The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-19
BY WILLIAM r. dunno.

against the Teapot Dome steal. In
Washington during the last few
months Senator Walsh has appeared
as the champion of the people
against the hooters Of the natural re-
sources and has made many caustic
utterances relative to the domina-
ton of the government by oil in
terests.
1t is notable, however, that Sena-
tor Walsh, in his crusade against
government by oil, has not said any
thing about the Standard Oil Com
pany or its subsidiary-the Ana
conda Mining Company gigan-
tic metal, lumber and water power
monopoly that owns the state he is
supposed to represent and owns him
along with its other goods and
chattels.
Walsh, Copper Trust Man.
There are a number of contradic-
tons in the Teapot scandal, appar-
ent contradictions rather, that re-
quire explanation and none is more
puzzling to the uninitiated that the
activity OF Senator Walsh-the man
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1918 and who has before and since
his reelection been the foremost but
not the best known champion of re-
action under two administrations
Wilson's and Harding's.
Walsh was the legal expert Of the
Wilson administration. He was the
champion of the armed ships bill
the pet measure Of the British Ad-
miralty-the first step taken towards
our participation in the European
holocaust. He passed upon the con-
stitutionality Of the CONSUMPTION
law; he was largely instrumental in
overcoming the anti-constitutiona
difficulties in the earlier drafts of
the espionage act and was always
able to throw the mantle Of legality
over the most subversive acgs of the
Wilson administration.
Sitting with Walsh as the junior
senator from Montana is Burton X.
Wheeler-an entirely different type.
A supporter Of Walsh during the
early part Of Walsh's political ca
reer Wheeler obtained Walsh's first
senatorial nomination for him. He
was appointed United States Dis
trict Attorney thru the influence of
Walsh and was serving in that capa-
city when this country entered the
war.
Recalls. Wheeler.
Wheeler refused to prosecute the
men and women whom the Anaconda
Mining Company picked out for per-
secution; he interfered in no way
with free speech, free press and as
semblage during his term of Office
and, if my recollection is correct,
not one single individual was con-
victed under the espionage law in a
federal court in Montana.
More than that Wheeler served
notice upon the corporations of Mon
tana that his Office could not be used
to railroad to Jail labor men who
had displeased them by their activity
on behalf of their class. Montana
with Wheeler as U. S. district at
torney was a splendid proof of the
Communist contention that convic-
tons of radicals result under war
conditions only by the servants Of
the capitalist class abrogating all
guarantees Of individual freedom on
which capitalist democracy is based.
So jealous was Wheeler in up
holding the constitution that he was
marked for slaughter by the Ana
conda Mining Company and in his
hour Of trial, when every capitalist
paper in Montana was demanding his
blood--actually, not figuratively-
Senator Walsh deserted him. He was
called into Washington and forced
to resign.
Walsh later came up for re-elee-
ton and received the undivided sup
port Of the Anaconda Mining Com
pany; in Butte (Silver Bow County,
he was so bitterly hated by the
masses that he came out Of the
county "a stronghold Of the demo-