The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-02

Il the 150th anniversary OF the sue.
cessful battles of Trenton and
Princeton, "the turning point in the
American revolutionary war for In
dependence" and OF re-counting
again the story OF crossing the
Delaware river in the cold OF mid
winters night to wage triumphant
battle against the foreign enemy.
The occasion even called Presi-
dent Coolidge from the White House,
at washington, to make a speech at
Trenton, New Jersey, at the scene
of the actual hostilities. And Cool
idge talked of "Peace!"
But II the colonists were justified
in their war against the growing
British Empire, and they were, then
every thinking man and woman in
the United States must today throw
all possible support not only to the
struggling rebel government OF
Nicaragua and to the resistance Of
the Mexican Republic against for
eign aggressors, but must give every
possible aid to all Latin-American
nations resisting Wall Street i'm
perialism. The American colonists
drove the troops of King George
into the sea. Nicaraguan armies
must be encouraged to do the same
to the Hessian forces of Kaiser Nor
gan. The revolutionary war Of 1776,
when studied correctly, helps point
the way in today's struggles.
The United States is the richest
nation on earth today, thru the bit
ter exploitation Of labor at home and
the plundering OF weaker peoples
abroad. Therefore, its mouthpiece,
President Coolidge, can afford to
talk about setting "the Christian
example of abstention from compe-
titive arming while other powers
arm" That is the usual hypocrisy.
Coolidge had nothing to say about
Nicaragua altho he came to Trenton
fresh from conferences on this i'm
portant matter at Washington with
Secretary of State Kellogg and SEN
ator Borah, head of the senate for
eign relations committee. With Wall
Streets bloodhound warships, how
ever, patrolling Nicaraguan waters,
and with large forces of heavily
armed marines everywhere ashore,
Coolidge delivered himself OF this
Characteristic mounting:
Il believe we are strong enough
and brave enough to resist another
domination of the world by the mill
tary spirit, thru our own independent
action"
Thus Coolidge seeks to throw a
fake peace camoufiage over i'm
perialism's ambitions. It was In his
recent message to congress that
Coolidge boosted of a great navy,
a mighty army and an increasingly
effective air feet. Coolidge's thin
paciflst veil donned at Trenton is
just about as concealing as the claim
that the American forces are In
Nicaragua to protect American
lives and property"
At Trenton, Coolidge, in the true
New England spirit that hides every
crime under the meek and innocent
Sunday face of religion, declared:
"All humanity has laid aside the
burdens of the day that they might
rejoice in the glad tidings of Peace
on Earth, Good Will Toward Men,"
At the moment that Coolidge was
saying this, however, the editorial
writer Of the Minneapolis Tribune
was putting down the real version Of
dollar diplomacy's position toward
Nicaragua and all other intended
victims Of Wall Street greed. The
Tribune, that supports the repub-
lican party against the Farmer-La-
Dor Party in Minnesota, pleads:
Let us admit frankly that Amer
ica's action in landing bluejackets
in Nicaragua is strictly in line with
Americas Caribbean policy. Our
policy in the Caribbean has been, on
the whole, pretty consistent. We In
sist that the Caribbean countries be
run in such fashion as to give the
maximum protection to American
loans and investments. II we have
any doubts about some new govern
ment that gets in, we promptly
shovel it out. Our Caribbean policy
has been imperialistic. of course.
No other adjective could possibly
fit 1t.
"The oddly Of the American Carib-
bean policy is that an effort has al
ways been made to foist 1t on the
American people as non-imperialistic.
All our state departments have act
cd imperialistically while denying
that they acted imperialistically. In
this respect the Nicaraguan landing
impeccably to tradition. But the
present state department Is under