The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 27, 1927, Page 4

ve & “From the s' Page Bra THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1927 The Hearst Forgeries and Wall Street's Mexican Policy By WILLI AM F. DUNNE. Hearst Mexican document forgeries mm the part of other big capit papers evidently is to be explained by the fact that a number of them were in the market for the same kind of material. Involve Other Big Papers. The most recent rev the senate investig: involve the New York W * York Times and the Ct That the Chicago T rabid hater of the M ment and the Mex fection of the country me by Sinclair Le did not p —or if it did, did not publi forgeries that were off: respondent, to our n best proof that the docur were coarse fakes. ions before g committee orld, the Ni ments offered The Tribune's Policy. The Chicago Tr hing the southern |: favor of y of the United States to the Panama Canal and doing it right away no matter what the cost. It has published the most out ili fications resents what may be tum of industrial specially of the led the and bank Chicago see- one ent a special writer, of articles for ‘Liberty,” and the ed e f capitalist journali: If it turned dc would tend to v zovernment it cert. plumb- -pools of documents that n the Me y was because they were too badly manufactured to | oe useful. The American Embassy. But it appear: ican embas: aven the Chicago 1 and the World. A timony of one newspaperman and tative the Bank of rupnious than the Times une, a matter of public sied City that Ar ; would purchase a eee looked like an official iocument of the Mex- | can government. a and the State Depeeient Avila. whose ised by one} shilities ar Gallaghe the intelli- | gence section of bis ran army, | and for whom William Randolph Hearst himself vouches over his sig: nature, was the vurveyor of forgeri to Ambassador Sheffield last sum- mer. Tt was about the same time that} Secretary of State Kellogg tried to Ko ¢ his De Quincey tale of a ‘Bolshevist plot” against the United States sponsored by the Calles gov- ermment—a tale which the Associated | Press accepted but which other press | services refused to carry. The State Department Program. That the state department, follow- ng the sessicns of the Eucharist Con- in Chicago, -which in turn were followed by a barrage from the Cath- % lic Church and all its organs against = the enforcement of the } mn con- titution, was actually making pre- minary preparations for armed in- tervention, there can be little doubt. But the fact that a number of American state department documents fell inte the hands of the Calles gov- 4 ernment, containing evidence of the | +) warlike intentions of Wall Street gov- | srnment, appears to have thrown a = monkey nch into the state depart- | © ment machinery and resulted in the | © recall of Sheffield * So much opposition developed to the state department policy in labor and middle class circles that other meth- © Mexico had to be found. Influence of the Oi] Scandal. The disrepute into which Doheny ~ and other oil operators with Mexican interests fell mewhat later as a result of the r: ations of the Tea- “pot Dome and Elks Hills ndals also tended to ch the tact of the Coolidge administration from a frontal attack to the more subtle/ method of financial pressure. | Hearst’s Purpose. } The publication of the forgeries by * Hearst seem to have the purpose of “forcing the Coolidge admini back to its old line and in this they serve to express the di “tion of the second stratum talists like Hearst and Dohe the present Mexican polic which aims essentially at gua ing the $590,000,000 worth of jean government bonds held b; House of Morgan before the holdi of the oil capitalists are taken care of. The Capitalist Relationships. dpoint of Anzeri * capitalist relationships this Significance of the appointment © Dwight Morrow, a partner in House of Morgan, as Mexican ambas- sador. The difference in the two policies ean be stated roughly as follows: The House of Morgan representing fi- “nance capital desires to weaken the Valles government, by corruption and other means, to the extent that it ~ will be unable to rally sufficient for- %e “ces to resist an attack. Tt may even by believe that the Calles-Obregon group ean be brought so close to the line _ of Wall Street that armed interven- tion will not be necessary—in other _ Words, that the Calles-Obregon bloc tan be molded into an instrument for of capi- y with | policy } ‘antee- the of the |Some of the silence relative to the | he Amer- | psusueetassnsnsneneseassscesessesesssesessises Frank B. ba Secretary of State Kellogg, who last summer tried to foist a series of forgeries on all news services relat- ing to Mexico and Nicaragua, now denies he hired Avilla. Wm. Bandaioh Hearst nillionaire owner of Ameri-| can ney war on Mexico, a country in which he has a shady title to immense tracts of land. He wants annexation. Dwight Morrow Wall Street’s Mexican Ambassador, | spapers, for years advocating | and a partner in the House of Morgan.