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 —those of us who are attempting to fabricate some pretext for aggression upon Mexico.

 

10.

THE WILSON POLICY OF INTERVENTION

Mexico does stand in danger of us, and it is not only because our financiers and their press were fooling when they told us how they loved democracy, but also because the eminent statesman who uttered these solemn pledges is not living up to them, has never lived up to them, has never attempted to live up to them.

Without examining into the relationship between the Wilson Administration and the intervention conspiracy, it is impossible either to appraise the danger of war, or to take effective measures to avert it; it is impossible either to understand the cause of the Mexican "turmoil," or to arrive at the rational solution.

Neither the wickedness of Carranza nor the depravity of the Mexican nation, but the policy of Wilson, is the key to the Mexican situation. That policy is still very widely misunderstood in the United States, and only because it has been consistently and almost universally misrepresented by the press, and all other agencies under the influence of the interventionists, including the Administration itself. This misrepresentation can be explained only as an integral part of the intervention conspiracy.

The Wilson Mexican policy has always been a policy, not of non-intervention, but of intervention. One of the lies of the intervention propaganda is that Wilson's policy is a policy of non-intervention. Any opponent of intervention who repeats this lie or assumes it to be a fact, whether out of respect for the high office of the President or for any other reason, disarms himself and plays into the hands of the intervention conspirators.

Military invasion is the most drastic form of intervention. The Wilson Administration has perpetrated two protracted invasions of Mexico, one lasting seven months, and the other eleven months, as well as numerous invasions of shorter duration, each one legally an act of war. . It has repeatedly threatened Mexico with force. It holds the threat of force constantly over Mexico. Every diplomatic representation involving a 