers and
civilians.
They flooded the border with press
agents to send out alarmist reports.
They got news agencies to telegraph
those alarmist reports from one end
of the country to the other.
Their influence penetrated to the
Senate Chamber of the United States.
They prompted Senator to intro
duce resolution calling for $4,000
volunteers to invade Mexico.
They wired the substance of this
resolution to every possible source in
Mexico to stir up anti-American feel
ing among the Mexican people.
Used News Wires
They have sent lurid dispatches
from the border as to reports of up
risings in Mexico against Gen. Per
shing's punitive expedition.
They have defied the censorship es
tablished by the War Department au-
thorities along the border towns.
They have so violated every line of
ordinary civic decency that the Secre-
tary of State comes out openly and
with this announcement:
Il believe large part of these
stories from the border as to what is
happening in Mexico come from inter
ested persons who desire interven-
ton"
The interested persons who desire
are the American capi-
talists who own the billion dollars
worth of wealth in Mexico.
There must be no war with Mexico.
The workers of both the United
States and Mexico will be the cannon's
prey unless the President uncovers.
and uncovers speedily, this dastardly
plot against the liberties of the Mexi-
can working people-New York Call.
emil Seidel, Everett, April 81