The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-15
The Breeder of War

Washington on Wednesday, the Scripps-
Howard chain of papers, of which the Tele-
gram is the New York representative,
breaches a sermon on the blessings bestowed
upon the world by the airplane which brings
the nations closer together. The Telegram
writer goes much farther than Coolidge and
evolves a new theory of the causes of war
as follows:
Isolation, with its localized interests and
prejudices is and always has been the worst
breeder Of strife. Isolation not only permits
people to hate without cause, develop enmtles
without reason and think of conflict without
realizing it's cost but closes the door to outside
an Unbiased opinion. Bolivia and Paraguay
would not be at today if left to them
selves"
Without going into the question of the
necessity of rewriting the whole history OF
the world if this theory holds water we will
merely apply it to the present conflict be-
tween Bolivia and Paraguay and related prob
lens of Imperialism in Latin-America.
It is precisely because of the fact that
Bolivia is not isolated from the United States
that war is being prepared. Bolivia's isola-
ton ceased with it penetration by
Yankee Imperialism, which finally paved
the way for the American banking house
of Dillon, Read & Company to take charge
of the finances of the government and as
sumo direction of its political policies. The
cause of the present outbreak is to be ex-
planned by the fact that year and half
ago the Carib oil syndicate discovered oil in
the disputed territory. That the lnsolent
attitude of Bolivia toward its weaker neigh
bor Paraguay was deliberately fomented by
the agents of the United States government
is clear from an examination of the actions
of the representative of yankee despotism,
Charles Evans Hughes, at the Havana con-
ference of the Pan-American union last
winter. At that time Hughes put through
policy that neutral countries in Latln-Ameri-
ca be compelled to permit the passage of
arms and munitions through their territories
to aid "land-locked' countries engaged in war.
The only country to which such policy can
apply is Bolivia The action of Hughes at
Havana is proof that the conspiracy to in
cite war between Bolivia and Paraguay was
even then being aggressively forwarded IN
order to annex the newly discovered oil lands
to its puppet government in Bolivia.
Thus we see what it means to the Latin
American nations to be led out of their isola-
ton by American Imperialism. The airplane
routes that Coolidge boasts about are pro-
posed not in order to bring the nations closer
together in bonds of mutual amity but in
order that aces of the flying fleets of Wall
Street may hurl concentrated thunderbolts
against unarmed workers, precisely as work
ers and peasants of Nicaragua are being
bombed from the air in order to subdue the
population, and make it possible to per-
manently occupy the country so that another
canal connecting the Atlantic with the
Pacific may be built as part Of the world
wide irnperialist program of the ruling class
of the United States. The motor roads that
Coolidge and his apologists talk SO much
about are not for the purpose of enabling
goodwill" tourists to take pleasure trips
through tropical countries, but in order that
motor lorries full of soldiers, with high
power rifles and millions of rounds of NUM-
lions may rain death and destruction upon
the masses with dunl-dum bullets, precisely
as they have done in Haiti, Santo Domingo,
Nicaragua and as the mercenary soldiery of
the government of Colombia is doing today
against the strikers of the United Fruit
Company
In short the Latin-American nations are
brought into "closer relations" with the
United States in order that whole populations
~
their natural resources to furnish raw
material and fuel for the industries and the
navy of the United States. Instead of yankee
planes and hard roads being agencies of
peace they are agencies of pestilence.
The United States government, the execu-
tive committee of the imperialist bandits Of
Wall Street, is desperately striving to subdue
Eatin-America so its hands will be free for
the coming war to challenge the supremacy
of it's imperialist rival, England The fabulous
stores of raw material to be extracted from
Latin-America will guarantee a continuous
flow to the United States and the economic
and political domination of the Southern re-
publics will assure an expanding market Tor
finished products of United States industry.
To achieve these ends the gunner of Wall
Street will pile corpses mountain high and
reduce thousands of towns to ashes. And