War Like Any Other Racket, Pays High

I Served In All Commissioned Ranks From Second Lieutenant To Major-general. And During That Period, I Spent Most Of My Time Being A High Class Muscle-man For Big Business, For Wall Street And For The Bankers. In Short, I Was A Racketeer, A Gangster For Capitalism.

...senate Doc. # 259. The 65th Congress(:)...the Coal Companies Made Between 100% And 7,856% On Their Capital Stock During The War (to End All Wars, Wwi). ...the Leather People Sold Your Uncle Sam Hundreds Of Thousands Of Saddles For The Calvary. But There Wasn't Any Calvary Overseas!

War Is A Racket : I Suspected I Was Just Part Of A Racket At The Time. Now I Am Sure Of It. Like All Members Of The Military Profession I Never Had An Original Thought Until I Left The Service. My Mental Faculties Remained In Suspended Animation While I Obeyed The Orders Of The Higher- Ups. This Is Typical With Everyone In The Military Service

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.

For A Great Many Years, As A Soldier, I Had A Suspicion That War Was A Racket; Not Until I Retired To Civil Life Did I Fully Realize It.