The Washington herald., 1918-04-26

Are We allowing Germany TO get
foothold in Mexico, while we are
attending to affairs on the other
side of the water?
Are we allowing things to be done
down there which may embarrass
US during this war. and afterwards? :?
What are the developments in
Mexico?
Is Carranza really friendly TO
Germany-and is he trying to pull
the wool over your Uncle Samuers
eyes?
These are questions which a
| number of Uncle Sans sharpest
lawmakers have been poRdering in
their minds for some time past, but
| more particularly during the past
| few weeks since the insistent cry
| has gone forth that we are not do
| ing what we should down there to
| protect our own rights.
c. w. Barron, Of Boston. may
have special interest in pleading
| one side of the case and he may
not. There are several members OF
Congress who believe that he has
sized up the situation in a truthful
way. and has done some service to
Uncle Sam in pointing out the dan
gers Wnen ne says.
yet, who owns the oil fields of
Mexico? DO Americans or English.
who bought them at high prices
when they were regarded as worse
than useless and took perfectly
| good private and government title
! thereto? As fast as the change can
/ be made the title of all these oil
fields may pass to our enemies.
| Germany is the home of I. w. W.
| Socialism as this country. well
knows. German I. w. w. Socialism
has written a constitution for Mex
leo which forfeits private or cor
poration title to all the mineral
wealth of the country and permits
whatever party is for the moment
/ in power to confiscate mines, OF
gold. silver. copper or oil.
| To-day the government of Car
rama claims right, in violation OF
all previous concessions. laws gov
| ernment and constitutional pledges.
to tax without limit. or confiscate
by appropriation, the oil wealth of
the allies fighting for the worlds
| democracy.
"Confiscated mineral properties
lin Mexico are resold to the Ger
| Inc piopoeohAo VNS
| established at Tampico and the
leading ports of Mexico through
/ the neutrality-suspicious. steamship
organization whose officers In these
ports are declared to be German
navy and military reservists.
Labor troubles and disorganiza-
ton in the oil works and terminals
at Tampico have been traced to the
Germans. Indeed, Germany Is still
making war upon American ship
ping right at the American ship
ping base in Tampico: while for
| forty miles south along the pipe
lines, water lines, railroad and in
| the oil fields contending military
\ forces are burning bridges, cutting
lines and interrupting the oil sup
ply. Only the most meager news
leaks through an international CEN
sorship established from both Mex
leo City and Washington" =
Congress has been so busy with
other more pressing matters, so IL
seems, that nothing has lately been
taken up with respect to Mexico
| There are several of. the members
who want to go over the situation
with the President, however, before
| Congress adjourns. They want to
| reassure themselves upon some
points which are not exactly clear
to them.
Great, siumberlng China may yet
amount to something. but she needs
| education, education and then more
| education before she will really take
| her place beside the other nations
| OF the world. In this respect she Is
| like the other giant, Russia. whose
people, while essentially different In
some respects from the Chinese, still
/ suffer from the same obtuseness.
| In both nations the question Is
being discussed with some serious
ress now. Can we educate our peo-
| pie most rapidly under Q republican
or monarchicai form OF govern.
ment 90
Very upusaal. wo may think. q