The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-05-21

ship and cooperation with the United States = that
makes his election the presidency SO undesirable
70 Carranza. Oregon platform is unique in the
history of Mexican politics, Its chief plank is q
pledge of friendship with the United States No other
candidates for the presidency of Mexico has ever
gone before the people such platform. When
Americans realize that Carranza S objection to OBJ
rtgon is primarily a result of conflict between
their respective policies with respect to the Unitel
States .he one a policy of bigoted hostility, AMI
rhc others rolcy of liberal interchange of needs
the action of Sonora will not be looked upon just
another Mexican revolution y
Now, when the capitalist press of the United
States commepds foreign politician manfestng
friendship for the United States we may always
understand that friendship to really be friendship
for Wall Street.
The news that the bandit chief, Manuel Pelaez,
who has so long lorded it the Tampico AMI
fuxpam oil district, has joined in supporting Obregon
with his bAndd-sodiers is also not without meaning,
Pelaez it is generally known has been financed by
The petroleum kings for time Let take the
words of a reasonable and reliable witness H. J.
lie Becker the correspondent for the New York
Tribune. whose articles fair that his paper
would not accept then and he sold them to the Nation
On page 81 of The Plot Against Mexico, "
Becker says
'I said to the oil men; Why don't YOU shut off
this blacllmal and make your peace with Mr. Car.
ranaa7 No doubt your stockholders could use to ad
vantage the $20OOOO month you are giving
Pelaez. and he doesn't seem to be delivering the
goods we can't. was the invariable reply
lie would blow up our wells if we did. Besides
The state department at Washington knows each ami
every payment make to Peaez and approves it, ="
Two years previous Carl W. Ackerman wrote:
''Peaez and his army-ostmated at 5000 to $1,000
men depending on the authority quoted-get 100000
month protection money from the oil companies -
IL appears that the oil companies in two years in
creased their retainers to Pclaez from $4,000 a
month to $2OO000 MONTH
With this evidence of the relations of Pelaez with
iho petroleum kings, we have much doubt as to
the kind Of man he would probably support in Mex
can poticsa
In this connection it is interesting TO observe
that the Sonora government has returned the South
ern Pacific Railroad to its owners after having TAX
On possession of it, At the time of the seizure some
were jubilant at this exhibition of " Boshevist tend.
ences. ~ As matter of fact the Carranza govern.
ment going to seize the railroad and force the
settlement of strike, and the Sonorans seized it
to get ahead of the Carrancsas As soon as control
Of the state seemed certain and the strike was set
tied, the rebel Officials turned the road back to the
company.
Regarding ObregOn personally I may say this:
As correspondent for various newspapers, well as
Tor my own satisfaction, | procured an interview
with mm in the latter part of January while he
spending time in Mexico City ! submitted in
writing five question and he agreed to send me by
mail the The first question was as 10
lis opinion p h b ion the second (re
ated to the restoration of land to the poems; the
third, If Mexico ought to recognize Soviet Russia
the fourth tariff reduction or free trade; and the
fifth read, care you disposed to favor the social
:zation of the mines and industries of Mexicol'
Some days later, I received typewritten and signed
answers to three questions but no answers to the
third and fifth queries the about the recognition
of Russia and the one about socializatiOn of mines
and industresi
/ do not mean to say that / have had any
more satisfactory experience with Bopillas and Gen
Pablo Gonzales, the other candidates 1 have never
een able to get them to commit themselves these
questions, either
word about Alvarado who, in an interview in