The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-14
HOOVER ORDERS LYNCH LAW IN HAWAII

would be intensified by wholesale wave OF
lynching against Hawaians and Japanese on the
Islands, Rev. Weaver said:
"Of all the public statements made in rela-
ton to the present situation this Is the most
dangerous and deviIish TO come ont Of the
mouth Of an intelligent man.
cit ~ an Endorsement Of lynch procedure
from one Of our highest officials sworn to up
hold the Constitution. II directly incitcs fur
ther acts of violence"
In his lynch provocation, Admiral Pratt de-
clared that 40 women has been raped in Hawaii
in the year 1881. This statement was denied
by 100 per cent American, government Off
cial in Hawaii, man whose capacity 1t was to
record such matters. Dr. Thomas M. Mossman,
government physician, declared that his records
showed only two rapes took place during the
year 1881.
The American capitalist press took up the
lynch cry OF the navy and the Hoover govern
ment. heinous campaign against the native
masses Of Hawaii was set into motion Hoover
himself referred the matter to the cabinet. The
Senate and the House ordered an Investigation.
The fact that when the imperialists first came
TO Hawaii there we're 100000 HGwaiians on the
Islands, and thanks TO the disease infested in
vaders, and to the policy OF wholesale slaughter
and rape, there are today only $4,000 Hawaiians
left of course means nothing to the imperialistx
who were able to coin gold out Of the Islands
rich soil
But the real issue now Is concerned with war
preparations Out of the $4,000 residents in
Hawaii, the largest single group, 139631, Is OF
Japanese descent OF these s7,74S again the
largest group, are American citizens In order
at one fell swoop to deprive these American cit-
zens of their rights as citizens, and to subject
them to the lynch law of the army and navy,
the Hoover government is preparing martial law
in Hawaii.
BY this means in carrying on its war prepara-
lions, American imperialism is preparing whole
sale internment of the entire Japanese popula-
ton and. 10 bolster this up, is fostering lynch
law against the other natives sympathetic with
the japanese
The severity Of the attacks against the ma
tives of the Hawaiian Islands, the preponder-
ating majority OF whom aIe American citizens
is an indication Of how sharp are the war prep
arations. This is a step % war.
Imperialism, which 5tarves millions Of work
ers in the homeland. driving countless thousands
to suicide to prostitution, to crime and degreda-
ton, repeatedly slaughters the colonial masses.
When the Philippines were invaded by the
United States in 1898, over 100000 Filipino men,
women and children were slain. Thousands
were tortured in the most cruel manner. A vler
page cannot be written than the cruelty against
the Filipino masses by the American invaders.
1t sickened even hard boiled army officers. The
American tortures of the Haitian masses will
never be forgotten by the Haitian workers and
peasants.
Only Ramsay Macdonald with his action
In India, can exceed the refined torture OF the
American military forces.
The great OF American workers, now
feeling the blessings OF American Imperialism,
faced with hunger, jailings, their children
racked with disease, can understand and fight
with the colonial masses against their double
oppression.
American imperialism Is preparing war in Or
der to preserve its whole rotten system at the
expense Of obtaining more colonies to exploit,
greater colonial masses to torture. This is the
road Of Wall Street. 1t Is the path that leads
to greater misery for the American workers.
Only the unity of the American workers and
poor farmers, with their colonial brothers in all
the lands in which the iron heel Of American
imperialism is now being stamped down with
insane fury. can end the whole torturous system
OF capitalist exploitation and the brutality which
grows eese ~ H.
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