Imperial Valley press., 1927-01-14
SENATOR
ATTACKS
KELLOGG
La Toilette DenOunces
Publication of "Red"
Document.
OTHERS JOIN IN
Sharp Speeches Made In
Both Houses Of Con-
gress Against Policy.

WASHINGTON, Jan. IA. - A
phantom hegemony of Bolshcvism
was eonjurcd up by Secretary of
state Kellogg without facts as an
alibi for his stringent Latin. Amer
lean policies which may lead TO
war, Senator La Toilette, Rcpubli-
can, Wisconsin, told the senate to
day.
In speech chiding Kellogg for
using a "rcd peril scare to hide the
true issues I.aFollrttc asserted if
was the fIimsicst sort of propa
ganda, unsupported by any evi-
| drnce.
His speech was one of a group in
house and senate, most Of them op-
posing the government = policies to
ward Nicaragua aud Mexico.
LaFollcttc said nc regarded the
administration = Nicaraguan MeAi-
can policies rs unconsci0nablc' y
but he devoted his main attack 20
4 the secretary for making public his
/ document entitled Bolshcvik Aims
in MEXICO and Latin.Amcrica.
The newspapers of the country
|wcrc awaiting his appearance before
n" senate foreign relations commit
te" and were anxious to secure all
information concerning his state
ment, bat he appeared in executive
session and only this Bolshcvist
memorandum was he willing to make
epublic,' La Toilette said.
Survey of the headlines in the
|urwsPapcrs will show the result of
Ihis efforts. Let us remember that
most people read only the headlines.
bThc headlines of the Philadelphia
Public Ledger said:
." Mexico is center of red plot.
"Thc New York Herald Tribune
Ehcadlinc said:
-" Mexico is center of red war.
| Ek"llogg charges.
- don't know how many scna-
ftors have read the document, but |
venture the assertion that no ON"
lwho has read il could find one scin-
|tilla Of evidence that there is any
grounds for the assertion contained
in the headlines.
"Thc secretary of state intended
Ethat il should be taken as n .justifi-
Gration Of our action in Nicaragua.
That was the inference drawn, and
III think rightly drawn, from the
publication Of this document
La Toilette mentioned the confer
|cncc reported to have been held by
Richard r. Odds. assistant secretary
| Of state. when he said Olds attempt
I'd TO "iuducc' press associations
TO carry a story Of Mexican fostercd
Bolshevism, without accroditing the
authority to the state department.
LaFollettc read n story bv Paul
II. Anderson, published in the ST.
Louis Post dispatch, pointing out
hat the story was carried only by
he Associated Press upon its own
authority.
Pacific Coast states have land
avs much like those Of Mexico
against which the state department
= protesting, Senator Dill, Demo
rat Washington. told the senate III
Nittacking administration Latin.
american policies,
'We of the Pacific coast have
Enacted land laws to protect our
'overeignty, said Dill. "Now this
government has protested to Mexico
against her land laws which were
Enacted to protect her sovereignty. y
LaFollette IS speech climaxed n
lay of debate on the Nicaraguan-
Mexican situation in both houses OF
congress. Senator Dill, Washington;
HefIin, Alabama, and McKellar,
Tennessee, all Democrats, preceded
lim in the upper house, with attacks
bn the administration. Representa-
i've Eaton, Republican, New Jersey.
defended Kellogg and President
coolidge in the house, after Repre-
tentative Moore, Democrat, Virginia,
,ad introduced resolution declar-
ng that no justification exists for
severance of diplomatic relations
with Mexico or for interference in
ts affairs