The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-21

AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY

HENRY FORD, Thomas Edison and
Harvey Firestone, three of the
biggest industrial barons in the United
States, stopped at Plymouth, VT, to
pay their respects to President Cal
win Coolidge. Henry and Calvin are
great friends ever since the latter
promised to let the former have Mus
ole Shoals for a "fiiyver" The deal
did not go thru but that was not
Coolidges fault. Henry was duly
grateful and withdrew his candidacy
for the presidency and came out for
Calvin.
TO show his regard for Mr.. Ford
1 and also perhaps to induce the
fiivver king to throw some cash into
the Republican treasury, Coolidge pre-
sented the Detroit manufacturer with
a family heirloom to be placed in the
Wayside Inn, Massachusetts tavern
made famous by Longfellow's sagas
and bot recently by Ford. 1t was a
sap bucket that had been used in the
Coolidge maple bush for % years. Il
never have received anything since /
was married that | appreciated so
much" Ford replied. Coolidge has
not yet been presented with gavel
by New England labor faker, which
is surprising, in view Of the fact that
he claims credit for breaking the po-
licemens' strike. Labor takers usually
appreciate such services.
VNIHILE Coolidge was governor Of
wv Massachusetts he was never a
popular figure. In fact the police
strike saved him from the political
dump heap. Ever since that incident
a myth has been carefully cultivated
until this puny, weasel-souled Puritan
has become the Little Father of mil
lions Of empty-headed Americans who
take their thinking from the headlines
in the capitalist press. Coolidge Is a
very useful man to the capitalists.
He hits on all six cylinders for them
all the time.
The Gaelic American, organ of the
secret Irish political machine
known as the Clan-na-Gael, is out for
LaFollette, principally because Of his
opposition to the Ku Klux Khan. The
Clan-na-Gael, was organized osten-
sibly to help free ireland from British
rule, but 1t has never been anything
else than a capitalist policital ma
chine to place aspiring Irish politi-
clans in office. The Gaelic American
supported AL Smith for the Demo
cratic nomination for president. Had
Smith succeeded, that paper would
now be singing the praises of the
Democratic Party. What crazy-quilt
conglomeration?
THE French foreign Office announced
that no further excavations of
German territory was planned by the
French until after the chamber rati-
fed the London agreement. The CAPT
talists know how to play the game in
order to enable the German delega-
ton to the London conference to show
something tangible in return for sign
ing treaty turning the country over
to set of receivers, the French only
at the instigation of the British,
evacuated a few small and unimpor-
tant towns in the Ruhr. Then to mol
lily the Poincare richards Herriot on
his arrival in France issued the above
statement
british troops killed three hun
- bred Waharis tribesmen in Trans
Jordiana. The rest were driven from
towns they had occupied. The British
fleet is hurrying to Egypt to pump
British democracy into the rebellious
Sudanese. Ramsay Macdonald is a
fine pacifist. He is also a Christian
and attends religious services regu.
1arly. Killing is supposed to be
against the tenets of pacifism and also
against the law Of the Christian God.
But capt. ism like Jehovah will have
no other b. . before 1t and pacifism
simply means that the big capitalists
should stop fighting each other Kill
ing natives is perfectly all right, good
sport and not so dangerous.
NAIVE optimists were of the opin.
IN ion when Ramsay Macdonald as
sumed Office that new chapter would
be opened in the history OF the British
Empire. Perhaps new chapter has
been opened with the name OF Ramsay
Macdonald at the top, but the reading
matter is Of the same old pattern.
Macdonald is running the empire for
those who own 1t just the same as
his predecessors have done. Mac
Donald does not believe in the over
throw Of the capitalist system. He is
as much OF socialist as Morris Hill.
quit or Victor Berger. The New York