The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-05
COOLIDGE BLAMED
FOR THE NICARA-
GUAM MURDER

That part of Washington which
sui mas a conscience-and eight
years of Harding Coolidgeism have
reduced it to a rather small fraction
look with horror and revolt upon
Inc Ocotal massacre in Nicaragua.
Inc bloody incidents of Chinandega
ana Ocotal," declares a statement
sponsored by the national citizens
committee on relations with Latin
America, "are but beginning of the
record that will fill the pages of the
American police blotter in Nicaragua
oe1ore 1t is transferred with shame to
the pages of American history."s
Inc committee, headed by Senator
Norris, John F. Moors of Boston,
Mercer q. Johnston, Mrs. Edward P.
Costigan, Mrs. ]. Borden Hartman.
senator Walsh of Massachusetts,
RABBI Stephen Wise and counting
most of the country's distinguished
liberals on its rolls, places the re-
sponsibility for the Nicaraguan blood
shed on President Coolidge and Sec
reary Kellogg. ''In defiance of the
constitutions of both the United
States and Nicaragua" the state
ment continues, Gin violation of
treaty obligations and the precepts
OF good public morals, they have en-
gagged in activities on the soil of a
friendly nation for which there is no
other name than war. UsurpatiOn
and dictatiOn, accompanied by threats
and violence, could go little further
than they have gone in their INSANE
toned intervention in the internal af
fairs of Nicaragua"
The committee will ask congress to
inquire into all Nicaraguan relations
TO place the responsibility for ga
course of action which has done more
to dim the moral prestige of our ma
ZION than has ever been done by any
administration since its foundation"
Coolidge is reminded of his own
hltalutin declaration recently that eve
nave iald on no country the hand of
oppression" by the Women's Interna-
tlonal League for Peace and Free
dem which asks him to "give Ameri
can citizens the concrete assurance of
these high sentiments by Immediate
ly lifting the hands of oppression
from Nicaragua and Haiti" The
weeks hostilities," asserts the Ieaoue
causing death of 400 Nicaraguan
citizens and one brave American bow
and the unprovoked murder of three
Haltlans are painful examples of the
results OF military occupation"
While the massacre at Ocotal," ac-
cordlng TO statement of the All
America Anti-Imperialist League
whose secretary, Manuel Gomez, at
tended the Pan-American labor CON
gress In Washington, "is only a de-
tail IN the regular routine Of u s
imperialist policing in the Caribbean
area 1t IS such a terrible and shock
ing detail as to bear the mark of
doom. The marines must be with
drawn from Nicaragua at once :"
Neither Latin America nor the
masses OF the American people can
accept the American OCCUPATION of
Nicaragua, the league emphasizes,
because it represents the ruthless
policy Of Big Business at home as
well as abroad"
The people don't forget that
troops used to shoot down workers
abroad are often used for that n,,,.-
pose at home and that three weeks
ago poison gas bombs were brought
by the police to a public meeting in
New York." warns the Peoples Re-
construction League. Coolidge IS
afraid to convene congress in special
session less impeachment proceedings
toelng brought against him there. the
league believes.
THIRD TERM HOPES WANE
Heavy blows showered on the han
less head of Calvin Coolidge in the
past week have so lowered the NOR
ale of the little group of presidential
ADVISERS that the white flag may soon
De run up on his hope of running for
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