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GALLES
AND

THE COMMITTEES
“LEAVE IT TO MEXICO. THAT IS

THE ADVICE OF A GROUP OF AMERI-
CAN VISITORS.”

The above is the caption of an article
given out Jan. 11 by the Associated Press

for the third Whitewash Committee that
has gone to Mexico to give Calles and his

pseudo government a clean bill of health.

The most charitable thing that can be

said about the members of these committees
is that they are remarkable for their gulli-

bility.

This time fate with fine irony, destined

as head of the committee a man named Her-
ring. “Mr. Herring,” the article concludes,

“is head of the social relations department

of the Congregational churches of the

United States.”

Mr. Herring informs us that “The Mexi-

can government has a program.” So has

the man with a mask on his face and a
gun on his victim a program. Calles has

one hand in the pocket of the Catholic

church, which means at least 98% of his
fellow citizens, and he needs his other hand

to hold the gun. The advice then that he

should not be disturbed is very timely in

the light of the threatening situation that

has developed per Nicaragua.

“I believe,” says Mr. Herring, “Mexico

should be given a chance to work out its

program in its own way without interfer-
ence.” Calles et al doubtless appreciate this

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generous statement of Mr. Herring. But

the thing that worries some of the rest of

the one hundred and ten millions of Mr.

Herring’s fellow citizens is why he and the

forty members of his committee and the

members of other committees should assume

the burden of doing Calles’ worrying for

him. This behavior, in the light of hu-

man psychology as I have always under-

stood it, is a bit unusual.

Mr. Herring evidently does not know Cal-

les as well as some of the rest of us. If

he did he would not put the unnecessary

strain of doing Calles’ worrying for him on

his own constitution.

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Calles Able to do His Own Worrying

If we know anything about Calles we
would say that he is emminently fit to do

his own worrying. In fact we would back
him to the limit as being the most success-
ful worrier in history. Nero, who fiddled
while Eome was burning has nothing on
Calles as a worrier. Calles has had a l@ng

and successful period of preparation as a
worrier and on that score we stand back
of him like a solid Muldoon. He is used to
it and it doesn’t hurt him. It never has

hurt him.

Calles’ first official act of consequence

as a municipal treasurer, was to cause a
shortage of several thousand dollars in the

Municipal treasury of Guaymas. When
Don Francisco Furcade, Municipal Presi-
dent, brought him to justice, and orders

had been given to take him to prison,

Calles’ uncle, Alejandro Elias, assumed full

responsibility and Calles went scot free.

He spent the money in drunken orgies in
the Cantinas and houses of ill fame. This

did not hurt him. He lived through it
splendidly. It is true he had had prepara-

tion for it a short while before when he

was honored by his fellow teachers by be-

ing made treasurer of the Teachers’ Sav-
ing Fund. He exhausted the funds in a
few months and brought disrepute on his

profession by spending it in unbridled dis-

ipation. He was the laughing stock of his
pupils who dubbed him Maestro Mechas .

But Calles should worry!

Shortly after Municipal Treasurer Calles

escaped the penitentiary through the good

offices of his uncle, Calles’ brother, Arturo

Malvido Elias, Consul General in New York
who has given out so many interesting, if

false statements, established on the Plaza

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13 de Julio the important Hotel Mexico,

that he insured for the sum of twelve
thousand pesos

,
making the now President

Calles bartender. A few months later Ar-
turo, owing to his health, was obliged to
leave Guaymas and turned the Hotel over
to his brother (now Pres. Calles). Calles

at once began to fondle and cherish the de-

sire to beat the insurance company by an
“accidental” fire. When he had brought
the establishment to the verge of bank-

ruptcy he put this desire into execution. He
had often boasted of it to the women com-
panions of his drunken orgies. So Calles

should worry.

He left Guaymas telling his friends that
he was going to show them that he could
make his living honorably by hard labor
in the fields. His father and three uncles

owned some lands in the Ranch Santa Rosa.

His uncles knowing of his behaviour re-

fused to turn it over to him. But a little

thing like that did not worry Calles. With

the aid of his revolvers he procured from

his uncles signed documents that put him

into possession of said lands. He at once
mortgaged the land to Manuel Elias Perez

to get money. He has, however, since he
became the Bolchevik Dictator of Mexico,

shown his gratitude by inflicting the lat-

ter's’ son, Poncho Elias, twice upon the state

of Sonora as Governor interino in spite of

the fact that the man knows neither how
to read or write. And this goes to show
that even to make a silk purse out of a
sow's ear does not worry Calles.

Calles soon squandered this money in
riotous living and through the good offices

of his uncles procured the position of man-
ager of the Excelsior Flower Milling Co.

of the house of Smithers & Nordelhols of
New York. This mill, being the only one in

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the entire district, was in excellent circum-
stances. With a few months of Calles’ di-

rection Mr. Smithers was obliged to declare
bankruptcy and the mill went to the Bank
of Sonora. The new director appointed by
the bank retained Calles as assistant. The

director, Francisco Diaz Velasco, Calles and

Robertito V. Pesqueira, an old comrade of

Calles, constituted a sort of Syndicate of

Scandal in the town. They spent the nights

in drunken orgies. One of the favorite
nightly pastimes of Calles was to shoot

the atmosphere full of holes to intimidate

the people and more than one poor girl,

not of age and belonging to the poorer

classes that he worries about so now, lost

her honor and was consigned to a life of
shame. The people got so familiar with

these escapades that when they heard the
fusilade at night they would lock themselves

in their homes in terror crying here comes

Santanon. And this is how Calles won this
new nickname that supplanted the other of
Maestro Mechas. The Bank of Sonora was
soon obliged to dismiss him. But Calles

should worry. He was preparing himself
for the “splendid uplift of the poor Indian

classes.”

His companion, Diaz Velasco, furnished

him money to go to Nogales Sonora where
he entered the services of a brother-in-

law who was conducting a Cantina where
games, prohibited by law, were indulged in.

