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Wm, Owen Editor.
English Section REGENERACION Why? Why? Why? Gilding The Pill Against Canblers World Wide War to move.
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whatever loans he has negotiated and whatever land grants he has made 0000000 OOOO0000OOOOOOOOOOOOOO GILDING THE PILL.
must be recognized as legal. To all which the Wilson administration re This he (President Wilson) said, was a fight for the land the American people can go ahead, wise Carranza is boggling at the sendNow everything is lovely. Now plies Nay, nay, Horatio. Like just that and nothing more.
o their corīscience easy. Is not Presi ing of a representative, and has stat To some extent, the President said, the situation in dent. Wilson a good, kind man? Hased that he regarded the occupation Mexico is similar to that in France at the time of the Revoluhe not wept over the sufferings of of Veracruz as an invasion of MexiAn unskilled worker writes: There tion. There are wide differences in many ways, he continued, understand, with all his Princeton in cane soil, and that he would brook no is one point on this Mexican matter but the basic situation has many resemblances.
tellect, what is the matter. Give our Mexican soil, and that he would on which would like a little enlightenment myself. It is a curious thing, he continued, that every demand President a free hand and just see brooke no interference in the adjustOf course the real for the establishment of order in Mexico takes into considera the ships and troops he wants, and what he will do. Let him have all ment of Mexico internal affairs.
title of our President now is Supreme Military Dictator, and he holds the otion, not order for the benefit of the people of Mexico, the o stop this anti war clamor. Have you love for everything American, but it As for Villa, he is babbling of his lives of his subjects in his hands and great mass of the population, but order for the benefit of the read his interview with Blythe? No? is said that he still carries a revolver.
can order them shot at sunrise if they o old time regime, for the aristocrats, for the vested interests, You must read it. He wants the peon dienbeschis beder in helickdaw. he Best o for the men who are responsible for this very condition of to have the land with regard of disorder.
the right to say who shall, or who course, for vested American and Eu. THE REAL CRIME OF ropean interests. He shows you that RANGEL AND CLINE shall not be President of Mexico. They want order the old order; but say to you that the peons themselves have forced Answer From Wall Street gam the old order is dead.
consideration of their wrongs, beFrom Pege Col. bling hell. From interview by Samuel Blythe with President Wilson, the forces working below. Now HỂ gei men was killed and one deputy cause liberty always is attained by deputy sheriffs fired and one of RanAnother correspondent, who is a reported in The Saturday Evening Post, May 25, 1914. will settle the whole problem for was also slain. Ortiz slayer is dead, them.
Financial interesus tant trustaglites00000000000000000000000000000 But he must have the guns. but notwithstanding this fact, all of The fleet must remain at Veracruz. the party. of Rangel and Cline were Reynard Wilson is pursuing his wellordered course in Mexico, and in Fine! Finel! Fine. But why on earth did not our President More troops must be sent to the arrested and are now charged with, border. More power to his generous murder.
Colorado too.
The most subtle and say all this before?
elbow! Give him everything he asks.
The case is identical with the famserviceable tool of plutocracy who Why has he wasted more than a year in babblings about the Great Gods! How much longer are ous. Wheatland riot case.
has ever sat in the presidential chair. necessity of a new election, while concealing. from the nation the the people to be bamboozled? Why, Rockefeller is getting everything he facts he now admits?
There is, however, great danger do you suppose, did the President that the prisoners will get the death wants, wherever he wants it; and the fool people will furnish the lives and Up to this date what word had he breathed to show his know send for Blythe and get him to pub penalty as, owing to their organizing pay the bills, and hooray for Wilson, ledge of the great economic facts at the bottom of all this struggle? ening Post; the largest in circulation Louisiana, they have incurred the bitand cuss Rockefeller, while they are Would not the simple statement of the truth have saved all this and most influential journal he could ter enmity of the ranch owners and.
doing it. Yet another writes: am keeping up the good work of bomn marshalling of ships and troops; all the blood, American and Mexi have selected? Influential, moreover, every employer of the South.
among the very class the President Prejudice has been arousd and fostbarding the local papers with red hot can, that has been spilled in Veracruz?
must win over to his side; the re ered by the newspapers and the Disstuff. There seems to be no limit to Why is it that rulers always compel the poor and persecuted to spectables, whose moralities must be trict Attorney. The District Attorney the stuff they will stand for, if a name choke from their unwilling lips the true confession of their faith?
is signed. The whole circus begins Why have peons had to die by thousands, and revolutionists New England Conscience, which fourteen cases on trial, there is prospass their lives in prison, to educate the President of our great Re hungers for things highly but must pects of a lot of blood money for have them holily. These people, it is him if our brothers are hanged.
