The Connecticut labor news., 1921-01-28
GIVE MEXICO A CHANCE OF PEACE
 URGES GOMPERS
Plotting on This Side of Border Still Continues, He
 Says.

Information in the possession of officers of the A. F. of l.. indicates very clearly that however peaceful conditions may be within the borders of Mexico, plotting on this side of the line for in reference in Mexican internal affairs has not come to and end, says Samuel Gompers in the current American Fed eratlOnst.
 During the last 10 years of Mexican history one revolutionary movement after another has had it's inception in the United States. At various times the moving spirits i'll these movements have Centered their operations on the border, i'll San Diego and Los Angeles and also i'll New York city.
 When there was no opportunity for the people of Mexico to find redress for wrongs through the methods of peace within their own country, the lib erty-loving people of the United States looked with sympathy upon such steps as could properly be taken within the borders of this country looking toward the securing of relief for the Mexican people.
 In addition to this, many a revolu- tionary venture and many rebelious plot, which had for it's object no service to the common good, has been matched on American soil.
 Today there is a new situation in Mexico. A government is in power by virtue of the will of the people freely expressed at the polls. The presidency has changed hands peacefully in thor ough accord with democratic practices, an event which has occurred only about four times i'll Mexican history. There is, of course, on guarantee of what the
 
 we have right to have faith that the future of that country will fulfill the promise made by the recent election We have a right to believe and to act in accordance with the belief that Mex lCO IS to remain a nation not only democratic i'll ideals, but democratic in practice.
 For the present the facts are that a government IS i'll power as the result of free election and that this govern ment is unusually responsive to the will of the people.
 The Mexican people and the Mexican government today have right to look upon conspiracy in the United States against the Mexican government exact ly as the people and government of the United States would look upon similar conspiracy in Mexico against the gov ernment of the United States.
 Whether these plots be the work of adherents of the former Carranza gov ernment, or whether they be the plots of any other faction in Mexican politi- cal life, they have II bright to expect the hospitality of American soil and they have no right to expect the tolerance of the American people.
 Nearly all of these attempts to foment revolution in Mexico have had their origin and purpose not in accord with the will of any large or important group of the people of Mexico, but with that of adventurous American exploiters | whose purpose is the pilfering of the wealth of that country, now enjoying peace and tranquility with the oppor- tunities for self-expression and orderly 1 development.
 All aspirants for political power in | Mexico have had the opportunity at the | polls to strive peacefully anf democrati- cally for supremacy. The people of the | United States must assume that another i free and democratic opportunity for a test of political strength will be afford i ed four years hence, in accordance with i the Mexican constitution. It Is wholly l improper that opportunity for revolu- 1 tionary plotting should be found in the l United States for rebellious Mexican | factions that are not willing to accept 1 that assumption.