The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-04
WILSON, MORGAN
WAR MAKER, is
TAKEN BY DEATH
Struck Down in Kansas
with Workers in Prison


son, wartime president, is dead
Death ended four years of chronic
invalidism that began four years ago
while on his League of Nations tour
thru the west. He took to his bed as
the presidential train was passing
thru the Kansas city of Wichita
where more than 30 oil workers were
rounding out their second year of
Imprisonment, without trial. on es-
pionage indictments prepared by his
attorney general.
The final chapter of the late presi-
dents illness began with an attack
of indigestion, which rapidly took a
severe and fatal turn. Hope was
soon abandoned.
The Wilson Legend Exploded.
Wilson's death came five years too
late for him to pass into history with
the aura of legend that has attached
to other stricken rulers and ex-rulers.
His physical death comes just five
years after the death of the Wilson
legend at the time of the Versailles
conference when he abandoned the
fourteen points that spread his name
thru European peoples as the apostle
of liberalism.
The Anti-Morgan Candidate.
True to the irony with which poll
teal history is written the anti-Mor-
gan candidate was the war president
under whom Morgan's son doubled
and trebled his fortune in the great
est orgy of profiteering the country
has ever known.
Wilson's election came in the
three-cornered fight between the G.
0. P, the Bull Moose and his party,
in which the winning democrats had
plurality but no majority. In
neither presidential election did Will
son ever have a majority of the total
national vote.
The doctrine Of the s'New Free
DOM" with its vague radical phrase
ology led well meaning liberals to be-
lieve he would try to restore condi-
ton of Jeffersonian democracy.
Wilson's Imperialism.
Followed a foreign imperialistic
policy in which the oil interests were
assisted in their grab of Mexican oil
American sugar lords were strength
ened in their domination of Cuba;
Haiti and Santo Domingo were con-
quered and 5000 Haitians slain, by
an American invasion ordered with
out sanction of Congress and capt.
talistic revolutions were engineered
in Central American republics.
Diplomatic assistance was given to
the Allies in their blockade of Ger
many while newspaper tora toms be-
gan arousing the war psychology for
later use.
''He Kent Us Out of War"
Liberals still chung to the presi-
dent, however, as he went into the
1915 campaign against Charles Evans
Hughes, with the Democratic slogan,
'He Kept Us Out of War"
Quickly came breaking of diplo-
matte negotiations and a full-speed-
ahead course towards war. Then
war, CONSUMPTION of men but no con-
scription of profits, and the tramp
ling under foot of all civil rights by
wholesale raids and indictments and
trials under anti-free speech laws.
"Force Without Stint or Limit, :"
become the announced motto of the
late pacifiist.
The Fourteen Points.
Liberals still had faith in him, how
ever, for he announced that the war
was being carried on for the liberia
ton of the people of Germany and
promulgated the Ia points pledging
the German people that if they over
threw their autocratic government
and surrendered that they would be
dealt with in kindly fashion and as
sisted back into the family of nations.
The Germans took Wilson at his
word and surrendered on the basis of
the ID points.
The Failure at Versailles.
At once came the allied blockade
which murdered tens of thousands of
German children. Then came the
Versailles peace conference which
riveted the chains Of the allies about
the neck of the Germans in direct
contravention of the ID points.
Wilson returned home but the
temper of the people had changed.
When he reached Seattle where or
ganized labor bad supported him be-
fore, he was met with cold request
from the trade unions that he free
the political prisoners still anguish
ing in U. s. penitentiaries. BY the
time he reached Kansas he collapsed.
In the Chicago Federation.
While several delegates were on
their feet to oppose a motion in
structing the president Of the Chi
cago Federation of Labor to send
letter to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson,
expressing the sorrow Of the labor
movement of Chicago over the death
of the former president of the
United States, John Fitzpatrick, at
yesterdays meeting Of the Fedora
ton, shut off dislission and put
the question to vote, and it was
carried.
The motion was introduced by
Delegate Ed Wright, one Of the
most reactionary members of the
federation. Woodrow Wilson. the