The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-09-12
PEACE MEETING
LOUIS p. LocHNER TO SPEAK HIRE
MONDAY IN OPPOSITION TO
ARMED INTERVENTION
IN MEXICO
Meeting VIII Be Held In A o. q. ".
Temple-Rev. DR.. G. Z. Allen
VIII Preside,

win Preside.
Louis T. Lochncr. chairman or tho
Justice to Mexico Committee or New |
York City. will deliver an address IN
this city. Monday evening IN opposition
to armed intervention IN Mexico. qne
meeting will be held in the A. o. L. W.
temple on Chapline street. beginning al
8 o'clock.
The meeting was arranged through
the efforts of Miss FLORENCE lIoge. OF
Edgwood. chairman Of the West Fir-
ginia Committee Of tho Woman's In
tcrnational League for Peace and Free
dom, Quite n number OF influential
residents Of Wheeling are cooperating
to make the meeting n success The
Rev Dr. c. l.. Allen, pastor OF Fourth
Street NJ. T.. church. will preside as
chairmon of the committee on arrange
mcnts assisted by Walter B. Hilton,
George L. Houston and Peter G. Boyo.
Mr.. I.ochncr. the speaker, Is well
known for his activities as speaker LOT
the American Peace Society. AS such
hi came in contact with various worIo
peace movements. During the last rev
months he has made a close survey OF
the Mexican situation and has inter-
viewed journalists and heads OF missions
TO Mexico. lie is we'll known in news
paper circles both in the United states
and Europe.
Miss IIoge announced last evening
that in the near future she hopes 10
have Miss Lucia Amcs Mead. OF Bos-
ton. who recently returned from her
fifteenth trip to Europe, here Tor an
address upon the Mexican situation.
Mrs. Mead. in statement given out
at BOSTON. has the following TO say
OF tho Mexican affairs:
The Mexican question Is at the FROM
| 1t is scarcely ovcrshadowed by tho
treaty and the high cost Of living Mex
leo Is by far the richest oil country
| in the world. American investors own
! thirteen sixt cent hs Of its oil. Our mer-
chant marine, our immense automobile
| interests and hundred forms or ousl-
{ ness arc geared TO the question or 1uei
oil. More important than the question
/ Of lands or metals or Yucantan sisal'
or any other Of Mexico's rich resources
is the question Of our oil wells in Mex
! leo and of the now Mexican constitu-
ton which nationalizcs oil lands These
are the big outstanding issues which
profoundly affect the American people.
We are sending the kccnest. shrewd-
est cxploiters Of national resources to
| distraught. poverty-strGkcn Mexico,
! and at tho same llllle SSHulHS VI dNN
body Of dlslntcrcstcd Americans who
| have begun the work of McXico's re-
dcmption. One OF these latter men. the
secretary Of the committee on coopera-
/ ton In Latin America, sends out now
n riot call. He declares that interven-
| ton in Mexico is coming as fast as car
I tain interests can possibly force It,
| Five years ago we were on the verg"
Of war with Mexico. war which would
have been a guerilla warfare and. as
! Leonard Wood prophesied would have
taken years to dlslodge the united
| forces Of n people that could find refuge
! in jungles, crags and deserts. Such
war II fought to the finish would have
| probably carried our protectorate to
! Panama and have left n suspicious and
! hostile Latin-Amcrica down to Patago-
| MIA We might not have annexed l5.-
! 100000 enemies. but we should nave
| kept a potential foe with long memo
rics. In fact. the difficulties are great
| " increased today because OF the. long
| memory OF the Mexican war or 40.
/ which General Grant declared one or
the most iniqutcus wars ever fought
by a strong people against weak one.
| President Wilson and the \. B. {. CO.
adjutors who were summoned kept us
out Of war in 1914 which. II entered on.
! would have bound our hands when the
European exigencics Of 1917 arrived.
| To-day, after consulting newspaper
! men and others recently from Mexico.
the above mentioned secretary. Samuel
! G. Inman. says: The revelations
which 4 newspaper man made concern
! ing the amount Of money being spent
/ by the oil interests to manufacture
propaganda in favor Of intervention are
simply appalling. While I have had evil
| dence Of this for some time, ! had no
| conception of its enormity until the
facts were laid before me. The man
! who has gone into tho matter most
| thoroughly says that the oil men nave
! large offices in Washington and New
York with unlimited supplies or money
to carry out their propaganda: that they
| are playing. not simply for the oil wells
! in Tampico and Vera Cruz, but TOT
much larger stake; that they have
found out that Mexico Is full OF oil;
! that while they admit that Carranza
| so far has not confiscated their proper
! tics and has promised not to 90 So
what they want Is for the United states
n get hold of Mexico so that they can
! easily obtain these billions or dollars