The New York herald., 1920-01-12
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unlimited, They own and control gov
ernments, Kings. Presidents, Congresses.
churches and colleges. They would have
thousands or tens Of thousands slaugh-
tered so that they can own Mexico and her
riches, crush the tendencies toward Boil
shevism here, wipe out the taxes on their
oil and their mines, and punish the Mexi-
can people for refusing to participate in the
late war The Scattered and occasional
bandit tribes in the isolated mountain and
desert parts of Mexico. now and then rob
somebody and In rare instances. commit
murder, but their crimes-much as we de-
plore them--do not cause one millionth
part Of the suffering that another war
would cause.
1T has been proved that most OF these
bandits are either supported by foreign
financial interests who want 'banditry' as
an excuse fer Intervention In Mexico. or
else buy their guns from other foreign IN
terests that are willing to coin profits out
Of the thugs and thieves.
1.-THE Mexican proletariat has no prob
lens that the Mexican proletariat cannot
solve. Alone and unaided it overthrow the
modern Nero, Porfirio Dtaz. and wrote a
liberal constitution. Alone and unmolested
by alien armies it can rise above the inn
pe.diments left by three hundred years of
bondage, and into the full enjoyment of
economic liberty.
Appeal to Comrades.
1--WE appeal to you, our Domradas IN other
lands, to help prevent this crime that the
imperialistic CaliguIas and Herods OF the
world seek to commit.
prevent a declaration Of war IL you can.
IF you cannot prevent the declaration pre-
vent the conslmmation. Refuse TO fight.
Get others to do the Same. Without
workers to do the masters vile bidding,
without soldiers to obey The brutal orders,
there can be no war. Act now. Agitate,
write, speak, publish, and strike. Com
municate with US as TO ways and means" ;"
Another article, captioned ''The Negro
and the War with Mexico" is an appear
to the negroes of the United states 10
revolt against the government at WASH
ington. Among other things it states that
''the American negroes, CONSTITUTING tne
most miserable and oppressed element OIL
the American proletariat have racial rea-
sons, as we'll as economic ones, for i'm
mediate preparedness, not for furtner
military service, but to prevent it. They
are not unaware of this.
"The negro has had a sleeping sickness
of many centuries, induced, first by the
yitjating tendencies Of chattel slavery. bur
made even worse under the wage slavery
that followed emancipation. The negro Is
not sleeping. He will fight. No more
wars for his tormentors and tyrants:
American capitalism is afraid OF Boi-
sheyism in Mexico. That is why IT wants
Intervention" runs another article puo-
iished in Mexico City.
.sMexfco is fertile soil for Soviet seeds
to be sown in Capitalism knows this and
intends to take no chances. Left to them
selves. these barbarious' Mexican poems
inst coming into a dim kind OF class
may communize all INDUS
try- land and wealth. Under protec-
torate of Wall street and Wall street s
government IN Washington, there Will
be no such difficulty. If the Mexicans
get any such crazy notions in their heads
a few regiments Of soldiers and judi
cious use of machine guns will eliminate
the said notions ia short order. 1t is
obvious that such country must be an
uexed and its people looked after by
American guardians.
F0resees Second Russia
American capitalism would use some
other excuse IL there were no Oil tax az
all. II wants to get control OF Mexico
before the second Russia appears igh.
under Wall streets nose. Any kind of
a reason will do, but there must be inter
vention before the various radical tenden-
cies in Mexico. which have been permit