He soon proved to be so detrimental to
the business that he was asked to leave
here too. He went back to Fronterras,
where, in 1910, the Revolution of Madero
found him in the capacity of secretary of
the Ayuntamiento. Now since it. was the
declared purpose of the revolution of Ma-
dero to liberate the oppressed and those
who hungered for justice Calles naturally
considered himself in that class. “Had he

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not stolen the funds of the teachers in

Guaymas . . . and justice was not

done him? Had he not embezzled the pub-
lic funds of the Municipal Treasury of

Guaymas . . . and again justice
was not done him? Had he not tricked
an insurance company through a criminal
fire . . . and instead of getting
justice the company paid him twelve thou-
sand pesos?” (Says Brigido Caro, histor-

ian of recent revolutions in Mexico. Plu-

tarco Elias Calles Dictador Bolsheviki de

Mexico.)

But Calles should worry. At the end of
1911 he was already the strongest capital-
ist of Agua Prieta and probably of the
state of Sonora. Through his position as
Comisario he soon had a monopoly on all

the big business of that region. At this
time Sr. Manuel I. Fuentes, a wealthy mer-

chant of Fronteras, was mysteriously as-
sasinated and all the merchandise of his

house was transferred to that of Comisario

Calles.

The important Mercantile Establishment

of Don Marcos Trueba, in Auga Prieta,
was sacked and a little later all of the

merchandise appeared in the flourishing

stores of Comisario Calles. So Calles should

worry.

He opened a Cantina in connection with
his stores that was well patronized by

American clients who felt the need of cross-

ing the border occasionally to get relief

from the Dry condition in the U. S. and to

break the Ennui of Douglas life by indulg-

ing in friendly games in the Cantina of

Calles where all of the games prohibited by

law were fashionable. But Calles should

worry. He was Comisario or in other

words, the Law, and he found it profitable

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to fine the drunks ten dollars per head if

they got drunk outside of his Cantina; two

dollars if they got drunk in his own and if
they were particularly good customers of

his own establishment they escaped fine al-
together. No, Mr. Herring, you need not

lie wake nights to do Calles’ worrying for
him. He can take care of that.

These . are only a few facts that have
been culled from a great mass of facts
already published by the Mexican Histor-

ian, Brigido Caro, about your Apostle of

Uplift Don Plutarco Elias Calles, Mr. Her-
ring, but they should suffice to give you

some confidence in the early training of the

man you are worrying about.

It is true that the chunk of worry Calles

has now taken on completely lays in the
shade the little worries mentioned above.

It is no small matter, we are ready to ad-
mit, to steal thousands of Catholic churches,

asylums, orphanages, colleges, schools and

millions in church property; to deprive a

noble and exemplary clergy of citizenship;

to assassinate hundreds of the flower of

Mexican youth because they dared to be

true to their religious beliefs; to stamp out

the freedom of the press; to wipe out free

speech; to rob and outrage ninety-nine per-

cent of his own fellow citizens for the bene-
fit of a small group and then cap the cli-

max by attempting the hurculean task of
successfully lying about his whole program

to the rest of the world. Any other man
than Calles would be overwhelmed by it.

But I repeat, Mr. Herring, Calles is used

to it and it wont hurt him.

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Further Training as a Worrier

The few facts I give you above have to

do only with the early training of Calles

as a worrier. But you must not forget,

Mr. Herring, that Calles
,

preparation did

not stop there. He went right on preparing

himself. He has carefully and consistently

and persistently kept on building himself up

until today he has the completest and most

substantial background of training that

goes to make a successful worrier that mon-

ey, effort and skulldugery can procure.

Calles ordered the assasination of thou-

sands of innocent persons while he func-

tioned as Governor and Military command-

ant of the State of Sonora. He ordered

the execution without the formality of a

trial, of a group of laborers who went

on a strike in Cananea in 1914, and he is

posing today as the red Pontiff of labor in

Mexico. He had thousands of minor mer-

chants shot and hanged because they sold

intoxicating drinks against the law. He

had hundreds of inoffensive Indians, old

men, women and children shot because they

did not concentrate in Hermosillo when it

occurred to him to have them there. He

gave telegraphic orders to have the socialist

leader, Lazaro Gutierrez de Lara, executed

in the town of Saric, District of Altar, in

July, 1918. Now mind you, Mr. Herring,

not one of these victims had committed an

offense that would fall under the article

of the constitution of Queretero that lists

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capital offenses. And this goes to show that

a little thing like a constitution and a crim-

inal code do not worry Calles. L’Etat c’est

moi! You can’t upset the mental equipoise

of a man like that. The proverbial mad

bull in a china shop does not worry about

fine china. So, Mr. Herring, why should

you and the members of your committee un-

dermine your health by worrying for him?

Calles Resourceful

And Calles is resourceful. On the sixth

of April, 1912, Calles got word that the

rebel Francisco Escanadon at the head of

twenty men, well equipped, had crossed the

frontier near Naco, Arizona. Calles went

out from Agua Prieta to meet him at the

head of forty Federal soldiers like a bold

Cid Campeador. Night overtook him at

Cuchuverachi. He selected the best house

in the town, put the family out and re-

tired. His soldiers did likewise in other

homes of the place. Late in the night their

slumbers were disturbed by the explosion of

a bomb. Calles was panic stricken and

rushed out of the house barefoot with noth-

ing on but his underwear. Did he go in

quest of the enemy that had thus uncere-

moniously disturbed his slumbers? No, not

he. He had no other thought than that of

saving the precious person of the future

Bolshevic President of Mexico from harm.

He was making a bid for the negligee sprint

championship along the street that leads

from the town when his speed was inter-

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fered with by some soldiers of the enemy

group. They took him into the presence

of their leader Escandon who ordered him

shot immediately because he had knowledge

of the crimes he had been committing.

Calles threw himself at the feet of the Reb-

el Leader Escandon crying like a child and

pleading for his life, promising to join the

rebel forces or to retire forever to private

life if that would please his captor. The

order that he be shot was repeated when

Dr. Manuel Huerta, a Spanish subject, who

was accompanying the leader Escandon as

surgeon, interceded for Calles not because

he could say anything good for him but

because the execution of prisoners would

reflect discredit on the new movement. The

rebel leader finally told Calles that he was

free to go wherever he wished and that he

owed his life to Dr. Huerta. This fact is

little known, says the historian, Brigido

Caro, but rigorously historic. Calles’ tears

had saved his life and won for him a new

sobriquet: El Lloron de Cuchuverachi (the

cry-baby of Cuchuverachi). So we know

that even when the tears of a military lead-

er are needed Calles is there with the

goods. Now contrast this trait of charac-

ter with that illustrated by Calles’ behav-

ior when this good doctor who had saved

his life falls into the hands of Calles.

