Gilpin observer., 1919-10-09
Who Wants War With Mexico?
Asks the Butte Bulletin


ardently that they spend thous-
ands of dollars for the creation of
public sentiment favorable to ag-
gression in Mexico?
What are. the reasons behind
the agitation for the invasion of
Mexico? What underlying mo-
tives prompt the clamor for the
sacrifice of the blood and wealth
necessary to conquer Mexico?
These are questions that the
American people, sick of slaugh-
ter, are asking. No reply comes
from the kept press except the
parrot-like reiteration that Amer
lean rights in Mexico must be pro-
tected.
Whose rights are menaced?
The rights of the American
workers, who have no property in
Mexico, or is it simply the same
old game of persuading the work
ers to make Mexico safe for the
same gigantic financial interests
under whose oppression the AM
erican people groan today?
We propose to show that the
pressure that is being brought to
bear upon the United States gov
ernment with the intention of
forcing an invasion of Mexico
with or without a declaration of
war-by a combination of the
same financial and industrial
groups that profited to the extent
of billions of dollars from the war
against Germany and that the ag-
itation for war with Mexico
springs entirely from these con-
spirators who are the real rulers
of this nation by virtue of their
control of industry and the press.
Every corporate interest that
profits from war and from the ex-
ploitation of undeveloped territor-
les; every group of vultures that
fattens on the shattered bodies of
those slain in their wars of con-
quest; every oppressor of labor
and ravisher of liberty is involved
in conspiracy with the sinister
purpose of again coming millions
out of the misery and suffering
of an imperialistic war.
An organization has been form
ed known as the National Asso-
citation for the Protection of Am
erican Rights in Mexico"
From a copy of its fetterhead it
will be noticed that one of the
gentlemen who is so much con-
cerned about the protection of
American rights in Mexico that
he is serving as a member of the
executive board is C. F. Kelley.
vice-president of the Greene-Can-
anea Copper company, and also
head of the Anaconda Copper
Mining company.
Walter Douglas, listed as presi-
dent of the Montezuma Copper
company, is also connected with
the Copper Queen Mining COM
pany of Arizona, and is the man
principally responsible for the de-
portation of 1,400 miners from
Bisbee in 1917. He is more inter-
ested in the preservation of Am
erican rights in Mexico than in
their preservation in America.
He is an Englishman by birth
and loves the United States so
much that he sends his wife to
Canada or England so that his
children can be born on British
soil.
A further examination of the
letterhead also discloses the fact
that the Standard Oil company
is represented by its general
counsel; of course, the Standard
Oil, like the other altruistic cor
porations, is interested solely be-
cause they wish to save American
lives in Mexico by the simple
method of sending thousands of
American workers to their death
in war with our southern neigh
Dor.
A propaganda bureau is main
tanned in New York city and in
Washington, d. c., by this asso-
citation.
Press matter is furnished all
newspapers and paid for at lib
eral rates; every means by which
public opinion is nodded and con-
trolled is being used.
There is no lack of finances.
and even casual glance at the
list of members will convince one
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