The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-28
Something for Hoover to Answer


Herbert Hoover, in his campaign speeches,
constantly reiterates his full approval OF the
Coolidge administration and promises, II
elected to the presidency, a continuation OF
those policies 1t would be interesting Tor
Hoover to try to reconcile the paclflst pre-
lenses of the Kellogg BRAND pact with the
announcement from Washington that the
bill now pending before the senate for con-
SIP tslion of fifteen cruisers and one airplane
carrier will be taken up and passed this Win
ter if President Coolidge has his way
The Kellogg pact decreed the outlawing
of war as a national policy. Naturally any
nation, even the most aggressively I'M
periaIist. could sign such document for the
simple reason that no government proclaims
war as a national policy. Each group of i'm
perialist war-mongers INDUCES in the build
ing of ornaments and preparations for new
wars under cover of national defense,
security, peace, and the other shibboeths now
familiar to all who observe the duplicity of
the statesmen of capitalist nations.
1t is not often that the capitalist press is
so frank as was the Wall Street Journal, on
Wednesday, September &c, when it said edi-
torially:
MIR. KellOgg's treaty readily signed be-
because il really bound nobody to anything
specific. 1t a profession of atrusm to
which any civilized nation might subscribe. 1t
had none of the sanctions of the league of ma
tions and it is quite conceivable that its value,
other than as a shock absorber, was not much
than that of a series of peace treaties
negotiated by Bryan which the whole world for
got in few months in the horrors of the Great
War"
Such a statement is important not only be-
cause of its open Tidicule of the peace ges-
lures of Kellogg, but because of the cyniclsm
with which it suggests the approach OF an
other world war The fact that Kellogg's
treaty of today is placed in the same category
as the series of Bryan treaties before the out
break of the world war is no mere flair of
speech. 1t reveals the deliberate political
estimates of the spokesman of Wall Street,
regarding the approach of another war.
At this moment the war-mongers and their
government at Washington are incensed be-
cause Britain, dominating the ninth annual
assembly of the league of nations, has sue
ceeded in making the pact ridiculous before
it is one month old, by proposing enforce
ment clauses British Imperialism is, of
course, the last power that would seriously
consider such clauses. Diplomats have per
fected to high degree the use of language
to conceal thought. The proposals at the
league assembly were brought forth only in
order to hold the Kellogg pact up to the con-
tempt of the whole world. 1t would have
been impolite to laugh at the antics of ''Nerv-
Gus Nelly" Kellogg the butcher Of Nicara-
guans in behalf of the imperiaists of the
United States, while he was sobery defend
ing such farce as the pact.
If Britain or the United States or any of
the other signatories of the pact really in
tended to outlaw war the proposals of the
Soviet Union to instantly and completely dis
arm would have been accepted by them long
ago. The Soviet government was perfectly
right when it declared that the pact, without
even such an elementary guarantee as limita-
ton of increasingly growing ornaments will
remain dead letter.
In spite of the pact, and as if to mock the
thing, the race for ornaments goes madly
forward. The war clouds grow ever darker.
Instead of approving the stand of the one
power in the world that advocates real peace
and has a program capable of realizing peace,
the mperialist nations of the earth are daily
plotting new conspiracies against the gov
eminent of workers and peasants that now
thrives in the domain of the former Russian
Cars.