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Calles Violates U. S. Territory & Hangs

The Man Who Had Saved His Life

As a matter of fact Calles could not wait
until Dr. Huerta fell into his hands, but

violated American territory by sending an

armed band into Douglas, Arizona, to get
him. Dr. Huerta was ill in bed at the
time. Billy King, attorney for the Mining

Co. of Nacozari, Charlie Gros, sheriff of

Douglas and Jorge Tato, Municipal Presi-

dent of Agua Prieta, were commissioned by
Calles to try to persuade Dr. Huerta that

it would be to his interest to go to Agua
Prieta for a conference with Calles. Six

armed Mexican soldiers stood guard around

the house of Dr. Huerta day and night

while the above negotiated with him. When
Calles saw that he could not sequestrate him

by means of deceit he resorted to other

means. On the 14th of December, 1918, be-
tween 8 and 9 o’clock P. M., the agents of

Calles, Eduardo Lopez, Sacramento Mon-

tano, Luis Peralta and Rodolfo Marquez

entered Dr. Huerta’s home with drawn re-
volvers and ropes. They rolled his wife up
in a mattress and bound Dr. Huerta and

took him to an automobile waiting outside

and driven by Jose Perez Borrego.

As soon as they reached Agua Prieta,
Calles in his characteristic fashion ordered

Dr. Huerta, the man who had so nobly
saved his life, Leyva, Silva and a man
called “El Cabito” to be hanged, without

trial, to the highest posts of the Plaza of

Agua Prieta on the night of December 15,
1918, in the presence of thousands of spec-

tators.

On the following morning at five o’clock
Gen. Plutarco Elias Calles with several

members of his Staff seated himself on the

plaza to enjoy the sight of the corpses.

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He remained there for six hours drinking
incessantly and then had himself driven to
his abode in the same automobile that had
served in the sequestration of the poor

Doctor.

To some people the behavior of Calles in
the presence of a firing squad, where he
was to be the target, and his ghastly wake
of six hours on the plaza of Agua Prieta
under the dangling bodies of his victims,

one of whom had previously saved his life,
would mark him as a coward and a born
criminal and degenerate. But you, Mr. Her-
ring, and the members of your committee
and the members of the two other commit-
tees and some of the American Protestant
bishops and divines in Mexico think he has

a program and should not be interfered
with. Did it ever occur to you and your

friends that your position lacks plausibil-

ity? In your statement to the Associated

Press you say: For the first time in four
hundred years there is hope in Mexico .”

You also say:
u
Mexico is weaker than us

with the accrued liabilities of four hundred

years of tyranny.” Have you read any
Mexican history? Have you and your

friends gone back to the original sources to

make any investigation into the policy and
method of the missionaries during the Con-

quest and the time of the Viceroys? Have

you ever made a comparison of what was

done in that period for the uplift of the

Indians as regards education, humanitarian-

ism, etc. with w'hat has been done since

liberalism has gotten a hold in the country?

If you read Padre Sahagun’s Historia de la

Mitologia Mexicana you will see that the

Mexican Indians before the advent of the

Spanish missionaries were groveling in a

religious superstition that has no parallel

in all history in the horrors of human sac-

rifice. Who got them out of this? Who

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gave them everything they have in that

country today that is worth while? And

the Catholic missionaries were doing all

this for the poor Indians of Mexico, while

our Puritan fathers were sending our In-

dians Ad Patres. The Indians of Mexico

have continued to increase in numbers

through the four centuries you mention

while our Indian race has become almost

extinct. Read the histories of Motolinia,
Mendieta, Torquemada, Acosta, Solis, Ber-

nal Diaz, Davila, Clavigero, and others that

cover that early period and then give an

opinion. Read Father Cuevas' Historia de

la Iglesia en Mexico (3 vols.) that came out

just a couple of years ago and covers the

entire field in a scholarly manner and is

completely documented and authenticated.

If you really want to learn something about

Mexico you will find a great abundance of

reliable material. Those of your commit-

tees who live in Chicago will find the books
I mention and many others on the same
subject in the forty thousand volume Spanish

American collection in the Newberry Li-

brary.

But, Mr. Herring, do you and the mem-
bers of your committees, really want the

American people to get the truth about

the Mexican situation? Do not all of the
reports you have given to the Associated

Press
,
show that the real purpose of these

propaganda junkets is to cover up and to

muddy the waters? How much have you
said about the answers to the fifteen pre-

pared questions put by Rabbi Landman as
your spokesman

,
and in your presence to

the prelates in the home of Bishop Diaz?

As you took your leave “these bishops ex-

pressed the hope that the Americans, upon

their return, would tell their countrymen

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the true conditions in Mexico,” says the

report in The New York Times. Did you
do so? If not, why not?

Your superficial statements in the Asso-
ciated Press would give the lie to the Pas-

toral Letter of the Bishops of the United

States, a carefully prepared and well au-

thenticated document of great dignity, that

gives a true statement of the Mexican sit-

uation, and the first part of which treating

of fundamental and personal rights, reads

like another Declaration of Independence.

A document that is profoundly American in
spirit and which, if it sins at all, does so

by being over charitable. You ignore this
document. Do you think the men who drew
it up are not trustworthy?

Your failure to take cognizance of this
document and the numerous Pastoral Let-

ters of the Mexican Heirarchy and of Ar-

ticles III, XXVII and CXXX of the Con-
stitution itself you are defending, show

clearly what there is in the back of your

minds and constitutes an insult to the in-

telligent people of the United States. There

are none so blind as those who do not want
to see and none so ignorant as those who

want to be.

These junketing excursions of whitewash

committees into Mexico and the reports that

follow them are an outrage against the fif-

teen million Catholics of our neighboring

country and yet you declare that your pur-

pose is to foster friendly relations with

Mexico. By what process of human reason-
ing, pray, do you expect to foster friendly

relations with a people against whom you
bear false testimony and whom you outrage
in what they hold most sacred? This is

also an outrage against twenty millions of

your fellow countrymen who are Catholics,

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against the vase majority of Americans

who profess no faith and against the great

majority of your Protestant fellow citizens

who would not for a moment stand for your

program if you let them in on the secrets.

