The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 2, 1926, Page 8

THE FIGHT AGAINST THE WORLD COURT (Continued from page 1) has yet to do a thing not vital to the Interests of its dominating members. And to submit as a credulous Jack rabbit in a kennel of greyhounds, “Atrocities Give Title. “tt Is with considerabie Incredullty that we read the unanimous de- clsion of the council to give the oll to Great Britain and the barren land to Turkey followed by the burst of Indignatlon over Gen. Laidoner’s report of the Turkish atrocities In Irak. Irak contalns the oll. Incredulity that the realists of European empire should have had the face to predicate their decision upon a thing so remote from their considerations. When have. atrocities disturbed these gentlemen except as they might happen~ where there were resources? “Evidently the habit is so woven Into the texture of modern exploita- tion that it cannot be hidden even when Its appearance Is farcical. To find a point of honor in a field of interest Is the whole doctrine of modern land grabbing. . .” But is the Tribune moralizing under the influence of the Christmas season? Not by a hell of ashot! She continues: “Any one who searches for morals in history is possessed of an un- conquerable illusion, and any one who seeks moral justification for a nation had better strictly limit the time for which he seeks it and be con- tent when he finds that self-interest and morals happened to coincide. . .” Is it possible, tho, that the group of American imperialists be- hind the Tribune is a group of anti-imperialists? Not at all. The editorial continues, and shows with the crudest directness just where the Tribune wants American troops to march—in South America and Mexico! The Monroe Doctrine as applied today is the program for the garrisoning of every South American and Mexican city with United States troops, and the shooting of ali who resist, and the direct exploitation of Latin-American labor by United States capital. Says the Tribune: “If we want a HAPPY COMBINATION OF SELF-INTEREST AND MORAL OBLIGATION, there it is, EXPRESSED IN THE MONROE DOCTRINE. It is as large an obligation as a nation ever undertook, and its consequences are found in the general well-being of the nations of two continents. “The United States senate is being overpowered to depart from all the sound advice of statesmen who have gone before, from all the ex- perience of the country, from all intelligent reading of history. It is be- ing doped and driven into moral indorsement of and moral responsibility for a scheme which worked out under Dyer at Amritsar, under Sarrail at Damascus, which is working in the Riff and in China and in central Africa, BUT WHICH IS NOT WORKING ANYWHERE IN THE AMERICAN HEMISPHERE. America is urged to come in and “condone this, applaud it, help it and give it moral support, and take the chances of having the, system it adopts turn against it and injure it at the first chane “Old America would not have been hypocritical’ “eflough ‘to give t an amen and would have been too hard-headed to be caught in it, . .” (Our emphasis.) As for the attitude of the capitalist interests represented by the Tribune toward Mexico, an editorial of November 23 put the thing with a ghastly frankness that beats anything the present writer can do: “Mexican Exclusion; American Intervention. “Mexico’s parliament is considering a bill which would limit alien ownership of land and require that corporations in which foreginers are interested have more than fifty per cent of their stock held by Mexicans. “It is Mexico’s latest move at exclusion of the foreigner. By the same token, it is Mexico’s latest move to provoke what she is trying to prevent—intervention. The handwriting on the wall is plain. “Mexico, opening her gates to foreign developments, will benefit and retain her national sovereignty. Mexico, closing her gates to alien infilt- ration, will have those gates broken down. “The normal expansion of nations does not recognize pacifist move- ments. “The borders of Mexico confine some of the rich garden spots of the world. Unable even to govern themselves. much less found productive industry and business, the Mexicans have let their resources go undevel- oped. Foreign capital, American, British, Dutch, and German, has done What the Mexicans themselves have been too weak to do. “Now, in a futile gesture of natural pride, Mexico prepares to play dog in the manger. That sort of history has been written before. His- tory, which is based on the fundamental passions of mankind, does not recognize humanitarian theories.” So the capitalist forces speaking thru the Tribune are of the war party as regards Mexico. But how about the rest of the world? Does this capitalistic gang want to keep out of war in the other parts of the world—Asia, for