The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-10
MEXICAN TROOPS CORNER GOMEZ, WALL ST. AGENT
Current Euents
By T. J. 0'FEGherty

THE United States will not recognize
Obregon, should he be elected
president of the Republic of Mexico,
as he is almost certain to be, accord
ing to a Washington news dispatch
that appeared in last Sundays New
York American. This story was fea-
tured side by side with statement
issued by General Arnulfo R. Gomez,
chief military leader Of the latest at
tack on the present Mexican govern
ment. We are also informed that
should Gales find it necessary to
ask permission of the United States to
purchase arms in this country the
request will be refused.
THIS is very interesting and omin-
ously significant, as is the hint
that Morgan's right hand man Nor
row, may definitely postpone his de-
parture for his ambassadorial post
in Mexico. 1t means-granting that
the story is based on fact and not on
the fancy of an inspired Hearst
correspondent-that the present re-
volt in Mexico is supported by Wall
Street and that the imperialist forces
whose appetite for loot at the expense
of the Mexican people, has been left
unsatisfied by the Gales administra-
ton, feels that this chance to un-
horse the Calles-O -Obregon combination
should not be passed up without ex-
hausting all it's possibilities.
THE United States government sup
ported the Obregon-C Gales ele-
ments against the De La Huerta re-
actionaries in the, hope that Wall
Streets siren call would lure the
Mexican revolution from the path
which it followed with reasonable con-
sistency, since the overthrow Of Car
rama. This hope was blasted and
since the election of Obregon until
this day, the relations between Mexi-
co and the United States have been
strained, in fact, a state of suspended
hostility has existed. Ambassador
Sheffield did his utmost to bring
about rupture of relations between
the two governments. To say that
his mission was failure from the
point of view of American imperial
ism would be passing hair-tr trigger
Judgment on a complex situation and
mistaking surface appearances
realities.
GLASS governments-and all exist
ing governments are class govern
ments-use various methods to ac-
complish certain purposes. We must
not allow the method or the technique
to blur the object. Whether buster
ing agent like Sheffield or a suave
money-changer like Morrow is Wall
Streets representative in Mexico
City, Wall Streets object is the same,
that is, to shackle the raw wealth and
the manpower of that rich country
to the profit-machine of American
Imperialism. A Soviet ambassador
to Italy may wear a silk topper at
royal reception but underneath the
aristocratic headgear there functions
a proletarian brain or at least a
brain that is functioning in the in
terests of the proletariat. Which is
the main point.
THE imperialists are not misled by
the dress worn by Soviet diplomats
or by the language they use on state
occasions. They know they are deal
ing with the representatives of a So
cial order that is in fundamental con-
flict with the capitalist system. They
know that the two systems are at war
with each other and that the present
state of comparative peace is at best
only rather undiplomatic truce. We
must not be fooled by polite con-
versations between Coolidge and
Gales over the new long distance
telephone that makes immediate COM
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