The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-05

WHAT lulOtS are we to believe that
they wouldn't break any other or diff
ferent treaty? Or do you intend, I'M
der this pretext, to wheedle us into
some Holy Alliance" or the League
of qmperialist) Nations?"
But why should any nation-includ-
ing America-break any treaty and
go to war, Mr.. LaFollette? / refer
you to Mr.. LaFollette for reply: Just
as in this country, so in others Tex
cept Soviet Russia), surplus capital.
acquired by exploiting the resources
and people of the country begets i'm
perialism which breeds inter-
national strife in the markets of the
world and inevitably leads to war"
But you have no solution for this
war-making capitalist system, Mr.. La
Toilette. Only the Communist Inter-
national can cut this Gordian snarI Of
conflicting capitalist interests, with
the sword of international revolution
of the proletariatl
What silly nonsense is this making
of firm" treaties to OUTLAW" wars?
At this moment the very governments
upon which such treaties would rely,
are busy at London quarrelling over
the Dawes Plan, which is one plan
of dividing the spoils of ruthless
slavery of German labor. And in
their quarreling Britain's Tabor"
government is showing the teeth of
forty miles of warships to France
which, insulted, growls back thru her
socialist" government with threats of
airplanes and colonial armies. And
by your failure to denouce the Dawes
Plan you lend silent approval to these
war-making "pacifst" imperialists!
Though you have endorsed them,
and said your government would be
like them, the workers can put no
trust in such governments as that of
England, which massacres Indians
and Egyptians and Expresses its own
workers, or the French government,
the sabre-rattler invader of the Ruhr,
or the German government, model Of
socialist treachery, murderer of Lieb-
knecht-the one man in the parlia-
ments of world capitalism who at
tackled war in time of war. Nor can
the workers trust you, LaFollette.
who urge peace with such murderers.
Only when the world proletariat has
overthrow and suppressed capitalist
governments and capitalism, will it be
safe from capitalist wars.
You Have Two Faces, Mr.. LaFolIette.
There is still another reason why
you should not be trusted by the
workers in the future threats of war,
Mr.. LaFollette. Your performance in
the past war is an example of Mister
Facing Both-Ways."
Before war you repeatedly said that
the American people were being
"stampeded into war" Why, then,
did you apologize for your voting
against Wilson's request for war dec
laration? And why did you vote for
So out OF so war measures passed by
Congress-? You even boosted about
i'll LaFollette, II not a "hundred-per-
center" is at least "Ninety-two-per-
center" patriot You even pride your
self on having voted for every meas
ure ito provide enormous appropria-
tions for building ships" Yet these
are the appropriations almost wholly
stolen by profiteering grafters while
the soldiers and sailors went to their
deaths ipsufiiciently clad, armed and
fed And you knew this would hap
pen when you voted, didn't you, La
Toilette? Just as knew. and stated
and went to prison for stating.
Everyone knew the profteers were
going to "clean up'-and so you knew
II. Why did you help the ersftors?
Debs, pitiful figure, now tries to find
in your wife's puny, charitable GEES
ture for his release, some excuse for
his support of your candidacy. But you
yourself. never opened your mouth for