The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-17
Remember the Maine!"
Was lmperialist War
Slogan II Years Ago
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHu

TODAY there is little noise to the slogan "Remeber the
Maine! scant attention given 9th annivers-
airy OF the sinking of the United States bateshp Havana
Harbor Cuba.
The question of whether the battIeship Maine was
blown from the inside part of fame-up bring on
war with Spain, or from the outside in Spanish plot
against the United States definitely established
far the offcaIdom at Washington concerned The
only thing that atered II years ago that the Maine
blown up and offered good for launching
hostties really the beginning of American peraIist
1917 counter of MAKE the World Safe for Democracy"
To be hastily ordered inquiry reported on March
FL 1898, few weeks after the blast that the Maine had
been blown up by exterior mne which in Pres
dent Mckinley ordering the Spanards to leave Cuba This
they refused to do as was expected and the in
April
Histories of wars are more carefully written as war
hystera subsidies 1t is therefore, interesting that
the Encyclopedia Britannica informs that the United
States began in January $685. month before the Maine
blown up prepare definitely for the pending 1t
states:
svernent begun prepare early
January ships several foreign stations had been
those Chinese collected
(ca)
Hampton Florida
Washington to protect expanding American
The not fought because the Maine blown up
The blowing of the Maine merely excuse for start
ing the war already in preparation.
The Spanish frontier withdrawn from Cuba and the
Philippines and is struggling few miles
of desert in northern Africa While the Spanards maxi
ing last stand against the Moos with the workers revou
ton gaining strength at home American imperialism feels
itself FIRMLY and comfortably etaolsheu nor only IN Oupa
Porto Rico and the Philippines but in practically all the
tries of the world outside Soviet Russia
The question of boIstering up west European capital
ism, Morgan's government well Wall Street can
collect the debts becomes important than wasting
time mperast venture that is buried quarter cent
ury in history fss as.
In the schools the children will be told how the Spanish
American brought the cvzng influences OF the United
the Cubans the Porto Rcans and the Fppnos
They will be taught that this Is the object OF all wars de-
cared by the United States thereby ustfyng them he
voiced before the American government at Washington
year year. would indicate however that the lash of
United States capitalism fails heavily as that OF the
Spanish taskmaster.
One thing be remembered on this imperaIist
anniversary that the ngo crying oudest for war in 1898
William Randolph Hearst, who was then just starting
his string of yellow daIies over the nation
1t Hearst, the ingo who demanded most Vehe-
he had million of Mexican land in his possession that
the Iandess peasants threatened to take from him.
1t Hearst cries Ioudest for preparations for
war, leading ultimately to war against Japan
There this difference however, between 1898 and
1926 In 1898 there Communist parties either in
Spain or United States 1t was comparatively easy to
fan the flames of The lingo drive met little opposition
In 1925, there strong and growing Communist
parties in both the United and in Japan both ready
TO raise cry of War against the war OF the capitalist
masters" -
"Remember the Maine" lingo slogan in 1893, to
lure workers into the disease breeding sWaps OF Cuba TO
fight other the slogan OF an imperiast war
Increasing of workers realizing this tact Wnen
American imperialism springs its next war trap wnetner
against Japan other nation, group OF nations
LET the exploited workers and farmers Remember the
Maine and that it not their war; but the war OF
their oppressors the against captast war
for the overthrow of capitalism and the creation OF tne
Soviet Rule that leads on to Communism.