People ARE Like That
People ARE Like That CONFIDENCE in self is a wondsrful quality. With it comes a spirit of contentment and satisfaction. Then all fear vanishes. A personal mental victory means so much to us...
...Wt a wopptr, and Jim announces that it will go out, first-class mail, tarly in Stpttmbtr...
...The American manufacturer no longer finds at home an adequate supply of raw materia...
...A series of diplomatic negotiations between the two governments ensued, as a result of which Japan undertook voluntarily to limit immigration of its nationals to the United States, but this did not prove sufficient to meet the objections of the people of the West Coast In 1924, when Congress was framing a new immigration law in the direction of drastic general restrictions, persistent demand was made for a provision denying all Japanese subjects entry into the United States for purpose of peranantnt settlement...
...1 fcope you will not fail to bring out the facts reported in the Haldeman-Juliut weekly of August J about, the injunction obtained from the Supreme Court of the Dittrict of Columbia to stop the payment of 'tachert' salaries for initructiafi held to be in disrespect of the Bible and the rider attached to the 19t8 appropriation bill passed by Congress referring this matter and any eriticitm to tht Government...
...Probably no other country hat ever been so completely dominated by foreign property interests...
...Foreign interests control 97 per cent of the rich Mexican oil wells and twothirds of the whole wealth of the country...
...In fact, to almost any topic progressive thought may be applied with splendid results, Uninteresting discussions can be easily led to other channel...
...Some members holding the applicant unworthy of membership be...
...He wantt to wait until tht wcathtr it cooltr because you will bt all "htt up" over tht matter...
...Thty mutt read, ana tvtry paper would patt among at Itatt twenty mtn...
...but tome tty it * much worie...
...The Labor movement of tiie United States standi practically alone in shunning direct political action and dividing its forces in support of old parties...
...The entry of th* United States into the League of Nations is opposed by many American liberals snd even pacifists on the ground that membership in the League would tend to embroil the country in intrigues and conflicts of war-torn, Europe...
...Kste L. Nevins...
...The Pan-American Federation of Labor is a potent factor for -the preservation of peace : on the American continent...
...Tht girlt act natural and tht mtn bathful...
...He warned the comrades of Europe to bear that fact in their minds...
...Hillquit wound up by calling th* attention of the delegates to the fact that when war is knocking at the door of European countries things do not always work out as Socialists expected them in times of peace, as, experience showed in 1914...
...American Labor has also made emphatic protest against American participation in international spoliation of China...
...WILL SAY THAT I DO NOT WANT TO MISS A SINGLE ISSUE AS I WOULD BE LOST WITHOUT IT I HAVE BEES...
...Actios wat taken, against the express warning of the Japanese Ambassador that such discriminatory legislation would wound the national sensibilities of Japanese people and might lead to grave consequences in the relations between the two countries...
...I wonder why Oneal or somebody else doe* not *nsw*r er review or do something tbost a book Ju»t written by Lewis, President of United Mine Worker...
...Every self-respecting nation is bound to hsve a logical or hereditary enemy, and in our Christian civilization the enemy is usually the neighbor...
...a Read the Socialitt press and good books...
...The presence.of Asiatic Immigrants on the west coast in population . reached 100,000 in the State of California...
...TSigned) Albert J. Reynolds...
...The national isolation of American Labor tends to make it somewant insensitive to the dangers of world imperialism, while its policy of political abstention weakens its direct power for the prevention of wars...
...This is a two-dollar book...
...Those Were splendid articles in your July ISth issue...
...This provocative practice persists to the present day, "If the mainsprings of MexicanAmerican differences are quite obviously rooted in customary economic motives, the causes of antagonism between the United States and Jspan are much more obscure and involved...
...During this revolutionary period the country adopted a new Constitution, in 1917, which is orus of the most advanced and enlightened contemporary political documents...
...Soma day when I have the Inclination and can find th* time I may hate to write one...
...A personal mental victory means so much to us poor humans...
...They do not assimilate with their American neighbors...
...Stveral timtt, in thit column, wt havt ittued warning of tht Utter whieh Editor Ontal ban in pickle for every reader of Tht New Leader...
...Knowledge of Socialism covert s wide vanety of aubjeett, from Government, politic*, Labor, banking, society, economic*, war and history to the theatre...
