The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-07
BY H. M. WICKS.

THE bandit agents of American inn
perialism in Mexico have been deci-
sively defeated in their latest revolu-
tionary attempt. The salutary man
ner in which the insurrectionary
movement was annihilated is indica-
tive of the consolidation of the Gales
Obregon government and is a mile
post on the road to the establishment
of permanent government that will
develop Mexico as a nation not sub
servient to the great powers.
The present government has wealth
cred a number of severe storms, due
to the fact that history imposed upon
it the exceedingly difficult task of
trying to develop capitalist economy
in the period of imperialism when the
great powers were coveting its nat
ural resources as raw material. The
feudal elements that resisted the
building of a native economy found
powerful allies in the imperialists.
The Mexican land laws of 1917 were
adopted as measures toward utilizing
the rich mineral and oil resources for
the development of native industry.
Their enforcement by the Gales gov
eminent aroused the fury of the oil
barons who desired a free hand in the
pillaging of Mexico. These laws also
affected the feudal catholic hierarchy
that held, in the name CT the church,
vast territory. Hence the nationalist
government had to wage fight on
two sectors - against imperialism
from without, and the agents of i'm
perialism, the feudalists, within.
FOR quite some time Gales hesitated
to take a decisive stand against
the intrigues of the imperialist
agents. While he was the enemy of
Wall Street, the Mellon Coolidge-Kel-
logg gang at Washington thought
they could force him to yield to their
demands. A whole series of con-
spiracies, provocations and insults
were launched against Mexico, which
eliminated in some of the staff of
Ambassador Sheffield trying to ter
rorize Gales by showing him what
purported to be military plans of the
United States government against
Mexico. Gales refused to be intim-
idated and supinely to grovel before
the threats of Wall Street. Instead
he exposed the conspiracy.
Kellogg and his minions in the state
department had to contrive some de-
tense against this brazen vancouver,
so they resorted to the stupid counter"
charge that someone had stolen docu-
ments from the American embassy in
Mexico City, changed certain clauses
and had given them to Gales i'll
order to discredit the benevolent and
innocent American government. There
the state department apparently let
the matter drop, but in reality it con-
tinued its policy with different
methods. The Mexican government
knew the real calibre of Sheffield.
His diplomacy was held in con-
tempt. So the Washington state de-
partment quietly removed him.
TUALL STREET was convinced that
w it could neither buy nor intimidate
the Mexican government, so a new at
tempt was made to overthrow it.
Most observers of Mexican politics
were unable to explain why two can
didates appeared in the field against
Obregon, the candidate backed by
Gales. The reason for their can
didacy is now clear. The most prom
inent of the opposition candidates was
General Arnulfo Gomez, who was
counted on to mobilize the feudal-
clerical elements against the ma
tionalist government. The other can
didate was General Francesca Ser
rano, an experienced military leader
who had been prominent in all the
revolutionary upheavals since 1910
They We're selected as candidates only
in order to use the election campaign
as a protest for organizing an in
surrection. If there had been any in
tention of going through with the
! election the two anti-government gen
erals would not have been permitted
to divide the opposition and thereby
make the election of Oregon doubly
sure. But with both of them in the
field waging a fake election cam
paign as a smoke-screen behind which
to organize an armed revolt and
cause mutiny in the federal army
they were equally useful to Wal
! Street.
THE attempted instruction was
timed very carefully; just before
the appearance in Mexico of the new
Wall Street ambassador, Dwight w
Morrow of the House of Morgan. Hac
it been even partially successful the
first act of the Wall Street ambassa.
dor would have been to recommend
recognition OF the regime of the re-
dictionary generals as a de-facto gov
eminent. Then the Washington gov
eminent could have raised the arms
I embargo that now prevents American
firms selling arms to the Gales gov
,fnt