Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-06
Editorial Comment
Let Us Recall Some Events

| (John +. MCors in Boston Herald)
The mills of the gods grind slowly
but they grind exceeding small.
In October. 1918, the general coun-
! sci OF the Mexican Petroleum COM
pany Doheny's company published
IN Il New York weekly these words:
| The oil companies have opposed and
will oppose to the end the attacks 10
! which they are being subjected" On
Jan. 81. 1919. the formation of the
| Ma GOnal Association for the ma
I tional Association for the Protection
Of American Rights i'll Mexico was
! announced. 1t had offices at 347
/ Fifth avenue, New York. and d press
! agent who received q salary of SEQ
| 900 a year. On July s. this associa-
ton declared publicly that it would
use its utmost endeavors" to make
outragcs in Mexico IAN international
! ISSUE"
| On Sunday, July 20. big headlines
| Outrage on American Sailors" are
good instance of the vigorous
presswork done. Acting Secretary
! of State Phillips was quoted as say
| ing: This is one of the gravest in
: cidonts staged in Mexico within re-
cent months" Senator Ashurst of
Arizona was quoted thus: Every
| sensible American knows the course
+ we should adopt TO stop these out
RACES. We ought to kill about two
; thousand Mexicans"
Senator Albert b. Fall. the most
persistent advocate of forcible in
! tervcntion by this country in Mexico.
! was described as "one who gave
| free expression to his feelings" The
) official report finally reduced the
! losses to watch, a pair of shoes and
! some money taken from Ameri-
, can sailors who had wandered into
| bandit country. Presently the
! charge came from Mexico that Sena-
! tor Fall was behind Il letter from
| Col. Charles +. Hunt to the outlaw
Villa, offering Villa a visit from
/ Fall for the purpose of pushing the
campaign against the Mexican gov
Crnnent.
Fall replied: Liars. Of course,
as usual" but admitted that he had
sent the state department copies of
! the Hunt-Nilla correspondence. Pres
emily too, Senator Lodge appointed
Senate committee to investigate
the Mexican situation. 1t consist
ed of Senator Fall, chairman, Sena-
tor Smith of Arizona, a "conspicu-
Gus chum of Fail" and Senator
Brandegee. Alongside Fall at the
hearings sat Dohcny and the SEQ
600 press agent of the National AS
ISOLATION for the Protection OF Amer
/ lean Rights in Mexico. Advocates
! of a peaceful policy toward Mexico,
including James G.. Macdonald, now
president of the Foreign Policy AS
sociation, were browbeatcn. Wit
Eesses urging war were welcomed.
For years thereafter the refusal
of Doheny and his associates to
abide by article q of the Mexican
constitution kept the United States
from recognizing Mexico Now a
new revolution is ravaging that
country.
Doheny is now quoted as saying
that from the California oil reserves,
formerly belonging to all of us and
! leased his company by Fall, he has
expected profit of s100,000.O00. More
than that was nvoIved-both in
money and the lives OF our young
men-in the war with Mexico so
long urged. For years, too, the
peace. prosperity and progress Of a
sister republic have been hindered.
Refusal to invade Mexico with fire
and sword was long represented as
dcspicable. But who would today
care 10 lay down his life in Mexico
| In the interest of Dohenv's millions
and at the behest of Fall?