The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-31

Have they or have they not been
robbed of their independence? How
about Haiti and Santo Domingo? Both
robbed of every vestige of indepen-
dence by the brutal invasion of Amer
lean marines without even a declara-
ton of war. Today in Nicaragua, the
Coolidge-Kellogg d m in i s tr alton
maintains in power hireling (Diaz)
whom they have placed at the head
of a shadow government in plain vio-
lation Of the expressed will of the
people of that country. When the
American military forces took the
field there it was certainly not to eX-
tend "the area of self government"
but to stifle every semblance of in
dependence, and the armed forces re-
main there in order to uproot every
attempt at self-government.
Again we ask a pointed question
Of the eminent down-east yankee =?
When and where and under what con-
ditions in the last half century has
the capitalist government of the Uni
ted States lifted finger to rescue
afflicted people from oppression?
Does he refer to Cuba? Mckinley, as
the tool of Mark Hanna, waged war
against Spain in the interest of the
Havemeyer Sugar Trust and the
American tobacco company as this ma
ton took it's first step upon the stage
Of world Imperialism. The Cubans
slaved under the benevolence of the
United States Just as they did under
the depotism of Spain. One may
search the pages of history for one
lone case wherein this government
ever aided any oppressed people and
there cannot be found one single in
cident to justify such claim.
As to the boast that American inn
perialism brought victory to the
cause of liberty in a world convul-
SION" comment is almost superfiuous.
Coolidge refers to the late war Is
there anyone living who believes that
this country and its allies fought in
the cause of liberty?
The stakes of the United States in
the world war were nothing more nor
less than world domination. The real
reason for this country entering the
war was to defend the investments
Of Wall Street in Europe and nothing
else. Emerging from the war as the
mightiest power on earth its policy
has since been one of open imperial
list conquest.
It's agents today roam the whole
earth seeking places for investment
of bank capital in foreign lands. Its
diplomatic representatives carry on
the vilest intrigues in order to job
other countries out of their share of
the plumber.
Warships and marines in China are
symbols of its greed-they are there
in the interest of American finance
and industrial capital and for no other
purpose and ought to be forced to
get out and stay out and would not
be there if what Coolidge said in his
speech were anything but a pack of
lies deliberately calculated to deceive
the people Of the United States as to
the real character of the Wall Street
government at Washington.
The Philippines, South and Central
America and other lands are victims
of the rapacity of Wall Street; no
land with wealth of any kind is ex-
empt from Yankee Imperialism.
Let no one be deceived by the glor-
ification of the victims of imperial
ism. In their lives most Of them were
workers, despised by the ruling class;
eli workers are considered dirt be-
meath the feet of those for whom they
slave. Most of them had shaved all
their early lives to produce surplus
for the capitalist class. When that
class could not waste it or invest it
in the United States they took it to
foreign lands and then forced the
very workers who had produced that
surplus UNPAID labor of the work
ing class) to go and lay down their
lives in order that their masters
might exploit still more workers in
other countries. Then the surplus
value extracted from labor from all
over the world piles ever higher. It
has 70 be invested in still other ter
ritory. But there then ensues a con-
flict with the capitalists holding sur
rlus produced by workers of an
other imperialist country Diploma
'ic intrigue fails and war flares forth.
Then the master class, unable to set
tie their own fight between them
selves call upon their slaves to muir
der each other to decide which mas
ter class shall have the right to OK
plot still other workers. That is our
Memorial Day lesson. That is the
real cause Of wars. Do not let Mr..
Coolidge or any other parrot of i'm
perialism make you believe anything
else.
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