The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-22
Liberal Wall
for Kid Glove
Imperialism
OUR CUBAN COLONY. by Le-
land H. jerks; Vanguard Press, ST.

| QOR COBAN COLdJN Y Dy LIE
land H. jerks; Vanguard Press, 81
THIS is the first of a series o
studies of typical examples o.
American imperialism which the
American Fund for Public Service
Garland FUND.- has undertaken
The series is appropriately edited by
the tin Jesus of the New Historians
Harry Elmer Barnes, and promises
in spite of his passionate plea for {
dispassionate study of the facts, tt
religiously reflect the liberal cry
for kid-glove imperialism.
DR.. jerks. himself. is a little
more cold-blooded. He utters nc
pious ordinations OF horror at the
exploitation of Cuba. He cuts out
the sob stuff, but makes the regu-
lation plea for a prettier and Incl
dentally more efficient imperialist
policy.
After an excellent survey of
Cuban American relations, he rec
ommends the revision of the Plat
Amendment, which openly sanctions
American intervention. Why? Be
cause it has "outlived it's useful
ness" Ito American Imperialism, of
course) and because a revision will
"only bring into clearer light the
character of our new concerns"
jerks by no means recommends
the complete rejection of the Amend
ment. Some of it's provisions, he
says. would form suitable material
for a treaty of mutual friendship,
by which Cuba would agree to allow
no foreign bases on the island and
to enter into no agreements which
would menace American interests"
Developing his program of a
more efficient imperiaist program,
jerks says:
"The United States is now the
most powerful nation in the
world, the most impregnable to
attack, as menacing as any to
other nations, the most conspicu-
Gus object of international jeal-
ousy. Able to compel interna-
tional recognition of our rights
and most of our claims to right,
we need friends more than legal
status in the controversies in
which we may be involved. And
our abnormal relations with Cuba
are becoming more of liability
than an asset in our efforts to de-
fend ourselves by securing the
good will of our Hispanic neigh
hors."
This program is by no means new.
1t is reflection of a significant
shift in American diplomacy which
Morrow is now busy applying in
Mexico, and which the United States
put over at the Havana conference
Kid gloves may hide, but they don't
wash the bloody hands of American
imperialism.
1t is in these new imperialist
methods, put over by Wall Street,
that jerks sees hope for Latin Amer
lea. "The great business aggre-
gates, which are the most evident
symbols of American power in Cuba,
have given hostages for their sedate
behavior to the New York money
market" he says.
With this as a premise, jerks pro-
ceeds to defend the bloody Machado
dictatorship, which has butchered
and tortured hundreds of Cuban
labor leaders.
Series of alarm at the rottenness
of Cuban politics or at the tyrany
of Machado's remote imitation of
Mussolini, threats or rumors of in
PREVENTION, may agitate investors
and disturb the conditions that have
enabled Cuba to borrow money more
cheaply than Florida and Cuban
railways to get loans as favorably
as American"
In the Machado regime, which has
steadily served as watchdog fol
the interests of the American Sugar
Trust and j. P. Morgan and Co
and as an obedient puppet of i'm
perialist and militarist policies o.
the United States, jerks sees {
movement towards Cuban national
ISM"
HARRY FREFM IN