The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-05
AS WE SEE 1T
By T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

Wilson's historians, warns the Demo.
cratic Party of dark horse. The
jackass party fears a surprise candl'
date. Perhaps William j. Bryan Is
the animal Tumulty had in mind.
He is kicking up his heels in Alabama.
But the party owes its nick name to
| Bryan. He could not be mistaken
for the nobler quadruped. Tumulty
was one of Wilson's most trusted adj
Inirers but it is rather significant that
he breaks bread with George Bren-
nan, head of the Tammany chieftains
of Illinois, whose scalping knives are
already whetted for bringing forth
the gore Of William Gibbs McAdoo,
the Crown Prince of the late admin
istration.
Will rumors Of graft never stop?
When the "people" thought they were
going to have breathing spell, an
other bomb burst, scattering
PITS shot among the members of
Congress. This looks like counter
barrage from the beleaguered mem
bers of the cabinet. Col Charles r.
Forbes promises to become a tartar
and smear everybody in sight With
graft unless he is allowed to get away
with it. Harry Daugherty makes q
similar threat. Let the boys talk.
That is our prayer.
A report comes from Rome via
London that the Vatican has as
sured the counter revolutionary Rus
sian emigres that another attempt to
tear Russia to pieces by a civil war
will have the backing of the Pope who
will undertake to propaganda the
United States against the Soviet gov
eminent. This is not surprising even
tho the Vatican has quite recently
arranged to open diplomatic relations
with Moscow The spiritual power
on the Tiber is the eternal foe Of
Communism, knowing quite well that
once the intellectual forces of hui
manity are released from the bondage
of economic slavery, the opium joints
will have to close their doors. It is
inconceivable that once the sword of
fear which now hangs by slender
thread over the lives of the working
class is released human beings would
continue to swallow the hocus pocus
which has enabled this intellectual
cess pool on the Tiber to flourish.
There is no doubt but the Vatican
will be the willing ally of the dark
forces of reaction who think they see
in Lenin's death the psychological mo-
ment to resume their deadly thrusts at
the hearts of the Russian workers and
peasants. But the Vatican might
well take warning and leave well
enough alone. Whatever differences
the masses may have with the guild
ing philosophy Of the leaders of
Soviet Russia they instinctively feel
that the Workers Republic is a bar
rier between them and a fate worse
than death. They know that could
the capitalist class conquer the one
spot in the world where the workers
are free to determine their own
destiny, an era Of persecution would
be ushered In that would make pre-
vious reigns Of terror seem pale in
comparison. Knowing this It is a
delicate undertaking for the Vatican
to fiirt with the pent-up wrath Of the
long suffering workers. Vengeance
dark and terrible will be its portion
should it in a moment of fanSied
security join in another effort TO
battle Russia in a sea of blood and
restore the filthy Romanoffs to the
throne.
Had Calvin Coolidge lived in the
days of which Walter Scott wrote. the
days when knights were bold and
every warrior with a reputation for
proves bore a nom-de-plume IL is
likely he would appear in the novel
lists pages as the knight of the
Mournful Phiz. But silence WIS
never SO golden as it Is today, and vet
1T has its limits. Now people are
wondering who is the ''principal"
who was satisfied with the way things
were going and who was pleased to
learn there would be no designations.
Could it be Cautious Cal" himself?
"Tut TUT" shout his friends. Calvin
is as clean as a hounds tooth as pure
as the Alaska snow when it is not
furnished with coal in the process of
being carried away by some friend
of the administration.
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Calvin's friends cannot sleep these
nights with the noise of Calls silence.
They hear the sounds of it everywhere
they go. The people" pick up their
papers every morning with humping
hearts hoping against hope that their
leader will say something. "Give us
a sign, Calvin" they murmur but he
speaketh not. Worthy senator's de-
plore the present orgy Of scandal
spreading in the senate. at is Great
ing distrust in our form of govern
ment" they wall. They introduce
resolutions declaring no cause for
hysteria exists. Woodrow Wilson
once tried to Offset wave of econ
omic depression by branding the durn
thing as psychological delusion."
But the people" were not satisfied
with the explanation and they picked
Harding. He brought them back to
normally. Dying he left them Cool
;doe The "peoulev don't know the