Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-15
By BEN McKELWAY.

your Uncle Sam poorly
| - disguised as a benevolent big
| brother. but known to all as
| scheming thief out to steal
Latin America. bit by bit. and plant
the American flag on top of the
Andes; and at the same time imagine
the State Department, backed by
countless bloodthirsty marines, con-
trolled by a group of Shylocks. other
wise known as Wall street bankers,
and you have an idea of the "fm-
perialistic Latin American policy of
the United States" as described by
active every day.
| The indoor sport Of taking pen in
hand to issue grave and weighty
warnings against the yankee peril"
and other bugaboos grows more
popular. The five officers and 118 en-
listed men Of the marines. who COM
pose the legation guard in Nicaragua.
are cited throughout this country and
! Latin America as an evidence of the
determination of the United States
to pave the way for its "southward
advance" Haiti and Santo Domingo
are pictured as ideal but helpless
republics making a mighty struggle
for their independence against the
selfish, grabbing greed of bankers
their beck and call.
some OF this propaganda would be
| amusing IL il were not a studious
attempt to poison the name and ideals
OF os,t the United States. 1t would be
results which show themselves now
and then with increasing frequency.
Says Flag Follows Capital
A few weeks ago Louis Gannett, an
editor Of the Nation. was quoted in
the newspapers as portraying to the
Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom the United States
as the worlds greatest imperialistic
power, working in a quiet and un-
obtrusive manner" particularly for
the financial control Of Latin America
Our capital is invading all Latin
america, he is quoted as saying.
And it usually happens that where
capital goes the flag and the marines
follow. Every day American citizens
are hardly aware OF the campaigns
IN these Latin American republics.
but they have to pay the taxes for
the maintenance OF the marines.
That is the modern form of i'm
peria!ism And when the Latins
revolt against 1t there will be great
cry for protection Of American
property rights and appeals for the
marines: If the history of the past
grow rapidly"
Berates U. 8. Mediation.
Arturo Torres Rioseco. discussing
the Latin American Union" in the
Buenos Aires POLITICAL and Literary
Review, decries the tendency of
false Americans who solicit inter-
vention from the north to promote
their selfish political fortunes at
home; or as do others, equally dis
loyal to our ideals, who resort to
Yankee arbitration to settle our ter
ritorial rivalries" The sinister dan
ger Of soliciting help from the United
States Is described by Mr.. Rioseco, a
and Peruvians. with incomprehensible
lack of judgment, have invited the
President Of the United States to set.
tie our controversy over Tacna and
AFRICA Our statesmen have declared
. in the presence Of European diplo-
mats that North America must lead
our nations into the paths of peace
Well and good. But If at some future
time we find foreigners in possession
Of our customs houses. and alien
|
have only ourselves to blame. We
invoke Yankee aid in Peru, in Cuba
|, in Panama, and compensate ourselves
with wordy proclamations and
pamphlets-vain tokens of our own
MISUNDERSTANDING Yankee troops
Of unspeakable outrages in Santo Do
mingo."
The Cat at the Mice Meeting.
, The Spanish paper La Libertad OF
[ Madrid had this to say in advance OF
the fifth Pan-American Congress, now
, meeting in Santiago:
"A great congress of American ma.
, tions will convene under protect oil
; the United States. The gathering will
be an assembly Of mice presided over
, by a cat In tho meantime Latin
American nations keep on singing ro-
, mantle duos on cordial relations and
muttering ponsensical poems on Co.
lumbus day, whereas the only pra"ti.
cal way. to celebrate this day would
/ be to form an 1bero-American fedora
. ton opposed to the southwark advance
, | Of the United States"
A contributor to LIE Correspondent
. Paris. writes the following: I'VE are
. familiar with the ancient English
dictum. trade follows the flag. Blu
when we consider the operation Of the
tic methods In all places where Its
works appear and when we see the
effects of these methods in Latir
America and consider their economic
I imperialism, so often protected ano
! maintained by bayonets of the. ma.
: observe the first extension of this i'm
. perialism toward Europe, we are
tempted to believe that since 1920 the
{ Americanization OF the old British