The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-01-24
CAUSE OF THE NEXT WAR

fin the death, by starvation and by
disease, of Russian men, women and
children. During three long years
the Allies have carried on these &C
tivities without succeeding in forcing
la declaration of war from Russia.
"The Russian people are very pa
tient. They had need of patience un-
der the Cars, but there is limit to
Everything. There are hundred and
fifty million of Russians. These peo-
pie feel bitter against the capitalist
government that have attacked and
blockaded them. They have an army
the largest in Europe, If report
speaks true Some day that army will
come into action against the armies
of the Allies-come with the fervor
and ardor OF revolution, and when it
comes, Europe will witness another
terrible massacre and another fearful
destruction of wealth.
49, Then, there are the enemy coun-
| tries - defeated in the great war,
stripped of their navies and of their
merchant ships; of their colonies; of
their investments in foreign countries;
of their coal and iron; dismembered,
saddled with heavy indemnities in adj
dition to their onerous taxes. These
enemy countries are suffering under
the smart of terrible military de-
feat. But more than that, after re-
voting and driving out their despotic
rulers they have been subjected to
an economic punishment more fright
full than any that has ever been adj
ministered in modern times The
governing classes feel this; the people
feel it, and they are all ready at the
first opportunity, to rush to arms in
vindication of their international posi-
ton and of their national rights,
which they believe were grossly vio-
lated by the treaty of Versailles. No
opportunity was lost; no effort was
spared to humiliate the defeated and
to visit upon them drastic economic
punishment The vanquished and
Inundated are preparing to come
back, and the Allied nations know it.
"a. There are the exploited coun-
tries; the 'undeveloped' portions of
the earth; the promising investment
field; the good markets-Mexico, In
dia, Korea, Egypt, Persia, China and
the others. Africa has been under the
heel of western business men for gen
erations. The same thing is true of
India and other portions of western
and southern Asia. These peoples,
hundreds of millions, have |
been kept in ignorance and held in |
bondage, while the British, German,
French, Belgian and other traders and |
investors made free with their prop |
erty and their lives. In the Belgian
Congo, the black men were treated |
with indescribable cruelty; the peo-
pie of India, after a century and
half of British rule, are almost de-
Liberately curtailed in order that the
indian market might be open for Bri-
fish manufacturers. Mexico has been
victimized again and again by the
United States. Hayti, Santo Domingo
and Nicaragua have felt the weight
Of Americas imperial fist. Under the
treaty, with its mandates" and its
guarantees of territorial integrity,
.hese peoples, comprising the bulk of
he worlds populations, are to be con-
.inued in "tutelage" while Allied cap
talists plumber and Allied govern
nents tax and kill.
"The Baku conference of the East
,rn people september, 1920 is the
beginning of an organized protest that
challenges the right of the west to
continue its exploitation of the East.
ndia is aflame with revolt, and the
mailer eastern countries are await
ng the signal to begin a holy war,
religious crusade, against the domi-
lation of Western civilization.
Whether the proposed expulsion of | |,
he Sultan from Europe will start the
onflagration, or whether some other
park will set it off remains to be
cen. But the spirit of liberation is
broad in the earth, and any group !
f nations that seeks, with or without
covenant, to continue system of E