The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-07
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY

II honesty is the best policy, Harry
Sinclair does not know 1t and need
not care He is thriving on his pres
emit policy which Was not conceived
by the same mind that concocted the
Golden Rule. Only few months ago
Sinclair was roundly denounced as a
Eobber and briber because he man
aged to get the Teapot Dome naval oil
eeserve by the judicious use of few
Thousand dollar bills, a ranch, cattle
and sundry other gifts to the honor
able Albert b. Fall, Secretary of the
interior in the Harding cabinet. To-
day, the financial sections of the daily
press carry the tale that The Sinclair
consolidated Oil Corporation, had a
met income Of over nine million dol
lars during the first six months of the
present year. almost two millions
more than during the corresponding
period Of last year. OF course Sim
clair Is no moEs = robber thnn the 80.
called respectable capitalist.
Not once during the orgy of investi-
eating did the capitalist investigators
show where the OH magnates got their
millions from or who were the real
sufferers in the campaign of robbery.
The victims Of the Dohenys and the
Sinclairs, the Rockefellers and the
other oil thieves are the workers who
toll for low wages under the unhealthy
conditions surrounding the oil indus
try. Out of the poorly paid labor Of
the oil workers, the magnates are able
to roll up the millions that enable
them to purchase governments and
practically use the administration,
i WHISTLER Democratic or Republican, as
their private agency. The oil thieves
and al the other capitalist thieves
will continue to rob, bride and cor
supt until the oil industry is national
ised and the government is in the
hands OF the workers.
A headline announces that Hogs
win figure heavily in the coming cleo
tons" They always do. The few who
have ''hogged" the wealth Of the ma
tion will be very important factors in
the coming campaign. They have a
good deal to gain by having the right
kind OF people in Washington, so they
beetir themselves around election
time. In fact they are actively inter-
ested In politics all the year around.
The great mass OF workers ignore
politics only when the capitalist
politicians stir them up. Needless to
say the capitalist headline artist was
not writing of human hogs but of the
fourfooted kind who are good to the
farmers when. the price Of pork goes
up.
Arthur Brisbane and Frank Harris,
two senile cyclists have followed the
great Lenin to the grave with their
insulting comment. The former in his
column Of drivel in the Hearst pa
pers never misses an opportunity to
take left-handed slam at the Russian
revolution. Commenting on the Mos
cow dispatches which told of the en-
banning process that keeps Lenin's
body in q remarkable state of preser-
walton, this Hearst piffle expert says
that Lenin's body will not be. left I'M
disturbed, that Gear will come back
and Lenin's head will adorn a pike as
did the head Of Oliver Cromwell after
the restoration of the stuarts. Then
he remarks that 1t would be abomin-
able to spend centuries with an
unending grin in death. How silly
and stupid7 AS II dead body cared
whether 1t was on the top OF noun
tain or buried thousands of feet under
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