|!and and carry out the Wall Street He spends his time while in Mexico trying to get control of the country for American bankers and investors. The Oil Baron’s Policy. The policy of the their assoc! bered andol!lph Hearst, is for the creation of sentiment in the United States which will not only oppose armed vention in the near future but will support and urge it. Therefore the attempt to prove that the Mexican government is plotting against the United States, that Cath- olic priests and laymen are being per- secuted, that the Calles government is “a tool of Moscow,” that all Mex- icans hate all Mexican government is bribing U. S. senators, etc, “Good Will.” The warm welcome accorded row, oil barons and Mor- ergh, “the good will ambas- or,” the recent statements of Cal- friendly tone of an press, on one hand, tend to show that the “mailed fist in the velvet glove” policy of Morrow is having some effect in breaking down resistance to Street domination. The Press. On the other hand the American | capitalist press grows lyrical over the achievements of Morgan’s partner in| jhis new post. Liberal journals like The Nation join the chorus. The Na- |tion says in its issue for December 21: “Mr. Morrow seems to be in a fair way to make the United States Bopales in Mexico and Mexico popu- | among whom is num- | Americans, that the | the almost hysterical welcome | Wall | American firms to accept Mexican laws, and Mexican officials to trust American business men, he may start ;2 movement to reform the state de- | parement by turning it over to the} bankers.” (Our emphasi The day that trust American business men” is the | day that the Mexican masses will be |completely betrayed to American im- | It is important for us to remember | that the main policy of American im- | perialism has undergone no revision so far as Mexico is concerned. Wall Street intends to conquer that coun- try, to bring its people and its na- | tural resources under its entire con- | trol. If this can be done by buying, ca- joling or by any other means of rapid lor gradual absorption of the present | regime, this will be much cheaper than a war which would encounter | wide opposition at home. Nothing | | would please Wall Street better in | the present period than a government, apparently Mexican, but actually an} trument of Wall Street, with which |te earry out its program of robbery |south of the Rio Grande. Other Possibilities. If this cannot be achieved by the genial Morrow, the court jester Rog- ers and the “American eagle,” Lind- bergh, then other ways will have to be found. There is always the pos- sibility that too close friendship with | | Wall Street representatives will so | discredit a Mexican government that | sible—when given substantial finan- cial backing by bankers and oil bar- ons, The Present Period a Test. The present period is a test for the Calles government. It can, by reason of the fact that it is still the bearer of the traditions of the Mex- ican revolution get wide mass sup- port in the United States and in Mex- ico and fight much more effectively against the policy of immediate arm- {ed intervention urged by Hearst and his ilk, than it can against the more subtle but equally deadly policy of | the House of Morgan. Morrow’s Objective. What Morrow is trying to do is to duplicate the Nicaragua conquest without using gunboats and marines. These instruments for spreading American democracy will come later |-—when the workers and farmers of Mexico rebel against their native and foreign oppressors. The Morrow policy, by weakening the resistance of the Mexican gov- ernment, weakers the resistance of other Latin-American countries to Wall Street encroachments since Mex- ico is looked upon as the leader of the anti-imperialist movement. The Pan-American Movement. With his achievements in Mexico blazoned thruout Latin-America, Mor- row will go to the conference of the Pan-American Union in Havana in danuary as an apostle of sweetness and light. Every attempt will be made there to make the Latin-Americans lar in the United States-—a work of | it loses enough of its worker and | forget Nicaragua and focus their at- genius after decades of blunderbuss- | peasant support to make the rise of | tention on the love feast in Mexico ing. ® If he concludes by persuading | | landlord and clerical reaction pos- City. If this scheme is successful, a long step will have been taken toward the | ; | conquest of Latin-America. | Alternatives for Calles. Lenin said one time that it is hard to win over revolutionists with a club {but sometimes easy to do it by kind- ness, This applies with far greater force to a middle class which has | gained a victory over feudal-clerical | reaction and is trying to establish a} national capitalism in an imperialist period, than it dees to working class revoluticnists. The Calles government has two al- | ternatives—to fight for the interests | of the workers and farmers as against