The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20


have passed. Bourgeois civilization
has borne all its luxuriant fruits. BY
the high level Of development Of the
productive forces Of organized human
labor, by utilizing machines and all
the wonders Of modern technic,
America has taken the first place
among free and cultured nations. But
at the same time America has be-
come one Of the foremost countries,
as regards the depth Of the abyss
which divides q handful Of brazen
bilhonaires who are wallowiug in dirt
and in luxury on the one hand, and
millions of toilerS who are always
on the verge Of starvation. The
American people, who gave the world
an example of a revolutionary war
against feudal sub lection, now ap-
pears as a new, capitalist wage slave
of handful Of billionaires; finds it.
self playing the role Of = hired as
sasSin for the wealthy gang, having
strangled the Philippines in 1898, I'm
der the pretext of '1iberating" them,
and Strsngling the Russian Socialist
Republic In 1918 under the pretext
OF protecting" it from the Germans.
But four years OF the imperiaiist
slaughter Of peoples have not passed
in veEn. Obvious and irrefutable
facts have exposed to the end the
duping OF peoples By the scoundrels
OF both the English and the German
group OF brigands The four years
OF war have shown in their results
the general law Of capitalism as APP
sad 70, bNaS4
The division OF spells; that he who
was richest and mightiest, proAted
ana robbed the most; he who was
weakest was robbed, decSmated,
crushed and strsngled TO the utmost
In number OF Colonial slaves" the
English imperialiSt cutthroabs have
always been most powerful. English
capitalists did not lose q foot Of their
own" territory acquired through
centuries OF robbery, but have man
aged to appropriate all the German
colonies in Africa, have grabbed
Mesopotar1is and Palestine, have
stifled Greece and have begun to
plumber Russia.
German imperialiss cutthroats we're
stronger in regard to the organiza-
ton and discipline Of their" armies,
cut weaker in colonies. They have
lost all their colonies, but have
robbed half Of Europe and throttled
most Of the small countries and
weaker peoples. What great war of
liberation" on both sidesi How well
they have defended the fatherland"
these bandits OF both groups, the
Anglo-FTench and the German CAPT
talistS together with their lackeys
the social hauVinists, !. G., Socialists
who went over TO the side Of ''their
own bourgeOisie!
The American bilItonairea were
richest Of all and geographically, the
most secure. They have prof1ted most
Of all. They have made all, even
the richest countries, their vassaIs.
They have plundered hundreds of
billions Of dollars. And every dollar
is stained with filth; filthy secret
3RctS between England and her "aI-
les" between Germany and her vas
sails, pacts on the division of Spoils,
pacts on mutual aid in depressing
the workers and presenting the So
Observation-Disclosures. Every dol
lar Is stained with the filth Of ''profit-
able military deliveries, enriching
the rich, and despoiling the poor in
every country. And every dollar is
stained with blood.-of that sea of
blood which was shed by the ten
millions killed and twenty millions
manned in the great, noble. liberat-
ing and holy war, which was to de-
eide whether the English or the Ger
man cuthrOats will get more of the
sp0ils, whether the English or the
German executiOners will be the first
TO smother the weak peoples the
world over.
While the German bandits estab-
Iished record of military brutaIi-
ties the English established a record,
not only in the number of looted
colonies, but also in the subtIety Of
their disgusting hypocrisy. Precisely
now TIE Angl0-French and American
bourgeois press Is spreading in mill
lions upon millions of copies, their
lies and calumnies about Russia. by
pocritically iustifying their predatory
expedition against her by the alleged
desire TO protect" Russia from the
Germans!
1t is not necessary to waste many
words to disprove this despicable and
hideous lie; it is sufficient to point
out one welI-known fact. When in
October, 1917, the Russian workers
overthrow their imperialist govern
ment, the Soviet power, the power Of
revolutionary workers and peasants,
openly proposed just peace, peace
without annexations and indemnities,
a peace fully guaranteeing equal