Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-25
WANT NO AMERICAN AID
MEXICAN FE..ilNISTS SAY
OFFER is OVERT ATTACK
Ecnevolcnccs From This Country De.
cinred to but FOrcshndOw Active
Intervention.
IBv Associated l.ross.l


OF protest against '..projectcl philan-
thropic intervention in Mexican aTairs
oS me recent reformed childhood con-
were passed at II meeting II the Next
can feminist council today. The league
which: It is said. proposes. with ;hc
l;.rgest and best known magnates Of
tho United states, to spend from So
ooo;ooo to sio00,o00 annually ON. chari-
table propaganda in Mexico" is said
to be "farsightcd scheme to bring
about ultimate intervention in Next
can affairs
Say They Arc Best Judges.
sisnora Elena Torres, general secrc-
larry or the feminist council, today
AVE the following statement:
to be best able TO Judge it's own needs.
due time. Outside aid. however. well
meant is entirely unlimited. Those
desiring TO spend money TO relieve
temporary structures in Mexico incl
Gent TO the ten years revolution. may
timc means through Mexican institu-
tens already organized for that pur-
above all, before seeking external
objects Of charity, those benevolently
.nGiined United States citizens desir,
take care OF those 3,OO0.O60 to GOOO,-
"gn children. which the 1919 report Of
declares are dying annually in the
United states from hunger and NAL
nutrition.
PROPOSAL Is (:rntuitous.
THE Mexican feminist council also
holds that aside from the gratuitous
nature of the proposed philanthropic
intervention there is underlying more
sinister motive than the projected foun-
schools in every Mexican stato--as is
revealed by the fact that those persons
iina ncially supporting, the movement
agitatcd most mistakenly for intcrvci-
tion and curtailmont OF Mexican lib
critics. Financiers heading the list Of
SerNation league arc those banks, oil
barons,, philanthropists and notable
men who figure most prominently i'm
societies and associations for the pro
lection OF american rights in Mexico.
AGNES c; Laut secretary OF the
new new charitable organitatlon, but bet
20 lihanciai magnatcS than an organ
izer or benevolent institutions. was
an: az ,';oH purely in the interests of her
tha, the leagues objects are the es.
"a oTroi Il, within ten or fifteen years
United States in the minds Of Ike he
uencnciar!es OF this enterprise c.ho
t,,r be improsnatcd with new cuI.
;ua ana new patriotism, which would
Irain them 10 acceptance rather tnn,
ttNolt against possible armed intorvn ,r"
tlon In Mexico. 'e' 'eH-
HeH'th or PropaEunda,
AaIpies or such propaganda Z,
phiin u r nmd turkey which nnanciers,
olns TO subvert the minds of innocan,
sly en-. arc LOO we'll known TO ncccs
OF .ar &c. proof. The effect upon tho minds
o o tne unsuspectinE masses of smcl,
an annual expenditure OF ,nonev in
; VI, n, hy the United States would for.
, wara me sinister purposes OF the in
t,SSrventionists who thus could convinro
those people that Mexico was unabIn 70
SSoiVo her own problems and care for
net own citizens without outside as
Inc Mexican Feminist Council calls
% wom every Mexican citizen man and
WI, Wo,,,d IL, 20 resist this overt attack
ano 20 md some means themselves or
sowing pressing problems of national
reconstruction" ''o""i