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Show UNCLE SAM INTERNATIONAL Bully or Policeman? WHEN -WE HEAR the jlmpnss ioned protests of the Philippines, of Nicaragua amd Santo Domingo a-ga.inst a-ga.inst American aggr'essiion and tranny, let us remember that ninety-seven per cent of the population of these countries cannot make themselves them-selves heard. Most of thorn can't 'read Or write, know nothing of geography, geog-raphy, can't 'Understand what it's all a'hout and don't care which faction is in control so lorn? as they are left in undisturbed possesion of their banana patch. The yelling and pro tenting is largely done by that faction fac-tion of the educated three per cent which wants a free hand to exploit The "liberal" and "conservative" designations in Nicaragua mean nothing, noth-ing, except to differentiate the ins from the outs. In the Philippines the native politicians want Uncle Sam to get cut, because they want to put t'helr feet into the public trough without being hauled back by A-metican A-metican auditors. In Santo Domingo Dom-ingo the native black population was never as well fed, housed., clothed and protected as It has been since ;t'he marines threw out the grafting butr-herng native tyrants. As a result of Sanio Domingo's occupation occupa-tion the American creditors got their nionev, but the mass of Santo Dom-ingnns Dom-ingnns a-, a by-product got sarety. order, comfo-t. and education. No ri"ht-th;nkir-; American want- Uncle Sam to play the role of international inter-national bully, but ia Cpba, Porto Rico, in Santo Domhjo and eles-where eles-where he has demonstrated that the ignorant masses profit ! when h? swings his club and com'pels the pc-lit'Ci.ns to nop fighting for the spoils. March SUNSET. |