The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-02
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY


vertising columns. OF course, the edi-
tor presumably has no control over
what the business manager must do
in order to dam the deficit which is
whispered to be in the vicinity of
$1,000 a week. but the advertiser who
sells cheap suits was justified in con-
Guiding that paper selling cheap So
cialism would not object to handing
berry Al Smith bouquet If by so do
ing some deserving democrat might
be induced to purchase a suit. Did
not the great Hillquit compliment Mr..
Smith on his general goodness when
millionaire Hillquit was leaving on
trip to Europe once upon time.
Therefore the firm of Soakem and
Fleecem (nom-de-plume) in a special
convention declaration to the needy,
praised New York city ala Arthur 4
Brisbane and gave the following
doubtful compliment to AL Smith: II
can't think of man more capable,
more able for the highest executive
Office than our own popular al Smith
he's like our suits, All wool and a
yard wide" This Potash and Perl
muter style of advertising is in har-
mony with the political low comedy
INDUCED in by Hillquit's house or
gan.
One of those venerable and good wo-
men engaged in the rather entertain
ing and decently remunerative bust
ness of putting a rubber pad on the
tip of the capitalist boot so that when
the footwear comes into collision with
the posterior of labor, the latter will
not be jerked into eternity suddenly
and without due notice, but will wan
der aimlessly in a state of coma while
reformers apply cooling lotions to its
injured feelings. The lady is liberal,
and dispenser of sleeping drops to
the workingclass movement.
She takes a slam at the st. Paul
convention and declares she has no in
terest in the Communists and hazards
the prediction that the party formed
there will not amount to much. She
enjoys the distinction of being head
of a Consumers League, which rep
resents some 100000 individuals,
who let it be said, do their eating
without consulting any head other
than their own. Many amiable para
sites who now scratch labor's back
for a consideration will have to
scratch something else for living
when labor realizes it's power and
strikes off his shackles instead of al
lowing the so-called liberals to tinker
with his chains. These parasites don't
like the Communists because the lat
ter want to cure society by a major
operation.
The prayers of William Jennings
Bryan may have prevented the dele
gates to the democratic convention
from numbering each other over the
religious issue, but God and all His
tricks will not prevent Tammany from
double crossing the democratic candi-
date unless it gets what it wants in
terms of political emoluments. Rather
queer that God could not make him
self clear to his followers and pre-
vent all this turmoil He seems to be
as vague as McAdoo and as dumb as
Coolidge. He may satisfy William
J. Bryan, but he seems to have degen-
Grated since the old days when he
was lusty and savage brute who re-
al hse frta nd lxfI1nd fo
mics after the fashion Of Samuel
Gompers, but with more beating of
drums and sharpening Of knives.
The Prince of Wales has announced
his intention OF looking around for a
suitable wife after he has passed his
thirtieth birthday. The Prince. ac-
cording to rumors, is in no hurry to
burden himself with q wife but the
capitalist press ever fearful for the
continuity of the Royal Line begins
to warn him that England expects
every man to do his duty today as
we'll as in the days of Admiral Mel
son. The Prince is not known to have
any aversion to the fair sex any more
than his grandfather Edward had, but
the latter did the conventional thing,
while the young prince seems to have
inherited only the Bohemian portion
of his illustrious ancestors virtues. II
the prince does not find suitable
wife 1t will not be due so much to
dearth of applicants as to a superflu-
ity. Several shiploads OF American 4
heiresses whose fathers made millions /
during the war, are bookeu for pass
age to England They hope the prince 4
will give them the once over before
he casts the die. While they have
no titles, they have cash which is not
to be sneezed at these days.