The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-23

AS WE SEE IT
BY 7. ). o'FLAHEATY.

THE dwellings Of preachers should
not be taxed, declared member
OF the board Of review of Chicago.
These poor men are not working for
money and / don't think their homes
should be taxed" said the good natured
capitalist servant. Officially they are
no working for money. They are act
ing for the lord, and theoretically
every nickel they get goes to the
heavenly treasury. But many people
have their doubts, particularly as
Jesus and company appears to be as
broke today as the first time he
started passing the hat.
THE pope has made it clear that
even tho he has denounced the
Soviet government, the holy shrapnel
was not meant for the Russian ''peo-
plep He makes exceptions in the case
OF the aristocratic prostitutes of both
sexes who fed from Russia when the
workers and peasants took matters in
to their own hands. His holiness will
continue to keep vitamines inside the
ribs of the czarists, hoping against
hope that whatever bread he throws
to them, may float up the Tiber some
day in the form of rubles, or raw ma
terial in the form of souls which the
canny Italian knows how to turn into
lire
COMMUNISTS have been charged
~ with many direlictions and
crimes but it took the Herriot govern
ment to strongly hint that they are
incurable stock gamblers. A report
that the French government intends
to expel all foreign Communists who
attempt to profit financially. by spread
ing reports on the bourse, of Com
munist danger. was made by the Paris
chief Of police. Capitalist govern
ments are known to make financial
war on each other, and the Herriot
warning is no doubt levelled against
the. Soviet ambassador It is another
indication Of the shakiness Of French
capitalism and its fear of Commun-
Ism.
THE New York Nation, a liberal
] weekly, published story in its
issue Of Dec. II, written by Louis
Fischer who was in Georgia, Caucu-
sus, during the late counter-revolution
In that country. The article states
that the Georgian rebellion would not
have taken place but for the assist
ance of such alleged pacifists as Ram.
say Macdonald, then premier of Eng
land and Herriot, radical socialist pre-
mier of France.
DOTH had met with leaders of the
ID Georgian bourgeoisie and prom
ised them support. This despite the
fact that Soviet Russia was officially
at peace with both countries and Mac
Donald and Herriot were stressing
their pacific intentions. The testi
mony from a non-Communist source
proves the Communist contention that
social-democrats are the most Shiny
and treacherous enemies of the work
ing class and of Soviet Russia. His
lTedCneTy ulu not Save ndCOOuaiu
official head and Herriot is sure to get
the same treatment from his present
masters.
JAPANESE papers have published
~ the terms of an alleged secret
agreement between the United States
and England, providing for common
action in the Far East. Washington
has agreed to the development of the
Singapore naval base. Britain claims
the base is designed to strengthen
Australia, but the Japanese see in it
a threat to their domination of the
eastern Pacific
THE word OF capitalist govern
l. ment means nothing and treaty
means even less 1t is valid just so
long as it serves the purpose of the
robbers who sign it. That there is
IN agreement between England and
the United States today for a "hands
orr pNqlicy in certain spheres Of world
n,llare Ms obvious. How long the
arreemenA will stand the test of the
two poweNs' conflicting interests in
other quarters is another question.