"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service
and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for
Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a
gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and 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 benefit of Wall Street. I
helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers
in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar
interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit
companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went
on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few
hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I
operated on three continents.
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly
the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only
one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are
reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I
believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the 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 very many. Out of war a few
people make huge fortunes."
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