The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-09
Chance to Give Mr..
Dawes Taste of what
the Car Got in 1917
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

trying to explain the recent "Farm Speech" of their
Vce-presdenta candidate Charles Gates Dawes, which
this Chicago Hell an Maria" banker took stand against
reclamation projects in the west for the winning Of desert
and arid lands for the purpose of agriculture.
This head of the Central Trust Co., in Chicago ally of
the House of Morgan, in his Lincoln Neb speech opposed
irrigation Of feIzng barren places because
it would result in the production of much food The
smaller the production declares Dawes the better prices
will be. "The market will be stabilized" says the banker
vce-presdenta candidate which that there will
good pickings for the profteers.
What Dawes proposes trick that has been put over
very oten by the food poeers Potatoes have been allowed
to rot in the fields, thrown upon city dumps by the mil
lions of bushels in order that the quantity for sale might be
restricted and high prices charged
the habors of New York. Boston, and elsewhere in order
Stabilize the market" shpoads of fish have been given
similar treatment
In the southern states the Might Riders" set fire
tobacco plantations and tobacco warehouses order to
keep down the production and available supply of tobacco
But the farmers Of the grain producing states have not
order to Stabilize the market for the food spectators
the boards Of trade in Minneapolis Chicago and other big
Nor do the fruit rasers the west in Idaho Wash
ngton Oregon and to the south, where irrigation has
caused bounu orchards grow where previously there
had been but sandy wastes intend to burn down their
s snd quit PRODUCING n order that the friends Of Dawes on
make killing.
people, Nearly haf-to be exact 4os per cent-of the
nation is made Of detectives This is the direct result in
large part OF insufficient nourishment The child
compelled to hunt food in alley garbage isn't going
make healthy normal human being The tenement house
baby who brought up canned milk, and hardly
sees fruit at ALL isn't going to be sturdy in after years.
The million American school children, who go hungry
school every day in the school year. according figures
given by the American Medical Association will be
and anaemc when they have grown to manhood and
1t isn't that there overproduction of food in the
United States The trouble that those who ought have
the food get it. The workers of today those who
VIII be the workers. the producers OF tomorrow forced
to live the scanties ration They buy what they
rea'y ought TO have to keep even decently alive.
Mr. Dawes would interpret the charge that there
hungry men, women and children in the United States,
Boshevik attack the American constitution. According
to Mr. Dawes everyone we'll fed in the cities and the
and the only trouble that we work too hard and produce
too much We don't need irrigation and reclamation pro-
ects in the west because that would only result producing
still more Mr. Dawes says Let the deserts remain deserts
limit production keep prices up"
This will not be welcome doctrine the hungry work.
ers in the cities and the bankrupt farmers the land
will solve their problem The farmers know they would
have good market for all their produce the city workers
could only buy But the Dawes banks the Armour grain
trust and the big food spectators, like Jim Paen the
Chicago multmiionare stand in between to reap their
How different in Soviet Russia There every muscle of
the great Soviet Republic strained develop, thru ga
ton and reclamation, the nations agricultural
Agriculture has been backward in Soviet Russia. The
deposed surely must have had Hell an Maria Dawes
in mind when he made protest against the ancient
methods used in agriculture while he in power No
modern farm implements on large SCALE were used to in
crease production
Small production and high prices was the motto of
the deposed just the motto of the republican
vcepresdentaI candidate And the profits from the high
prices went to the food SPECTATORS the big landlords and
the great nancers the Russia of the just in the
United States of Charles Gates Dawes The peasant
tong endless hours thru the many years. always remained
the poor andIess peasant until the and all his
gang overthrown.
But the cars regime wasn't long in going once the
workers and Russia found what the trouble
really was The republican campaign managers now
trying to the workers and farmers from discovering
the real significance Of the Farm Speech by the banker
Dawes at Lincoln, Neb, opposing the greatest assets Of
modern agriculture, irrigation and reclamation. They
afraid that the workers and farmers of the United States
they discovered the truth might give Mr. Dawes little
taste in the November elections of what the expert
enced in the revolutionary year of 1917 in Russia. Vote
Communist. That will help do it.
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