The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-10
Imperialism Clings to
Opium as a Faithful
Ally of Its Profit Rule
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY statesmen of the stripe London,
Paris Rome Toxic and the of capitalist gov
ernment are working overtime pulling wires for the control
ct the Second Opium Conference opening at Geneva,
Switzerland Monday. Their job is not difficult
Huge profits roll IN from the sale of this dope used
sodden the minds of the hundreds of millions Of subject
But the great world imperiaIisms Of Great Britain,
France and Japan with Holland Portugal and smaller
tries see greater stakes than the profit in opium
Opium is the drug that aids in keeping whole peoples
enslaved to foreign mperalsts. It is powerful weapon
IN aid OF the armies OF occupation.
The Opium Conference is only child Of the League of
Nations capaIsn's black International Its purpose
to war opium; but to opium weapon Of imperial
st interests This truth looms big considers the fact
that Soviet Russia no at Geneva This
might give the Communists an opportunity to expose this
nest of capitalist thieves
1t will be remembered that the n1uch-heraded Washing
ton Conference declared against sending Of
arms and other munitions Of war to China But the various
always been we'll supplied with the weapons Of slaughter,
to battle for their respective masters
Great Britain and Japan most concerned in the
Geneva dope conference They control the market and
the real tafckers in the drug raised China Cochin
China, and the Dutch and Portuguese possessions.
Political expediency demands that the British Empire
supports and promotes the opium habit India Dragged
India thru this diaboIca rendered more helpless
in her struggle against British rule. Opium the drug is
Indian natives in submission Therefore the British states
men are eager champions of the opium traffic..
Great Britain with Japan in China with opium as
one Of their most loyal field marshas But the Chinese
loyal than their revolution also combating
the opium phase OF the imPsrast menace.
The extent of the opium trade the fact
that puts 100000 annually into the pockets the
opium profteers 200 vessels engaged in the opium
traffic. 10000 opium dens to be found in Asiac cties
100000 doomed to de- victims of this curse, within
the next two One authority charges that larger
number OF OrIentas die year from the effects Of
opium than there were soldiers slain in the world war;
There denying that Soviet Russia holds out the
only solution for the opium Eastern peoples
The Workers Republic with its Communist program,
to the peoples Of the East with the double drive: ~ take
the profit of the opium traffic. and 2) berae the
iect nations of Asia from the mperaIst yoke.
Capitalist imperialism for it's preservation,
combat both of these solutions of the opium problem Cap
italism has and never will take up against
private profit Capitalist nations will make that
will handicap their relationships colonies subject
peoples The opium will remain until capitalism Is
overthrown. End capitalism, and the opium plague goes
with It to its doom.
This threat of Communist solution of the opium traffic
will be nightmare not hope at the opium conference in
Geneva. The gathering in Switzerland Is just another
party apoIogzng for capitalism but proposing
the evils growing out of it. Those only proposed
by the aroused working driving toward the worlds
social revolution.