The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-03-26

mand for stimulants created by pro-
hibition.
Miss Ellen NJ. LaMotte, q sincere
aud forceful writer with an uncanny
knack at getting at the truth OF
things and citing facts that disturb
the poise and peace of mind of the
bourgeois is out with new book
4sTHE OPlUM MONOPOLY" (Mc-
Millan).
Miss La Motto quotes from the
Statesman s Year Book and from vari-
ous British documents, which reveal
the information that the British traf-
fic in opium in the far east is
government monopoly, carried ont un-
der department of opium administ-
ration, and bringing handsome re-
venue to colonial governments at the
expense of the hideously wrecked lives
of thousands of orientals
The trade is not direct from En-
clishman to addict. To quote Miss La
Motto: "The men who buy this opium
at these monthly auctions (of the Bri-
tish governmentj and afterwards dis
pose of it are q curious crowd OF
Parsees, Mohammedans, Hindus, and
Asiatic Jews. Few British names op'
pear iu the opium trade today. Bri-
fish dignity prefers not to stoop
beneath the taking in of profits; it
leaves the details Of dirty business to
dirty hands,
Miss La Motto will be remembered
rs the author Of "The Backwash of
War" which contained the most re.
markable picture Of war horrors ever
penned. This book was suppressed
''thru fear Of the effect it would have
upon civilian morale" In other words
Il was suppressed because it would
never do for the people to learn the
truth about war.
Wonder what Wilson thought when
China thanked us for following Wash.
ington's adviceP
John Maynard Keynes, fellow of
Kings College, Cambridge, the leading
British authority on gold and repres'
entative of the British treasury at
the peace conference in his book the
Economic Consequences of the
Peace" advocates among other things,
the reform of the currency founded
upon INDIRECT REPUTATION of
internal national debts, cancellation
of internally indebtedness dating with
in the period of the war, and a
two billion loan
He concludes that an anti-German
uneconomic peace would mean that the
Central powers would collapse first
dragging down the rest of Europe;
that a pro-German uneconomic peace
would mean the collapse of the Allies
first dragging down the rest of Eli
rope; and neutral uncconomic
peace would mean that all Europe
would collapse together. In his
view the nature of the peace merely
determines which shall go down first;
in the end all will go down, so far as
any treaty of peace is concerned.
When a Socialist or Communist
says similar things its red raids and
persecution from the department of
Justice 30, but when the British
Authority on gold says it, wonder
if it will soak in anywhere
The book is published by Harcourt
Brace and Howe N. Y. (By mail
$264).
The bourgeoise have now figured it
I'll out. 1t was not the loss Of the twely e
million lives in the war that hurt.
It was not the loss of the billions of
dollars but il was the loss of THE
HABIT OF WORK! That work habit
IS an awful habit and their diagnosis
may be true, but is it not possible
that the shock of the horrors of war
made the people THINK for them.
selves and try to answer the question,
Are we working to live or living to
work1
/ do not mind working in order
to live, but | would hate to think
that I lived just to work, especially
when ] had to work under such an ar
rangement of society that l got the
work and the capitalists got the re.
ward.
The Detroit News published car.
toon of well and fashionabdly dressed
fur.elad saucy looking little miss label.
ed dancing teacher talking to a
poorly clad i'll nourished bodraggled
looking woman labeled 'schoOlteacher'
She was saying educate their feet
THAT pays"
Kansas now has an anti.strikc law
with teeth. The governor iustifics it
on the ground that the rights of the
consumer are greater than the rights
Of the producers. Wonder how that
governor would fit into n society where
producers could be consumers and
consumers MUST be producersl
Last Cuban sugar crop sold for
about &c pound. If you are shy of
sugar You can sweeten up on that
information.
Now the "unspeakable Turk has
had four.fifths of his nation taken
from him according to the daylie press.