The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-19
Nicaraguan Labor Must
Oppose Slavery peace"
Urged By Wall Street
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

lean supervision" The Coolidge
crowd in Washington could prob
ably send down some of the Ware
henchmen from Philadelphia, who
forget to count the opposition vote.
AS for selecting some liberals" to
enter. the Diaz government, 1t is
always possible to find wolves to be
dressed up in attractive and harm
less looking Sleeps clothing.
Something of the spirit of the
class collaborating National Civic
Federation is breathed into the
fourth proposal for the mixed
claims commission" 1t is stacked
two to one against the rebels, just
as employer-employe-public commits
sions in this country always find the
representative of the public on the
side of the exploiters. The U. S.
government representative can be
depended on to back the Diaz
spokesman, its own mouthpiece.
Diaz also wants an American mil
itary mission" to reorganize and
discipline the national guard. A
bunch of handipicked Hessians, drill
ed by 400 per cent American" West
Point graduates, ought to provide a
soldiery satisfactory to the preda-
tory American fruit, mining, rail
road and banking interests. But why
attempt to play such a CHASTITY joke
on the Nicaraguan people? 1t is like
giving them a rope to hang them
selves, or poison to commit suicide
with The present day Wall Street
profit pirates have outdone the buc-
cancers of old in demanding that
the Nicaraguan people walk the
plank, precipitating them into the
loving death of imperialist slavery.
Nicaragua can only tear up these
proposals made by the political
agent, Diaz, of the Wall Street
plunderbund. To do anything else
will be merely to enslave them
selves still more until extreme des-
peration drove them to new strug-
giles. Aa
Diaz has another brilliant pro-
posal. He says that as soon as the
measures already enumerated are
initiated, he hopes that ut will be
possible for my country to secure
in the United States large loan
for construction of a railway to the
Atlantic Coast and highways needed
for development of the country"
1t may be taken for granted that
the railroad and the highways will
never be built, not with Diaz as
president. The money will be used
instead to ldefray the expenses that
have been incurred to keep Diaz in
power. The Nicaraguans will thus
have to foot the bill of their own
enslavement. There is good prece-
dent for this. In Dollar Diplomacy"
p. 1865, speaking of the suppression
of the 1912 revolution, we find the
| following:
"The expenses incurred during
| the revolution forced Diaz to apply
to the American bankers for an
other loan. The terms on which the
bankers offered to make the loan
were protested by Diaz as harsh,
but they were backed up by the
state department Cat Washington,
and were incorporated in the loan
agreement on Nov. 4, 1912"
Diaz does not complain any
longer. He is an obedient puppet,
and brazenly puts forward the me-
cessity of a 'flarge loan" to be
hoisted with warships upon the backs
of the Nicaraguan people. But
Nicaragua is not as docile now is
1912. Nicaragua also. has allies
among the Latin-American nations.
1t is finding an increasing number
of supporters among American
workers and farmers. That has
Washington and Wall Street
worried.
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