The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-24
Dollar Diplomacy in New
Sinister Move Against
the People Of Mexico
BY ]. LOUIS ENGDAHL.

sinister motives are attributed to the United States
government in The of Secretary of State
Kellogg that the socaled smuggling treaty with Mexico
has been terminated.
Senator Norris (rep Neb) fatty declares his inter-
probation of this hostile act against Mexico to
at seems to me that it simply going to
permit the shipping of arms and ammunition into Mex
leo without any restriction.
at is notice all who want TO overthrow the govern
ment of Mexico that the United States will put nothing
in their way
THE BARS HAVE BEEN TAKEN DOWN TO DE-
sTRoY THAT GOVERNMENT. IT MEANS REvOLU-
TON IN MEXICO"
That is plain speaking for republican senator. Amer
lean workers and farmers may well take warning
This is merely new testimony showing the relentless
in which the United States proceeds carry
IT'S imperiast policies 1t is part of the attack Mex
ieOs 1917 constitution that seeks preserve the
TONS natural resources, especially of OIL land and min
erals for the people There is doubt about the state
departments intentions 1t does not even try to hide its
motives in the usual diplomatic subterfuges.
Mark Sullivan, veteran of the capitalist press Brass
Checkers in his special dispatch to the New York
Herald Tribune, openly states that:
CAS- soon the state department announced it would
terminate the smuggling treaty with Mexico the pre-
vailing Interpretation in Washington was that this
meant step toward the raising of the embargo on
shipments of from the United States into Mexico
Since this the immediate and prevailing nterpre-
tation in Washington circles distant from the govern
ment ITSELF and since this is the most sensational of
the possible interpretations may infer it is the in
depreciation that will appear generally in the headlines
turnout the country"
This is certainly the Interpretation that the dollar
diplomats and their masters would like the press to put
this that is directed not only against Mex
leo, but against all Latn-Amerca. The move against
Nicaragua developed the fact that the American
we're in no mood for The imperiaists feel how
that if the tom toms of slaughter beaten loud
enough and long enough, the people may the
call of wholesale murder in the interests of profit.
There no question that every new effort to stir
up counterrevoluon in Mexico has been smiled on by
the Wall Street money crowd. The possibilities of
uprsngs against the present Mexican government have
been thoroly reviewed and the possibilities gowngly
painted in the bankers press.
1t is taken for granted that the slightest uprising or
even an imaginary uprising, may prove sufficient as
basis for ntervenons in Mexico "for the protec-
ton Of American lives and property"
That the easiest way" the path that "dollar dplo
macy pursued and is still pursuing in Nicaragua and
in China"
The conflict in the road ahead is clear It does not
need the conference of the various organizations work
ing with the Committee Peace with Latin-America
to declare that the termination of the treaty at the
instance of the United States would be an unfriendy
act toward the of Mexico would constitute
an unjustfied Of pressure in forcing concessions
from the Gales government in the dispute the oil
and land laws, and WOULD LEAD TO ENLARGED
ACTIVITIES BY THE REVOLUTIONISTS (which
means counter-revolutionists IN MEXICO
An Associated Press dispatch from Mexico City even
recalls that President Gales himself, in receiving
Hubert c. Herring and "Good Will Mission" of Ameri-
cans early this year, declared that lifting of the arms
embargo Immediately would precipitate revolution
against his government by making it possible for rebels
to obtain arms from the United States
There may be some significance in the fact that R.
B. Cresger republican national committeeman from
Texas is expected urge President Coolidge and Secre
tary of State Kellogg to withhold pressure pending
decision Of the Mexican supreme court the land laws
No doubt, fully knowing that the right kind of pres
sure dictates the decisions of the United States supreme
court the Wall Street mperiasts and their agents feel
that there is way to get the Correct decision"
from Mexican supreme court.
The threat of inspired uprsings financed and fur
nished with arms by agencies this side of the Rio
Grande, is doubt looked upon, in Wall Street. and
in Washington well, powerful weapon to make
the Gales government and its bend to the i'm
periaist will
BILE task: % Of keeping the grip of Wall Streets mill
ary machine off the threats of the Mexican people, and
~ demanding tina the Mexican government, typified
by. the rule of Gales today do not surrender to the
exploiters of the United States.
There indications that the Gales government may
seek opportune moment to make peace with the
United States
Such peace only be at the expense of the Mex
lean people, whose interests parallel those of the work.
and farmers Of this country
The Chinese people fight valianty against both ma
tive and foreign oppressors The Mexican people must
do the In this they require the fullest aid and
cooperation of the workers in the homeland of the OPP
pressors-the United States Of America.