The great body of American people believe

in fair play.

George D. McKay Williams said in an

open letter published in The Washington

Post
,
May 13, 1926: “Speaking as a

Methodist . . . etc. We have the
spectacle of Methodist bishops turning

propagandists for Russian Bolshevism, Lat-

in anti-Americanism and Oriental anti-for-

eignism, while millions of Methodists squirm

in their pews because of such misrepresen-

tation of their views as American citizens.”

etc. . . . And this Mr. Williams said
in reference to a defense made by Bishop
Miller, Methodist Episcopal Bishop in Mex-

ico, of the Mexican regime in an address

to a meeting of Methodist Episcopal bish-

ops held in Washington.

I refer you to a memorial presented by

the women of Azangaro in Feb., 1924, to
the President of Peru, Sr. D. Augusto B.

Legia, in which they, in no uncertain tones,

show how the Protestant missionaries in
that country have been making use of Bol-
shevism to further their evangelistic ( !

)

work, . . . “preaching to them (the
Peruvians) war of extermination against
the faithful Catholics and the Church.

. . . propagate doctrines of the reddest

communism . . . inciting the Indian
against the white, inciting him to ignore
the rights of ownership and to take pos-

session of inheritances and landed proper-

ties violently and at any cost and by any

means;” etc., etc.

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Present Government in Mexico is Bolshevic

It cannot be that you do not know

that the present government in Mexico

is Bolshevic. If you have been keep-

ing up with the Mexican revolutions

and American Protestant propagandists you
must know something about the establishing
of the Bolshevist regime in Yucatan. “Here,

while Obrigon was still President, Calles
initiated his plan of establishing the Sov-

iet Government in Mexico. He set up, by
force of arms, Comrade Felipe Carillo Pu-
erto as governor of Yucatan and put over
him as intellectual director, Roberto Hab-
erman, an American fugitive from San
Francisco, and founder of the Protestant

Teaching Missionaries, in Mexico. Haber-

man drew up the Bolshevic constitution of
Yucatan for which he received a large sum
of money that Felipe Carillo Puerto gave
him on orders from Calles. Calles formed

his Major Bolshevic Staff from fugitives

from justice of the United States. (They

make pliable instruments when dirty work
is to be done.) Yucatan, one of the rich-

est states of Mexico was plundered. The

system of Nepotism inaugurated there cost

the state more than three hundred and fif-

ty thousand pesos per year paid to the rel-

atives of the governor. Worse still, the

morals of the people, as far as that was

possible, were degraded. The marriage

laws were substituted for by the Bolshevic

system. The Christian education of chil-

dren was supplanted by the degrading Sov-

iet system, etc. Confiscation of property,

robbing, plundering and murder ran riot,

until an outraged people turned on its op-

pressor and brought his regime to a tragic

end. The same regime was established in

Vera Cruz and the other southeastern states

of Mexico.

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What Distinguished Americans Say

President Coolidge, while still Vice-Pres-

ident, speaking to a large group of Repub-

licans said that the conditions existing in

Mexico under the regime of Obregon were

worse than those in Russia under Lenine,

for while the Cossack chaos was a product
of absurd doctrines the Mexican chaos was
an absurdity without doctrine put across

by a band of perverts that does not deserve •

the name of government.

Mr. Charles Evans Hughes, on Aug. 21,
1920, in a speech criticising the policy of

President Wilson said: “The conduct of the
administration of Mr. Wilson with Mexico

constitutes an intricate chapter of blunders.

We have not helped Mexico. She lies pros-
trate, scourged by hunger, oppressed by all

of the afflictions and all of the outrages

of internal strife; a defenseless victim of

an anarchy that the (American) Adminis-

tration alone has served to unleash. . . .

As far as the character of Huerta is con-
cerned, the falseness of the arguments ad-

duced against him, is clearly demonstrated

by the subsequent aid given by the Admin-

istration to Villa, (whose characteristics as

an assassin are indisputable) and whom
the Administration, apparently was dispos-

ed to recognize, on his having consummated

his task and fulfilled what the Administra-

tion evidently expected from him. . . .

In destroying the government of Huerta

we turned Mexico over to the disasters of
revolution. I shall not attempt to narrate

the shameless history of barbarous deeds

committed, of that orgy of blood and licen-

tiousness.” These are the views of Mr.

Hughes as candidaate for the presidency

which if they do not agree with the views

of Mr. Hughes as Secretary of State, stand

as an invulnerable position in defense of

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th^se who lift their voices for a just and
sane policy with Mexico.

In the March, 1915, number of THE
METROPOLITAN

,
the late President

Roosevelt says among other things : “ . . .
and that the cultured people of Mexico

have been outraged by the bandits without

conscience and without honor to whom our
Government has given aid and ammunition

. . . etc. . . . For these infamous

crimes that have been committed in Mexico,

the Government of the United States must

bear upon her shoulders a tremendous re-

sponsibility only for the bungling of the

administration of President Wilson.” These

are some of the declarations of a number

of our great Americans on the Mexican

situation.

Mixing Propaganda With Diplomacy

Now what is wrong? Frankly, Mr. Her-
ring, I can find but one answer. The
mixing of Protestant propaganda with di-

plomacy. The two simply wont mix sat-
isfactorily. This is especially true in coun-

tries that profess the Catholic faith. Re-

ports from China indicate that even in

heathen countries it is dangerous business.

If your propagandists would confine them-

selves to preaching the Gospel things would

be different. But you insist on mixing your

Gospel with Bolshevism and revolution.

While connected with the State University

of Mississippi about 1910, I heard an Eng-

lish Y. M. C. A. lecturer proudly claim

credit for that organization’s having

brought about a revolution in China. You
play with fire and then when the conflag-

ration starts you insist on the United States

Government standing back of you.

Aug. 29, 1926, David Lawrence sent out

from Washington an article copyrighted by

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the Kansas City JOURNAL POST entitled,
Foreign Mission Right Declines. Fear of

Entanglement Abroad Guides U. S. in New
Theory. In this article he says: “For gen-
erations, the Protestant missions in Tur-
key, China and elsewhere have been enjoy-
ing the moral support and at times the ac-
tive backing of the department of state and
the ambassadors and ministers of the
American government . . . etc. . . .
In other words the day of insisting on re-

ligious tolerance and the legal right to

proselyte in foreign fields is passing and

this is illustrated to no small extent in the

new attitude assumed by the Coolidge ad-
ministration.” To this we say 10JALA!

