The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-01-13
OFFICIAL AND UNOFFICIAL
MEDDLERS.

The appeal OIL the president Ol IHe
United States for the loyal support
of the press and the people in expos
ing the purposes of official and unoffi-
cial meddlers in matters for which the
President and State Department bear
undivided nsibility-that is, med
dlers both in and out of public office
should meet with universal response.
This nation has made it policy to
give full rein to the administration to
handle such situations as have just
arisen in Central America. 1t is to be
assumed that the administration has
far more reliable information than
has the public, and that it has in
mind only the protection of American
rights and just interests.
Since propagand agencies, designed
to handicap and embarrass the gov
eminent of the United States, have
reached the point where their med
ding materially interferes with the
successful handling of a foreign pol
icy, it is time for the American peo-
pie to protest. The President says
that time has arrived.
Soon every newspaper office in the
land will be flooded with propaganda
emanating from group of ''unoffi-
cial" medders now in Mexico. AL
ready the advance notices Of its activ-
tiles have reached the newspaper Of
fees. These state that the purpose is
"to study conditions in Mexico, make
a survey and report to the American
people" These observers are in the
position of the Justice of the Peace
who said he would deliberate on the
case over Sunday and then decide for
the defendant. Everybody knows
what their report will be.
When the government of the United
States raided the secret, illegal con-
vention of communists at Bridgman,
Michigan, in 1922, it found among
other documents one outlining the
plan for the organization of the La
Dor Defense Council. The plan was
endorsed in Russia. The organization
under that name was later formed. 1t
is now known as the Labor Defense
Council. In that document appeared
the following:
"The council will contain various
radical and liberal elements not all
communists, such as the American
Civil Liberties Union, groups gath
cred about the liberal press like The
Nation, The Freeman and the New
Republic; liberal and working farm
ers' organizations like the Non-Parti-
san League and other tenant and far
mers' organizations; also men prom
inent in public life who are willing to
cooperate, such as legislators, editors,
clergymen, professors and lawyers"
1t would appear, from glancing over
the list of the unofficial" meddlers
now in Mexico ''to survey conditions
and report to the American people,"
that the liberal" editors, ministers
and lawyers were not overlooked in
selecting "meddlerh."
Since this, and similar movements.
are chronically antagonistic to the
policies of our government and chroni-
cally partisan in behalf of some form
of radialism, it would appear time
that not only American editors, but
the American people, as a whole, be-
come aroused.
This paper stands now as it has al
ways stood, for sound Americanism.
Thousands Of we'll meaning, sincere
and loyal American citizens are being
led astray by the emotional appeal of
the radical and subversive organiza
tions. 1t is high time that in the mat
ter of support of the American gov
eminent in its controversies with for
elgn governments we should have a
separation of the sheep from the
goats.