Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-12-29
Stray Shots


Old Darkey's Advice.
Don't be what you amt;
Jes' be what you is.
If you is not what you am,
Then you am not what you is.
II you're just little tadpole,
Don't try to be frog;
If you're just the tail.
Don't try to wag the dog.
You can always pass the plate,
II you can't exhort and preach.
If you're just little pebble,
Don't try to be the beach.
Don't be what you amt,
Jes' be what you is.
All the little pets of capitalism are
going to be fed up big on the in
creased profits that will come to them
through the passage of Congress of
the Fordney- McCumber Tariff Bill.
The railroads made a loud noise
about protecting the men who re-
manned at work when the strike was
called. This was done with the idea
in mind to wipe out the PRINCIPLES of
seniority, SO that when it suits their
purpose they can weed out those
workers most active in the protection
of rights of their fellow employees.
This would punish the most independ-
ent, forceful workers and intimidate
others.
If men paid dues as freely and
with such good will as they pocket
the benefits of organization, there
would be no strikes to speak of, and
all unions could dispense with the
services of organizers.
Herrin, H., was put on the map
with bang and offered to the Dollar
Barons mouthpiece an opportunity to
spill a lot of verbal slime on the
miners and their organization.
The Western Banker" of Omaha
comes out editorially discouraging
cooperative banks. The argument OF
the "Western Banker" against the
plan marks the recognition of the
banking business that collective bank
ing is a menace to the old idea. Col
lsctive banking is only another step
forward.
Cooperation is the best means
that may be employed today by the
consumers to do away with the Spe-
cial privilege of the moneyed arls-
tocracy and the proiteering of the
private tradesmen.
"Lawlsss Courts" is Senator Rob
inson's Characterization of the Fed
eral Court of Chicago because of Its
issuance of a temporary injunction
against the striking shopmen in re-
Spouse to the request of Attorney
General Daugherty.
Not satisfied with demanding an
Injunction that denies constitutional
rights, the Attorney General notified
big business that it could depend on
him to fight for the anti-union shop.
While no one ever doubted the posi-
ton of Mr.. Daugherty, he elinched
the matter by making it matter oil
record
The bituminous coal profiteers are
robbing the people of the country at
the rate of a billion dollars year.
and neither Congress nor the eXecu-
tive shows a disposition 10 effective
~ interfere.
Now it comes out-through an IN
teryiew with Mr.. Warfield-that the
steel trust made its recent raise oil
wages to prevent steel employees from
accepting employment with the rail-
roads. =.
II seems, therefore, that the old
adage-that it's an i'll wind that
blows nobody goods again vindi-
Gated. But will the raise sticky
will Gary cut his slaves down again,
now that the rail strike is settled
The railway shop crafts have been
forced to take a "a per cent reduction
in wages within one year. The Gov
eminent gives the railroads a bonus
of hundreds of millions of dollars and
a guarantee of profits on top OF ne
bonuA
Thanks to the strikes and the poll
tical campaigns, the administration
adroitly shifted public interest from
the war fraud profteers whom At,
torney General Daugherty promised
to prosecute when threatened witt
impeachment.
Now we have it on the authority
of no less a parsonage than the At
torney General of these Unitec
States himself that there was graft
ing during the war, and that n