President Wilson and Secretary Bryan
were very susceptible to the influence of

Protestant propagandists. One of the un-
fortunate results of this is too many Prot-
estant preachers in the diplomatic service

in Latin America. President Wilson evi-

dently took his cue from his Rev. Personal

Representative, John Lind, whom he sent
to Mexico.

In the April 18, 1914, number of a New
York weekly, MEXICO, I find a reference
to Mr. Lind’s attitude: “John Lind, the

Swede, who despises Mexicans because they
are Catholics and has injected into the Mex-

ican question a fanaticism of hatred against

the Catholic Church, suggesting as a rem-

edy the invasion of Mexico by an army of
(Protestant) missionaries, etc.”

In the November 7, 1920, number of LA
EPOCA, one of the leading papers of Mex-
ico, I find this declaration: “In the con-

sciousness of all good Mexicans is the con-

viction that the end they (the Protestant

propagandists from America) are pursuing

are political; that they are laboring to pre-

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pare the way for the invaders, for by taking
from the people their Catholic beliefs, they
will have destroyed their religious unity,

which is the strongest bond that unites the

individuals of a nation. And do not be-
lieve that this is a gratuitous supposition;

thus did Mr. Lind, the confidential agent of

-Wilson, with all clarity confess it.”

Alfred Holman, trustee of the Carnegie

-Endowment for International Problems and

Relations, May 18, 1926, at Briarcliff Man-
or, N. Y., said: “They (the Protestant mis-

sionaries) antagonize the South Americans

who already are Christians and resent as

an implication that they are heathen, the

attempts to change their faith. The Ro-

man Catholic countries are naturally re-

sentful of attempts by Protestant churches

to convert their communicants. IT WOULD
BE BETTER IF WE BROUGHT BACK
ALL OF THESE MISSIONARIES

,
etc.”

And Mr. Holman said this soon after he re-
turned from a trip to South America, and

this in addition to his position should give

weight to his words.

These are not idle vaporings on the part

of Mr. Holman. Vide : REVISTA CATO -
LICA, November 1, 1925, article entitled,
“Religious Conflict in Nicaragua. Does the

American Government Support the Protest-

ant Campaign
?”

In the letter of Bishop Ca-

nuto Jose Reyes y Balladares to the Ameri-

can minister to Nicaragua, Mr. Charles C.

Eberhardt, in Managua, we read: “Do not

impose upon us a doctrine that we do not

want. We are Christians. Let the Prot-
estants go to conquer pagan nations and

people who have no religious beliefs, of

which there are many in the United States.”
But the most enlightening part of this ac-

count is the statement in the note accom-

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panying the letter of the Bishop to the RE-

VISTA CATOLICA : “l enclose a copy of

the last letter I wrote to the American min-

ister (to Nicaragua)
,
residing in Managua

WHO IS HELPING THE PROTESTANT
MISSION

,
SAYING THAT HE HAS IN-

STRUCTIONS FROM HIS GOVERN-
MENT” Think of it! Is it any wonder that
our brand of diplomacy is beginning to

stink in the nostrils of Latin America

?

The Caranza Revolution Essentially A Pro-
testant Revolution

I translate from the March 21, 1926, is-
sue of the REVISTA CATOLICA : “The
unbridled hords of Caranza perpetrated ev-

ery sort of Crime against all of the Catho-

lic institutions, they profaned what was
most sacred, and made a mockery of what
the Mexican people hold most holy and

most revered, but the Protestant ministers,

their temples and colleges, were not only

respected with servile veneration, but open-

ly protected. More still, the Protestants took

a very active part in the persecutions of

the Catholics.

“The Caranza Revolution was essentially

a Protestant revolution. THE BIBLICAL
SOCIETIES OF THE UNITED STATES
LENT A DECIDED AND POWERFUL
AID IN EXCHANGE FOR THE CON-
STANT PERSECUTION OF THE CATH-
OLIC CHURCH .

“'Thence it came that Caranza should
pledge himself to raise to the presidency of

the Republic a notorious Protestant like

Mr. Bonilla. But fate decreed that the

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Protestant candidacy should make ship-

wreck in the seas of blood of Tlascalaltongo.

The obligations contracted by the revolution

WITH THE PROTESTANT SOCIETIES
OF THE UNITED STATES, ESPECIAL-
LY WITH THE METHODISTS, seemed
to have been broken with the death of Ca-
ranza (which death, by the way, was or-
dered by Obrigon)

,
and the elevation to

power of Obrigon by a civil military coup

d'etat. But recent events show that these

obligations still obtain and that powerful

elements in the United States demand their
fulfillment.”

Hear what LA EPOCA has to say about
this in the May 2, 1926, issue: . . for
Garanza compromised himself with the Yan-

kee Methodist Protestants to the tune of

several millions; he shut himself up in

Queretaro with his armed hordes and com-

mended to another horde of intellectuals of

the revolution the simulachre of forging and

discussing the articles of the Constitution

of 1917, WHICH THE PRESS HAS AS-
SURED WAS DRAWN UP BY A YAN-
KEE LAWYER OF CHICAGO, IN HARM-
ONY WITH THE DEMANDS OF THOSE
PROTESTANTS.

“Caranza did not meet these obligations

and was dispatched ad patres, and today

Gen. Calles is trying to meet them, . . .

etc.”

“The Auto-candidate, Jose Dolores Mira-

montes, in his delirium to become governor

of the State (of Chihuahua), had no scrup-

les against receiving money for his political

campaign from THE CONGREGATION
OF PROPAGANDA, A FOREIGN ASSO-

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ClATION DEDICATED TO THE PROGA-

GATION OF PROTESTANTISM through-

out the world, with the understanding thht

if he triumphed he would use the influence

of his authority to have the defeated proj-

ect of Deputy Lugo approved, that tended

to limit in the State the number of Catho-
lic priests.

“This is the key that explains why Var-
gas, Flores, Antonio Escudero and Longi-

nos Balderrama, known members of the
Protestant Church, were such ardent Mira-

montists. ,( Signed by) Various Catholics;”

See REVISTA CATOLICA, July 20, 1924.

