The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-27
AS WE EE 1T
BY T. j. o'FLAHERTY.

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uubelieyer in Jesus Christ and God,
and l was sent here that he might be
redeemed and that might redeem
him."
"DUT 1 saved him." declared Rev.
. Hight as he finished his prayer.
Tears welled into the eyes OF the
mourners and they remarked: What
a holy man is our preacher! The Lord
was good to us when he sent him
here" When the preacher saw his
victim safely tucked in his clay jack
ct, he trotted along and bought an
other dose of arsenic to send his own
wife to the Lord so that his dear
brother Sweetin would have company
Hight is an inhuman monster, but be-
tween himself and the clergymen of
all denominations who prayed FOR the
souls of the boys who went to war
for Morgan few years ago, Hight de-
serves the benefit of the doubt.
KHAHATMI GHANDI, the Hindu pa
IVI cifist leader is on twenty-one
day fast as a penance for the Hindu
Moslem riots over religion. That re-
ligion is enough to make people fight
even when left alone, our readers will
agree. The bible and the sword usual
ly go together. 1t is hard to see any
thing in sword that would induce a
person to carry a bible, but there is
plenty in the bible that would send
a man running around with sword.
Ghandi does not believe in the sword,
as a weapon to achieve liberty. It is
true he used it during tht war fight
ing in behalf of the British Empire
but he changed his mind since then.
NHANDI was once powerful fac
" tor in India. He had the ear of
But when the crisis came, he failed.
Instead of leading the oppressed peo-
pie against the British forces, he ex-
coriated them for meeting force with
force. He dealt deadly blows to the
movement and is now discredited in
the eyes of millions that formerly
worshipped his name. Ghandi no
doubt, takes his methods seriously.
But fasting and prayer will not free
India. The old saying that those
who would be free, must themselves
strike the blow" is forever true. The
British imperialists will not worry
over Indians so long as the Hindoos
pray. They did not worry over Ire
land until the Irish stopped singing
God Save Ireland" and did a little
shooting. 1t would be delightful if
freedom could be achieved by a short
fast. An occasional fast is not in
furious to the health; in fact, it is
beneficial, but it is no substitute for
fight against the enemies of the work
ing class and the oppressed peoples
of the world.
N RTHUR Brisbane notes that a
n prisoner on parole got six months
for stealing six crullers, one month
for each cruller. How many million
years he would receive were he to
steal as many crullers as could be
purchased for the value, in dollars, of
the oil turned over to Doheny and Sin
clair by the members of Hardings
cabinet? This is a country in which
it is not safe to steal crullers" was
Brisbane's comment. ANY more would
be superfluous.
DREMIER Macdonald and Zaghoul
Pasha, premier Of Egypt, are dis
cussing the Egyptian demands for the
evacuation of the Sudan by the Brit
ish. Under no condition will the Brit
ish clear out of the Sudan declares
Macdonald, socialist leader Of the sec
ond international. He claims Egypt
has no more right to II than Britain.
which is rather frank, and further
more, British capitalists have invest
ed millions Of pounds there and the
socialist Macdonald must defend the
interests of His Majesty's millionaire
subjects. Ramsay, however, being a
man Of peace is willing to refer the
matter to arbitration, perhaps the
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