The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-27
By WILLIAM F. DUNE.


in the market for the same kind of
material.
Involve Other Big Papers.
The most recent revelations before
the senate investigating committee
involve the New York World, the New
York Times and the Chicago Tribune.
That the Chicago Tribune, the most
rabid hater of the Mexican govern
ment ard the Mexican people in the
section of the country made famous
by Sinclair Lewis, did not purchase
or if it did, did not publish--the
forgeries that were offered to its cor
respondent, is to our mind about the
best proof that the documents offered
were coarse fakes.
The Tribune's Policy.
The Chicago Tribune is in favor of
pushing the southern boundary of the
United States to the Panama Canal
and doing it right away no matter
what the cost 1t has published the
most outrageous ISLANDERS and Will
fications of Mexico. The Tribune rep
resents what may be called the sec
ond stratum of industrial and bank
capital especially of the Chicago
area.
1t sent a special writer, one Suth-
arland to Mexico to write a series
Of articles for its weekly magazine,
Liberty" and these articles plumb
ed the depths of the cess-pools of
capitalist journalism.
If it turned down documents that
would tend to weaken the Mexican
government it certainly was because
they were too badly manufactured to
be useful.
The American Embassy.
But it appears now that the Amer
lean embassy was less scrurulous than
even the Chicago Tribune, the Times
and the World. According to the tes-
.imony of one witness, formerly
aewspaperman and now represen-
sative of the Bank of Mexico, it was
4 matter of public knowledge N Mex
SEQ CITY that Ambassador Sheffield
would purchase anything that looked
ike an official document of the Mex
can government.
Avila and the State Department.
The SPY and forger Avila. whose
abilities are so highly praised by one
Gallagher, an officer in the inteli-
gence section of the American army,
ind for whom William Randolph
Hearst himself vouches over his sig
nature, was the purveyor of forgerieS
q Ambassador Sheffield last sum-
rer.
It was about the same time that
Secretary of State Kellogg tried to
p1st- ever his De Quincy tale of
'Bolshevist plot" against the United
States sponsored by the Gales gov
a1mment-a tale which the Associated
Press accepted but which other press
services refused to carry.
The State Department Program.
That the state department, follow
lng the sessions of the Eucharist Con-
gress in Chicago, which in turn were
followed by a barrage from the Cath
,lic Church and all its organs against
the enforcement of the Mexican con-
3titution, was actually making pre-
urinary preparations for armed in
servention, there can be little doubt.
But the fact that a number of
American state department documents
fell into the hands of the Gales gov
eminent, containing evidence of the
warlike intentions of Wall Street gov
arnment, appears to have thrown a
monkey-wrench into the state depart
ment machinery and resulted in the
recall Of Sheffield
So much opposition developed to the
state department policy in labor and
middle class circles that other meth
Ids Of bringing pressure to bear on
Mexico had to be found.
Influence of the Oil Scandal.
The disrepute into which Doheny
and other oil operators with Mexican
interests fell somewhat later as
result Of the ramifications of the Tea
pot Dome and Elks Hills scandals
also tended to change the tactics of
the Coolidge administration from a
frontal attack to the more subtle
method of financial pressure.
Hearst's Purpose.
The publication of the forgeries by
Hearst seem to have the purpose of
forcing the Coolidge administration
8 back to its old line and in this case
they serve to express the Dissatisfied
ton of the second stratum Of capt.
talists like Hearst and Doheny with
the present Mexican policy--a policy
which aims essentially at guarantee
ing the $500, 100000 worth Of Mex
lean government bonds held by the
House OF Morgan before the holdings
of the oil capitalists are taken care
Of.
The Capitalist Relationships.
= From the standpoint of American
capitalist relationships this is the
significance of the appointment of
Dwight Morrow, partner in the
House Of Morgan, as Mexican ambas-
sador
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