The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-11


age Of railways, and her commercial
fleet, which was practically non-ex-
istent before the war. aggregates rs
per cent of the worlds tonnage. And,
finally, America alone owns and uses
S4.4 per cent of the total number of
automobiles of the world. If in gold
production America occupies a COM
paratively modest place IA per cent?,
she has managed, however, due to her
favorable balance of trade, to hoard
up in her vaults 44.2 per cent of the
entire gold reserve of the world. The
national income of the United States
is 2h times more than the national
incomes of England, France, Germany
and Japan combined. 1t is these statis-
ties that will settle all disputes. These
figures spell eventual domination over
land, sea and air.
What do these figures presage to
Great Britain? They foretell that even
England will not be able to avoid the
common fate of all the capitalist coun-
tries. England, too, will be put on a
ration by America. Whether Lord Cur
son wants it or not, he, too, will have
this. When England will have reached
such stage that she will have to
accept openly the American ration,
Lord Cursor will no longer be at the
helm of-state affairs. No, he is too
proud and snobbish. This job of re-
conciling England to the inevitability
.of an American ration will be assigned
by the English capitalists to MacDon-
laid.
The self-respect Of the politicians of
the English bourgeoisie will not per-
NIT them to acquiesce in reliquishing
to America the political prestige and
power of the greatest empire in the
world for the price of a scanty ration.
tThere will be needed here the pious
Ieloquence of a Macdonald, Henderson
and the Fabians in order to exert
pressure over the English petty bour-
lgeoisie and to persuade the English
workers that it is best to have peace
land agreement with America on the
terms Of American capitalism. But
what does reconciliation with Uncle
Sam mean? The above mentioned
statistics tell an eloquent story. And
the substance of that story is that
England can have peace, if she agrees
to go on ration or else she will have
to get ready for war.
All this time England has been re-
treating before America The Wash
ington disarmament conference is
still fresh in our memory President
Harding had invited to the conference
England, France and Japan and in the
most coId-blooded manner had offered
England to limit her navy. This was
done despite the fact that England
had always preached the doctrine that
she must remain, in view Of her
peculiar geographic position, the
ruler Of the SEAS" and that the
strength of her navy must always ex-
coed the combined strength of the
two next strongest navies in the
world.
The United States have once and for
S'CA pun al Gnu W dlA SUCH uOllOnS.
President Harding began his speech at
the Washington conference, as BELTS
such an important occasion, with the
solemn statement that "the con-
science of civilization has awakened"
etc., etc. He wound up, however, in
more business-like language: To
you, England-he said will allow
5 units of strength on the seas, for
myself l will take (for the presently
5 units, to France we shalt give
units and to Japan units. Why
such correlation? Before the war the
American navy was a good deal
smaller than the English, but during
the war the American navy grew con.
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