Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-23

their comfortable studies in the
United States-principally by reading
/ books about NJ axico and conversing
with MeXicans and others who are not
in sympathy with the existing govern
ment down here.
one or two practical men. who
We're light on their feet but who
otherwise could not be classed as
first-chop surveyors. did manage to
slip over the border. They gum
shoed about the republic for a while,
seeking the occult ana finding only
the obvious.
The interventionists, incidentally,
are very fond OF employing a delight
full euphemism for intervention. "
They call it "a strong policy" 1t
means the same thing, but it doesn't
sound so alarmingly rough.
Various unofficial bodies yclept
congresses conferences, forums"
and the like have been fairly useful
TO the petroleum propagandists.
Speakers whose views upon the Mex
lean situation have been tested for
their "soundness" are expertly
"planted' upon these unsuspecting
organizations. Usually the keynote
of their addresses is pitched upon the
injustice being done to property rights
in general and petroleum rights in
particular by the Mexican govern
ment, and the extreme desirab;l.ty of
the United States adopting strong
policy in dealing with Mexican af-
fairs.
Both the survey" before mem
toned and the guiding spirit of the
petroleum interventionist propaganda
have their headquarters on the sixth
floor of a Washington office building,
a stones thlow from the White
House.
Valiant aid has been given the inter-
Ventionista BY q certain Washington.
newspaper which for months printed
column upon column of false Mexican
news calculated to arouse public.
sentiment in the United s ates in IA
vor Of intervention. All of this news
was supplied either directly or indi-
rectiy by the petroleum people
Every newspaper correspondent inI
Washington has long been familiarI
with the appearance of alleged news
articles attacking the Carranza gov-I
ernment and painting conditions inI
Mexico in lurid language which regu-I
larry and anonymously are laid upon
their desks.
The United States in 1917 produced
340,000,000 barrels of oil and Mexico
So, 293,00 barrels.
The United States in 1918, even
under the spur of utmost necessity /
arising from the war, produced APP
proXimately 35Q000,OOO barrels, or
only 100000 barrels more than she
did in 1917,
Mexico, on the other hanl, in 1918
produced approximately 10000, 0O0i
barrels, or 100000 barrels more
Than in 1917, despite all the handicaps
imposed by conditions of which the
petroleum interventionists pmplain.
only small fraction of the poten-
ial capacity of the Mexican wells now
n production is being used Oil men,
I they tell you the truth, will admit
hat the most serious factor which
essens the actual production of the
wells has been, and is, lack of ship
ping facilities.
Difficulties in operation due to the
evolution and to the impossibility of,
extending pipe lines, the latter chiefly
wing to the scarcity of materials i'm
POSED by the war, are also factors in
restricting production. But it is posi-
lively true that with additional ship
ling many millions more barrels of
NJ could be exported from Mexico
han are today coming out OF the
Ountry.
Thus it is obvious that the retro
loum people are not being seriously
nterfered with so far as production
.oes by internal conditions in Mex
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