The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-26
Wall St,5Rule Fears
For Its Porto Rico
And Its Philippines
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL

TODAY the fears of American imperialism incidental
the recognition of the Russian Soviet Government bub-
bed to the surface They out of the black hatred of
capitalism for Soviet rule
Washington wants pledges from Moscow; assurances
against the Indictment of revolutionary violence this
country and in the Philippines and Porto Rco" the way
that Laurence Todd the Washington correspondent OF the
federated press puts it.
Sorry day for Washington that the Communist Inter-
national not in existence when American mitarsm
administered the water to the Filipino desire for
pendence, and brought the islands under sway of
dollar diplomacy Washington might then seek basis
charging that the Communists responsible for the
bloody dictatorship Of mitast strike-breaker Cen
eral Leonard Wood whose dissoute is now being
chased western Europe by ate creditors chiefly keep
Washington, with Coolidge any other agent Of cap
taIism in the White House, will admit that the
forces that led to the overthrow of czarism in Russia
inherent in capitalism in the United States and operating
colonies, for overthrow of American Wall
Street rule All discomfort instead according the
crazy of capital we'll the arstocacy of labor due
to Communist activity.
Washington always claims that the Communist struggle
for power is imported the United States from Moscow
just London France Berlin all claim that it is inn
ported into Great Britain, France, Germany from the
The serVe press will argue long this effect
both in its and in its editorials in the days ahead
This discussion will bring before millions of workers
and poor farmers who had never thought OF before that
the United States has colonial EMPIRE that extends from
Porto Rico around the globe the Philippines islands of
the orient and the occident
washington shows the same anxiety its colonial
possessions England does India Egypt and other
subject nations writhng beneath its crunching heel.
This anxiety does not in the least temper rule The
Porto Rcans have been protesting these many years
their capitalist masters in Washington against the dire OPP
preston visited upon the resulting in the abrogaon of
all political rights and the forcing upon them of the
economic conditions
The inspiration of the triumph of the workers and pea
SAINTS OF Russia czarsm will help. That inspiration
would and does span the without recognition of Soviet
Russia by the United States.
But the germs of the victory for the American work.
and poor farmers planted deep in capital
ist SOIL both at home and in the dependencies.
The workers and peasants of Russia had the guidance
of the teachings of Marx and Lenn that ready hand
for all the oppressed everywhere in warning upon OPP
pressors
The power of the Communist International grows as
the workers and poor farmers everywhere accept these
teachings and not thru any Indictment revolutionary
violence from Moscow-mere Pigment of the capitalist
imagination.
This wall from Washington that capitalism is
bending in the United States bending knees while
the working class is beginning to rise stand erect
Recognition of Soviet Russia by the United States will
be the signal for greater struggles for power by the whole
American working class in league with U. s. imperiaisms
slaves in all its colonies.