The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-03-04
The Cherry
!" Where with our
roo Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
f0undly, sometimes hippantl-.
sometimes recklessly.

| Observers of events must be just
now deeply stirred by the blunders
of American policy in and around the
caribbean Sea where the United
| IS seems bent upon gobbling and
gobbling and gobbling.
Official American hostility to Mex
leo is we'll known and often enough
manifested.
Official American conduct in Mica
ragua must bring many a blush to
American faces.
| American marines now have been
ordered to protect American life and
property" in practically every stra-
tegic point in Nicaragua. This is cal
culated to bring finally to head the
defeat of DR.. Sacasa, who has been
fighting to win back the presidency
to which he succeeded lawfully when
the president was driven to resign by
a coup d. etat.
There are now 1900 marines in
Nicaragua. There are, it is reported,
| 571 Americans to be protected and
something like $4,000 worth of
| United Fruit Company the principal
owner. The Washington Daily News
is quite right in remarking that this
is better protection than Americans
get at home.
But the portent of this thing is
pointed out in the magazine, Liberty,
offspring of the Chicago Tribune and
pet of it's senatorial owner, which says
editorially and boastfully, tina the
eagles circles never grow smaller
"Southward the bird of empire wings
its way" says this belligerent mag
azine
American policy in the Caribbean
seems to justify this magazine boast,
| whether American men and women
| like it or not
There are imperialists in the United
States and there is an active imper-
| ialism. Here is one reason for it
and reason not generally known:
Profits coming to Americans from
investments in the Latin American
nations are not subject to income tax
Remember that when reading about
the terrible oppression of labor in
| Cuba. Americans pretty much own
all that is profit-making in Cuba. The
| vast incomes which return to Ameri-
can capitalists from that country pay
no income tax. So, while profits in
themselves are high, they are even
more desirable when free from tax
here at home.
| If you have a banker he will ex-
plain to you how this works, but un-
less you have a great deal of money
he will not explain to you how you
can do likewise. That is reserved for
the very powerful who inhabit what is
known as Wall street
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Gradually the United States, on one
pretext or another, is mopping up. the
nations of the Caribbean Perhaps it
is not the idea to bring them under
the American flag, but it seems def
nitely to be the idea to bring them
under American domination, into
bondage to American commands.
That is probably cheaper than plant
ing the flag directly over them.
Today it is Nicaragua. Cuba al
ready is tied by the Platt amendment,
which seems to mean whatever Wall
street wants it to mean, as present
revelations show. Threat after threat
is hurled at Mexico. We have the
Virgin Islands. We have Porto Rico
Let Guatamala and Salvador step
gingerly. Let them observe that
neighbor, Nicaragua, and let them
study about what has happened in
Haiti and San Domingo.
Whittier do we go where these small
nations are concerned?