Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-28

The Mexican government is the
Legitimate child of the United States
Government. and therefore it is the
right and the duty of this Nation to
take cogniZance of Mexico's acts and
to demand of President Gales an ac-
counting of the faith his country keeps
with the American people in the pres
ent crisis
This was the contention Of Joseph
Scott, Los Angeles attorney in an ad-
dress on "MeNico--The Facts" deiiv-
cred last night at the Washington
Auditorium under the auspices Of the
National Council of the Knights of
Columbus. Senators and members OF
the House OF Representatives and
members of the Mexican and other
foreign legations were included in the
audience Of 1000 persons which filed
the Auditorium to capacity.
Holds Liberty Violated.
Declaring at the beginning of his
address that the fundamental Difficult
ties in the Mexican situation are not
religious. Mr.. Scott asserted that they
involve the violation Of the philosophy
Of liberty. Ife denied that the knights
Of Colutgibus sought the Government s
intercession on behalf OF the Catholics
pose of hts lecture was to put an end
to the Soviet propaganda which Mex
leo is spreading in this country for
the purpose of throwing the American
people at each others threats.
The Mexican government owes its
existence 20 the United States. Mr..
Scott declared, because this country
was instrumental in it's establishment
by it's assistance to Carranza and
Oregon, whose authority it recog
nized. At present the Mexican gov
eminent under Gales, is violating the
provisions under which recognition
was extended by the United States,
he declared. by that country's refusal
to keepits promises in eliminating the
distinction between foreigners and
native and its refusal to permit free
dom in religious worship.
Intervention Opposed.
The knights of Columbus do not
want intervention, Mr.. Scott asserted,
and readers Of the resolutions that
were adopted by the order at it's ma
tionaI convention. which were offered
by himself. who had interpreted them
as advocating that course cant read
English"
'No sane, patriotic American will
countenance Intervention, he said.
II would not waste a drop OF blood
from an American lad to interfere in
the internal affairs of any country,
but that does not mean that we shall
not bring to bear upon President
Gales the powerful force of outraged
public opinion"
Mr.. Scott reviewed the evolution Of
the American Constitution, declaring
f-AA AAA To- "a lac
of "prayerful study" and then as
serted:
1--WE Americans cannot recognize
that there Ia a constitution such as
ours in Mexico. You members of the
Mexican legation, II you are here,
will never see that sort OF thing hap
pen in your country. And now nobody
is willing to claim that the so-called
Mexican constitution of 1917 Is a free
expression of the people. Why. the
Mexicans don't know how to vote"
Sees Soviet Adherence.
Declaring that the United States
Constitution provides religious liberty
to the American people, Mr.. Scott
said that Mexico's law stiles that
liberty. He charged that country's
government with adherence to the
principles Of communistic Russia,
winch claim tnat reIlglOn is the OPT
ate of the people; take away religion
and the people wake up
Mr.. Scott read news dispatches from
number of the leading American
newspapers. which were written. he
said, by non-Catholic correspondents
who had studied conditions In Mexico
One of these commended that the Mexi.
can situation was not Catholic versus
the Protestant, but Christian against
O. government that accepts and
breaches Soviet doctrines"
In substantiation Of the contention
that 1t Is Christianity itself that Mex
leo seeks to down, Mr.. Scott read GER
tain articles of the Mexican constitu.
ton in which all sects were forbidden
the right to own property in Mexico
and the right to ownership anywhere
but inside the governments owned