...Ripid industrial expsnsion of the country during ths war haa radically changed its international economic and financial position...
...Thty used to talk and kid a lot, but with tht girlt comma in for hair-babt tht mtn ketp pretty auvf...
...American imperialism differs slightly in substance and methods from ths imperialism of the other great capitalist Powers...
...Mn Reynold* and I tpent tht day at Inttrttatt Park, and we enjoyed your publication to much that I am enr losing my check for a ytar't subscription...
...Simultaneously with this another Comrade translated Blum's speech into English Hearty applause given to Blum's speechN>y the German comrades thit morrtkig was imefther sign of the revived urlairtirmy fend international brotherhood between the German and French comrades...
...I did not And anything I roald hand to a halfway Intelligent person...
...If Labor would at tha same time control the political destinies of the United States, international wars on a large scale would be rendered impossible...
...Fred Kraft, that splendid fighter for Socialism, never icUi under anything but hit real name and Ridgefield, New Jersey, it the correct address...
...SEND FIVE DOLLARS AND YOU WILL RECEIVE TEN THREE-MONTHS PREPAID SUBSCRIPTION CARDS AT THE SPECIAL PRICf OF 50 CENTS EACH AND A CLOTH BOUND COPY OF "ARROWSMITH" ABSOLUTELY FREE...
...Every spot on it is an active or passive danger point, and the United States is no exception to the universal rule...
...Hillquit began by paying glowing tribute to Hilferding and Blum...
...One of the provisions of the new Constitution vested title to all minerals and oil wells in the Mexican people...
...WISHING YOU THE BEST SUCCESS...
...Now it is true that America is separated | from Japan by some 6,000 miles ofjl water, but it must also be admitted that Japan is the nearest aggressive the powerful country west of the American continent...
...I fee...
...Within tha period of on* generation it perfected the organisation of its indastrial proceesea aad tha exploitation of domestic wetlth and resources and plunged resolutely into the inescapable final phase of capitalist development, imperialism...
...Following is a verbatim report of the most salient portions of his address : "In the competitive struggle of the capitalist nations for the world's wealth the whole globe it a potential war map...
...The English delegates interrupted the speech with their customary "Hear, hear," and there was warm applause at th* end...
...to some day have the inclination to write a bosk...
...Whence the came and lefeere the will go no one knows...
...They seem to be psychological as well as economic...
...Breitscheid 'translated Blum's speech into Gernisn, and an excellent, eloquent job he made of it, being one of the most important and eloquent orators of the German movement...
...Its varied forms are extensions of home territory...
...cause of his hope...
...Since prohibiting rioted moat of tkt talnont, tht barbtr't it the only hangout left for tht working multt...
...This natural sentiment is generally stimulated by patriotic munition makers, professional soldiers snd similsr interests of which America has its full share...
...The dawn of tha new century found it over wbelmingly industrial and capitalistic...
...It is no exaggeration to say that the courageous stand of American Labor and its determined opposition to ths propaganda of American concessionaires in Mexico have on more than one occasion largely helped to avert war between the countries...
...Only one-third" of Mexico is owned by Mexicans...
...New York City...
...1 "The Socialist Psrty of th* United States has st sll times tsken a consistent and militant attitude against .the newly developed imperialistic rooliey of government...
...During the period that followed American troops invaded Mexico under the guise of a punitive, expedition for the alleged purpose of avenging misdeeds committed by Mexican bandits en American coil...
...Chicago, 111...
...Mikt tht Barbtr says "Why don't you Socialists start a fund to send you,- paper to barbtr shops...
...Maybe Oneal la too busy cuaalng Cemmunlete...
...The organised American workers boldly extended the hand of friendship to their fellow-workers across the Rio Grande and established solid ties of international solidarity between the working classes of both countries...
...Fifty years ago the country was still prevalently agricultural and the farming population was its' dominant element...
...As a matter of practical experience, American non-participation in the councils of the League has not availed to keep the country free from international political entanglement but has served to lessen the power of th* League to repress...
...Others held that even with inclination ha would not write a book, and that if he did it would be valueless...
...He enumerated thereupon important instances where this was the case...
...They concentrate and in on* or two counties of th* State ef California they make up a third of the whole population...
