The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-13
DRESIDENT COOLIDGE'S message

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4 to congress on the Nicaraguan
situation is a notice served on the
workers and farmers OF this country
that they will be called upon by the
government to sacrifice their lives to
protect the investments and profits Of
the American capitalists wherever in
the wide world these investments and
profits may be endangered.
1t is also notice to the people OF
other countries the world over, partdc-
ularly to the people Of Latin America,
that they must not take any steps to
free themselves from the exploitation
of the Wall Street interests who
dominate the financial life and gov
Nernment of the United States, and
ishat any such steps to limit or free
themselves from this exploitation will
be met with the naval and military
power Of this country.
Stripped OF its high sounding
phrases. designed to arouse the lingo
spirit of this country, and it's sham
efforts to create legal justification of
the Intervention in Nicaragua, that is
the essence of the message. The presi-
dent has made a bold declaration OF
the policy OF financial imperialism. He
has declared openly to the American
people that the government is the
instrument of the Wall Street cap
italists and it's role to fight for the
financial interests of these capitalists.
The Treaties and Agreements.
THE president recites at length the
L story of the agreements, treaties
and arrangements between the Cen
sral American republics and the
United States. No one who knows the
history OF the relations OF the govern
ment at Washington with the repub-
lies of Central America and the West
Indies will take these attempts at
legal justification of the course of the
government in Nicaragua seriously.
The record of American financial mn
perialism in the Caribbean is too
clear.
The government at Washington has
in the past pointed to similar treaties
! and agreements with Haiti and Santo
Domingo to justify it's dictatorship in
/ these countries. These treaties and
: agreements were made thru one
simple process. The United States
government threw out of Office the
government elected by the people of
xhese countries and by force applied
by American wazshtps and marines,
set up government controlled by
native citizens, who for price we're
ready to carry out the will Of the
Wall Street banks, and then dictated
the treaties and agreements which
Well Street wanted.
II is these facts which must be born
in mind in judging the presidents
statement with Nicaragua and the
other Central American republics,
that:
1.-THE United States government
did not participate in the confer
once except to provide a neutral
chairman; IT simply offered its good
offices to make the conference pos
slbIe and arranged neutral zone at
corinto at the request of both par
ties during the time the conference
was held"
Its good offices and neutral chair
man were backed by the American
warships and marines, and the partic-
cipants in this and other conferences
s..f@
the treaties and agreements what the
Unites States government, as the rep
resentative OF Wall Street bankers.
said must be written into them.
The president slurs over the point,
but even from his message 1t would
appear that the $3.0OO,OOO the United
States government paid for the canal