The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-12
(From George p. West, Committee on
Industrial Relations, Washing
ton D. C)

fteldIlOHS, WaSn1nS-
ton, d. c.
Washington.-Why the workers and
producers of America-all who are
fighting to make it a real democracy
should oppose war and resist appeal
to the patriotism" that means privi-
lege, is told in clear and convincing
fashion in the sensational new book
by Frederic c. Howe-"Why War;"
Here, in chapter after chapter, is
the whole story, told for the first time
in America, Of how Big Business
manipulates the patriotic impulses of
the people and uses government to
back it's schemes of exploitation with
the treasure and blood of the nation.
"Everybody's Magazine" has at
tackled the Committee on Industrial
Relations for warning the public
against the conspiracy of the Rookie
fellerMorgan group to use the ma
tion's surplus wealth." now heaped
up in New York banks, for cam
paign of financial imperialism in weak
foreign countries where labor is cheap
and rich natural resources may be
plundered almost at will.
The Committee had pointed out that
the men who organized the American
International Corporation are the
uyhn on1,i inc
cheap labor costs at home, attacking
Presiden Wilson for his refusal to
conquer Mexico in their interest, and
urging with all their might a great
army and navy and an aggressive
foreign policy.
In DR.. Howe's new book the editors
of "Everybody's" and all the other
shouters in behalf of financial i'm
perialism will find page after page of
evidence showing the danger that
threatens democracy in America from
the conspiracy now masquerading as
program to increase foreign trade
By relating some of the recent his
tory of Europe, DR.. Howe shows that
the use of governmental authority to
promote private schemes Of spoila-
ton, as Well Street would like to
have it used in Mexico, is the prime
cause of a large percentage of the
international troubles of the world.
DOLLAR "PATRIoTS"
The Vanderlip pretense that it is
necessary to acquire huge conces-
sions in weak and undeveloped coun-
tries, in order to build up foreign
trade, is exposed.
"The real trade of the world" DR..
Howe points out, sis among the CIV
;lized peoples: it is between the great
powers. The real markets for foreign
trade are with the great powers
rather than with the colonies and de-
pendent peoples"
DR.. Howe quotes from the Ameri-
can International Corporations an
nouncement that it's purpose is to
enable the United States to take
larger part than heretofore in the in
dustral development of other coun-
tries where capital is needed.
"Such countries are certainly not
Great Britain, France and Germany
the great investing nations of Eu-
rope" adds the author. "The coun-
tries where capital is needed are the
weak and helpless peoples of Mexico,
Central America, and South America,
of Morocco, Tunis, Persia, Africa,
China and the insular possessions of
the United States.
wealth is accommodating, so the
announcement reads, $50 rapidly that
a portion of it can be spared for in
vestment abroad"
And DR.. Howe shows how this sur
plus wealth" has lured Great Britain
into Egypt and the Transvaal, France
into Morocco, Germany into Turkey,
aided in strangling Persia, drained
France of capital needed for internal
development, negotiated the "six-
power" loan to China. And how Pres
ident Wilson saved us from dollar
diplomacy" by refusing to sanction
our taking part in the scheme to con-
troll the internal administration and
revenue system of China.
Dollar diplomacy, navalism and
the exploitation of weaker peoples"
he adds. "have gone hand in hand
during the last twenty years. The
darkest pages of this story will never
be written, for the records lie bsied
in the graves of weak and defenseless
peoples in every part of Africa, in
Asia, in Turkey, Persia, Asia Minor
and the Balkans; it is story that
would have been written in the sub
jugation of Mexico, in Central and