Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-04-07
A CHURCHMAN is HAMMERED.

DR.. Samuel Guy 1nman., secretary of the com
mittee cooperation in Latin America and rep
resentlng thirty mission boards doing work in
Spanish America, was the first witness called by
the senate Subcommittee investigating Mexican
affairs. "a: teH. aa aSla 's. #..
His attitude toward Mexico may DO gathered
from the following exract from his testimony APP
pearing pages and of the subcommittee
preliminary report: .1.rrfn"s ,f, .-,. @1-.
Or Infnan, l might say, Mr.. Chairman,
that ! think that the churches unitedly
against armed intervention III Mexico, not be-
cause they are not equally interested with all
other American citizens In the protection of
American rights and in the development of
our International friendship and in the pro-
lection Of the American flag wherever 1T may
be. but simply because these interests after
careful study, believe that the problem can be
worked out without war. :b%.p
II do not care to create the impression at
all. If 1t were possible, that things are all
right in Mexico today but would ike for
ell Of US to realize that after period of revo-
luton every country has had in its history
a period of reconstruction - a. .aea4 .a.
Now let Us see how Chairman Fall handled
this witness whose greatest fault in the senator's
eyes, seems to have been that he believed that
the teachings OF Christ could be applied to Mex
fco.~s -. ..,. ..u, q. .,.. ...t.
After catechizng Dr.. Inman mercilessly, the
chairman was unable TO conceal his hostility TO-
ward tthe witness any longer and he declared
1.-THE sChairman.--Do you not think you
might very wen have spent few days in the
city OF Mexico and in the hospitals among
these poor people? :; @
i. "Dr. Inrnan.---If 1 had done everything you
had suggested this afternoon. never would
have gotten to write that book.
"The Chairman---1f you did not do some of
these things you should never have written
the book. I-have not written book.
"Dr. Inman.--I hope some day you will
write book. a" ea'n"-# "''N& s.~'
1.-THE Chairman going to write
chapter before we get through with this
investigation" page 72)
We leave the reader TO his own Interpreting
as to the kind of chapter Chairman Fall Intended
to write But the chapter he and his colleagues
did write is matter of record and in this 'chap-
ter the committee thus aside the declara-
tions of men who, like DR.. Inman. believe that
armed Intervention is not the only solution to the
Mexican problem:
"Carranza propagandists in this country
have filled the papers with attacks upon
predatory interests who were seeking in
PREVENTION in Mexico for selfish purposes
CHURCHES HAVE REsOUNDED WITH
DENUNCIATION FROM THE PULPITS OF
THE SAME PREDATORY INTERESTS who
desired to have not only the treasure of the
United States poured out but the blood of its
spilled Tor the prOtecuon dccIetloH
their ill-gotten dirty dollars" in the republic
of Mexico, IPage $3.50 EG-a a
The Journal is no apologist for. Mexico or
Mexican atrocities committed on our citizens. This
paper was the first agency that protested against
the pardoning of the sixteen Villistas by Govern
Larrazolo.s3 }r.r s. "%F"
We do insist, however that any investigation of
Mexican affairs should be handled by unpre-
JUDGED man. and that witnesses who able to
present the favorable side Of the picture should
not be ntfnidated'
Again in correcting a statement made by Dr.
Inman-who 5.,nowhere claimed nfallibility--the
chairman said
''The chairman. Doctor. you are
voicing just what good many people have
voiced before you who know nothing more
about the subject than you do" page i24C
Such comment on the competency n a wit
ness, in hearing of this nature, VIC believe was
gratuitous and inexcusable. 1t clearly showed
MIR. Falls hostile attitude toward the man on the
stand, T1 ~
If the chairman did not believe the witness
qualified to speak he could have borne that fact in
mind in making his report Blu he did not need to
be rude about il. g
What contrast is found in Mr., Falls treat
ment of Edward Lawrence Doheny, Oil producer of
Los Angeles who testified that "even before the
United states had taken sides between Villa and
Carranza we were obliged to pay tribute first to
one man and then to the other, and we never,
knew what their allegiance until they declared
themselves, and then did not know whether.
they were telling the truth" (Page $3.50
During the course of his examination--durng
which he questioned Mr.. Doheny very tenderly-y
Mr.. Fall said: page 221O
"The Chairman.-We have made up our 4
minds In going into this to try to get for the
American people true picture of Mexico and
the conditions there. and what Americans
have done In Mexico, and / do not know
any one who is more capable of giving at
least the latter part of it. at any rate, than
yourself" 81