instance? Not by any means. Refer to an editorial of the Tribune of last October 20. It reveals a plan, definite and fully conscious, for a world war AGAINST SOVIET RUSSIA and for the wholesale banding of all imperialist governments for war against the supppressed and rebellious peoples of Asia and Africa. The Tribune of last October 20 said editorially: “WINNING GERMANY FOR THE WHITES FROM THE REDS, BLACKS AND TANS, “It is revealed In London that fear of Russia enabled Great Britain to bring western Europe to the new peace of Locarno. John Steele, the Tribune’s London correspondent, says that Austen Chamberlain, British foreign minister, saw another war coming. The question was where Germany would be in it. “Peace with the Soviets of Russia is impossible. ft Is impossible just as peace with Napoleon was impossible. War was the texture of Napoleon’s existence. It is the first principle of Russian syndicalism or red Communism, which cannot live in peace with the older, capitalistic, individualistic system of social order and government. “Conflict is unescapable between two such systems. The Soviets It Can Be Done { A cartoon by Maurice Becker Julio Antonio Mella, the Communist leader Imprisoned at Havanna, Cuba, has been released from prison as a result of the protest of workers In the United States, Cuba, and elsewhere. do not deny it or disguise it. They can’t. It would be an abandonment of principle if they did. They can make other retreats, but not from the doctrine that their relation to the rest of the world is one of war.... “In the unavoidable conflict between sovietism and the individualistic - society of white civilization the place of Germany by tradition and con- viction was with its recent enemies, but that place could not be taken unless these enemies would make it possible. They were driving Ger- many to agreements and treaties with Russia. Russians were on the outskirts of every conference in which Germany received new rebuffs and new humiliations. “. 1+. The British empire has a long boundary of subject peoples In great unrest and discontent and sovietism is a gospel for hewn man -. durider the heeht Pe = is béundary of subject peoples, black and’ genau? land ° tan, the Soviets could promote more unrest... . “We do not know where or when the whites and the reds, the blacks, tans, and yellows will meet in settlement of the issues they have between them, but we know that it is a good thing Germany has not been forced into the Soviet combinations but has been permitted to take a stand with THE GROUP WHICH, IN SUCH A STRUGGLE, iteneigcatoacsc: THE UNITED STATES.” (Our emphasis) So we see that the dominant elements of American finance cap- ital are about to annex the United States government to the world court of the league of nations as a maneuver concerned with imperial- istic plans and a great world war. We see that the opposition to the adherence to the world court is also concerned with deliberate plans for imperialistic conquest and the preparation for the great world war. The fight in the senate against the world court is not an anti- imperialist fight. The world court group is the war party. The anti-world court group is also the war party. Both lead directly to war against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and against the populations of Asia, Africa and South America. Both are busily arranging for the United States to enter this war. The difference between these two is a difference boteenn the particular interests of groups of capitalists, as to the precise detail and immediate direction of the preera of wncionsie murder and world conquest. A point to be bye rr ga is that. both forces are directed toward a war for the destruction of the. Union of Socialist Republics. The fact that Borah, who will lead the fight against the world court unless the differences are adjusted over the holidays, is-in favor of the recognition of the Soviet Union, does nof alter this. Both are the war party of imperialism. There will be no voice raised in this debate in the senate against the coming world war of conquest. The only voice that could be raised would be the voice of the working class. The working class has no voice in the senate. The working class does not yet understand, in the United States, that - its ref mobilization for independent working class political — is a matter of life and death. Thru political action as a class (including parliamentary ac- tivity), the workers will learn the lesson of revolution. The voice of the working class in the senate now would help to teach the work- ing class that—not in the senate nor in any other capitalist parlia- men-—but in the proletarian revolution alone can the end of these incredibly war plans be defeated ; and only by the establish- ment of the world Sain of Soviet republics,” —R. Agee