Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-06-04
" %[ I9!s GR|LLS
COMhiT1 g: S::s:. Or
ITS REPORT ON
MEXICAN PROBE:
War Is Inevitable If These
Recommendations A r e
Carried Out, Is the 0pin-
ion of Labor Leader,
HEART OF REPORT IS
BRANDED AS VICIOUS
Changes in Constitution, As
Demanded, Would Mean
Playing Into the Hands of
'Big Business. "


Washington, June Samuel
Gompers, president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, declared
In a formal statement today that a
war between the United states and
Mexico would result If the recon-
menGation of the senate commit
tee which investigated the Mexi-
can affairs were carried out.
THE report of the senate sub
committee investigating conditions
in Mexico under the craftsmanship
of Senator A. b. FAN" Mr. Com
pers said, "amounts to a declara-
ton that unless the Mexican gov
ernment rewrites its constitution
IN accord with the idea of the
American oil and mining interests,
the government Of the United
States will intervene in Mexico.
The report of Senator Falls
committee demands a number of
specified changes in the Mexican
constitution. These changes would
be the contamination of what has
been long the hopes of the great
oil and mining interests, as we'll as
the land and timber Interests.
which have fomented the bitter
ness between the people of the
United states and Mexico.
What uhe Report Demands.
In some minor particulars rec
concentrations made by Senator
Fairs committee may be acceptn-
BILE, but the heart of the report
can only be described as vicious.
The report demands that unless
the Mexican constitution is altered
as recommended, the government
Of the United States send q police
force, consisting of the naval and
military forces of our government, |
into the republic of Mexico to open
and maintain open every line of
between the City
of Mexico and every seaport and
border port in Mexico
"Of course, this amounts to po-
Icing practically the whole of the
country. Those who know Mexico
and the Mexican people understand |
fully that such action would mean
war between the two countries.
The report Of Senator Falls
committee, therefore, is a report
which recommends a course lead
ing direct to war with Mexico. THIS
has long been desired by American
interests engaged in the exploita-
tion of the national wealth of
Mexico.
Course Must Be Opposed.
adoption by the senate of this
report would constitute the adop-
ton of a foreign policy completely
at variance with the established
policy and traditions of our repub-
lie. such course as is recon-
by the report of Senator
Falls committee must be opposed
by every justice and frcedom-lov-
ing American and will beyond
question be deservedly condemned
by the working people of our coun-
try and the great masses of our
people generally.
1T is difficult to believe that the
people will give serious considera-
ton to n report so out of harmony ,
with the best thought of our time,
and so the full possibilities of dire
to our people and our
nation as we'll as to a neighboring
with which we are at
peace. ;,
THE report calls for American
hid to Mexico, providing Mexico ,
agrees to the terms of the report.
This is not an American PROPOSE
tion. It is a Prussian proposition. !
II must be set aside by the popular
opinion and fair judgment OF our g.,
people II