...Tha most acute friction between the two countries does not srise from their international relations hut from the treatment which Japanese subjects have been accorded is the United States, particularly in the State ef California and other states on the Pacific Coast...
...The Japanese people considered the last as a deliberate and gratuitous insult to their pride...
...WECEIVED YOUR LETTER ABOUT .MY SUBSCRIPTION EXPIRING...
...Official American representatives actively interfered in internal affairs of the country, seekins to dictate the choice of its President, ana nnaiiy ths United States Government dispatched and published a number of notes to its Southern neighbors which outraged all conventional diplomatic courtesy by their peremptory and censorial tone...
...The organized workers of the country, represented principally by the American Federation of Labor, have not always taken as definite an attitude against war as the Socialists, but to their credit be it said they have consistently opposed the imperialist policy of the Government, and because of their numbers and importance their opposition has heen effective and in some instsnces determining...
...He spoke soberly and interestingly of the American Federation of Labor, giving it credit where credit was due...
...At the campaign price you can easily sell the cards and then you will hive this two-dollar book without cost...
...Through It sll ths keeps the faith, feeling certiin in her own inimitable way that each day the growt one diy older...
...Some folks csll her "Angel...
...American foreign trade his grown apace since the war Its merchants are competing with the most powerful European rivals for the world market...
...It was the American Federation of Labor also that brought into being the Pan-American Federation of Labor, composed of chosen representatives of Labor organisations in a number of American countries...
...Foreign interests wer» allowed to continue exploiting the oil wells and mines under Government concessions and upon payment of substantial taxes...
...Then, whenever the opportunity tffords, you will be equipped to knock the stuffed shirts from their high horses...
...Watch for ths first installment in this Column...
...The Society For Tired Radicals met recently -to consider the following application...
...I want Into the R*nd School th* other day to get a pamphlet on Socialism...
...that thousands would gladly subscribe were if belter advertittd...
...I wish to be eonaidered as an applicant for membership In th* Society For Tired Radicals...
...The American workers have thus succeeded in a task in which their | Government has signally failsd, gaining the confidence of the South American people...
...Whan England, France and Germany will be simultaneously and permanently governed by Labor the peace of Europe will be largely assured...
...The new measures aroused the determined opposition of American investors—whe organized an insidious and systematic propaganda againBt Mexico and succeeded in enlisting the active support of the United States Government in defense of their interests...
...American Socialists oppossd the Spanish-American wsr snd were practically the only politically organised group of American citizens who publicly objected to the entry of the United States into the World War...
...If ths American workers have led the campaign for the exclusion of the Chinese snd Japanese immigrants they have done so solely in defense of what they considered to be their vital class interest...
...When I aee some signs of the Party coming to life I may r*con*tder Joining the above-mentioned orcanlietlon...
...That's because we feel more able to hold our pwn in the struggle for existence...
...You can oft-times be very htppy and contented in your discontent...
...The United States hat gone through all thete stages...
...The Japanese press protested against it in vehement terms, and general public resentment in Japan is by no means allayed...
...The application waa then received with three cheers and referred to the membership eemmitteeja "Arrowomith," by Sinclair Lewis, author of "Main Street," it the season'* bett teller...
...They breed large families, are enterprising, capable and frugal, and their very virtues inspire their neighbors with almost superstititious fear...
...othen call hsr down...
...W$ will continue to strive for a bigger and constantly improved New Leader, Next week in thit column we will print the first installment of the iiiry of "Alms, the Girl Who—" It's thrilling and grips you to the last comms...
...Hit tpeech wis listened to mott attentively and greeted with loud applause...
...The reading of th* application precipitated a warm discussion...
...Some or yon fellow* who write for The Leader ar* tuper-eatorated with optimism...
...It has extended it* territory in continental North Americr, acquired oversea possessions, established affective protectorates, and is now,entering upon the phase of international rule through money power...
...They carefully refrained from joining militarist anti-Japanese agitation on the basis of racial and national antagonism...
...Many Socialists have attained this atste of mind Confidence, lik* hippusau, fear or court**, ire largely dependent upon mind training Taking two people in equal circumtUncea, one may be almost continually depressed in epirits while the other may be comparatively happy One aogrce of contentment is the ability to meet, without apprehension, sll sorts'of people in conversation...
