The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-09-09
SENATE BEGINS
ITS HEARING ON
MEXICAN AF AIRS
First Witnesses Say Conditions
Are Improving
THEY UPHOLD CARRANZA
Or. Inman, Field Missionary, and
Bishop Cannon, Jr., Favor Letting
Mexicans Solve Own Problems

washington, sept. o.-ExlStence OF
an organized propaganda movement
| in the United States calculated to
counteract any step toward armed in
tervention in Mexico was established
at the first hearing today of the
Senate foreign relations subcommit-
tee charged with investigating the
Mexican situation.
DIR. Samuel Guy Inman, an officer
in the league of free nations associa-
tion and a former neighbor in Mexico
OF President Carranza, admitted un-
der sharp cross-examination that his
association had sent out literature
aimed to quiet any demand FOR inter-
vention by the United States in the
southern republic. DR.. Inman told the
committee that American oil compa-
nies were expending large sums of
money in an attempt t obtain inter-
vention, but under cross-examiaation
said he had been told recently that
the oil interests were opposed to in.
teryention.
DR. lnman. in opening his tcsti-
mony, told the committee that in his
opinion President Carranza was a
man of honor and integrity and that
he had strong faith in the ability of
alexico to work out its own problems,
if given friendly assistance by the
United States He deprecated inter
yention, adding that it would stunt
the growth of the carefully cultivated
p5n-American idea,
Bishop James Cannon Of the Meth
odist Episcopal church south, fol
lowed lnman with the assertion that
the only intervention advI sable in
Mexico was that of the church and
SCHOOL
During the cross-examination
which followed his testimony ,Inman
was subjected ID sharp questioning
~ Senator Fat. III New MeXiao ,li;lir-
iaan Of the gllit ummittee. ard Sena.
tor Brandegee of Connecticut He
admitted many times that he was un
able to give the committee details Of
charges which he had made and at
his request will be permitted to ap-
pear again.
lnman was questioned concerning
several articles put out by his asso-
citation, many of which he said were
written by l.. ]. De Becker. One of
the articles called to his attention
was entitled THE Truth about Mexi-
CO.. and referred to the investigating
subcommittee as headed by that
notorious enemy of Carranza, Senator
Fall" The witness was unable TO
give the name of the author of the
article.
81 am convinced DR.. Inman began,
that if we have Intervention in Mex
icon it will prejudice all Latin-America
against the United States and thus
hold back the progress of Latin-Ameri-
can friendship in very large way
I'VE have at the present time from
200 to $50 American missionaries
in Mexico and the last year has been
one of the best in the history of our
work in that country. Our schools and
churches are crowded and these mis-
sion institutions are in all parts of
Mexico. The missions are recognized
by all factions and probably so per
cent of the public officials of the coun-
try have been educated in American
in Mexico or schools in the
United States.
Il am convinced that Mexico can
solve her own problems with the
friendly aid of the United States and
today our churches are against inter
yention because they believe the pro-
blem can be solved without war. | can
assure you that the Christian leaders
of America are entirely opposed to in.
tervention."
The witness then stated that in his
opinion Mexico had passed, in the last
eight years, through real revolution
He said the faults of administration
such as the land question, the low
wages paid to laborers, were being
gradually changed by Carranza