The question with the leader of the Venezuelan insurrection was:
“Who will finance me?”
The Asphalt Trust stepped forward with necessary funds.
No doubt the Trust was assured by Matos, the Insurgent leader, that in the event his revolution succeeded the Trust was to have dominion over Venezuela, like unto that which Standard Oil has over our own Eden of Christian Civilization.
At any rate, the Trust put up its money on Matos, who turned out to be the wrong horse.
Castro won. But the Trust continued to help Matos even after he had lost. Died hard, you see, because death is not the law of Nature with Trusts. Usually they live and the other fellow dies.
The Asphalt Trust is composed, in part, of American experts in Frenzied Finance. These marauders who were seeking new worlds to conquer planned to catch Venezuela in the same net which holds us.
Castro defied them, fought them in the Courts, whipped them, took away the franchise for non-performance of contract, etc.
Then they had the brazen audacity to demand that our Government coerce Castro.
The Trusts rule the United States—shall little Venezuela check their career of conquest?