The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13

monstrous growth of Yankee imperi-
alism, the youngest, strongest, most
Unsuitable and brutal of the whole
world. The economic expansion of
imperialism is not peaceful, pure
ly commercial expansion. Already in
1847 we paid the first sad tribute
to the initial development of the
United States, which robbed US then
of more than half of our territory.
Conquest of Cuba.
"In 1898, its geographic and po-
litical unity already attained, the
United States began it's overflow,
freeing Cuba from Spanish domina-
ton to subject it to its own. The
Platt Amendment, written by the
secretary of state, Elihu Root, and
incorporated by military pressure in
the Cuban Constitution in 1902, i'm
posed on the young republic the pro-
hibition of treaty making without
the consent of the United States and
the obligation to sell or lease to it
the lands and waters that it wished
fc- the establishment of naval bases.
Reserved, moreover, the United
States, the right to intervene in
Cuba any time it might deem nee
essary.
Imperialist Intervention.
"Aided by the Platt Amendment,
the United States seized the Bay of
Guatanamo, one of the best in the
world, and on three successive occa-
sions occupied the island with mill
tary, on the pretext of revolutions
and political disturbances. For
many years it imposed on Cuba the
exclusive circulation of United States
paper money, and Mr.. Crowder, a
special sort of pro-consul invested
with despotic powers governed Cuba
since 1919 by means of memoranda
or simple telephone calls to the presi-
dent of the republic. Up to 1919,
| 1000 marines remained in the is
land, supporting the conservative
president, Garcia Menocal, who guar
anteed the financial interests repre-
sented by the National City Bank.
Wall Street Control.
"The National City Bank controls,
today, the railroads of Cuba and 80
per cent of the sugar industry; that
is to say, it has in its hands the
whole national economy. This is
what Cuba's liberators have done to
Cuba. A North American historian
has written that, "Cuba is no more
independent than Long Island"
Annexes Porto Rico.
an 1898, at the same time that
they liberated Cuba, the United
States was annexing Porto Rico. And
Porto Rico, a country by tradition,
language and race, purely Spanish,
is changed into state of the Amer
lean Union; the English language
was forced on it as the official
idioin, and Porto Rico was compelled
to mask itself as an Anglo-Saxon
country.
ROosevelt's Panama Steal.
an 1903, Roosevelt, the initiator
of the Big Stick policy; Roosevelt,
like Hoover, republican president,
assisted the revolution of Panama,
led by a group of adventurers and
SPECTATORS; mutilated Colombia and
established on the Isthmus a psuedo-
republic that sold the Panama canal
zone to the United States for S10,-
100000. The ignominy Of Panama is
eloquently synthesized by the words
of Rooseelt: Il seized Panama.
Grabs Dominican Republic.
"The penetration into the Domini-
can Republic began in 1905, with the
ALLEGATION of a loan whose interest
was secured by control of the GUS
toms for so years. In 1916, on the
pretext of a popular insurrection,
the marines disembarked and mar
tial law was proclaimed; Dominican
authority was destroyed from the
president down; the congress was
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