The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-26
World Front
BY HARRY CANNES

L. BY HARRY CANNES -
A Cardinals Memory
U.S.S.R.-Mexican Relations
His Worthy Company
THOSE who take up the pro-
fession of lying, said Mon
taigne, should at least have
good memories. Fat-iowled
Denis Cardinal Dougherty of
the Philadelphia Archdiocese
of the Catholic Church, in his
SANDERS against the Soviet Union
Sunday, did not heed this advice.
The holy man in his fervent de-
sire to whip up war against the
Soviet Union and to SANDER the
Mexican people simply forgot the
most elementary historical facts
about the relations of the U.S.S.R.
and Mexico.
For the last number of years"
said his prevaricating eminence,
twenty or thirty Communistic Rus
sian agents of the Third Interna-
tionale, financed by Russia, have
been received into Mexico by its
government, and in conjunction
with the Mexican officials whom
they guide and encourage along. the
path Of Communism, are promoting
the Soviet plan of uprooting re-
ligion, morality respect for legiti-
mate authority and are showing
how to plumber the rich in order to
line ones own pockets"
This church dignitary. who on the
contrary, believes in lining the pock-
cts of the rich and the church at
the expense of the poor, should at
least know his history of Mexico
a little more accurately.
The main force which plays the
role of guiding and encouraging
the Mexican ruling class is the Wall
Street bankers, oil companies and
rich land owners.
1T WAS the American bankers. and
the Hoover government, with its
J, P. Morgan agent, Ambassador
Morrow, who prevailed upon the
Mexican government, then ruled by
the same Gales Rodriguez Bubio-
Cardenas clique, to break off diplo-
matte relations with the Soviet
Union In 1890
And, Monsignor, you surely must
not let it slip your memory that
relations have never since that time
been established between Mexico
and the Soviet Union.
In other words, the Cardenas gov
eminent of Mexico is just as vicious
an enemy of the Soviet Union as
you and Mr.. Hearst are.
So much love does the Mexican
government have for agents of the
Third International and Commu-
mist Party members of Mexico that
the Tres Marias Islands in the Pa
cific Ocean, one of the worst prison
hell-holes in the world, is full to
overlooking with Mexican workers
and peasants accused of fighting for
a Soviet Mexico.
But what is truth to a cardinal
whose aim is to whip up a war of
intervention against the Mexican
people in order to preserve the an
cient oppressive and corrupted pow
err of the Catholic Church in Mexico.
1t is true that the Cardenas-Cal-
les government of Mexico has un-
dertaken wordy attack against the
Catholic Church in Mexico
But the aim of this drive is not
to destroy the church or its feudal
grip. The whole purpose of the
campaign is to divert the growing
mass, revolutionary struggles of the
Mexican workers and peasants into
innocuous and safe channels.
THE effect of the cardinals vicious
assault against the Soviet Union
as the main culprit in Mexico,
enunciated at this time, is to stir
up religious support for the war
plots against the Soviet Union. Since
the Soviet Union. according to the
cardinals way of thinking, is the
main danger in Mexico and to the
United States, then this infideI
builder of Socialism and a new and
better life for humanity, must be
wiped off the map.
In his cry for a holy war against
the workers fatherland, the car
dinal has worthy company. That
paragon of truth and decency and
honor, William Randolph Hearst is
his chief companion in arms. The
fascist barbarians of Germany are
with him. Those kindly saviors of
civilization. the Japanese militarists,
who never hesitate to slaughter
thousands of Chinese men. women
and children, cry "Amen!" to the
Catholic invocation of Monsignor.
Catholic workers Do not let these
agents Of the American bankers
poison your mind for war against
your brothers in the Soviet Union.
Echo the cry: Hands off Mexico!'
Defend the Soviet Unionl