The Mexican Revolution is forcing public to the point at which he dares to speak his mind?
hoped, are now satisfied, and the proBut Labor must remember that the the land question to the front with No! President Wilson in this very interview writes strongly of cession can go ahead.
real crime which M, Rangel, iron liand. It is presenting us, and the blessings of self government, but he still wishes to govern MexFurthermore; it is not likely that Charles Cline and the other twelve all the world, with an appalling object ico. He declares that the wide spread sentiment that they (the made an unexpected roar when they ing the workers to a realization that the proletariat also the mudsills who comrades have committed ucatwhich we see the reflection of our Mexicans) never will be and never can be made to be capable of self heard that Veracruz had been invad they MUST FIGHT TO PROTECT own social. agony. toweringly con government is as wickedly false as it is palpably absurd. But he ed can be pacified? Cannot they also THEIR RIGHTS.
manding question, which dwarfs into wishes to intervene and asserts that the situation is intolerable and be made to see that President Wilson AND ALL LABOR UNIONS, Whiant Aoteinsness the bickerings on requires the strong guiding hand of the great nation on this conti is the most benevolent of gentlemen, SOCIALIST BODIES AND RADIits strength, and on which its own nent that, by every appeal of right and justice, and the love for order inherited Mexicans who, robbed of PORT THEIR BROTHERS IN parasites feed fat. Therefore all those and the hope for peace and prosperity, must assist these warring their lands, had no recourse but to TEXAS. defense committee has been oran opposition far more formidable adds that there must be, of course, the settlement of such claims as as slaves on the land that had for ganized in Los Angeles, of which VicThat sentence tor Cravello, a member of the Clerks the mass no longer listens. Fight may justly be made by American citizens for damages to their prop should catch them. sure.
Union and delegate to the Central them fearlessly! Cry aloud that this erty during these disturbances individual claims.
BUT, BUT, BUT why on earth Labor Council is the secretary. Any land question drives directly to the root; that it carries us into the very the American company which claims to own 4, 250, 000 acres of Mex before?
No! No. No. thousand times No! No compensation to did not President Wilson say all this workers who may wish to aid in the defense of their brothers should send middle of the fray; that its fue ens ican land, however perfect the paper title it may show. No compen and talked, and talked, for more than Rangel Cline Defense Committee; WHY, WHY, WHY has he talked money to Victor Cravello, secretary, terest; shakes every credit and brings sation to the real estate speculators who, in Los Angeles, have a year, of this being merely a political Box 1891, Los Angeles.
the classes and the masses face to hawked round property in Mexico having an ocean frontage of 500 question; the question of ousting face as no other question can.
peal to Mexico for proof.
Ap miles. We Mexicans are settling this land question, and we will set Huerta and putting a properly electDON FAIL TO HEAR tle it properly, without cowardly compromise. We will not merely ed President in his place?
One who has just returned from scotch the snake but kill it; that it may breed slavery no more.
WHY, WHY, WHY, if he now unEMNA GOLDMAN.
traversing the whole length of the No! No. No. Ten thousand times No! No settlement from as the land monopolist dictates, does derstands that the landless must work She will speak on dramatMexican border visited me last week, above by the plutocratic government of a country whose brutal he not cross the Atlantic, that he may ists and plays for the last and he repeated what practically all wealth and awful poverty cry to heaven for annihilation. No settle give the Irish peasant the land of rather face unemployment in Mexico ment by those great traitors to their own kith and kin who have sold does he not marshall his forces to at: 11642 Third St. the folWhy time in the Hall, is no such helplessness there as is gans and other soulless traffickers in human flesh and blood. No get after the European Powers: Why lowing evening at o clock.
reflected in the faces of those who settlement by the charitable hand of Yankee government. Let it not go the whole hog while about it? Monday, June 1st The English a chance to work. Certainly there is look to its own poor, its own city slums, its own packed jails, its own ries is that President Wilson holds owers Houses. The Devil DisciWell; the answer to all these que Drama, George Bernard Shaw Wid not that whipped look have seen over crowded lunatic asylums, growing suicide lists and lengthening that flies are best caught with mo ple. John Galsworthy Pigeon, in the eyes of jobless English mobs. bread lines.
lasses, and that it is feasible to sow The Fugitive.
Such men have touched bottom, but the Mexican is rising, and rising and acknowledge, in the concrete cases of the United States and agreeable whirlwind.
Why cannot President Wilson be frank with his own intellect the wind without reaping the dis Tuesday, June 2d The English Drama, St. John Hankins The Last rapidly. John Reid respondent, is unquestionably correct Mexico, what he sees so clearly when generalising history? In the Mexico is that an immense HATRED The Tragedy of Nan. FranThe most important news from of the De Mullins. John Mansfield when he writes, in the New York fourth paragraph of this very interview he says: OF AMERICANS has manifested it cis, Change.
