The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-12
AS WE SEE II

III BY I'd. O'FLAHERTY
While Coolidge was being boosted
in Cleveland as model American,
courageous and just, the Christian La
borers' Association OF Toxic was dis
tributing handbills which denounced
Pontius PLATE and Calvin Coolidge as
the two greatest towards in history.
Calvin opposed the Japanese exclusion
law but nevertheless signed it. PLATE
is alleged to have adopted the same
attitude toward the execution Of
Jesus He washed his hands off the
crime but allowed the agitator to be
hanged. Coolidge is small bore poll
tician, who has come to the front in the
Republican party not because Of force
Of character but owing to his dog-like
humility in the presence of the big
financiers of this country and his ODE.
dience to their wishes.
The capitalist papers of the United
States regret that the French radicals
see the necessity of compelling Miller
and to resign tho it is entirely uncon-
stitutional to take this course. Consti-
buttons, however, have habit of bow
ing before new conditions. Millerand
after considerable clustering decided
to, quit. Now, the so-called radicals can
show what they cannot do. Meanwhile
the position of the French Communists
is being strengthened among the work
ers The French Communist Party has
$4,000 members and their official or.
gan Humanite has circulation of
quarter million daily. It's rival daily.
the organ of the socialists, died last
week. The political pot is boiling
furiously in France and the future is
with the revolutionary workers.
Coolidge has his ear to the radio
receiver that brings the speeches de-
livered in the large Cleveland Audi
torium to the White House. He hears
nothing but sweet words about him,
No doubt he is pleased. But all the in
habitants of this great country are not
at the G. o. P. convention and they do
not all expect to get fat jobs for ut
tering words of praise for Coolidge.
There are millions OF workers being
thrown out of work and hundreds Of
thousands Of farmers losing their
homes and their farms because of the
exactions of the profit system which
Coolidge so Loyalty supports. What
they say about Cautious Cal will not
be relayed to the White House. But
they will make themselves felt next
November at the polls.
May these delegates be men Of
clean hands and clean minds" PRAYED
Bishop Anderson at the G. o. P. con.
vention, as he looked around for trace
of Harry Daugherty. The bishop con-
tinued: Within the past year thou
didst bring us as a people face to face
with the stern reality OF eternal worlds
once again. Thou didst call us to stand
with tear-dimmed eyes in the press
ence OF our fallen chieftains, laid low
by the hand OF death. When in this
unsearchabIe wisdom it pleased thee
to summon our chief executive into
the unseen world, thy hand was still
over us for good"
The Bishop might be thinking, "oh
God, why in the devil, when thou didst
snatch Jess Smith away from his boot.
leggers and caused thy devoted serv.
ant Warren to sample his stuff ton
often, thus bringing him to thee be.
fore the Teapot Dome scandal would
have killed him politically; why did
the evil one induce thee to leave Har-
ry Daugherty with us to spoil our
chances of putting Cautious Cal over
the tape next November. l tell thee.
oh God it is hell, to ponder on how
we shall be smitten by the children Of
Satan who infesteth this land, for thy
crimes of omission Thou vert doing
fne when in thy invincible wisdom
thou didst inspire Clara Smith to pull
the trigger on Jake Hamon, but suffer-
ing catfish, thou didst stop too soon
and left us Daugherty. We shed salt
tears over Harding because he was the
last" That is what the bishop probably
thought but did not say out loud.
Theodore Burton said the Republican
Party stands as always for law en-
forcement. You would hardly notice
1t during the Teapot Dome quiz when
Harry Daugherty and his man Burns.
instead Of running down the cuIprits
who had robbed the government had
all the department of justice sleuths
framing up on the senate committee
which was doing the investigating.
Every CRATER who robbed the natural
resources Of the country was immune
from punishment under the Harding
and Coolidge regime, and under all
capitalist regimes for that matter.
whether Democratic or Republican but
the Coolidge gang were more brazen
and shameless than any of their pre-
decessors. The Republican Party, how