The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-27
Told You So

/ THIS department suggests that the
4 Animal Rescue League communi-
Gates with Mr.. Frank B. Kellogg,
who is now in Paris hmbering up for
the signing Of treaty TO outlaw
war, and urge the secretary of state
/ to insert clause in his auti-war
4 treaty prohibiting the use of dogs
/ for tests Of poison gases, intended
for the slaughter of human beings.
! Since, what may be poison for dog
may be meat for man, there is no
sense in wasting good gas on help
less little animal, gas that may
smell to hero like the odor of a
choice Havana cigar.
THE latest evidence of the spread of
Americanism in Nicaragua is the
organization of Vigilance Commit
tees" to aid the United States
marines in the war against SANDING
and his revolutionary army. The
dispatch which carried this news
| states that those assassins we're or
ganized by indignant Nicaraguans,
but it is clear that this alleged in
dignation was superinduced by the
cold treatment of General Mccoy.
American fixer of the coming cleo
tons. The Nicaraguan vigilantes no
doubt will copy the methods of the
murderers of strike leaders in the
! United States, the thugs who hanged
Frank Little in Butte and established
a reign of terror in several western
states during and after the war.
With a gang of good American
election tellers, under the direction
of General Mccoy, in addition to the
vigilantes, Nicaragua would be as
thoroly Americanized as Chicago, Il
linois.
THE French and British scout the
idea that the pact is directed
against the United States, yet both
powers considered the question of
how the navies of both countries
could be pooled in the event of war.
The U. S. is the only country in the
world that has navy equal to Great
Britain. France is increasing her
navy rapidly and only recently held
the biggest military maneuvers since
the war on the Italian border. The
recent pact between England and
France is not good news for Musso-
lini; neither is the success of Veni-
zelos in the Greek elections>Nenize-
los is a tool of Great Britain and is
said to have friendly intentions to-
wards Jugo Slavia, with which Italy
has been at loggerheads.
ALL this shows how ridiculous it is
A to expect anything from the Kel-
logg treaty except another war. The
great powers are simply sparring
for position. Clashes of economic in
4 terests between them are certain to
bring war. Despite the existence Of
the league of nations, the system of
offensive and defensive alliances
that prevailed before the war is
more in evidence today than ever.
The United States is Great Britain's
chief rival and war between the
two imperialist giants is only a
question of years. How long can
this inevitable war be STAYED off by
the ruling classes who probably are
convinced from their experience in
the last one that the next will spell
their DOOM. Even tho they know
this they are driven irresistibly, thru
the competitive nature of the CAPT.
talist system, to course which signs
their death warrants.
THE platonic gestures towards
peace of the imperialists may lull
some workers into feeling of false
security. But there is nothing under
the sun more certain than another
world war, hundreds of times more
terrible than the last. The poison
gases that the war department of
the United States is testing on dogs
to make sure that they are deadly
enough for use against men, the,
} sham airplane battle over London re-
: Gently, the French war maneuvers on
, the Italian frontier, the appropria-
ton of $20,000,00O by the German
government for the building of
battleships, the intensive war prep
arations of Italy-all are signs point
ing to mass murder in the name Of
the defense of country.
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THE government of the Soviet
Union alone declares before the
world that all gestures towards
peace are empty unless accompanied
by disarmament. And all the efforts
of the Soviet Union to induce the
imperialist powers to adopt dis
armament plan have been blocked.
There can be no peace under capt.
talism. If angels were suddenly
elected to head all the capitalist gov
ernments in the world, they would be
Immediately transformed into milf
tarists. War is as indigenous to the
capitalist system as claws to a tiger.
Only the abolition of capitalism will
bring about the abolition of war.
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