Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-09-09
propaganda to Quiet Agitation
 for Armed Entry is Admitted.
rARRANZA DEFENDED
 BY FORMER NEIGHBOR
Bishop Pleads for Intervention By Church and Sunday School Senate Sub Committee Starts Probe.

Washington, Sept. 8.-Existence
 of an organized propaganda move ment in the United States calculated 1 to counteract any step toward arm 1 led intervention in Mexico was es- Etablished it the first hearing today To fthe senate foregin relations sub-
 committee charged charged with in- Evestigating the Mexican situation. l Dr. Samuel Guy Inman, an officer lin the League of Free Nations asso- #ciation and 8 former neighbor in
 Mexico. of President Carranza, ad-
 mitted under sharp cross examina-
 tion that his association had sent out l Literature aimed to quiet any de-
 mand for the intervention by the Uni
 States in the southern renublic. Dr. 1 |lnman told the committee that American oil companies were expend- Ting large sums of money in an at- 1 Itempt to obtain intervention, but under cross examination said he re- [cently had been told that the oil in- 1 |terests were opposed to intervention. Dr. lnman, in opening his testi- |monv, told the committee that in his |opinion, President Carranza was a |man of honor and integrity and that 1 ne had strong faith in the ability l of Mexico to work out it's own prob
 lens if given friendly assistance by the United States. He deprecated intervention, adding that it would stunt the growth of the carefully cultivated pan-American idea.
 Religious Intervention.
 Bishop James Cannon of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. |iollowed lnman with the assertion |!hat the only intervention advisable m Mexico was that of church and |school "''o During the cross examination |whlch followed his testimony. Inman twas subjected to sharp questioning ! Oy Senator Fall, New Mexico. chair man I Of the subcommittee, and Sena- sor braa1ndegee of Connecticut. He many times admitted that he was uaa1le '. to give the committee details |I! |I: chafges which he made, and at ms request will be permitted to an. pear again.
 lnman was questioned concerning |ssveral s;a.: articles put out by his asso-
 ms;.t v,s!Ion' many of which. he said, were |Nha''ten MI by L. J. Debekker. One of s,a sme articles called to his attention |"aS ;aaS entitled "The Truth About Mex IEo I4;O amt referred to the investipa- Iuon .I subcommittee as "Headed hv |clat oaa notorious enemy of Carranza
 Senator sI, Fall" The witness was mn, as asie t, to give the name of the author of the article. N ' 'ot''o' ,,. A letter which, Chairman Fall said
 conto "~s written and circulated by Inman' Mmsalned Mou;an "riot call" to friends of meHlco nrexO. to do what they could to aa paeveht armed intervention in Mexi. ,o no,s saving that such action was immi- affo.. e.st,. ana charging that deliberate co,vrt cann was being made to canse lAUngress Ama.1 to authorize such action ted t'''.et ns: pa,ragranh of the letter uue had had , sa1a that "when the country T~ wou,s waked up little bit more. if as 'alu a,. pc easy to pull off a few raids - "W91 "cWr9r1eady had been done."
 rnandoS na' G do you mean by that ?", de- handed Senator Fall.
 For Counter-Propaganda. v;th f0r e c an hour the witness fenced desae @ senator Srsor Fall and Senator Bran anytH anyteins before they secured from him Fa11 F11Iiing ;ng but an evasion. Senator ferrod ar Insisted upon knowing if ha re- contoa. to the oil interests as tha i Inmann In' al appeared to indicate that. Dr. i of ,ah %hoi replied he did not and smoke psd ps9shs, hs. ,Thereupon, he was " cha1len- I@s new newsosntah,,ee my the senator's to produce any raid;na raid;;papers which had said that I the l bordane be of Columbus or anv othar @ americans. D Deeh purchased by soma ne Witness then suggested that do if renegade" American m;pht | su supas..:lt as, It was countered with ''the the has hassess,on enomn, that renegade" seldom eaa In the hhaoagh o.s5 money for such purposes. s1iehate N iae ss end, Dr. Inman, with pSSrs. some |
 but sana. now of exasperation, said l hat senator, haven't I made it clear . two d;fs Gfss l said in that letter. ~ are
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