The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 3, 1920, Page 7

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WRIGHT Remernngreneer? - — - _ NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—At 347 Fifth} tion" for Americans and American | ico) can be brought to pass, it ave., this city, the tional Associa. | interests in Mexico, * | hardly seems an exaggeration to tion for the Protection of American| From Boynton I secured a copy ot] say that Germany was justified Rights in Mexico maintains , the famous “murder map” and the! in her invasion of Belgium, and of offices under the direction equally famous “disorder! that the principles of Jnterna- Charles Iludson Boynton, a former| Map” as well as other “literature” | tional good faith for this newspaper man, as executive direc-|!#sued under his direction, alt of} country is expending thousands ee {which paints a most uninviting pic of precious lives and billions of ture of Mexico, These maps pretend) treasure are futile and void.” to set forth proof of turmoil and) Another pamphlet was a réprint of | Carranza incompentency in Mexico./an undated interview by Doheny, I was advised to pursue my quest|probably given during the coal a4 by seeing Agnes Laut, William Gates | strike, to judge from the text. Do- and Sin Francisco and others who consistently con-|heny suggests “the necessity for the From this association goes the) demn the Mexican government. !/ adoption of a great encouragement keynote propaganda of American oll/ was further advised to see Chesterjand protection to those who go nd mining interests. ©, Swain, an attorney at 26 Broad: | abroad,” and thinks “only the illness I visited the New York office and| way, the Standard Oil building. From | of the president’ has delayed the ut then I visited the Washington office. | these people, I was told, 1 would get] terance of it, in both places { was assured that) the truth about Mexico. His pamphlet implies that Mexico neither the association nor its mem-| CORRESPONDENT SEES is backing Bolshevik paganda in bers wanted intervention in Mexico. | WorE “MURDER MAPS” this country, It also seeks to worry it was solemnly stated that oil in- a . Americans about a shortage of oil ltarests are not engaged tn any of-| _In Washington at tho office of the| such as to cripple the great. ahip lfort to secure intervention. Spang ee nese new AP phon i ping board fleet and compel changing }more “murder ma a < lot oll-b ‘ " a complete file of the V f oil-burning railroad engines back to coal, ington testimony before the Fall] z committee, copies of a sheaf of MORE OIL PROPAGANDA City correspondent of the New York| stories sent to the press from that| BY OIL, PRESIDENT wrote and a of a book by| Another booklet is signed “By Ira mpaign, instigated chiefly by zdward Gibbon of Los An-| Jewell Williams of the Philadelphia petroleum interests is afoot to force | geles whence hails Edward 1.| Bar,” neglecting to state that Wil- the next Republican congress to in-| Doh largest of the oll operators/ lama is president of the Boston ‘in Mexico. This book, “Mexico Under|Panuco Of1 company. ‘This booklet Associated | Carranza," is subtitled, “A lawyer’s| purports to be a listic disserta Washington | indictment of the crowning infamy;tion on confiscation of property Jof four hundred years of misrule,”| Williams says: “Under the present and is dedicated “to the submerged | regime the Ten Commandments may nees are at work to force interven-| 80 per cent of the Mexican people.”| not be popular in Mexico City, but tion in Mexico, administration lead-| it is interesting to note that it is|the least popular of all is the com- rs were today considering just what | published by Doubleday, Page & Co.,/mandment ‘Thou shalt not steal,’ teps shall be taken to bring the agi-|a firm once thought to be pro Wil} Williams also shows his judicial son. nature by this statement age to the Mexican) At this office I inquired where I} “The true picture of Mexico today , 1919, President | might find the Association of Ameri-|is that of a divided country whose jean Of! Producers in Mexico, I was) various parts are under the control The United States citizens inter-| advised to telephone to a Mr. Branch, | of military chieftains. Some of these ted in ofl properties in Mexico for|in the offices of the Mexican Petro-| owe technical allegiance to Carranza heir part initiated and maintain with|jeum association in Washington.| Almost all, whether Carranzista or . perfect organization, extraordinary | This I did. Branch informed me that}anti-Carranaista, are exploiting na trength and remarkable persistence | the association had no regular office. | tives and foreigners alike by a reign ‘ press campaign in the United} He directed me to Burton Wilson, 61) of force and terror.” States devised to impress the public] Broadway, New York. Branch, how-|, Thus, once the inquirer begins with mind of the country and the general ever, sent to me by messenger much |the National Association for the Pro mass as well as the members of|reading matter about Mexico, “with | tection of American Rights in Mex oth houses by all possible means of | the compliments of the Mexican Pe-|ico, he begins on a trail that leads to the necessity to compel their govern: |troleum Producers’ association.” {one denunciation after another of ment to intervene in Mexico in or | Among the docum s furnished by | Mexico and al things Mexican—es that our laws be drafted in perfect |the Mexican Petroleum Producers’ | pecially the Carranza government {accord with their personal interests/agsociation there were three that) Jt is illuminating to call the roll Bre we |typify the whole range of ofl argu:| of officers of this organization BOYNTON AND SARTWELL | ment. |. Troasurer—E. W. Stetson, vice prest EAGER TO TALK “The Mexican Oil Problem,” by|¢ent Guarantee Trust company of Now Boynton, in New York, and FE. R.| Frederic R. Kellogg, a reprint of an) * Sartwell, in Washington, were pean poko'ors in the Nation, October oc 1918, presieent Jem al Rent, of Commerce, when I said I wanted to learn|contains this amazing paragraph: =| New York; Amos Ik Re acshoryy “This is the fundamental prop. |(2uNsel of the Texas com sition of the Mexican oil situa | Riupoor company; Edward ii tion. If such things (referring to | president Pan-American preceding statements about Mex- of | almost In the Kellogg building, Washing ton, the association maintains an ather suite of offices. | There are other offices in El Paso _ BUT READ On March 17 last year the Mexico copy rvene in Mexico, On Mareh 25, 1916, an Press dispatch from sald “Convinced that powerful influ ommittee—J, &. Alexander, ‘etroleum and Transport company; Walter Dougiaa, President Montezuma Copper company; C.F, Kelly, vice president Greene Can- Copper company; Thomas W. La- P. Morgan & Co.; Chester O. counsel of the Standard harlen impress the necessity for “protec- een Ol company of labin, president G | Dany, > | counset company, On the face of things of! may not always be revealed in such a list. In the case of Watriss, for example, jland and irrigation is implied on the letter head. However, Watriss 1s counsel for two oil companies, Conti- |nental Mexican and International Pe |troleum. He represents these in the Atherican Petroleum association, ‘The idea Watriss holds as to Amer. ican policy was given by him before |the Fall committee. 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