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theme of pietist exposition and Hoover has also

learned the role. He could say to the recent legion

convention at Boston, “We know that there is no

financial, traditional or military imperialism in the

American heart.”

How that sentiment was received by Cubans,

Nicaraguans, San Dominicans, Haitians, Mexicans

and others whose valuables have been annexed and

whose sovereignty have been in some part taken

over by American bankers and enforced by the

bayonets of American marines we do not know.

However, it is rubbing salt into bleeding wounds

to stand on a man’s neck and at the same time as

sure him that you have no unworthy motives in

your heart.

This same Imperialist pietism is also a big ex

port in the matter of Europe’s troubles.

These gentlemen often rise to assure the Euro

peans that Uncle Sam took no territory as a result

of the war, received no indemnities, levied no trib

ute and gained no material advantage out of the

world butchery.

As a matter of fact, our ruling classes are the

only ones that got anything substantial out of the

war. The tribute levied upon the losing nations in

the final analysis flows into the vaults of Amer

ican bankers. Europe is still in convulsions because

she is being bled by our usurers. They are more

responsible than anybody else for the rise of Hit

lerism in Germany and the threat of civil war in

that unfortunate nation.

Imperialist Uncle Sam is Uncle Sham. He is

a compound of Uriah Heep and Pecksniff and it

would require another Dickens to properly char

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The Milwaukee leader. (1930). Milwaukee, Wis., 1930-10-28. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045293/1930-10-28/ed-1/?sp=14

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Milwaukee leader, 1930-10-28.