The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-15
Long Intrigue Against Mexico.

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Long Intrigue Against Mexico.
The attempts of reactionary and
imperialist elements to reduce Mexico
to vassal state so that the predatory
aims of Wall Street may be carried
out in all Latin-America have as
sumed particularly virulent char
acter during the past few years The
enforcement by the Gales govern
ment of the land laws of 1917 was the
signal for the launching of series of
attacks upon that country.
These laws were bitterly combat
ted by the oil, mining and land inter-
ests of the United States that had
investments in Mexico. The feudal
reaction, with the church as the most
powerful factor, Joined hands with
the imperialists,. and much agitation
against Mexico has been carried on by
the agents of the Roman Catholic
Church in the United States. The
church was the largest land holder
IA Mevico before the revolution.
On June IL, 1925, simultaneous
with the opening of the International
eucharistic congress in Chicago, Sec
rotary of State Kellogg issued a
statement declaring that Mexico was
son trial before the world"
Cardinal Mundelein had returned to
the United States from Rome a short
time previous to the opening of the
eucharistic congress with various re-
ligious decorations for the faithful
in this country. Without exception
the recipients of these decorations be-
gan the most malignant attacks
against Mexico as country of Gre
ligious persecution"
At the Detroit convention of the
American Federation of Labor, Dele
gate Fitzpatrick of the American Ac-
tors and Artists Association, re-
peated all the monstrous stories con-
cocted by jesuits against Mexico.
Priests in Mexico organized muir
derous bandit raids upon trains in
that country, waylaying and wrecking
trains and numbering the passengers.
When the United States govern
ment launched its attack upon the
legally constituted government of DR..
Juan B. Sacasa III Nicaragua that
eventually resulted in his overthrow
and the usurping of the presidency
of the republic by Diaz, the Wall
Street puppet, Secretary Of State
Kellogg, Infatuated at the resistance
of the liberal Sacasa forces, accused
the Mexican government of "foment-
ing Bolshevism" in Nicaragua. This
accusation fell flat and evoked no re-
Spouse.
James r. Sheffield, American am
bassador to Mexico, tried to terrorize
Gales government by causing to be
placed in hands Of prominent men,
bers documents alleged to reveal
military plans of the United States
for intervention in Mexico. The bluff
failed to work and so Kellogg's state
department then charged that agents
of Mexico had stolen the documents
from Sheffield's embassy and altered
some of them. This expose of the
double-dealing a bluffing of Sheffield
forced his recall. His game was up,
his usefulness in Mexico was at an
end.
Dwight w. Morrow, one of the out
standing Wall Street financiers, a
partner of the House of Morgan,
visited Coolidge at his Summer white
house" in the Black Hills of South
Dakota, and came away with the am
bassadorship to Mexico to replace
Sheffield. Announcement was made
Of "new deaP' in Mexico.
Counter-revolutionary attempts by
Gomez and Serrano, financed by Wall
Street, against the Gales government
in Mexico. These attempts were de-
feated and their leaders executed.
r.
Morrow arrives in Mexico City as