The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-12
OIL KINGS SEEK
 INTERVENTION
 TO ROB MEXICO

It Is scarcely overshadowed by the .1reaty and tho nigh cost of living. sssSssco is by far the richest oil coun- try in the world, American investors own thirteen-siStecnths of its oil. Our mcpchant marine, our immense auto mobile interests and a hundred forms of business are Epared to the question of fuel oil More important than the question of lan,s or metals or Nuca- tan sisal, or any other of MexiCo's rich resources, is the question of our oil wells in Mexico and of the new Mexican constitution which natioral- 3zes oil lands. These are the big out standing isSsics which profoundly af- feet the Ameri an people.
 We are sending the kcenest. shrewd- est exploiTe~s of national resources to SaistranEht. poverty-stgickcu McSico, and at the ga me ti1nC sending a t-ayo ebody of dissu crested Americans who have begun inc work of Ne=ico's re- -ieuptiOr- One Of these latter men, tho secretary of the committee on Co., Spera1ion ir Latin America. sends out now a riot call He declares tha- 'In- GSrvcnJior ir Ns-sco is coming as fast as certain interests can possibly force ie~
 Five years ago we were on the verge of war with Mexico, a war which would have been a guerilla warfare, and. as Leonard Wood proph esied. wouIS have taken years to dislodEc the united forces of peo- plr tha- colld find refnEe in iungIcs craEs and deserts. Such a war, if fought to the finish. would have prob ably carried our protcrrorate to Pan- ana and have leTr a suspicious and hostile La-l1--A -lertra down to Pat sEonil- We :rS->r not -ove annexed I5n,N.G GOO enemies tut we should have kep- potential foe with long mem Norics I~ ra-- the difficulties are great'v ir,-rca-cz today becars, Of the 1onE ~lnmortes Of the Mexican War of '4s. -hich General Grant declared --Cre of the most iniQuitous wars ever To11rj,- Hy a s-rnnr people, aSa ins- a weak one President Wilson and the A. B. C. coadjntors who were sum moued kept us out of war in 1914 wht2h. if entered on- would have Bound our hands w7lcr the European exicencies of 1917 arrived.
 Today, after cDnSl'tinE newspaper men and others recently from Mexico, the above mentioned secretary sam ueI C. In.nan. says '"The revelations which q newspaper man ma5e con corning the amount of money being spent by the old interests 10 manufac- ture propaganda in favor of interyeu- don are simply appalling While have had evidence of this for some time, l had no conception of its enOr- unity until the facts were laid before me The man who has gone into the matter most thoroughly says that the oil men have large offices in Washing ton and New York with unlimited supplies Of money to cary out their propaEanda- that they arc playing. not simply for the oil wells in Tam pico and Vera Cruz. bur for a much larger stake= that they have found ont that Mexico Is fun Of oil- that while they admit that CaTTanza so far has not 1onfscated their properties and has promised nor 10 do go. what uhey want Is for the UuIres States to get hold Of Mexico SD thai they can easily obtain these billions of dollars dn oi1 'properties--
 Various forms of prOps Fanda are patent tD everyone who reads the daily headlines and inc long sta1is- E4cal articles with inuBtra lions in the SuudRy papers Some or these arti- clcs are about villa bandits and Gen eral Dslset's forces wrich dynamite CRrranza's trains and raise S-ON-Cc9 blacknau month from the oil in deresrs for protection Of their invest nents- Of course protection by American troops would cost the In westorH nothing and the present ex- pCrt-taz on oil which amounted 10 g. 5500 OuD last year might be remove Some of the articles are about the probability of emigration of Germans by the million from Germany and of "200 O0U" Germans from the United States into Mexico in the near future But chief among these clever articles are those which defame Carranza and show the appa Hing results to business 1f this new constitutional provision of nauonalizing oil lands Is carried out.
 Says Mir de Bpkker- an old newspa- per man just hack from five months dn Mexico. -Is there a plot against Mexico? ] believe there is. thai +be object is armed intervention in Mex ico on some pacific. T1retexr- the real purpose belrg permanent military oc- equation of the country. SO that is internal affairs may be administered In arrOT1anrP with the interests of the cOnBpiTltOzs e {" am aware that there exists g TOrTnidarole publicity bu- Teau created 10 poison the minds of the American people against Mexico" MT. de BekkeT repOI1s one of the big GesJ syrGirades in America telling hila that thez- cDu1d not sell amy kind Of article tHa1 did not give Carran- "a heag''
 ODly q few Of the main facts can be included in this birds eve view or the impending danger of an inter Tentlon that might mortgage all our energies and usef711lnsss and nul1ffy our efforts at leadership in a League or NatA"nS~ In a little low-lying strip along tb@ Gulf of Mexico. 300 miles JonB by 50 wide extending to within 200 miles of the Texas border are 2s9 wells producing the fuel which Amer 5can business cTares- Our citizens own more than six times as many oil wells as do the British Our wells have a capacity of 1.SOO,O GOO barrels a day, one oi them alone equalling 1-S of the total product of the oil wells of the United States The prime fac tors in costs are transportation and taxes. The actual amount taken from these wells in 1918 seems to have been far below the capacity. No German money is invested in the oil lands though individual Germans have owned mining property. Americans own hundreds of miles of pipelines, have large permanent estab1ishme ents and have increased wages of Mexi- can laborers many fold and main fninad schools a then, osf ,