The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-05-30

a
q PefalIsm showing the expansion O.
/ american Capitalists in foreign anC
+ neIghDoflng cOCntries-a harbinger OF
!. iuIufe wars, in which the American
: boys and girls of the future will be
asked TO protect the capitalists pro
! pefty with their lves):
A r T Gle l.
The United States entered the
arena OF capitalist Imperialism as a
= world power after the Spanish Ameri-
= can war in 1898.
2 Alter having routed Spain the
r United States secured undisputed con
: ltoi OF The American Mediterranean
, the Gulf Of Mexico and the Garth
, oe2n. Porto Rico was annexed A
Cuba.
ia Cuba there is invested aboDt
9l,OOO,0O0, 900 Of American caDifal 81
sugar industry alone This is so per
cent OIL the total capitalization Of the
sIuga fln!dqstry Fully IS per cent Of
The capital invested in the Cuban rail
ways is American. One-tbird Of
/ Cuba's imports is edible and more
G-isln nan OF that third comes from
gn2 United States. According to thu
/ laSC reports Of the Department of
commerce, Cuba has cutstripped jan
steel.
Turning to the Pacific the Yankee
i L Fl annexed in quick order |
Ihe FhlIppnes, Guam and Hawaii.
IN the Philippines the American |
AapSFIailsts have territory the size |
OF me Kingdom of Italy and with a
population greater than that Of Cana
"a and hungary. Sixty-five per cent
OF the foreign commerce of the Phil
lPplheS IS done with this country.
lose TO S3OO,OOO,000 of American
C3pltal IS now invested in these
islands which are teeming with nat
ufal resources and are only three DAYS
away from China, the richest and
cheapest labor mine in the world.
lhey are the gateway of American
capital to the prize market cf the
live 0OO'O00 P0opie
Then followed the complete domin-
atlon by the United States of the
central American ISthmus THROUGH i,
The successful engineering of the re- !
Volt OF Panama against the Republic :
oI Colombia. Having secured "gen- I
-fal supervision" of the new govern
Ineht and unrestricted control of the :
lanai Zone, the American capitalists :
to establish their hegemonv T
'Ver Nicaragua and mastery of III, l
alternative canal route. Scarcely had :,
he Ink dried on Wilson's democratic y
;;oteS when American troops dissolved =
ne Haitian parliament Today the =
JnlCed States is the political master q
1 over 100000 square miles and al -
nosC IO,OOO,OOO people in Central -
AMERICA and the Caribbean which has q
ecome an American lake In the =
acme, the United States has an "
Stand empire CT more than 125OOO y
quare miles and population of closa =
o 100000. - oi0'7 a
PEACEFUL PENETRATION y
CUR lmperlalists are also engaged ! y
the peaceful penetration of Other ~
ouhCrles. In recent years particu- ~ ~
II attention has been paid bv orr 81 q!
aplCallsts to Canada, Mexico. Cen u
al and South America. Because of y
le collapse OF the European market Sd
investors and merchants eH
ave oeen making especially strong o0gO
Iorts to develop these markets. In 20
le LaJln American countries the -
nlIed States has today invested III
~, OOO,OO0 in public securiti, g and eP
in industries. w
IN CANADA M
Inc last annual report of the Cana 10
an Commissioner eff Trade shove
2 rapidly and extent of the hold an
2 Yankee eXplOiteTs have on Cana ye
an resources. The total amount Of no
nerlcan capital invested in Canada aIC
more than S2,5O0,000,0O0 and is to- lO'
y more than the entire British in 10
rest. American investors now hold lca
VI 'VOO,OO0 OF Canadian govern o. ~
9nt, provincial and municipal seen oIi
les as against only 1913 per cent C6 os
poll ,OOO,OO0 held by British in OF on
'CoIs' Almost 25 per cent (24D ~
the Canadian Pacific Railway l9 q
ares are in the hands Of American cna
'i u American interests are o SI6
'luly assuming control of Canada's OOU
!eS' railways, motor car and acces- e e
IeS lndutrles, meat packing, rubber AZ l
NJ metals, pulp and paper. and we
hedd petroleum industries. c|h
n the manufacturing and associot- saa
water power Industries the Aneri- %
I, investments are now placed Of cen
over one billion dollars. British pof
in similar enterprise IN IN
only 90 million dollars. In Can snal
an public utilities forest and min 10 i0olL
industries American investments w, ~
estlmated as considerably in ex- e,.,
OF British investments. Stat
iXty- one per cent Of A. -, of z
'Stted IN the motor car industry ieat
found to be American in 1910 IN T
e than 40 per cent of the electric IS Il
apparatus, meat packing, rubber tute
T. Varnish, brass, copper, con- e e'9i