New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-07-19
is 1T CONSPIRACY

There is a very substantial belief
growing in the minds of the people
that it is more than likely that the
bringing of suits in the courts OF
Arizona, in Wholesale lots, against
all the railroad and mining corpora
tions operating in the southwestern
quarter of that state is a part of a
conspiracy extending over the en-
tire nation, and having for its OBJ
ject the embarrassment of this people
while at war.
1t will be remembered that at the
very beginning q. the European war,
before we became involved, many
wspapcr openly opposed our
sending any munitions to any ma
ton at war, and carried on an open
campaign to prevent all trade with
the Allies. 1t has since been shown,
by government agents, that the
newspaper campaign was financed
by such men as Bernstorff, Won Pa
pen and Bolo Pashs, the traitor to
France who worked in this country
with the alleged friendship of
Hearst. 1t has also been shown
that the activities of these gentle
men did not end with the newspa-
per work they were doing, but that
they had active agents at work in
all industrial c~enters for the pur-
pose of causing industrial disturb
ances, which the record shows they
accomplished very successfully, ev-
cry thing considered. The Indus
lively engaged by the agents of the
enemy, and in the prosecutions at
Chicago it has been shown that
these men did not stop their activ-
tiles. with our. declaration of war,
as some Of the newspaper and other
workers claim they did, after admit
ting the conspiracy to hamper this
nation in its industries before our
declaration of war. According to the
evidence there produced it is made
certain that the members of the !.
w. W. were engaged in firing timber
lands, driving spikes in logs to tear
up saws, destroying crops, and pr
venting. the. production. of copper
and other important war materials
to the fullest. extent possible. The
evidence. already produced d.. by the
government at Chicago is sufficient
to convince almost any fair minded
man that the troubles in the mining
camps of Arizona were a part of
that general conspiracy of pro-C-r-
mani and I. W. W. leaders to cripple
us,-first as against England and her
allies, and since then against this
country.
Defeated in their attempt to stop
the production of copper in the War
rem district by the prompt action of
the Americans of Bisbee, they are
now trying to take more than TWEEN
millions of dollars from the min
ing and railroad companies operat-
ing. there. which. would. take that
much money out of the hands of men
who are making their wealth avail
able for the prosdcution of the war.
IT 10 claimed that the men bring
ing the suits are to members of the
!. w. w.. which may be true, and
not alter the case in the least, be-
cause they were caught doing, and
to refrain from doing, ex-
actly what the pro-Germans wanted
to do, and their course in tie
ing up the copper mines of thu War
district undoubtedly. did have.
and still has, the full endorsement of
Bill. even If the tieup LASTED
longer than it took good Ameri-
to get their little six-guns.
To us. the over. working of the
suit. industry. smells. and
Iooks like a genuinely German war !
plan, doomed to defeat before it is
as il is ABSOLUTELY impossible t
or any American to work up any {
Iympathy for men who do as Ger {
mans. would. d.. and the. Kaiser
wants them to do. '