The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-22
send MARINES
TO NICARAGUA
TO AID BANKERS
Coolidge Protects Wall
Streets Loans
BY LAURENCE TODD.
Federated Presa.l

" ~ASA AhSa TAS@Nsy
WASHINGTON, sept. 2o.-(FP)-
No love for the liberal regime ..of
President Salorzano has prompted the
state department in sending the gun
boats Denver and Tulsa, with 300
sailors and marines each, to "restore
order" In Nicaragua. Salorzano, fac
ed by sudden armed revolt by the old
Chamorrista party, appealed TO the
American minister for help, and ord
ers were quickly sent to Balboa that
the two shlploads Of armed men
should sail at once for 5IueheIds and
corlnto. But Washington's motive Is
simply one Of protecting American
bankers loans, and the regular pay
ment Of Interest on these loans.
Latin-American political intrigue is
complex enough, and the intrigue of
Wall Street, through Washington, in
the affairs Of Latin republics is a
web of treacheries and reverses-all
looking toward one end, which is the
disciplining of these Latin-Americans
to work hard and patiently for the
bankers, and to take orders from
Washington.
Bankers After Interest.
Salorzano, while a mild liberal, was
willing to pay the interest on all the
American loans, and to arrange for
new loans at generous rates Of inter-
est. When the Chamorro family, re-
presenting the big landowners who
formerly acted as government for
Wall Street, kidnapped the Salorzano
cabinet and upset the whole country
without any prior understanding with
Washington, it was time for firm
disciplinary steps.
Possibly the mere show Of force
will be sufficient, this time, to persu-
ade the Chamorristas that the bank
ers cannot stand for the economic
waste involved in a new civil war.
Two or three years Of fighting would
probably lead to a victory for SAILOR
zano in any case, and the bankers
would have to wait while for their
interest
On the other hand, there are in
Washington a number of experts on
Central American affairs who point
out that the Chamorro uprising has
come promptly and most fortunately
on the heels of the withdrawal of
the American marines from Nigar-
aqua, where they have been stationed
since they were sent in to overthrow
the Madriz government in 1910, and
to defeat the Mena government in
1912.
If it were the purpose of the Wash
ington authorities to show that Am
erican marines are necessary to pre-
serve peace in Nicaragua, then it
could not have done better than to
have first withdrawn the marines and
then discovered the inefficiency' of
the new Nicaraguan constabulary,
which is oficered by Americans
selected by the state department.
Marines to Overthrow Election.
President Taft sent the Paducah to
Bluefelds in May 1910, where it land
ed marines and prevented the capture
of the town by government forces
who we're beseiging a rebel force.
President Madriz had refused to make
a treaty with the United States, desir-
ed by American bankers.
On Sept. g. 1912, the foreign
minister of the government set up
by aid of Taft and the marines re-
ported to the other Central American
governments: Il have the honor to
inform your excellencies that on the
gath instant General Luis Mena sur
rendered in Granada with more or
less 700 men to the commander of
the Pasifc fleet of the United States,
Admiral w. II. Switzerland, the latter
promising to take him to Panama un-
der his protection, under promise
that he would not return to Nicaragua
and that his forces be disarmed."
In the following January, reporting
on his campaign in Nicaragua, Ad-
miral Switzerland said: Commander
Steele, chief of the California troops,
was at the head of the forces in each
of the encounters. at the Massaya
pass, at Granada, at Chichigalpa, at
Leon, and in the assault on the hill
of Coyotepe, and he was the first to
raise the American flag on the top of
the hill" He describes the engage
ments with "the enemy" and the
final rout of the liberals, who, as
the American forces poured volleys
into their fleeing ranks, Seemed
crazy-like, shouting and shrieking
from terror"
1t is the benehciaries,in Nicaragua,
Of this slaughter in 1912 who are now
trying to overthrow President Sailor
zano, who won the election last fall