Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-08-06

1AfsNNa announced lAA0V
.a.s Iid not quit impeding his worl
.ph.o Void he another Indian uprte
inc A. IN 1s47, and that they Swoujd
..mm93 tha throats of all the whites lett
"1n volir opinion. is our govt
noant fi1llv and fairly advised as to
thA actual conditions In
1--WE have just been through g big
a 1 am satisfied hat residenf
wilson was BETRAYED by
just as Carranza oe'rayeu -" =
people" ~ Mr. c-arran.,H
+ooL Mace lone before the war"
"Rut wa ,iG rot understand them
tho Rolsheyist influences that weresS
at work. nor the work OF W. b. Hale.S
NOR the work of Lincoln Steffens."
"Why Toes this unfriendliness on
the part of Carranza now existM' b
"Carranza said to the Britist5
charge, these foreigners nave got tea
Quit making none out Of Mexico.N
want money? What does Carranzs3
care for? Does he want money? evaA
erv last man in the Carranza governM
ment wants only loot, except those
two men who primarily have a politiM
cal theory. Alvarado said to me, III
will show the capitalists of your counN
try what a government ought to be. X
and then he passed that Agraiaf.S lawS
that no man has n right to owrNs
the files of the newspapers of the Za,S
pata and other leaders showing aI
%friendliness to the United States. The
moment Carranza comes in they takes
over these papers and they becona 4
Bolshevist, pro-German and anti-AnH
elo-Saxon. Carranza's idea is THAI
England and the United States are thes
great ogres Of civilization. They
control our resources he says. WEI
are going to wipe them U of MexiSg
co.. You will find the details of tha;a
in their documents. and the whole
thing put together by bit, In my arti-s
Giles, showing that in 1914 it was perSs
fectly clear in his mind. N
"Carranza at one time made al
speech in which he said: After threeat
centuries of foreign oppression anGe
one of internal strife. Mexico is theI
only country in all Latin AmericaY
which can hold up the banner to thes'
rest which means we are the only
HE is going to make an alliance
with Germany"
HE is going to make a commercial
alliance with Germany" &
General Obregon has been men,
toned as. Carranza's probable success
sor. Do you know him :" q
II did not meet him. but I. saw 81
letter written from the secretary Of
the Socialist party in this country tG
him as the head of the Bolshevist,s
in Mexico. asking him what hei
thought-this was about last April
what he thought would be a propitious
time to take unified action between
the radical element of Mexico, Canada
Cuba and the United States. ObregoI'
is the most bitter anti-American@
we'll. not more bitter than Alvarado.s
They are together"
You do NOT think, then. he WOULD
be an Improvement on Carranza * !
There is no use in mincing %ords.I
every one of whom knows the other
and thieves and murderers. and theyi
all support n another, you cannot
rely on any of them. OF course, thereS
are a lot of decent people who have,
to make a living and who are silent,"l
ID you think the American people,
as a whole. have sufficient information
in regard to the Mexican situation ?',
mo-" the thing that interested me
was that had been reading American
papers. aid l know I was not getting
a single thing except prepared propa-s
ganda or silence" /
WHO prepared this propaganda psi
1T was written by Carrancistas and
handed to the Associated Press, and III
they did not send it out they would be-
given twenty-four hours to leave the.
country. The New York Sun sent al
man down there. WhenI was there
1 met him. They were not satisfied
with what was coming out. This was
there and I told him about! YucatanS
and he went to the oil regionsand went
to Mexico City and came back and.
wrote a letter which was printed I'M
The Sun. The editor of The Sun after-F
wards told me that he had received a
letter from the state department say.
Ing, Please do not print any more.
are embarrassing u.s." 4
You mean the state department
refused to allow the newspaper to tell
S
The state department told the
managing editor of The Sun, Mr.
Speed. that the publication Of any
thing further in the matter would"
embarrass then in the present situA.
ton of the war-at all events, to prin,
no more. and they did not.n Il
do?" - i
Nv. B. Hale went there as the pres-$
representative and0she had a;
whole lot of doings with Carranza
and came back and went with the
Germans at a salary of $3.50 al
year, he reported to Wilson that Carr
rama was a fine man. Lincoln Stef-s
fens went down there and did the
same thing"
the government" sc
You canno tell how ofncial these
people are who go down and. come
ton p
Nothing was made public?" 4. I
II think he told the president.
JUDGE Duval West and Paul Fuller,
Brought back exactly the same char
acter of report as I have given you
today, but it never has been pub
lished."I j
The hearing will be resumed at 10
o'clock tomorrow morning when Mr..
Gates will be recalled to the stand.
General Marlborough Churchill. chief
Mr.. Gates. q " h