The above agreement on the part of

Mirahiontes with the “Congregation of

Propaganda” failed of fulfillment because

the former was defeated but it has since
been put over in a number of states and
President Calles has recommended to his

congress that the number of priests in all

of the states be limited. This should con-

vince any thinking man that this' is one of
the chief planks in the program of Calles

et at how attempting to work itself out ac-
cording to a well devised prearranged plan.

And since it would limit the number of
priests to about as many as there are Prot-
estant ministers in a country where there

is less than one percent Protestant popu-

lation as compared With about ninety-eight

percent Catholic population we can readily
understand what it would mean to Protest-
antism and what it would mean to Cath-
olicism.

When a crime has been committed we
usually look first for the person or per-

sons who have been benefitted by it. Ap-
plying the same method of investigation in

this case and viewing the whole Mexican

question in the large, in the light of facts

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we have cited and many others we could
cite, does it not make a strong case against
Protestant propagandists in Mexico?

And in following this program of limit-
ing the number of priests in Mexico are not
the Protestant propagandists there walking

in the footsteps (and knowingly so) of their

Soviet brethren in Russia? The DAILY
AMERICAN TRIBUNE of Dubuque, Iowa,
in its Jan. 30, 1927, issue quotes a London

dispatch to the effect that “There is no

archbishop or bishops, as all have been

expelled. . . . The number of priests

is reduced to 400 for the 600 churches still

in existence, but they have no legal status,

possess no religious freedom of action.

No book containing the name of
God is allowed, no Catechism or Catholic
newspaper permitted, no foreign priest has

access to the country. The training of a
native clergy is impossible as there is no

seminary left. . . . The lamentable
shortage of priests may be gathered from
the following items. In northern Russia one

priest is in charge of five parishes cover-

ing an area the size of Italy, England and

Scotland combined, whilst in Asiatic Russia

there is only one priest for the whole of

Russian Tjjrkestan, three times the size of

the United Kingdom. The Archdiocese of

Moghilev which formerly numbered 934,885
Catholics, is now reduced to 320,000 and
fifteen priests are still in prison, semi-

naries, schools and many churches are
closed. In Moscow there are still three
churches in working order, and each of the

two priests has to care for 30,000 persons.”

Does not the situation in Mexico furnish an

exact parallel? And do not Protestant
propagandists in Latin America lay them-

selves liable to an honest charge that they

are using BOLSHEVISM as an instrument
with which to crush the Catholic church?

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And in this mad and insane endeavor are
they not endangering all Christianity in the

light of developments in the East? Are
they blind to the fact that the Catholic

Church constitutes the main body of Chris-
tianity? If the Catholic Church is not a
Christian body how are the Protestant sects
going to be able to prove that they are Chris-

tian? Do they not know that when they
cut down the tree the branches of that tree
wither? If the world ever needed a united

front on the part of Christianity it needs it

now. I cannot believe that Protestant prop-

agandists in foreign countries represent the

honest views of fully ninety percent of their

fellow communicants in the United States,

who want only what is sane and just.

In writing of the Caranza revolution

Bishop Francis C. Kelly, in his book RED
AND YELLOW

, p. 69, says: “In Mexico,

former Protestant ministers are today ‘gen-

erals, colonels and captains/ The Provision-

al President Gutierrez, is said to be an ex-

Protestant minister. The revolutionary

governors of two states were Protestant

ministers. ALMOST TO A MAN THESE
FORMER SALARIED OFFICIALS OF
AMERICAN PROTESTANT MISSION-
ARY SOCIETIES ENTERED THE
RANKS OF THE REVOLUTIONISTS.”

Father R. Planchet in his booklet, LA

PROPAGANDA PROTESTANTE EN
MEXICO

,
quotes one of those Protestant

ministers as saying in the CURRENT
OPINION

,
N.Y., Oct., 1919, “When the

revolution started, the Protestant churches,

almost without exception, rose with it; be-

cause they believed that the program of the

revolution represented what these churches

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had been preaching for years; and the

triumph of the revolution was the triumph
of the Gospel. There were entire congrega-

tions that, with their minister at the head

volunteered their services to the revolution-

ary army, the men going to the front and
the women helping in the homes.”

Why should the Protestant propagandists
not fight with Caranza since even as gov-

ernor of Coahuila he gave a regular allow-

ance of money, paid by Catholics as taxes,

to the Protestant college of Rev. Inman in
Piedras Negras and when president of the
Republic he made a general contribution of
the money of the Catholics to anti-Catholic
schools and enterprises. Quoting again

from the author cited above: “Caranza in-

formed the American Protestants that the

prohibition (against religious schools) did

not hold against them; that they should go

ahead as before with their propaganda with-

out any fear whatsoever; and that they

should do him the favor of not withdraw-

ing their ministers from Mexico; that he,

extremely generous, would help them vio-

late the Constitution. So declared, under

oath, before a committee of the Senate in

Washington, these very preachers of the

sects in that nation (United States) pp.

187, 102, 99, 519 of the Investigation on

Mexican affairs. Hearing before a Subcom-

mittee of the Committee on Foreign Rela-

tions
,
United States Senate. Washington.

Government Printing Office, 19 19.”

Yes, Caranza was trying to deliver the

goods after having “compromised himself

with American Protestants to the tune of

millions” in drawing up the Constitution of

1917. Translating again from Father Plan-

chet: “Then Caranza was seen, closing the

Catholic plants and prohibiting the priests

from opening and directing new schools and

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of teaching religion in them, while he him-

self in the Capital city opened a Protestant

school in the (Catholic) Convent of the Con-

ception; violated the religious and scholas-

tic neutrality of the government, by send-

ing in a group to the Methodist temple,

twice per week, the children of the orph-

anage of Puebla, an official institution; ap-

pointed the Protestant Moises Saenz direc-

tor of the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria;

the Protestant minister Alfonso Herrera, sec-

retario of the Universidad Mexicana; and

as director of Public Instruction in the Cap-

ital, the Protestant bishop Andres Osuna,

whose yankyism, an American preacher,

Rev. Inman, who was being paid for laud-
ing the sinister Caranza in the United

States, praises in the following terms : ‘Men

like Osuna, partisans of the Americans,

are the ones who will reconstruct Mexico.
These Mexican Protestants are accomplish-

ing, precisely and as rapidly as possible

the very same program that we would put
through if we invaded Mexico/ Taken from
the same Hearing in Washington cited
above, pp. 7, 9, 10.”

