The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-10-23
REMEMBER THE MAINE.

Every man and woman la the Unit
ed States who does not want to see
this country dragged into bloody war
with Mexico to satisfy the greed of
! the financial pirates of Wall street
should Remember the Maine
Fifteen years ago the kept press
which takes orders from Wall street
was camoring for war with Spain
to free Cuba from the Spanish yoke.
The Spanish government did not
suit the sugar trust, the tobacco trust
and other capitalist interests of the
United States that were doing bust
ness in Cuba. Spain, with it's anti
Cuban workers in subsection and keep
the slaves at their task of creating
profits for American capitalists, there
fore the clamor for war with Spain.
Whenever the profits of our trust
magnates are threatened or interfered
with, the real cause of war is actively
| present, and the necessary pretext
for declaring war is sure to be created.
When Big Business was ready for a
war with Spain, the battleship Maine
was blown up in Havana harbor. This
act was charged to Spain and, as a
result war was declared against that
country.
That the destruction of the Maine
had been carefully planned by Amer
lean capitalists is evident from the
fact that all the officers with the ex-
ception of one lieutenant) were ashore
at banquet and only the lives of the
workingmen who made up the crew
were sacrificed.
A sham investigation reported that
the ship had been destroyed by
mine. Later investigation, however,
contradicted that report and the truth
became known to many that the bat
tleship had been blown up from within
and not from without. After lying at
the bottom of the shallow harbor for
fifteen years the ship was finally
raised and towed into deep water and
sunk with the shameful evidence of
that foul crime committed by the cap
italist class of the United States to
create an excuse for war.
The same group of capitalists who
brought about the war with Spain fiji
teen years ago, for their own profit,
are now demanding invasion OF Mex
| leo, and for the same reasons.
The working people of Mexico, who
have been driven from their lands, en-
shaved and numerically exploited by
American and Mexican capitalists, are
in revolt against their oppressors.
The profits of our Wall street pirates
are being interfered with by the I'M
settled conditions south of the Rio
Grande and they want the govern
ment of the United States to inter
vene and suppress the revolt of their
rebellious slaves.
Troops and ships of war are being
massed on the Mexican border
When Wall street is ready for war
we may expect another stunt to fur
nish an excuse for the armed invasion
of Mexico, similar to the one pulled
off in Havana harbor in 1898.
Mexico is seething with revolt
against capitalist oppression. The
| Mexican workers have suffered many
outrages at the hands of American
exploiters and any American who re-
mains in that country does so at his
own risk. Even ex-President Taft
warned them to leave the country.
The working people of the United
States must be on their guard and re-
fuse to be drawn into a bloody war
for capitalist profits.
Do not be deceived by any capitalist
plot to inflame the people and pro-
woke war. The capitalist class of the
United States destroyed their own
battleship, the Maine, in Havana har-
Dor in 1898, and murdered hundreds
of workingmen who composed its
crew, in order to create pretext for
war with Spain.
The capitalist class will stop at
nothing.
Whatever happens to Americans or |
American interests in Mexico, IRE !
member the Maine The World /
(Oakland) Cal.