The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-07
AS WE SEE 1T
BY 7. J. o'FLAHERTY

twenty years ago, Wllllam jennings
Bryan was expressing the opinion that
Robert Marion LaFollette should get
out of the Republican party. Fight
in Bob" was even then claiming to be
ia progressive, tho he continued on
terms of friendship with some of the
staunchest reactionaries in the G.. o.
p, among the number being Boies
Penrose. LaFollette is still in the
Republican party and evidently in
tends to stay there unless He'll and
Maria Dawes uses the broom of rs on
him. That is "Bob's' emblem.
Denmark has appointed an ambassa-
dor. One by one the die-hard govern
ments that hoped for successful
counter-revolution in Soviet Russia
have thrown up the sponge. Almost
every country in Europe that can az
ford to pay a minister's fare to the
Soviet capital has now recognized the
Workers Republic. France is the only
outstanding exception, but recognition
from that quarter is expected daily.
The little agreement between our
whiskered Mr.. Hughes and the
goateed Mr.. Poincare became a scrap
of paper in the political debacle, and
tho conversations are still in order be-
tween Paris and Washington, it is not
probable that Herriot, elected on a
platform that included recognition of
Soviet Russia, can retain his political
head and hold Hughes esteem at the
same time.
The regent of Abyssinia, by name
Ras Taffari, eats his meat raw. He
is now in London, accompanied by
flock of princes, who presumably have
the same culinary tastes as their lead
err The regent has already visited
France and Italy. His object in visit
ing those countries is to see If he
could not learn something from them
that could be put to the advantage Of
his native country We do not know
whether the Abyssinian gentleman is
particular about his raw meat, but if
he is We sincerely hope he gets hun
cry when he is received by Mr.. Ram
say Macdonald and the Archbishop of
Canterbury.
Andrew Mellon, bootlegger extraor-
binary to the court of Gal" Coolidge,
is on his way to London to attend
convention. We drag Andrew into the
picture simply because another boot
logger, engaged with Andrew in the
favorite American sport of making
money without working hard for it, is
fitting himself out for prolonged So
journ in Atlanta. Andy's unfortunate
pal is CASTOR B. Means, a man referred
to by William ]. Burns as one of the
greatest living detectives. Mellon,
besides being bootlegger, is secre-
tary of the United States treasury as
a side line. The late Mr.. Harding EN-.
ployed Means to get" Mellon. Then
all the bigger crooks turned on Means
and got him.
1t is almost worth comment that the
name of the notorious defective"
William ]. Burns, has not appeared in
the press for quite some time. Does
this mean that we will not have our
monthly calculation of the Wall Street
bomb mystery any more? II he has
any originality he might put it to good
use now trying to dig up a candidate
for the Democratic party who is
neither a wet nor a dry, a Catholic
nor a Protestant, nor on the staff of
one of the oil companies. If success
full, grateful Democracy might put
him back on his job.
Premier Herriot may desire to 60
easy on the Ruhr, but those who own
France will have their pound OF flesh
no matter who is in ONCE. The
French chief went to England for a
conference with Ramsay Macdonald,
and the latter, under the guise of
pacifism and a desire to bring about
the sterilization of Europe, was at
tempting to put something over on
France to the advantage of England.
When Herriot returned to Paris the
agents of the trusts almost tore out
his eyes. What" they shrieked,
accept the Dawes plan except as a
means of getting money? We will
take all the money we can, but get
out of the Ruhr-nothing doing"
And Herriot solemnly assured his
masters that he had no intention OF
whiting down the guarantees that
French "honor" demanded. Those
radicals" Ramsay Macdonald, the
ocialist-pacifist, shoots down Hin.
docs, builds battleships, breaks
strikes. Herriot. the liberal. breaks
his word on Soviet recognition. fol
lows Poincare's policy in the Ruhr
the worst is yet to come
Won't Help Children.
ATLANTA, Ca, July 6.--The sec