The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-12
Against the Capitalists!

and whose knowledge of geography extended
only to study of railroad timetables, were
selected to foreign posts. This practice,
hoary with age, was never challenged in the
days before the war. It was the accepted
thing.
On rare occasions when international COM
pl1cations arose, the secretary of state at
tended to the interests of the ruling power,
never dreaming of relying upon those hold
ing honorary office in the foreign service.
Such men were usually old and always
wealthy and at the end of their terms they
retired with enough titles to last them the
rest of their lives They had collected the
political debts from the politicians they had
helped or, as the late Theodore Roosevelt
said, they had their cake and they ate it,"
The rise of American Imperialism forced
a change in the old policy of appointing
troglodytes to such positions. To be sure,
the change is not yet complete; a number of
ambassadors and ministers are il their
dotage and their meddlesome activities con-
stantly interfere with the efficient working
OF the bureaucratic apparatus under their
control. With the heavy investments of
Wall Street capital involving this country
more and more in all the contradictions of
the world it became necessary to place in
strategic positions men whose training had
fitted them for diplomatic careers-hence
the present problem of career men,"
Coolidge is non-committal on the question.
merely restating the old policy and passing
the buck to the next administration.
There are very many heavy contrib
utors to campaign funds who would like to be
honored, as were their prototypes of the past,
with foreign posts, but most of them will be
disappointed. The imperialist government
serves the interests of the big capitalists as a
whole and not infrequently is compelled to
offend an individual member of that class
whose ambition is all out of proportion to his
ability.
Younger men, trained in the duplicity of
capitalist diplomacy, have been placed in
strategic posts where they have become an
important part of the bureaucratic apparatus
of the government-an apparatus that exists
regardless of what particular puppet is in the
White House at Washington.
Wall Street has evidently passed the word
along to these trusted lackeys that they
should not present their designations to take
effect March 4th, but should stick to their
posts, no matter who is president. lust the
N'N44iN
Washington remains through changing adj
ministratons.
The imperialist government of the United
States is too deeply involved in preparing for
the next war for redivsion of the world
between the imperialist powers to afford anv
disturbance of its organized instrument of
oppression and terror state-in any part
of the world.
This question, like all other controversial
matters that seem trivial and mechanical to
the superficial observer, is in reality a
fundamental question of imperialist war
preparations. 1t is essential that the work
ing class, and particularly it's vanguard, the
Communists, understand fully the sinister
implications of the disputed questions within
the ranks of the capitalist politicians, in order
effectively to expose and discredit them and
convince the exploited masses, the potential
cannon fodder for the next imperialist war
that only the revolutionary party of the
working class, the Workers Communist
Party, has program that can meet and de-
feat the intrigues of the war-mongers and all
their agents.