New-York tribune., 1919-12-25

passed at q meeting Of the Mexican
Feminist Council to-day.
The league, which, it is said. PRO
poses, with the financial backing of
group of the largest and best known
magnates of the United States, to
spend from $4,000, 900 to s4,000,000 an
nually on charitable propaganda in
Mexico," is said to be a "farsightee
scheme to bring about ultimate inter
yention in Mexican affairs"
Outside Aid Uninvited
Signora Elena Torres, general sec
retary OF the Feminist Council. to-day
made this statement:
mexican women hold Mexico itself
to be best able to judge its own needs
and to find way to satisfy them IN
due time Outside aid. however well
meant, is entirely unlimited.
Those desiring to spend money to
relieve temporarys structures in Mex
leo, incident to the ten-year revolu-
ton, may find means through Mexican
institutions already organized for that
purpose.
above all, before seeking external
objects of charity, those benevolently
inclined United States citizens desir-
Gus of relieving suffering had best
take care Of those 100000 to 100000
children which the 1919 report of the
Children's Bureau at Washington de
clares are dying annually in the
United States from hunger and NAL
nutrition.
"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 pro-
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asyiams anG schools in every Mexican
state-as is revealed by the fact that
those persons financially supporting
the movement are the same individuals
who have agitated most insistently for
Intervention and curtailment of Mex
lean liberties.
"Financiers heading the list of
patrons of the so-called Childhood
Conservation League are those bankers
oil barons, philanthropis and notable
men who figure most prominently in
societies and associations for the pro
lection of American rights in Mexico
Agnes I. Laut, secretary of the new
charitable organization, but better
known as confidential secretary to
financial magnates than an organizer OF
benevolent institutions, was at work
IN the Interests of her employers while
making a recent trip through Mexico.
1t IS frankly stated the league
objects are the establishment within
ten or fifteen years Of strongholds o.
sympathy for the United States in the
minds of the beneficiaries of this en-
terprise. who would be impregnated
with new culture and new patriotism
which would train them to acceptance
rather than revolt against possible
armed intervention in Mexico.
Examples Of such propaganda in
China and Turkey, where fnanciers.
philanthropists and missionaries com
olne to subvert the minds and under
standing of innocent children, are too
well known TO necessitate proof.
The effect upon the minds of the
unsuspectlng masses Of such an annual
expenditure of money in Mexico by the
United States would forward the sins-
ter purposes of the nterventionists
who thus could convince those people
that Mexico was unable to solve her
own problems and care for her own
citizens without outside assistance.
The Mexican Feminist Council calls
upon every Mexican citizen, man and
woman, to resist this overt attack upon
national self-respect and dignity. and
TO find some means themselves of solv-
ing problems of national reconstruct
ton.