The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-14
Breathe the Spirit Of
Class Struggle Into the
Opposition to the War"
BY ]. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

hHFOSlIION 10 the lmperlallSL
~ aggressions of Wall Streets
government at Washington against
the peoples of Latin-America comes
from certain well-defined sources.
1t is no accident that Huddleston
and Hefin, Of Alabama; Caraway,
of Arkansas, and other southern
ers" in congress are in the lead of
the fight against the war policies"
Of the Coolidge-Mellon administra-
ton.
"The South" is far divorced from
the great banking centers of New
York, Philadelphia and Chicago. 1t
has no great war munitions produc-
ing industries. It is not drawn
strongly into the imperialist cur
rent. 1t wants foreign market for
its surplus cotton crop, to be sure,
but it turns a cold shoulder on Wall
Streets financial conquest Of Latin
America.
This is quite change from the
days ante-dating the Civil War
when "The South" directed its land
hungry gaze toward the West Indies
and South America as possible new
slave territory.
The protestant South is not inter-
ested today in the religious phase
of the Wall Street-eatholic attack
on Mexico. Oil and rubber passes
it by, as we'll as Mexican land laws
hostile to alien profiteers.
1t was different, however, when
the slave-holding South, in control
of the national government at Wash
ington, launched an unprovoked war
against Mexico to force the annex
alton of Texas and large extent
of other territory. But the bounds
of possible expansion were soon
reached on continental America.
Even much of the land taken from
Mexico was closed to chattel slavery
by the encroachments Of the wage
labor society of the north.
It was then that the chattel slave
oligarchy in desperation turned to
the tropical countries and islands
further south. The southern states
men talked in Napoleonic terms Of
a manifest destiny that was driv-
ing them on to the possession of
Cuba and the Valley of the Amazon.
DeBow's Review, Vol. XVII, p.
ESQ, contains report of conven-
ton held at Memphis, Tenn, in
1853, where long resolution on the
opening of the Amazon was adopted,
beginning as follows:
Resolved, That the interests of
commerce, the cause of civilization,
and the mandates of high heaven,
require the Atlantic slopes of South
America to be subdued and replen-
ished."
Thus envious eyes turned toward
Cuba at this time, and the descrip-
tons of the atrocities of Spanish
rule in that island, according to A.
NJ. Simons, Social Forces in Amer
lean History" read very much like
the writings which appeared upon
that same subject almost so years
later, when Northern capitalism
was, in it's turn, struggling for ex-
pansion" and launched forth on the
imperialistic adventure known as
the Spanish-American War.
Today, however, the South is not
much concerned with Wall Streets
manifest destiny" as the financial
kaiser of the world and Huddleston,
Heflin and Caraway make their anti
war speeches knowing that they
will not be opposed at home. OF
course, when war actually breaks
they will be out selling liberty
bonds" along with the rest. Such is
their loyalty to capitalism.
Farmers are inherently anti-im-
perialist. They look on the interna-
tional bankers as their enemies. II
is easy, therefore, for Sen. Wheeler,
democrat of Montana) processing
belief in the destiny Of capitalism,
to make anti-war speeches, thus
catering to the farmers and main