support against American imperial- ism and take the lead in establishing a powerful anti-imperialist bloc or— surrender to Wall Street, become a | government somewhat similar to that of the Free State government of Ire- program. The first alternative undoubtedly carries with it the probability of in- vasion of Mexico by Wall Street gov- ernment but it likewise affords the only possibility of preventing the con- quest of Mexico. Communist Tasks. “The Mexican masses are In a diffi- cult position. They cannot afford to support the Calles-Obregon bloc un- |reservedly. If they do, they will be- |corme merely the stepping-stones by which Wall Street will rise to dom- |ination over them. The Mexican Communist Party has the task of pointing out this danger and of stimulating and leading mass | organization which can oppose Wall Street’s program of conquest the might of a people in arms. The Mex- ican masses should not be fooled by the mellifluous phrases of Morrow. Morrow’s Backing. Behind Morrow stands the army and navy and airplanes of Wal! Street government and if the Callies govern- ment does not tell the workers what the Morrow policy means, it is a sign that it is already on the way to surrender. The Real Question. The question is not Hearst or Mor- row. The difference between them is one of method in a given period and not ef general policy. The question is: Organization of and struggle by the Mexican masses, aided by the workers and farmers of two voniinents, against all forms of imperialist corruption and conquest or —or a weakening of the mass base of the Mexican revolution by con- tinual concessions to Wall Street end- ing in the final absorption of Mexico by Wall Street government Morrow and Hearst. We are not for Morrow as against | | EEE AA AEE EEE EE LIE ELLA E EE ELLE ELE EEEEES 5 ae +) < = +), % % | — 815 ads -of bringing pressure to bear on! Doris Niles INT'L DANCER In a Group of Russian, Gypsy and . Folk Dances bot 4™ ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION SSS SSS SSS “DAILY WORKER” Fri. Eve., Jan. 13 P.M Mecca Temple 55th ST. and SEVENTH AVE. Paul + Aliens Tenor, Met, ae Star TICKETS $2.20—$1.65-—$1,10—75e, | Jimmie Higgin’s Book Store, 106 University Place; DAILY WORKER, 108 East 1th Street; Freiheit, 30 Union Sq. KNABE, THE PIANOFORTE. | PET SE EET TTTTTETTTY Nina Tarasova | Costume Recital of Russian | Folk Song Interpretations those of their exploiters, build mass | ‘Dumb Detectives Con-! tribute the Comedy at the city. Its shadow the walls of the town. Its looms over the buildings. A mon- strous menace this Men are found | strangled, their necks broken in a/ victims. is used to warn the inhabitants: Be. ware! Lock your doors and windov the gorilla has taken another life! tectives. On the Garrity on the left. Chas Murray is Garrity. Tho he, like Mulligan, does no credit to the intelligence of the Irish, their antics keep the audience | in good humor and occasional out-| breaks of hearty laughter. In fact, everytime their slapstick comedy seemed outrageously overdone, the} audience let loose another apprecia- | tive roar of laughter to confound this | reviewer. Solve this mystery if you| will. The mystery of the Gorilla—now that’s something different. pictures are the perfect r know it’s hokum to begin with. So| you seat yourself to be entertaining! bamboozled. It’s good fun; no eter nal triangles, no problems of sex or politics or religion—not a single heav- ing chest of male or female to beg your sympathy or to draw your dis- gust. You begin guessing: Which one does the murder? The brother, the relation, the butler, the cook? And what about the Gorilla? Doors slam, queer shadows creep on the walls, ape- like arms suddenly throw a death- dealing group around one neck or ———— Hearst. We are for telling the Mex- ican masses the truth—that beth aim ut conquest and that both must be fought as part of the machinery of American imperialism, that whoever says otherwise is an enemy of the Mexican masses, Hearst, as the representative of one section of the ruling class carries his gun in his hand—it is an old-fash- ioned single-action Colt revolver. Morrow carries his in the waist- band of his well-tailored trousers—it is a pearl-handed automatic. Morrow is the most dangerous for the Mexican masses because they are led to believe that Morrow does not carry a gun. the Broadway Theatre| | THERE is a ferocious gorilla loose in | is seen on| figure | like grip, that spells death for the | After each murder the radio | And then there are two dumb de-| right—Mulligan, | DOROTHY WHITEMORE In “The Merry Malones,’ George M. Cohan’s musical comedy at Er- \langer’s Theatr this is. the There is no need to solve After all that’s |half the fun of going to one of these things.—W. C. ieee com: okum! the mystery for you. des, “Oh “Kay!” ’ the musical comedy with core by George Gershwin will come to the Century Theatre for two weeks beginning Monday, January 2. 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