The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-29
CARRANzA LOSING
HOLD IN MEXICO'
R. H. Cole Says Sixty Per
Cent of the People Are
Against Him
WHOLE COUNTRY
CALLED BANKRUPT
Some Country Must Assume Control of
Affairs There Right Soon-People
Starving and Conditions Worse Than
In Russia.

WASHINGTON, April 20 Car
rama S government cannot last six
months longer. He is broke. The Ger
man merchants in Mexico helped Car
rama until Germany was beaten. Now
he. has no money and cannot borrow
any. Sixty per cent of Mexico is in
rebellion against Carranza. Fourteen
different rebel commanders, independ-
ent of one another, are in the field. The
poems are starving, Talk of Poland,
Belgium, Russia or Armenia! Mexico
is far worse off. >
That statement was made by Rich
ard H. Cole wealthy American. who
was the. confidential representative in
the United States of. President Madero
and later Carranza S representative
and personal friend. Mr., Cole, a son
Of the late Nathan Cole of st, Louis,
now resides in Pasadena, Cal, and is
here, on business. He quit Carranza
after the United States entered the
war because the Mexican president
leaned toward Germany Discussing
conditions in Mexico further, Mr. Cole
said
Mexico is bankrupt nation-ut-
terly, hopelesslv bankrupt. 1t is I'M
able to meet the payments. of interest
on its foreign debt and its railways. let
alone the principal, and cannot by any
possibility meet the damage to foreign
property it has incurred.
Great Britain, France, Holland, the
! United States and other countries have
| huge interests in Mexico. Ninety per
cent of all improvements in Mexico
| have been made by foreigners For
cigners have invested $2,000.000 900 in
! Mexico, Are the foreign nations going
| TO allow Carranza to confiscate their
| large investments in Mexico and sell
| them to Germans in that country
/ think not.
| There will be mandatory in Mex
leo. do not think any Mexican fac
/ tion or group of factions can organize
a stable government in Mexico Mex
leans are too far gone in anarchy to be
/ reorganized by Mexieans. Only a
strong outside power can restore order
! and law in Mexico. What power will
| it be- European or American power
The Monroe Doctrine says an American
! power.
- would not advise military inter
vention- ANY strong power could con
quer Mexico in so days. But it would
be q shame and a crime to do so
What the Mexicans want is food, no.
force. About 100000 of Mexico ;!
100000 people will welcome Ameri
cans who come with food and the he'll
they are entitled to. They would b.
greeted with open arms. A few train
loads and many motor truck loads o
food, beans, sugar and coffee. enough
soldiers to police the country, abou
10000 men in all. and we can do
more profitable business in Mexico in +;
year than we can do in Russia in
lifetime.
81 am well aware the United State
is tender about hurting the feelings o
the Mexicans and hates to intervene
Some German owned Mexicans Nigh
protest But some country mus
straighten out Mexico soon. In tn
end, in defense of the Monroe doetrin
and to make good other obligation
the Monroe Doctrine imposes upo
them, l think the United States mus
be the nation to become mandatory.
"Mexico is wonderfully rich ctur
| try. Inc 1ndlanS-1of Such Mexican
are-sit on their heels, smoke cigarette
and let it go at that 1t seems a pit
to see the best farming land, the grea
est mines the finest hard wood forest
90 unworked because the people WI
are in the country are not coneerne
about working them or their prosperit.
mexico offers terrible temptation
to the busting, hustling America
who wants to make some money fl
himself and his family. | have I
smile when ! read of the trade oppo
tunities for Americans in Russia. VIII
Mexico is rich with treasure and
at our doors crying for food and ia
treatment The. climate is one of IL
best in the world
.'While the United States is thin
ing about Russia, Japan, with an e!
TO the commerce of the Pacific, is era,
to get a foothpld in Mexico. Japs
knows where the wealth is. Let Il
Japanese. or the Germans get a footho
in Mexico, and you will see such veal
developed as has never been develop;
J IN, no xropi1 hafpro -