The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-01

thought as much Of labor as it did
Of capital.
A short stoeky, little gentleman
with a spotted vest Whe was sitting in
a corner was announced as tho speak
er of the evening. His name was
kept a secret, hut we were told he
was from New Jersey, and l believe
he is a colonel, whether in the Amer
lean army or the army Of the Lord,
/ do not know. However, he is a
fighting man and will 60 to bat with
the devil any time. He said so and
we must take his word for it.
The Khan Has Fsur Planks
The Khan stands for four main
propositions he declared: First for
the Christian religion, second for
the christian home, third for the
public schools and last, but not least,
for government.
What got this man Of Gods goat
particularly, was the information
given to him by a doctor in a New
Jersey city, that 80 per cent of the
girls going to school in that parti-
cular city were afflicted with ven
ereal disease. The unknown doctor
heard this unknown speaker deliver
lecture in the unknown city and
after the meeting was over he came
up and grasped him by the hand, con-
fessed he did not know the devil
what he was talking about (quite
possible) but said, that he talked like
q man who would qualify for men,
bership in the janitor's union. He
had Job that required men Of his
type and it turned out to be cleaning
up several houses of prostitution
which fieurished in the neighborhood.
Now, the speaker has no prejudice
whatsoever against Jews and Cath
olics; he absolutely admits that--but
it happened that two Hebrews were
the managers of one of these houses
of shame and that Catholic police
men undoubtedly were patrolling the
neighborhood. The speaker assured
the venereal specialist that the Khan
would relieve him Of considerable
practice and reduce the exigencies of
his profession by closing down these
social pest houses at the next cleo
ton. The method is to threaten the
politicians with any number of votes
up to one hundred thousand and then
watch their smoke
New Jersey is unfortunate in being
located near New York, which is
called Jew York in the Invisible
Dao1,,, EN,.o,,, to- 4o-os-~..o -.
enter New Jersey for a few pennies.
The Christian home must be main
tanned, he vociferated and according
to the speaker, but for the Khan,
virtue would be as rare in America,
as an Indian on the banks of the
Shannon. It is unnecessary to fol-
low the Unknown Nightie into the
realm of assininity into which he
f1oated, suffice it to say that he
raved like a regular preacher and
talked about God as if he went to
church with him.
When the unknown. finished
speaking, the Klokard got down to
business. He confessed that he was
an Irishman and as proof of that as
sertion he exhibited a green rag and
cracked a joke about a bed bug.
This was not very convincing to the
lone Irish Catholic who never saw
such a piece of cloth before, having
the temerity to masquerade as an
emblem of Ireland and the joke tho
biting was of the kind that is not
very welcome in polite society.
He evidently did not consider the
fact of being born in Ireland, suf-
ficient to prove that he was a human
being 50 he insisted on selecting an
English woman for a mother and tax
ing unto himself a German woman
for q wife. He also brought forth
half dozen children in America to
prove that he was not . follower of
Margaret Sanger and by a clever
piece Of sleight Of hand turned sew
eral flags into one American flag.