Seward daily gateway., 1927-03-22
SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE

 s100O0O,000.
 The United States government is bringing it's power to bear upon Mexico to compel the little republic with its 15O0000 inhabitants to surrender control of these n vestments-or what might be considered controto the holders.
 is further pointed out by propagandsts plead
 ing the of the predatory interests that large areas of lands such matter of l8OOOOO acres owned by the guayue (rubber pant growers, are being con demned under the right of eminent public doain paid for and later distributed to the citizens of the republic from which it taken by concessions and used for small farms.
 sessions secured is being regousy secuted by the high-salared propagandsts.
 The Mexicans, not having the mediums of propagan- da possessed by such the Doheny and Sinclair inter- ests, have not been permitted to plead their side of the matter and tell of the bribery and corruption pracced by many of these predatory interests It is only where with of fairplay and opposed to Ameri imperialism brings this out that the public gets any idea of the fundamentals of the Mexican trouble Any, familiar with Mexican history of the past 20 years knows that these vast holdings acquired in the same upon weaker countries They concessions grant ed by successive berators to those who would finance revolutions and maintain in power these despotisms
 China has taken heroic methods of ridding herself of the British strangehold and America sits back and ap pauds When Mexico emulates the example of the gov ernment of the United States in doing what it did to Alaska the ultra patriotic element shouts condemnation from the housetops.
 The difference m MeXlcOS attitude III the present n stance compared to that of the United States that she is endeavoring to retrieve vast public domain which aenaed by foreigners and restore it to the downtrodden peon. The United States took from the people of Aaka their patriomny, and in despoing the people of Alaska despoiled every in America pos sessed of the pioneer spirit and willing to redeem the frontier
 But pleads the defenders of American imperialism in Mexco those concessonares have expended much money in building modern cities providing better quarters for their employees and set up schools around their sions for the education of the peon.
 There is where the imperalists made grievous mis- take The educated Mexican beginning to to what depths they have been reduced and seeking to shake off their shackles
 better case is presented by Alaska than can be offered by the United States. The Alaskan people have not invested much in dollars and cents as they have energy and sacrifice Such matters cannot be computed in dollars and cents despite the tendency of the Mammon worshppers to compute everything in coin of the realm they too magnitudinous in their scope. Dollars not match courage forttude and industry which entered into the conquest of Alaska The pioneer builded with and gun and earned everything he claimed. He builded for himself and fellow citizens Then naton under the guise of protection wrested from him his rights and now begins to parcel out his domain not to the rank and file of the nation but to the very interests it claimed to be endeavoring to defeat.
 The mperialists have concessions valued at S1 4OO- 100000 in Mexico The American nation has an invest ment in Alaska of only $7 720000O paid in coin the Alas kans have an ncomputable equity paid in youth, lfe hardship and sacrifice. At the point where they and theirs emerged to enjoy of the fruits of their toll they found the door locked
 The people of the United States were deceived the inception of the baefl condition; they are being deceived today The nation cannot make fish of one and fowl of the other What is sauce for the goose for the