War Is A Racket. It Always Has

Out Of War Nations Acquire Additional Territory, If They Are Victorious. They Just Take It. This Newly Acquired Territory Promptly Is Exploited By The Few - The Selfsame Few Who Wrung Dollars Out Of Blood In The War. The General Public Shoulders The Bill.

I Spent Thirty-three Years And Four Months In Active Military Service As A Member Of This Country's Most Agile Military Force, The Marine Corps. I Served In All Commissioned Ranks From Second Lieutenant To Major-general.

I Helped Make Mexico, Especially Tampico, Safe For American Oil Interests In 1914. I Helped Make Haiti And Cuba A Decent Place For The National City Bank Boys To Collect Revenues In. I Helped In The Raping Of Half A Dozen Central American Republics For The Benefits Of Wall Street. The Record Of Racketeering Is Long. I Helped Purify Nicaragua For The International Banking House Of Brown Brothers In 1909-1912. I Brought Light To The Dominican Republic For American Sugar Interests In 1916. In China I Helped To See To It That Standard Oil Went Its Way Unmolested.

War Is Just A Racket. A Racket Is Best Described, I Believe, As Something That Is Not What It Seems To The Majority Of People. Only A Small Inside Group Knows What It Is About. It Is Conducted For The Benefit Of The Very Few At The Expense Of The Masses.

I Helped In The Raping Of Half A Dozen Central American Republics For The Benefit Of Wall Street. The Record Of Racketeering Is Long... Looking Back On It, I Feel I Might Have Given Al Capone A Few Hints. The Best He Could Do Was To Operate His Racket In Three City Districts. We Marines Operated On Three Continents.