Times, that the three years of the challenge you to cite me an instance in all the history of the self at every point, the Manzanillo Wednesday, June 3d The Irish revolution have educated the Mexican people more than did the thirty five world where liberty was handed down from above. Liberty always dock burning being no isolated inci Drama, J; Synge The Tinker years of the great Educator, Por is attained by the forces working below, underneath, by the great border. It is curious that people re ough Wife. Lenox Robinson firio Diaz. When a nation is be movement of the people. That, leavened by the sense of wrong and sent the landing of troops, the cap Patriots. Seumas Kelley, The coming educated. not in the rubbish oppression and injustice, by the ferment of human rights to be ture of their most important seaport Bribe.
of the academy but in the basic facts attained, brings freedom.
and the slaughter of several hundred Thursday, June 4th The American of life it is a subject for envy, not for pity.
To that TRUE statement we nail our President; by that eternal death, by the way, Wilson had no Way Swan, Her Own Monof their fellow countrymen for whose Drama, Eugene Walter, The Easiest verity we still have the task of forcing him to stand. No intervention tears, though he wept copiously over ey. Hurlbut, The Strange WomReed was wont to say, is half the sacrifice of Mexican life in Veracruz, and that a poor one, should be in that attack, To catch the speaker eyes Tom by the United States can be tolerated. The one atonement for the the hired American soldiers who fell an. Middleton; Now a Days.
Friday, June 5th The Russian ericans, and to make them compre the immediate withdrawal of the fleet and troops. Then, and only as astute as Wilson; a man who has Enlightenment. Anton Tcheokhoff, Does any one suppose that a man Drama, Leo Tolstoi, The Fruits of liend that social injustice is no joke, then, shall we believe in the sincerity of these honeyed words. climbed high, and that by the most The Cherry Tree Orchard. Leonide een the hardest of all tasks, for Giovanitti has no ism to not forsee all this? Must not a gen ger.
difficult and tortuous of paths, did Anreyev, Anathema, we Americans have received our edu GIOVANITTI TO SPEAK FOR geles. King Huncation in the worst of all possible RANGEL CLINE DEFENSE propound, no pet hobbies to ride. His tleman so wise as the President of schools that of a material prosperity COMMITTE IN LOS song on the platform, as in his the United States know well that we did not carn. We have flourished ANGELES.
poems. is for Action and Solidarity. deeds speak more conclusively than FOR TEXAS PRISONERS.
on speculation; on robbing the newArturo Giovanitti, Poet and Revo Every one interested in the struggle sloppy sentiment, and that his course Carpenters Hall, San Francisco, comer by cornering opportunities we lutionist who lectured here two weeks for a better world in which to work at Veracruz would set ablaze those was filled to overflowing, Sunday evnever made; and this, in its turn, has ago, will return to Los Angeles for and live ought to attend these meet hatreds which light, in ninety nineening, May 24, to hear the facts about betrayed us into such a contempt of a series of lectures in and around Los ings and bring their friends along cases out of a hundred, the torch of the fourteen members of the Mexican solidarity and exploitation of human Angeles. His first lecture will be in with them.
war? Of course he foresaw it. It is Liberal Party now imprisoned at San needs as this world has never seen. the Labor Temple auditorium on PRINCETON LOGICI his business to forsee, and to humbug Antonio, Texas. Giovanitti made a Against this, against the prospect of Wednesday evening, June 3rd, under challenge you, says President the unfortunate masses who, with most eloquent plea on their behalf being submerged by a civilization the auspices of the Building Trades Wilson, to. cite me an instance in all their noses to the grindstone, have. no and was followed by the editor of which seems to them unspeakably Council and other Labor organiza: the history of the world where lib chance to look ahead.
this section. It is hoped that this inhuman, the Mexicans are in revolt, tions. He will remain here until erty was handed down from above. The Mediators are wining and din will be the beginning of a campaign Against this our own citizens are ris June 14th. Comrades in Long Beach, Then he argues that the United States ing. The Brazilian representative which will arouse the Northern work ing. How could it be otherwise? Pasadena and San Pedro who will must intervene in Mexico and give smoked a Mexican cigar while con crs to a sense of the importance of WM. OWEN. assist in arranging meetings for this the world an object lesson by handing templating Niagara Falls, and the these cases, and to a determined efgifted and talented speaker, please down, from the heights of its own su gentleman from Brazil spat reflective fort to remedy injustices already. yanezen jo snsal) osyan com cate ith Stanley M, Gue, periority, freedom to the Mexicans. ly. Also Huerta refused to place his done and prevent their repetition in das poqu noyt 5247 78219 pos. Room 106, Labor Temple, Los An Is that Princeton logic?
resignation in the hands of any for the immediate future, war corhas