Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-12
Appel to Negroes.

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gro and War With Mexico is ar
appeal to the negroes Of the United
states to revolt against the govern
ment at Washington. Among othel
things il states that "the American
negroes constituting the most misera'
Bile and oppressed element of the
American prolctariat, have racial reas
ons rs well az economic ones, for i'm
mediate preparedness, not for further
military service, but to prevent II
Thov are not unaware Of this.
THE negro has had q sleeping sick
ness of manv centuries, induced frs
by the vitiating tendencies of chat
tel slavery, but made even worse un.
der the wage slavery that FOLLOWED
emancipation The negro Is not sleep
ing. He will fight no more wars foi
his tormentors and tyrants.
american capital is afraid of Rol
ehpVism in Mexico. That is why j
wants Intervention" runs another arti.
Gle published in Mexico City.
Mexico is fertile for SOVIET seeds r
b. soWn in. CAPITALISM, knows TIM
and intends to take no chances. I@t
to themselves these 'harbarOus' MeXi
can poems just coming into a dim kline
Of class consciousness, may COM
munize all industry, land and wealth
Unde~ a protectnrate of Wall stree
and Wall Street's government II
Washington, there will be no sncl
difficulty. VI the MeXicanS get any
such crazy notions in their heads
few regiments of soldiers and n Judi
cious use Of machine guns will elimi'
nate the said notions in short order
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he annexed and its people looked after
by American guardians. American
capitalism would use some other eX-
cuse if there were no oil tax at ALL
It wants to get control of Mexico be-
fore the second Russia appears right
under Wall streets very nose. Any
kind of n reason will do, but there
must be intervention before the
various radical tendencies in Mexico
which have been permitted pretty
free rein under Carranza-began to
assume too definite form"
The writer said CarranZa was not
a socialist. but there was a good rea-
son to believe a moderate policy Of
state socialism would have been put
into practice "if he had not been con-
stantly menaced by the Damocles'
sword of intervention"
Attitude of cabrera.
THE attitude of Secretary of the
Treasury Luis Cabrera has also been
very unsatisfactory to Wall street y
the article continued. After defend
ing Cabrera's attitude in the jenkins
case, the article adds:
Cabrera was asked by newspaper
man if he did not think BolsheVik
agitators should be sent out of Mex
leo. He replied no and added that
Rolshevism was an ideal economic
system although it could not be in
troduced into Mexico at present"
After praise for the liberal attitude
of Secretary of States Berlanaga that
articles continues:
THE average Mexican is potentially
a Bolshevist, About the only ones
who balk are the scions of the
Dia2 regime who are still nursing
their wrath because their old time
concessions were taken from them.
In saloons and public places it is in
teresting to note the signs of approval
when news of Bolshevism victories in
Russia are read, There is no mtstak-
ing where are the sympathies of these
long suffering slowly unfolding peo'
pie. Conscious of the growing pro-
letarian sentiment in Mexico, knowing
that capitalism is doomed in the
southern republic, the beast of the
north is preparing to send thousands
Of American boys and men into an
other furious festival of killing and
carnage.
The reason for Intervention in
Mexico is fear of Bolshevism. The
result of intervention-if it is at
-empted-will he revolution in the
United States"