The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-12-20
Letters Revealing Conspiracy In
"LOdge %" Mexican Radical Body,
Signed by Carranza, Given to
Wilson by Senator Fall.

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revolution in the United States
and to seize the border states acquir-
ed by the United States Government
in 1848, is continued in the memo
randum presented to President Will
son by Senator Fall of New Mexico,
chairman of the foreign Relations
Subcommittee investigating the Mex
lean situation.
Plans for the proposed revolution
were obtained by the subcommittee
from the minutes of a meeting last
October Is in Mexico City of Lodge
%, an organization of extreme agi-
tators and members of the Industrial
Workers of the World.
The Mexican President is linked
most directly with the plot through
correspondence, in which he recon-
mends three men for special consid-
Grafton because of their connection
with the plan which they desire to
put into practice in the State of Tex
as"
Active In Lodge %
These men, the committee states,
have been identified as active agents
Of Lodge %.
The memorandum, which contain
an abstract of the evidence collected
by the committee, was delivered to
4 the President by Senator Fall on
Friday night and made public late
N today.
The notes of the October Is meet
ing Of the radical lodge declare
there appeared three delegates, two
Americans and one Mexican, who
had arrived from the United States,
and who claimed that "the society"
would be able at the beginning of
next November chat is. November
1919, to call a general strike of all
miners and metal workers in the
United States, that they have 100000
adherents in that country, where
4 they will be able to seize on West
ern and two Atlantic ports; that a
large number of American soldiers
were preparing to take sides with
\ them, and that they proposed to es-
tablish a capital of reform gov
eminent of the United States in the
States of Colorado; that when such
revolution was successful the Mex
leans rendering their assistance, the
& border states which were acquired
by the United States under the treaty
of 1848 would be returned to Mex
4 ico."
4 The three men referred to are the
same, the memorandum states, as
4 those mentioned by Caranza in let
y tiers of which the committee has Sc
cured Photographic copies.
a Carranza's First Letter
y The first of these letters, dated
II June 4th, and addressed to Manuel
J Aguirre Berlanga, Mexican Minister
y of Gobernacion says:
"a "Senor Limo Caballo, bearer OF this
Y letter, is the person who. is company
\ with two friends, will bring to you
y the manifestos and the plan which
) they desire to put into practice in
- the State Of Texas.
This plan being very favorable for
L. Mexico, please aid them in every
way and give the necessary instruct
A. ions in the frontier states. l remain
nv your affectionate friend,
:" "v. CARRANZA."
q The second letter dated August Is
al and addressed to the same govern
he ment official, follows
Sc "The present letter will be deliver
ed to you by Mr.. Juan N. Garcia and
av the two friends from Texas who ac-
" company him, and, in accordance
f. with our conversation, please give
he them the guarantee they solicit, as
well as the pecuniary assistance
he they may desire. / remain youi
a friend, affectionately,
to "V CARRANZA."
A. Treaty with japan.
n Other information secured by the
ly committee, and which it regards as
" between Mexico and Japan. The
document in possession of the com
ed mittee states the one high official Of
a. Mexico would communicate to an
er other high official l that "the treaty
ey with Japan is convinced of the great
advantages it would bring Mexico
he for its national integrity"
ne Reference is contained in another
a document to the support which the
al Mexican Government proposes tc
at give German commercial initiative in
on Mexico.
or Senator Falls comment on the plan
ny of the Lodge meeting is that il
would appear preposterous, ridicu-
at lous and so fantastic as of itself tC
an deserve little attention were it not
first, for the fact that it is similar
in all essentials to the plan Of Sar
Diego, which the only judicial tri
IR bunal passing upon the question has
declared to have been backed or sup
ported by armed forces through {
state of war by V. Carranza in 1915
and, second, were it not for the fac
TIA that the plan of San Diego itself an
H. tedating, were and are in exact linz
n with the note of June 10, 1917, from
r. Zimmerman to Won Eckhart, ther
L. Minister from Germany to Mexico
ar Ztmmermann's Note.
m The Zimmerman note contained
cir the paragraph: 1--WE Germany
w. shall give general financial supper
lrt Ito Mexico), and it is understood tina
Mexico is to reconquer the lost ter
lat ritory in New Mexico, Texas ant
of Arizona.
ed In this connection, the memoran
M dunn called attention to the suggest
RS ion in the Zimmerman note, tina
Sc, Mexico communicate with Japan sug
nd costing adherence to the plan, anC
lr- offer her meditation between Japar
ey and Germany.
The evidence in possession of tht
committee, Senator Fall informed the
- President, indicates that conditions
now along the border are rapidly
taking on the same character which
! had been assumed in our relations