...Imperialism may bs defined aa the exercise of dominion beyond tha original or natural boundaries of a country...
...for iti production, nor i large enough market for its output, nor sufficient field for reinvestment of its profits...
...acquisition of oversee colonies...
...Even with t veil ¦he would tet her face like flint to the last drop...
...The State Legislature of California passed laws Imposing economic and social disabilities upon Japanese residents, to the great irritation of Japan and the embarrassment of the United States Government...
...How do yon get that way...
...The present-day race between war and peace is at the bottom only one of thai Anal phases of the agelong struggle between competition and cooperation, production for profit and poduction for use, Capitalism and Socialism...
...Signed) John M. Collins...
...New York City, will furnish almost any book on any subject, and thit of course includes Esperanto...
...During the regime of Porfirio Diaz, who ruled Mexico as dictator from 1876 to 1911 and lavishly bestowed grants of land, oil wells, mires, and other concessions to foreigner!, there was little troublebetween the adjoining republics...
...that the alert Coronet overlooked the review of Lewis'Jmok, spread over a column In the July 4 issue of The New Leader,'he tide was definitely turned in favor of the applicant when the secretary quoted Section ( of the by-laws: "Applicants who are confident they csn write a better book on Socialism than any produced heretofore and who feel the utmost freedom to criticise at all times without any knowledge of facta, may be admitted to membership...
...The United States as well as Jstpan ars members of th* International Consortium which exploits that un fortunate country and ths Governments of both nstiona are keenly concerned about the share of spoils that goaa to their respective nationals...
...Iti bankers are beginning to finance the world...
...It is somewhat, more menacing at this juncture of the world history only because of the great economic preponderance of the country...
...Above all, it is important that the great body of American workers be brought into eloser contset with the economics...
...ACCORDING to the program, there wat not to be a session today to that committtet could sit in various halls, but Morris Hillquit's speech, "America on Disarmament and Peace," waS carried over from yesterday's business...
...Also there were translations from Blum'i speech left over from yesterday, so yesterday's session wat continued this morning under the sam<* chairmen, Well for Germany, and Victor Berger for America...
...Eurene V. Doha ssya: "One of the best volumes contributed to working-class literature is 'The Workers in American History,' by .lames Oneal...
...The United States has covered the customarycycle of economic development with' amazing thoroughness and rapidity...
...Before the war the United States wat stilh mainly concerned wjth the development of its own resources, partly with .the aid of foreign capital it was in debt to foreign investors to the extent of $5,500,000,000...
...Box 383, Antioch, California...
...I'am interested in Esperanto and I do and would appreciate it if you would put mi in communication with those who will let me know about the books, etc., where they mat1 be had...
...From the time of the Spanish conquest 400 years ago it' has never ceased to be the object of covetous foreign intrigue...
...Its manufacturers are vitally concerned in foreign control of certain essential raw materiel...
...Mexico has the misfortune of possessing fabulous natural wealth and a weak, unorganized and untrained population...
...Tht Rand School Book Store at 7 East 15th street...
...The book ought to be read by every truthseeking person in the land...
...He remarked, however, that they nst^ urally spoke from a purely European point of view and that the situation in America is different, and while Socialists on the whole are in hearty accord with European comrades, yet specific American conditions and views growing out of them create a tomewhit different attitude regarding certsin details...
...A persistent campaign for intervention in Mexico was inaugurated which threatened to break out in open hostilities in 1911 when 1,000 United States troops were ordered mobilized on the border...
...The New Leader give* it free with their speeisl campaign offer...
...Tha greater part of these foreign, holdings' are in the hands of United States capitalists...
...establishment of protectorates and development of the more subtle spheres of influence in foreign countries...
...Many of our expectations and prcaehings, expressions of international solidarity, and all our preparatory work that was based on principles of Socialism, were smashed to pieces...
...It is imperative that the United States join the League of Nations, provided that the League is widened by the admission of Russia and Germany and that its constitution is thoroughly democratized...
...When we win, hands down, in an argument, the chest expands, head comes up and life seems easier...
...In mtny localitiet there will be elections in November, and to take idvtntage of the political interest germinated our subscription department makes this special offer...
...Many think ths't bid...
