The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-13
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. }. o'FLAHERTY.

N RTHUR SEARS HENNING, the
N most authoritative political liar
on the staff of the Chicago Tribune
invaded the realms of free verse in
his attempt to extol the United States
which is at this Notwithstanding
to therepublican party-basking in the
reflected glory of Calvin Coolidge
Henning saw bricklayers going to work
in fivvers, fields heavy with grain
Che did not mention the grain grow.
ers heavy with worry over what the
grain spectators and elevator owners
would do to them, and a young lady
returning from college perhaps CO.
ed from Northwestern University, kiss.
ing rustic male at a village way sta
tion. Everything looked good to him,
including the OSCILLATION.
LOW different all this is to the con-
dition of the people in Europe,
sings Henning? Well, what of it?
The wealth of this country was not
created by the Chicago Tribune and
the parasitical capitalist class. The
railroads, fiivvers, Pullmans, even the
rouge on the cheeks of the girls who
kissed the rustic, were produced by
the workers, not by the class whose
pied pipers. Henning and his co-work.
ers in the field of journalistic harlot-
ry, are. Who does all this wealth
rightfully belong to? To the pro-
ducers or to the exploiters of the pro,
iucers?
FINfPTsv 1because this country is
- wealthy is no reason why the
few should be allowed to grab off all
the wealth while the workers exist
on the crumbs that fall from the
tables of the rich. 1t is an additional
reason why they should get busy and
take what rightfully belongs to them.
The impudence of the American cap
italists and their fuglemen merits adj
miration To attribute this wealth to
the wisdom of Calvin Coolidge and the
political sagacity of the republican
party is even more so.
TOR ourselves. we will admit that
] this country is rich. But we ask
the five or six million of unemployed
how much of this wealth they have
got. | should have said unemployed
workers" There are two kinds of
unemployed. Those who are out of
work because the boss does not see
At to employ them and those who
don't work because they are too busy
trying to spend the profits from the
labor of others. Henning may see
anything his paymasters want him to
see. Capitalist journalists like alien
lists look at things thru the spectacles
provided by their masters. But the
workers are also beginning to see
things. There are many Tribunes to-
day and only one DAILY WORKER,
but the Tribunes will be on the de.
crease while the DAILY WORKERS
will increase. And this is a good
time to suggest that our readers send
a brick flying back to the business
once of this paper with the name of
a new subscriber on it,
-
I OOKING for arguments to use
l. against the capitalist system is
not in itself reason for eyestrain.
Nevertheless, the author of this col
umn was obliged to visit an optician
and thereby hangs tale. The white
collared slave who waited on me re-
marked that in his opinion Calvin
Coolidge would e. our next president
My answer perceptibly narrowed his
collar. As his bile was passing that
portion OF the human anatomy known
TO the laity as Adams Apple, he man
aged to inquire how Calvin hit the
bottom OF my estimation.
OUCH a supernuous question al
- most rendered me bereft Of
speech so resorted to the dirty
Yankee trick OF asking him how Cal.
Win Coolidge happened to win his ap.
probation. He was knocked much
more speechless than was. IL you
will pardon the bull" In order to
break the deafening silence. began
10 timber up by linking Calvin with
Wall Street. assuming that my audit.
or did not know the dictionary deflini-
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