The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-01
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. j. O'FLAHERTY.

Wilson's League of Nations was
killed on the floor of the Democratic
convention, but owen D. Young OF
the House of Morgan was busy on the
platform committee. Wall Street
cares more for the substance than
the shadow. Conventions are only
held every four years but Morgan is
on the job while the conventions are
in adjournment. Wilson's League OF
Nations got under the skin of the
American voting king because certain
capitalist politicians not all too happy
under the domination of Wall Street,
prodded their superstition's ribs with
Washington's farewell address. Before
the voters cooled down, Wilson was
politically dead and so was his
League. But the Dawes plan smells
just as sweet and the common pee
pull are not getting so excited over
it. After all, Dawes is human. He
swears and wears a pipe upside down.
The Conference for Progressive
Political Action may have started out
with good intentions but it is now a
political Matchmaking machine. 1t
threatens both capitalist parties with
retribution unless it gets what it
wants when it wants it. Like gang
of burglars, the C. p. P. A. is not in
agreement on what it wants. Thieves
fall out. Some of its leading mem
bers are for LaFollette. Others are
equally enthusiastic for McAdoo. 9th
ers are for AL Smith. None of them
are for the workingclass. The CAPT.
talists are not terribly frightened over
the spectre of the threatened July
4th conference. They know it's lead
ers are for sale to the highest bid
der and outside of the small element
that is honest in it's desire for La
Dor Party, the composition of that
conference will be not one whit more
progressive than the donkey circus
now in session in Madison Square
Garden.
Now that Mussolini has had time
to wash the blood of the Socialist de-
putty Matteotti off his hands, la Pom
thus Plate, the American capitalist
papers which were too premature
in bouncing on man they thot was
down, hav~ regained courage and now
damn him with faint criticism. Per-
haps the editorial writer's on the spur
of the moment gave expression to
their honestto-God opinions before
they had time to consult their own
ers. Whatever is the explanation,
Fascism came in for hard knocks
when the news first broke that Matte
ttti was murdered. Now, however, the
tune is changed. The capitalist pa
pers, Democratic and Republican, join
in saying that the Italian people can
not forget that the Fascist saved
Italy from Communism.
That was the real peril for the CAPT
talists. What of it if several thou
sand workers were murdered by the
flendish brutes under the direction of
Mussolini? The robber system was
temporarily saved. Mussolinis wild
men, however, should be punished
for dragging the great mans" repu-
tation in the gutter. Capitalism must
have Gods. The wild men must not
be allowed to go around killing re-
an tah 10 tie fnlt Cte r1a
are perfectly innocuous and are only
bleating for the return of bourgeois
lawrnorder after the fashion of our
own LaFollettes and Bergers. Fascism
must be careful II not good. But
even when naughty, 1t is better than
Communism, which is worse than the
devil in the eyes OF the capitalist
robbers.
When the capitalists denounce the
Communists for accepting the inevita.
bility OF the use of force in revolution.
they demonstrate their hypocrisy. 1t
is as inevitable that violence should
accompany the birth of a new order
VI soCio'y 40 ~ 10 lhae q hV'ic Fhhdh
should attempt to sell fake stock to
the widowed mother of an unknown
soldier. Socialists are so anxious for
peaceful revolutions that they kill
those who insist on having them at
any cost. Capitalists applauded the
violence OF the Fascist even tho 1t
was illegal But 1t was good for CAPT
talism and necessity knows no law.
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