...Wishing I lived where I could do more to help you, and not all ¦ alone on a deeert island, which with broken leaves is a desert of water, I must forego what I would like to say and do, and wish vou dad speed in helping to bring mankind to a wiser and saner method of lift...
...The great Yellow invasion of the American shores is therefore a favorite bugaboo of American militarism...
...Millionaires have tought to adopt her without avail...
...Sunday warning I picked up a copy cf The New Leader on the Dyckman Ferry...
...To understand the seemingly unreasoning hostility towards the Japanese Immigrants, certain special conditions must be understood gregarolus habits...
...Htllquit spoke for sn hour...
...This was my first contact with The New Leader...
...In this powerful form of new imperislism it has attained tremendous proportions within the last decade...
...In recent years Amsrlcsn possession of the Philippine Islands has furnished sn additional talking point In the anti-Japanese propaganda, 'Japan is scheming to capture Philippines.' "Practically the only direct point of Japanese-American economic contact and rivalry is China...
...You are strong in facts, and after sll people retpect knowledge even though they mty not agree...
...His last remarks were an appeal to the European comrades be take more interest in th* American Labor movement and te bring it within the international working-class fold...
...A MEM- » BER Or THE SOCIALIST MOVEMENT FOR OVEK THIRTY YEARS AND I CONSIDER THE NEW LEADER THE BEST YET SO EMCLOSED YOU WILL FIND 12 FOR ONE YEAR...
...Rufus Osborsua MARSEILLES, Aug, 24...
...At thit time American private investments in foreign countries are estimated at the stupendous sum of ,,$10,000,000,000 and they are growing by leaps and bounds...
...Popular hostility developed against them similar to that which led to the excluaion of the Chnese...
...The time when the great American republicstood aloof from the rest of the world, complacent in its splendid, isolation and separated by two vast oceans from thj intrigues of Eastand West, is long past...
...People ARE Like That CONFIDENCE in self is a wondsrful quality...
...The 'SuperPower—Promise or Menace' and 'A History of Industrial Criminals.' The rest of the ittue was fine to me, but those.two things, tht 'Power' and the 'Crime,' are living issues about which everyone hould be active...
...But the dictatorship was finally deposed by a successful revolution and the last fourteen years have been marked by a contii.uous struggle of the Mexican people to regain their own country punctuated fey revolutions ajid political changes smd culminating in the recent election of President Plutarco Elias Calles on a Labor platform...
...The most effective work for peace was done in Latin-American countries while American capitalists were busy fomenting war sentiment against Mexico in aid of their sinister design to appropriate Mexico's wealth and to enslave the Mexican people...
...On th* whole the struggles of the American workers against the dangers of war era not at effective at thott of their fellow-workers in Europe, and that for two principal reasons — their abstention from working-class polities and their aloofness from the international Labor movement...
...Referring to America again, he pointed out how the American Federation of Labor, unconnected as it is with the international Socialist movement, has yet done a great deal toward preventing war...
...New York City...
...No radical need be s wall-flower...
...Thert it a thrtt-peund packagt in connection therewith—the biggest three poundt you ever taw in your life...
...struggles and pacific aspirations of their fellow-workers on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean and that they acquire greater political power and influence at home, for, after all, the most realistic hope of each of universal peace and international good, will lies in the advent of Socialist Labor Governments in the important countries of the world...
...I have before me the stenographic report and I am cabling the mott important, patsages...
...However, after hearing...
...The Socialist Psrty has condemned every act of armed intervention by the United States in Central American Republics snd vigorously eombatted sll war propaganda directed at Mexico snd Japan...
...It's a gain in self-confidence...
...Watch for Jim't letter, which will be delivered direct to you the week of Labor Pay...
...Thanks for the compliments...
...Signed) Jean Jacqnea Coronet...
...I was pleated with th" letter Fred Kraft, of Ridgefield, N. J. and thought I would write directly to him, but hie name, at signed, looked so much like a pen name that I was afraid I might not • each him, so if you think bttt you can forward my letter to him or put me tn communication with othtrt...
...It has never failed to make public protest against aggressions in foreign countries and to point out the criminal character of dollar diplomacy and its fatal tendency towards war...
Vol. 2 • August 1925 • No. 35
