The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
Ravaging the Caribbean Countries

Unsuitable in it's greed, American imperial
ism no sooner realizes one predatory goal
than it increases its campaign OF frlghtIul-
ness in order to bring more territory unoer
its bloody fist The state department an
nouncement of a tri-partite agreement pc
tween the United States the puppet govern
ment of Nicaragua and the government Oh
Colombia, disposing of some Islands OH
Nicaragua in the Caribbean, which gives the
Wall Street government complete DOMINATION
of that approach to the proposed Nicaragua
canal. was followed by a savage attack upon
Colombia that had as its object the stealing
of oil lands for the benefit of American OIL
interests.
After a campaign of wholesale murder
against the Nicaraguans IN order to place IN
mower a government subservient to wall
Street. the United States diplomats use
every trick known to virtuosos in chlcanery
to swindle Colombia into treaty granting
to Nicaragua the Misquito coast and the
nearest islands, so that the Wall Street
agents at Washington may lease the terri
tory for Notifications.
After completing that piece OF lmperlallst
conquest as one more step in conquerlng the
Caribbean, the state department sends an IN
sulting demand to the Colombian govern
ment regarding the cancellation OF an Amer
lean oil concession. This is nothing more
nor less than another attempt at lnterVen-
tion in the internal affairs of a Latin Amerl-
can country. The Colombian government
is certainly supported by ample precedent IN
international law when it insists that 1t mas
no intention of letting the United States IN
terfere in its action as sovereign state IN
canceling claim of private oil concern OPP
Grating in its territory. But this means
nothing to the Washington gang, dominated
by Andrew w. Mellon, one of the richest men
in the whole world, who holds the office OF
secretary of the treasury in plain violation
of the fundamental law of the land. Capt.
talist law-national and international-is
class instrument devised to serve the IN
terests of the ruling class. When 1t inter-
feres with their purposes, they violate 1t
with impunity. To plead with the United
States government to respect international
law in regard to Latin America, is like I'M
ploring a highwayman to throw away his
gun and blackjack.
No one. however, should be under the IL
fusion that the present Colombian govern
ment. under President Abadia Mendez, will
profit by the experience of other Latin
American countries and take decisive steps
to mobilize anti-imperialist sentiment in his
own and neighboring nations. Already he
has revealed himself as weakling in trying
to discourage student demonstrations by as
surfing them that the arrogant action of the
United States government is not lnterven-
ton. 1t is intervention and has deep inter-
national potentialities.
The Kellogg Coolidge-Hoover attempt to
steal oil lands in Colombia is of tremendous
significance, inasmuch as it involves the con-
fict between American and British oil in
terests. The American oil interests fear that
the oil land may be leased to the Anglo-Per-
sian oil company, a British concern. In an
endeavor to conceal the real motive behind
its offensive against Colombia the state de-
partment darkly hints that the granting of
the oil concession to foreign power may
menace" the Panama canal
Such maneuvers on the part of the Amer
lean imperialist bandits are quite familiar;
they follow well-chartered course. The
next step on the part of the state depart
ment will probably be to try to foment
revolution" in Colombia, place in power
puppet president and recognize him as the
government and send more marines and bat
tleships and bombing planes into Latin
America.