The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-11
CURRENT EVENTS
BY T. J. o'FIaherty.

and American soldiers drawn from
the loins of the working class
may be pointing their toes to the mid
day sun one of these days and their
lips may be longing for a drink of
lemon pop while their minds dwell on
the question: Who the hell are we
fighting for?
| TIME lads who fought in the world
4 war and survived know what this
is all about. / have yet to meet the
returned hero" who did not realize
that he was a sucker. Yet Kellogg
will get heroes" to fight against Mex
leo, If war there will be. And it looks
almost like a certainly. American cap
italism full of cham payne and vinegar
needs expansion. "Our" banks are
bursting with gold. South America is
''our" sphere of influence. There,
profits can be made so that the daugh-
ters of our ruling classes can marry
impecllnious European aristocrats and
afford the luxury of half a dozen
ulNOICoS u year.
WHAT right has the UNITED States
w to interfere din Nicaragua? Only
one. The United States has the power
to interfere and get away with 1t. At
least for the time being. That is
what counts. But power is not eternal.
That DIS, power exerted by any partic-
ular class is not everlasting. The
czar of Russia once had power to
send Lenin into exile. And Trotsky,
Zinoviev and Stain. But it did not
last forever Neither will the power
that is now behind Coolidge's threats
to South America. The people of the
backward" countries are organizing.
Look at China, Syria, Egypt and the
Latin American countriesi The Chi
nese are just now in the front of the
fray and leading the vanguard against
imperialism. Watch China! India will
soon raise the standard of revolt and
then imperial Britain will bite the
dust. Egypt will follow. Then the
colonies of France, Holland and the
United States will step into line. This
may be considered a pipe dream, but
the dreams of the optimist are usually
more real than the skepticism of the
pessimist.
| rs 1t surprising that world capitalism
1 should hate the Soviet Union? The
law of sef4preservation is reckoned tc
be the first law of nature and it looks
that way. The capitalist system does
not want to die. The capitalists and
their parasites do not want to go t.
work. They find plenty of excuses tt
Justify their existence. They can hire
plenty of professors and writers tt
prove that without them the worlC
would go to devil. And, as long az
the masses can satisfy the desire fol-
food, clothing and a place to sleep
plus other little things that are usual
lily regarded in connection with the
noble aim Of perpetuating the species
they will allow the capitalists to rule
the roost. But when the belly begins
to play drum snare solo on the back
bone and the slave cannot afford to
even think of the current Folliee
chorus, there will be q different tale
to tell.
NAN the threat of war against Mexi.
N co be stilled? 1t Dis doubtful The
American Federation of Labor official
dom lis servant of Wall Street
Therefore it will not be possible to
mobilize the fun power of the Ameri.
can labor movement Immediately
against militarists. 1t is now possible
to see how the strings that made the
catholic agents in the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor hop were pulled by
the vatican. William Green turned
against Mexico ostensibly because
Mexico fought the catholic church
That was not the reason. 1t was be
cause Wall Street gave orders Il
Green that it was preparing for &
break with Mexico unless the Gales
government surrendered to American
Imperialism CABLES refused to sur
render.
THIS war against Mexico and the
i liberal forces of Nicaragua is as
shameless a piece of bullying as was
ever pulled off in any section of the
world. There is only one position fol
the American workers and farmers tt
take. That ds a policy OF unalterable
Opposition. Wall Street is out TO con
quer South America, but the buzzards
will have the pleasure OF picking many
capitalist bones during the struggles
Our bourgeoisie will be making the
merry spots in London, Paris and Der
lin while the sons of the working class
will be lodging the bullets and suffer
ing all the other hardships that are in
separable from war.
W IT