A radical paper called LA PRESNA, on
Feb. 20, 1916, said the following: Ameri-
canism, it was declared in the Protestant
Congress of Panama consists in making
business and Protestantism march together
hand in hand.” And, unfortunately, keep-
ing step with them, is Latin American di-
plomacy.

Rev. Inman, in the Hearing in Washing-
ton, cited above says, p. 7: “Half of the
influential members of the Caranza admin-
istration were educated in our Protestant
schools.”

Father Planchet also quotes the April,
1917, issue of the EXTENSION magazine
of Chicago, giving the following invitation,

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extended to the American Protestant min-

isters, by Eodolfo Menendez: “The liberals

of Mexico would gladly see the Directing

Centers of American Protestantism send

there many good missionaries who surely
would help to free the people of fanaticism.

They could doubtless count on the moral
and material aid of the government which

would allow them, without charging them

rent, to use many of the Catholic temples.”
These so-called liberals constitute about one

percent of the population of Mexico. Can

the United States government afford to

outrage the ninety, and nine for the sake

of the one? It has been doing so consistently

since the fall of Porfirio Diaz by manipul-

ating recognitions of bandit presidents,

embargoes and raising of embargoes, etc.,

etc., and is doing so today by putting

on an embargo against even mercantile

planes, for fear that the outraged masses of

Mexico might get some of these planes and

use them to win back the liberties of which

they have been robbed.

What Will Be Effect on Latin American

Business?

Can it be that our representatives in
Washington are blind to the effect that this
sort of diplomacy is going to have on busi-

ness in all Latin America for generations to
come? Sound business is based on mutual

understanding and good will. Washington,
since the fall of Porfirio Diaz, has been list-

ening to Protestant propagandists who are
interested more in their business of propa-
ganda, to which well meaning Protestants in
the United States contribute more than
three millions per year, than they are in the

Gospel and in the welfare of our interna-
tional relations. Is it any wonder that
these propagandists should send to Mexico

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at opportune times their committees to ad-

minister a coat of whitewash to the Mexi-

can program? It is their program .

It is true that this program has made it
possible for a number of great American
corporations to get valuable concessions in

Mexico. For example when Obrigon was
making a bid for recognition of his govern-

ment on the part of the United States and

he found it necessary to form THE ROY-
AL ORDER OF KNIGHTS OF RECOG-
NITION in which Americans with in-

fluence, and others pretending to have in-

fluence, played an important role, he prac-

tically purchased recognition.

Hearst has over 500,000 Hectareas (a

hectare is about two and one-half acres)

of land in the State of Chihuahua and

many other properties in Sinaloa, Colima
and Chiapas. This probably pays him for

the splendid fight he put up in his power-

ful press for the recognition of the govern-

ment of Obrigon.

Mr. Harry Chandler of Los Angeles,

Calif., has more than 300,000 Hectareas of

land; Dr. Pearson, 300,000; The Cattle and
Land Company about 700,000 Hectareas

,

etc., etc.

The oil companies must have gotten

something too for the Huasteca Petroleum

Co. in Mexico gladly let President Obri-

gon have $10,000,000 when he declared the
moral and material bankruptcy of his gov-

ernment. The Woolwine Line Company
procured from the Mexican government at

a ridiculous price a million lots of the most

valuable land scattered through the states

of Yucatan, Campeche, Tabasco and Terri-

tory of Quintana Roo, lands that ac-

cording to the leading geologists, contain

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the richest deposits of petroleum in the

world.

Certain elements of big business have

been faring well under our protection of

bandit administrations in Mexico. But the

question that confronts the American peo-
ple today is whether they desire to con-

tinue protecting these great corporations

in their programs of plundering or whether

they wish to cultivate the good will and un-

derstanding of the ninety and nine that will

add billions in the future to our commerce

with Latin America, and give the man in
legitimate business a chance.

And this good will and understanding
can not be won by continuing a program
that outrages ninety-five percent of all Lat-

in Americans in what they hold most sacred,
their faith; a program that seated in the

Mexican Congress fourteen Protestant

preachers under a Constitution that pro-

hibits .a minister of any faith being an

elector or eligible for office.

The whole program is a diabolical and

damnable farce, that does not make for

self respecting Americanism. Lending an

ear to these propagandists has made our

Government the controling member of a

syndicate of Latin American crime. Presi-

dent Wilson putting his refusal to recog-

nize Huerta on the high plane of not lend-

ing aid to an assassin (?) extends a help-

ing and glad hand to Villa and Caranza

(we have already told you what President

Coolidge, Mr. Hughes and Roosevelt had to

say about these unprincipled men) and be-

comes their partner in a reign of terror.

The regime of Obrigon who ordered the as-

sassination of Caranza, and who had his

American aviators bombard Morelia, Mex-

ico, a defenseless city and then gave the

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aviators a banquet on his private train,

was not a whit better, and he, just as Ca-
ranza became the foster child of Mr. Wil-

son, became the foster child of Mr. Hughes
in spite of the latter’s strong denunciation

of the revolutionary program, and Presi-

dent Calles becomes and is the bastard and

Bolshevic protege of Mr. Gompers, after

having manipulated the assassination of

Villa and his political rival Benjamin Hill.

Now, Mr. Herring, did it never occur

to you and to the members of your commit-

tee and to the members of the other com-
mittees and propagandists that you have

been keeping bad company in Mexico? It
certainly is not becoming to the cloth.

