Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-31
Borah and Mexico,
BY WILLIAM ENGLISH wALLING

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Senator Borah, chairman of the Sen
ate Committee on Foreign Relations,
has been uttering some highly i'm.
portant and timely truths about econ
omic imperialism. American and 9TH
er foreign interests, he says, are at
the bottom of the troubles of China.
Senator Bofah says, ANY one who
is familiar with what has beenu going
on in China for the last ten years and
the manner in which foreigners have
disregarded the Chinese interests will
have no doubt as to what is the real
cause of the trouble in China. So
far as | am concerned, they are not
going to hide the cause Of the trouble.
These interests, including the Ameri-
can Chamber of Commerce in China,
- the real cause of this trouble"
"TNAmerican Chamber of Commerce
in CONTEMPORARIES the Senator, is
"a part 49,. imperalstic combine
which would obNnss and exploit the
Chinese people and2rge the result
of their offenses to sM one else.
But why does Senat~Sofah re-
fuse 10 apply these principN\ nearer
Chamber of Commerce in MN
Strange to say, Borah has not
one word for the Mexican people N
against the sinister American inter-
ests that are striving to master or to
overthrow the Gales government. On
the contrary, he was ,esent at the
conference from which issued The
aggressive and imperialistic note of
Secretary Kellogg to President Gales
and it is said on high authority that
he was mainly responsible for that
note. A month has passed and he has
not said single word for Mexico,
though he loses no opportunity to
defend at length the widest anti
democratic fanatics and the worst
tyranny on the face of the globe, the
Moscow Soviet and Is ever ready 20
talk on any subject.
What are the hidden connections of
Senator Borah, that make him see the
Chinese situation SO clearly, and yet
tie him to the enemies of the people in
Russia and Mexico? This questAn
does not concern merely the herson-
atty of one Senator. AS head of the
Senate Committee on Foreign Rela-
tons, Senator Borah has a power sec
ond only to that of the President him
self. Can it be that the Senator owes
his power to the fact that he repre-
SCENTS the economic imperialism of one
of the two great groups into which
the international bankers are divided
and not, evidently, the British
American group. Theer is but one
other. 1t has its headquarters in
New York and--Berlin. This group
has no further interests in China, but
is still deeply involved in Mexico
and it hopes to have the inside track
in Russia.
If there is any other explanation fer
Borah's spasmodic imperialisms and
neutrality-suspicious., his friends should
trot it forth.
The ceaseless effort of certain finan-
cial interests to found a fina1cial en-
pire spread over half the globe ard
backed by all the powres of the gov
efnment is dangerous wherever i. 81
pears. In Washington it re-enforces
every reactionary tendency of the adj
ministration. In China it Trays us
toward an entente with British imPet-
ialism, prolongs our eXploita,:cL OF
the colored races and drives them
toward permanent hostility to this
country.
But this financial imperialism Is far
more dangerous to us in Mexico than
| in any other country. Mexico is the
acid test, If We can not preserve
friendly relations with Mexico now,
there may never be such favorable
opportunity again. President Gales
has been equally just to the Mexican
people and to lawabiding foreign in
terests in his country. EX-SecretaYy
Hughes preserved friendly relations
with Oregon and Gales for more
than three years. If now America
continues the hostility of the Kellogg
Borah note, not only South America
but the entire world will conclude thai
the United States has entered den
nitely on the path of economic i'm.
perialiSm, nor only in Mexico, but in
every locality where We have power
and every country on earth will be an
its guard against US.
Mexico is the acid test of foreign
policy-for the administration, Tor
Senator Borah and for every profeSsed
friend of labor and of the people.