The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-26


thousand lives for this oil field, so
many for beating the Germans to that
seaport, which opens to good
market-so many British working
men left as shrinking corpses on the
Gallipoli coast, in exchange for so
many pounds sterling worth of future
trade in the Black Sea. The great,
dark masses of midas oppressed
people were dipped into and thrown
into the gamble for trade. And so
on, and so on.
But conscript armies are danger
Gus thing.
1t were safer to stick to the New
York poultry merchants plan of hir-
ing a few mercenary gunner. But
when one oligarchy starts conscrip-
ton, the others have to follow to keep
from being overwhelmed. Conscript
armies have to be kept "psycholo-
gized'-in a maze of illusions about
democracy" and country and
utterly ignorant of their mission.
This is hard to do except in victori-
Gus army.
One of the great oligarchies among
the Allied. Powers, had military
defeats that faded the Illusions.
Russia broke out in revolution. Eco
nomic collapse plunged the masses of
workers into uncomfortable hunger and
rage. The exploited masses began to
understand what they were doing, and
got out Of the war; then the masses
of workers and peasants formed their
own framework of organization, and
homegrown mass-murderers. Then,
for the first time, the tall, marble
palaces of state were raided and the
evidence against one gang Of the in
ternational poultry merchants" ex-
posed. Forever the illusions are ex-
ploded. The crudest and coolest
blooded death-plots for gain are
shown to be the whole substance of
the diplomacy" of all imperialist
powers without exception.
America Is Brought In
Great Russia had opened a new era
of history.
The cold calculators in Paris and
London banks, pouring over the led
gers Of death, saw that they were
going to lose the contest; the other
cold calculators in Germany were
going to win, and this would mean
a colossal loss of francs and pounds
to French and British capitalists, loss
of the hoped-for profits for decades to
come, loss of the power and the ease
for which they did their trading and
made their war.
They needed loan" Of several mil
lion men. They applied to their pawn
broker, Mr.. J. P. Morgan, in New
York.
Mr.. Morgan is popularity supposed
not to own the population of the
United States. But-speaking of him
as the symbol of the hierarchy of
which he is the most spectacular head
when he was approached by his
clients and asked for the loan of the
lives of four million men, Mr.. Morgan
WIS ooAC ~ NOAhPAy Will tnC AC4uCSls
Within few days a hundred thou
sand printing presses owned by the
American capitalist oligarchy were
grinding off the psychological mobi-
lization orders" Morgan's ministers
of God were shouting hate from a
score Of thousands Of pulpits. Nor
gan's Democratic congressman and
Republican congressman were pass
ing laws which would snatch mp four
million Of the most useful young men,
tie them in bundles called regiments
and ship them to Europe as a loan
from the Morgan bank to the Bank
of England and the Bank of France.
The American Observation-Disclosures .
interests were involved. Morgan and
his associates IN coldly sending these
American boys to murder and to be
acted no less criminally
than dfd fha ol,,r,n x,,urdo~o- a. NJ.