Part Played by Jewish Leaders

We note that each of the committees
took with them a Rabbi. In a program

involving Bolshevism this is probably not

without cause. When we stop to consider
that in Hungary 25 of the 32 deputies di-
recting the revolution started by Bela Kuhn
were Jews; that 116 Socialist leaders in

Germany were Jews; that the organ of
German Socialism, VORWAERTS, is pub-
lished by a firm of Jews; that in Austria

49 Socialist leaders and almost all of the

Vienese agitators were Jews and the pub-

lications, ARBEITER ZEITUNG, ABEND
and EAKEL have Jewish direction; that in
France the Socialist leader Blum, who dom-
inated the Government of Herriot and Weil,

who was to direct the strengthening of the
anti-religious French laws for the prov-

inces of Alsace and Loraine were Jews;

that the whole Russian Bolshevic program

with its millions of victims was Jewish;

that the LONDON TIMES states that at
least three fourths of the Bolshevic leaders

were Jews, saying, “That if Lenine, half

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Jew, was the brain of the movement, the
Jews were the ones who put it into effect
. . . among the principal deputies, Trot-
sky, Zinovieff, Kemaneff, Stekloff, Sverd-
loff

,
Uritsky, Ioffe, Radovsky, Radek, Men-

jinsky, Larine, Bronsky, Saalkind, Volod-

arky, Petroff, Litvinoff, Smirdovitch, Voro-

wsky, are Jews and among the subaltern
members of the soviets their number is le-
gion; that in the Commission of War in
Russia 33 of the 43 members were Jews,
in the Commission of Finance 24 of the 30
were Jews, in the Department of Justice

20 of the 21 were Jews and all of the of-

ficial newspaper correspondents were Jews,

it must give us pause.

“In the Sionist Congress of Basilea in

1897 they announced their social and po-

litical program in the following language:

‘We shall create a universal economic crisis

by all of the secret means possible and with

the aid of the gold we have in our hands .

We shall increase salaries which will bring

up the prices of the necessaries of life, and

we shall skillfully destroy the sources of

production by solving anarchistic doctrines

among the laborers

J

”

Add to this that Haberman, a fugitive
from the United States to avoid the draft,

the man who wrote the Bolshevic Constitu-
tion of Yucatan for Calles and helped and

is still helping to put over the Bolshevic

program in that country, in spite of the fact

that he organized the Protestant Teaching

Missionary Society in Mexico, is a Jew; (see

Mensajero del Sagrado Corazon) that Dr.

A. Weinberg, who went to Mexico with
Frank Tannenbaum, who had been in Sing
Sing because of his anti-war activities, is

a Jew and a member of the Haberman

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group; that Mrs. Weinberg also has an

active part in the activities of this group;

that the name of the foreign minister is

Aaron Sainz; that the name of the minister

of education is Moises Saenz and that the

name of President Calles himself is Plutarco

Elias . There may be nothing in a name,

but it is a fact that these are names scarce-

ly used among the Spanish Christians. It

is true that Calles is half Turkish in origin

and gives no evidence of believing in Chris-

tianity. That Moises Saenz is a Methodist;

that Aaron Saenz was a Methodist Bishop;

but when we judge them in the light

of their program and behavior we cannot

fail to be struck by the fact that they are

the prime movers in an enterprise that is

in every sense unchristian. If they be

Christian, how harmonize their conduct

with Christian principles?

These statistics are staggering and it

devolves upon Jewish leaders to explain

them away. If they cannot, then the Bol-

shevic program is essentially a Jewish pro-

gram. And if they attempt to explain it

away let them not forget that everywhere

that this program gets a substantial foot-

ing it involves the destruction of Chris-

tianity. And let all Christian denomina-

tions bear in mind that it is the plan of

bolshevic leaders to make bolshevism uni-

versal. Christianity in no form can afford

to join hands with bolshevism unless it be

bent upon self-destruction
;

unless it be

ready to exchange Christian civilization and

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all it stands for, for the horrors of bolshevic

barbarism.

Today the conflagration is spreading

through the four hundred millions of Chi-

nese. The British press in particular warns

us that the revolution in China is a red rev-

olution and that it has its bolshevic origin

in Russia. And this revolution has its Chris-

tian angle as is evidenced by one of the

planks of the program of the revolutionists

circulated among the people on handbills,

which declares: “Down with Christianity,

the military tool of imperalism.” See the

Feb. 5, 1927, number of THE DAILY
AMERICAN TRIBUNE

,
(N. C. W. News

Service dispatch) . The conflagration is

raging. All Christian denominations should

unite to present a solid front against the

common foe, instead of attempting to un-

dermine one another.

Latin America represents almost a hun-

dred million inhabitants, ninety-eight per-

cent of whom are Catholic. What good can

come from antagonizing them in their be-

liefs? A careful study of the situation re-
veals that the majority of those who are

deprived of their faith instead of making

good Protestants become atheists and will-

ing tools of radicalism.

What good has come from the behaviour

of Protestant propagandists who have been

influencing our Government to help create

and to maintain bandit governments in

Mexico ever since the fall of Porfirio Diaz?

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They have succeeded in making it possible

for some of the big corporations to get val-

uable concessions; they have succeeded in

robbing the Catholic Church of all of her

property; they have succeeded in depriving

a number of their faith and converting

them into dangerous radicals; they have

succeeded in driving into exile many ex-

emplary ministers of the Catholic faith;

they have succeeded in bringing about a

loss of all freedom and liberty of con-

science, freedom of the press and freedom

of speech; they have succeeded in paralyz-

ing Mexican industry and creating a hatred

against the “big brother” to the north; they

have brought upon themselves and upon

their country the blood of thousands of in-

nocent men, women and children who have

been guilty of no other offense than that

they are true to their religious beliefs

;

they have succeeded in bringing odium upon

their fellow Protestants ninety-five percent

of whom would not stand for their program

if they knew the facts; they have succeed-

ed in insulting twenty millions of their fel-

low citizens who are Catholics and all oth-

ers who believe in decency and fair play

by sending committees to Mexico on pseudo

investigations that hand out reports that

deny the actual state of affairs telling us

that there is no persecution of Catholics

and that Calles should be left alone because

he “has a program.”

No persecution in Mexico? Just recent-

ly five youths in Leon, the youngest of

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whom was only fourteen, had their tongues

cut out because they belonged to the Catho-

lic Youth Society and refused to deny their

faith. Then they were taken out and

treacherously shot under the application of

La Ley Fuga. In the City of Mexico forty

youths for the same reason were placed

where they were up to their knees in water

and could neither lie down nor sit down

and kept there until many of them got ill

and then they were taken out and hanged.

And these are only a few examples of what

you find in poor Mexico today. These peo-

ple not only have a Christian faith but

they possess what many of us lack: the

conviction and courage to die for it. Fa-

naticism you say? If this be fanaticism

then Christ himself was a fanatic.

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