The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-17
By WILLIAM F. DUNE.

The outburst against Mexico and
Nicaragua in the Hearst press fol-
lowing as it does closely upon the
appointment of Dwight Morrow, a
partner of the House of Morgan as
Mexican ambassador, and preceding
the much advertised Pan-American
Union Conference to be held in Ha-
vana on January 10, cannot be taken
merely as one of the evidences of the
vicious anti Mexican policy of Will
liam Randolph Hearst, the owner of
much valuable property in Mexico.
Hearst-the Coolidge Booster.
In the first place, the Hearst press,
with its tone set by Arthur Brisbane,
it's 100000 per year editorial writer,
is perhaps the most enthusiastic sup
porter of the Coolidge-Kellogg- Mel
lon-Wall Street administration.
It's praise of Coolidge, Kellogg and
Mellon is of the most fulsome kind,
Brisbane himself never overlooking
an opportunity to write in tone of
slavish adulation of this trio of i'm
perialists, collectively and severally.
Hearst and ClericO- Feudal Reaction.
The Hearst press grovelled before
the avalanche of clerical-feudalism
which preceded and following the Eu-
charist congress in Chicago last year
and which was used to whip up ha-
tired of the Gales government among
wide circles of American Catholics.
The palpably false documents which
Hearst is publishing now are admit
tedly furnished by the same landlord
and clerical elements which tried to
organize the Catholic boycott in and
outside of Mexico following the Eu-
charist congress, and which a short
time ago backed the abortive counter
revolution led by Gomez and Serrano.
The Connection Established.
The publication of the Hearst docu-
ments establishes publicly the con-
nection between active American i'm
perialist interests and the reaction
airy elements hostile to the Gales re-
gime.
No longer can these clerico-feudal
reactionaries pose as Mexican pa
triots" The sale Of forgeries to
Hearst, the obvious willingness to ac-
cept assistance from Wall Street in
order to weaken the middle class ma
tionalist government of Mexico, the
unblushing and open appeal to the
lowest depths of Yankee jingoism for
aid against the Gales government,
stamp these reactionary elements as
Mexican Benedict Arnolds, preferring
imperialist domination for their coun-
try to struggle against Imperialism.
Reaction Has No Popular Support.
The swift manner in which the last
reactionary revolt was crushed forces
the conclusion that clerico-feudal re-
action in Mexico has little or no real
popular support, that it cannot be a
powerful menace to the Gales regime
without unlimited support from Wall
Street and it's government.
Furthermore, in the present stage
of Imperialism there is no such thing
as purely native" reaction. In Mex
leo, as in all other countries which
have Jagged behind in capitalist de-
velopment and which are either owned
outright, controlled or threatened by
imperialist nations, the forces of ma
tional reaction are actually the base
of the imperialists, the forces which
are used to overthrow the auti-im-
perialist colonial and semi-colonial
governments.
Imperialism Base.
Imperialism sometimes prefers to
use these forces rather than to or
ganize armed intervention under its
own banner. The first method has
the possibility of being made to ap-
pear as a native" movement and
does not bring about that consolida-
ton of all honest nationalist elements
against imperialism which interven-
ton does. 1t is cheaper and less dam
gerous.
But if native reaction is too weak
for imperialism's purposes, if it can
uOl SCI up anu maintain IedCIlOH-
airy as a puppet of imperialism. arm
ed intervention follows as soon as it
can be arranged with the minimum
Of risk.
A Stalking Horse for Wall Street.
This is the role of Mexican clerico-
feudal reaction-to serve as a stalk
ing horse for Wall Street, to weaken
the nationalist government as much
as possible and, failing to bring an
other Diaz to power, to prepare the
way for Intervention.
1t is in this light that we must
regard the latest onslaught of the
Hearst press upon Mexico-as part
of the general Mexican policy Of
American Imperialism outlined above.
Popular Protest Aroused.
Second, the invasion and conquest
Of Nicaragua by a combination Of
military and naval forces and finan-
cial penetration, designed to make of
4his country second Canal Zono and