The daily worker., 1927-01-04
"Silent Cal" in Frantic
Plea to lingo Press to
Push War on Nicaragua
BY J. LOUIS ENGDAHL.

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about 1t. The Chicago Tribune, like
It's namesake in Minneapolis re-
Gently quoted in this column, wants
to be frank and outspoken. II says:
"The reason the navy is operating
in Nicaragua is because American
dollars are invested there in lumber
ing and other productive enter
prises. Because of these Investments
there are American citizens in the
country and the navy lands men to
protect their lives and their pro-
perty"
In other words, the American
navy must bully and intimidate the
Nicaraguan, or the native of some
other country being robbed, into
complete acquiescence to the dollar
brand of exploitation. Otherwise it
is guaranteed, "in the name of
humanity and civilization" that this
bullying navy, under orders from
Washington altho inspired from
Wall Street, will shoot him full Of
holes.
The Chicago Tribune regrets that
the old hypocrisy has been banged
to pieces. 1t sheds tears because the
opposition under DR.. Juan B. Sacasa
is permitted to appear as liberal
government" 1t charges that the
imperialisms Of other nations func-
ton more efficiently in this respect.
Thus, it says: mo opponent Of the
British foreign Office could be
liberal. He'd be merely a bad egg,
and humanity, religion, and altruism
would demand that he be put down
and kept down and he would be-"
But The Tribune, weeping for
American Imperialism, fails to dis
cover that even British Imperialism
is facing the same handicap. The
British foreign Office tried to arouse
the British nation against the Union
of Soviet Republics. But the British
workers stopped that. The First
Workers Republic was not put
down." Instead delegation of Brit
ish trade unionists visited the So
Wet Union and got up a report fill
ing a goodsized book showing that
Russia was not "a bad egg" from
the working class viewpoint. This
story is being repeated, not only for
Great Britain but also for the
United States and lot of other i'm
perialist bandits in the Chinese
situation.
The Chicago Tribune points out
that, can American president on
some public occasions (as in Coo
lidge's speech at Trenton last week.
is expected to explain the idealistic
purposes Of America. The American
people like to believe that these
purposes exist"
But many are now going thru a
period of awakening. They are
learning that loans and investments
aFS the sole concern abroad of
American imperialism, the inspira-
tion Of the "big navy" and the "big
army" crowd in Washington, follow
ing the path that leads toward new
wars. American imperialism intends
to go thru with its program, with or
without the shield of hypocrisy. 1t
must go ahead or perish at the feet
of some other mighter imperialism.
But to go ahead means to perish at
the hands ultimately of the object
Of its expressions.
Nicaragua is small. But 1t is in
dicative of the whole struggle.
Therefore 1t is important. That is
why Washington is so worried over
Nicaraguan developments. That is
why American labor should cham
pion the cause of Nicaragua, as if it
were some more important nation,
like Mexico or China. The struggle
must be unified and developed for the
defeat of all imperialisms and the
world triumph of the social revolu-
ton.
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