The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-12
By PEDRO GOTAY LOPEZ.

The United States has established
throughout the different states, a
very effective system of military
training. The primary purpose of
these military institutions is the
teaching of mass murder to the
younger generations. The students
that enlist yearly in the G. M. T. c.
or R. o. T. C. form very important
part of the long chain of lackies
at the service of Yankee imperial
ism. They are the servile class,
which, in a future war, will be
obliged to defend the capitalist pi-
rates of America.
In these camps the raucous poll
ticians of the White House turn out
yearly a large number of prepared
men, taught to be unconscious
mechanical slaves. They are fed
with imperialist shallowness and.
hence, like damned slaves, are I'M
able to rebel against their yellow
masters.
The military authorities maintain
that their chief motive in estab-
fishing these camps is the teaching
of citizenship. But what kind of
citizenship?
Lured by the brilliancy of a mill
tary career 1 myself was once a
student in the R. o. 7. c. Of the
University of Porto Rico, senior
candidate in the c. M. T. c. of Fort
San Cristobal, member of the Ma
tional Guard and, later on, of the
Reserve Corps. And to my own sat
isfaction | unrnasked the so-called
teaching of citizenship in military
camps. The military textbooks
used in the C. NJ. T. Camps and uni
versities say that the object of mill
tary training is to fight battles. In
other words, to murder our brethren.
So that the very government that.
in cynical output of fakery and
sheer irony, is trying to outlaw war
teaches murder to the youth of
America, "the land of the free"
And they called this citizenship.
Imperialist Bandits.
Yes, dear comrades, the right kind
of citizenship that the imperialist
bandits want to instil into the hearts
of the young men. The dirty takers
say that capitalism is right, slavery
a sane institution, and that the gov
eminent at Washington is the best
that man, aided by his capitalist
god, can devise. (They say all this
in their soporific lectures on citizen
ship. They take great pains to
make the young soldiers understand
that when a war breaks out every
citizen should enlist in the army of
the imperialists, ready to die, like
a good boy, for the millionaires of
Wall Street. All that is opposed to
this curious kind of citizenship is
foolery and downright treason. And
who is hired to teach this grandiose
lesson? A priest. Invested with all
the authority of a minister of God
this well-paid faker teaches murder.
Rebellion against militarism, say
the holy wiseacre, is rebellion
against the Almighty. Thus making
of their poor God big millionaire,
hater of the working class.
Camp life is spent in bayonet
training, machine gun and rifle fir
ing, trench warfare, etc The pro-
gram itself unmasks the feigned
pacifist attitude of the degenerate
mass murderers and their puppets
In the universities this program is
enlarged. Students are obliged to
enlist in the R. 0. T. C. even in
violation of their creeds. They are
handled like herd of cattle. The
militarists believes that the students
should be guided by their cicerones
to save them from the abyss of
knowledge and hence from becom-
ing alert and rebellious. But in spit
of this they rebel and throw away
the bunk forced on them by priests
Now we can see the far-reachina
effect of teaching the philosophy of
class-consciousness to the young.
Class Struggle.
Hand in hand with the teach NJ
Of class struggle. The shallow.
minded imperialists are preparinc
their greatest and, perhaps, final
outbreak of thunder. 1t is very cas-
for them to declare war. They dc
not suffer. They have not to mourn
after the event for they keep their
sons in easy Jobs, far away fror
the roaring of cannons. They havc
newspapermen to preach the poo
murder the poor, to fire them with
a flame of insane patriotism Cap'-
talist editrs, like politicians. gain
millions in the big business Of max
ing war. And they are so debaso
as to trade with the life Of nnor
They do not care. 1t is the POO