New-York tribune., 1920-01-12
DraH Dodgers From u. S.
Said TO Aid Mexican sReds
oarranza government Also Favoring Bolsheviki in
Republic According to Evidence Ready for Sen.
ate; Communists Forecast American Revolut;on

Another article captioned "The Negro
and War with Mexico" is an appeal to
the negroes of the United States to
revolt against the government at Wash
ington: Among other things it states
!nat the American negroes, constitute
ing the most miserable and oppressed
e.:lement OF the American proletariat
nave Iacla! reasons as we'll as economic
for further military service. hit ~
prevent it. They are not unaware ~
this. unaware OF
Assert Negro Will Fight United States
noa Ihe negro has had sleeping sick
ness of many centuries, induced. frst
oy the vitiating tendencies of chattei
slavery, but made even worse under
tne wage slavery that followed emanc;-
paSlon. The negro is not sleeping. He
WIZ night no more wars for his tor
mentors and tyrants"
D., American capitalism is afraid Of
bol.hevism in Mexico. That is % whv - =
wants intervention" runs amn+har nmy -.
article published in Mexico Citv. ''4
Mexico is fertile soil far Soviet
seeds to be sown in. Can;ta,;sn, t,Tise, e,
knows this and intends to pIta''sm tala nn
cnances. G, Left to themselves, these
parbarous' Mexican poems inst con,o
ing into a dim kind of class CON-
Ssclousness, may communize all in
ocstry land and wealth. Under a nro-
sSse.orate S4 OF Wall Street and Wall
Heree1's government in Washington.
there ne mo will be no such difficulty. If
tne Mexicans get any such crazy no
clons IN their heads few regiments of
soldiers and a judicious use of ma
cnlne guns will eliminate the said no.
lions ti. IN short order. 1t is obvious
that such country must be ANNEXED
and its people looked after bv Amer
can guardians. American capitalism
would use some other excuse if there
were no oil tax at all. It wants to
get control of Mexico before the sec
ond Russia appears right under Wall
otreet's nose. Any kind of reason
ton before the various radical ton.
dencies in Mexico-which have been
permitted free reign under Carranza
-pcgln to assume too definite form. {"
State Socialism Prevented
The writer said Carranza was not
Socialist but there was good rea0
son to belieyS a moderate policv of
state socialism would have been put
into practice "if he had not been con-
sstantiy menaced by the Damocles
The attitude of Secretary of the
Treasury Luis Cabrera has also been
very unsatisfactory to Wall Street. the
article continued. After defending
Cabrera's attitude in the Jenkins case
the article adds:
Cabrera was asked by a newspaper
man II he did not shink Bolshevik agi-
tators should be sent out of Mexico.
ne replied NO. and added that Bolshe-
vlsm was an ideal economic system,
although it could not be introduced in
Mexico at present"
After praise for the liberal attitude
OF Secretary of State Berlanga. the
article continues:
Ine average Mexican is potentially
a Bolshevik. About the only ones who
balk are the scions of the Diaz regime,
VINO are still nursing their wrath be-
cause their oldtime concessions were
taken away from them. In saloons and
public places it is interesting to note
the signs OF approval when news of Boil
shevik victories in Russia is read.
There is no mistaking where are the
sympathies Of these long suffering,
slowly unfolding people. Conscious Of
the growing proletariat sentiment in
Mexico, knowing that capitalism is
doomed in the southern republic, the
send thousands of American boys and
killing and carnage.
Mexico is fear of Bolshevism. The re-
suit of interventon-if it is attempted
will be revolution in the United