The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 2, 1926, Page 7

ee ee ee: | wy Second Section: SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 11926 Buyin ot THE DAILY WOR This Magazine Section Appears Every Saturday in The DAILY WORKER. nc Papp ER EdAvter Si 290 The Problem Is Not to Get Rid of Your Own Arms, But to “Get the Drop” on the Others. What Kind of Blood This Morning? THE QUARREL ABOUT THE WORLD COURT. THE overwhelmingly dominant elements of American finance cap- ital want to put the United States in as a regular member of the world court. Some of America’s capitalists want to stay out, and say some very hard things about the world court for that reason. There is no question of whether the United States government is getting ready for the biggest war of history, There is no doubt that the United States government and the finance-capitalists whose . political sub-committee the government is, are putting into execution vast plans for international exploitation which must be backed up with military force, Anyone who doubts this ig in a class with those who write letters to Santa Claus, These interests conceive the entry of the United States into the world court to be necessary to their plans, However, how do we account for the opposition of the Borah group in the United States senate and a considerable element of ‘American finance-capital against the “European orientation” ? Why these terriffic denunciations of the “European entanglements”. as voiced inthe senate and in the newspapers of billionaire publishers? Are these people PACIFISTS? Certainly not, Perhaps the best press representatives of this current are the Hearst newspapers and the Chicago Tribune. It is well known that Hearst drinks a quart of Japanese blood and a pint of the juice of Mexican laborers for breakfast. As for the Chicago Tribune, it is perhaps the most frankly bru- tal exponent of the ideology of foreign itary adventures.. But the Tribune (like the Hearst papers in this respect) does not take the orientation toward Europe, It turns its bloodshot eyes always toward the South and the Pacific, That current in American imperialism for which the Tribune speaks is one which with especial belligerency claims Mexico as a colony of the United States, It is one which shrieks for a military establishment for the conquest ef South America, and which is as eager as any to plunge into a world war in China and the Pack fic, but-which does not want to expend the strength of American militarism in Europe. It does not want the United States to enter the world court. ‘ . The Tribune seems to think that the orientation toward Europe will destroy or postpone its ambitions for the annexation of Mex- co, the “glorious” conquest of every state in South America and the American strangulation of China, Apparfently for this reason the Tribune engages now in attacks against the league of nations and the world court—as exampled in an editorial of December 17 ; “If the United States were being urged by the Standard Ol! company, the International Harvester, the National City Bank of New York, the’ United States Stee! corporation, etc, to adhere to the world court and to join the league of nations in order that this nation might declare itself a full partner in the divvy of the world’s resources, the debate jin the sen- ate would have the virtue of recognizing the realities as they exist in these two organizations. America, gagged by the moralistic gas which has been pumped into its lungs, is asked to submit to a scheme which (Continued Op page 2)