The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-12
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

lEF OBLlCANS are JuDllHuL over
IN the G. o. P. victory in Maine.
The Democrats say it does not mean
anything one way or the other. 1t
means nothing to the working class
one way or the other which one of the
agents of capitalism won the election
fight. The workers as usual fell for
the victims to the hysteria raised by
the rival political confidence men over
an issue whose fundamental charac-
teristic they did not touch. The Khan
rs an organization preaching religious
and radical intolerance was denounced
by the Democrats and upheld-sil-
ently-by the Republicans but the
Khan in it's strikebreaking role was
Ignored.
GENERAL CHARLES G. DAWES,
" starts on another swing thru the
Northwest, in an effort to gather in
the farmer vote. According to in
spired newspaper stories prosperity
has.come to the farmers with a shock
that is almost fatal Those of them
who were beginning to look like And
rev Gump, receding chin, prominent
Adams apple, and the rest of it have
undergone physiognomical trans
formation. since the political cam
paign began in earnest. Protruding
chin and protruding stomach, beaming
eyes, Adams apple comfortably es-
coned in layers of hard f1esh-these
are the signs Of prosperity that greet
the eyes of G. o. P. news hounds all
thru the great Northwest.
L UNFORTUNATELY the farmers
~ don't yet know how lucky they
are. Banks continue to get busted.
Farmers continue to pack their be-
1ongings on their wheeling tin lizzies
and cough their way to the great in
dustrial centers. The corn harvest is
good but chiefly for the elevator
trusts. OF course the depression in
the farming region may be, merely
psychological, but it is just as bad.
Many people die for no reason in the
world except as result of too lively
Imagination. The farmers imagine
they are poor and actually feel hun
Rry. They do not see the checks that
come in the mails. So, leaving afflu-
,ence behind them, they join the army
of the unemployed. It's tough but it
cannot be helped Even the rough
,elouuence of the cussing Dawes can
not convince the farmers that they
are rich.
N/OU will be glad to learn that the
Prince of Wales injured optic is
much better An inconsiderate Am
erican pony kicked bit of common
clay into the royal lamp, temporarily
dimming it, but this did not prevent
His Royal Highness from shaking a
wicked ankle at dance later on
Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt II, plans to
give dance in honor Of the prince at
Jericho. So the prince is going to
Jericho. His Royal Highness had
planned to leave for his ranch in AL
berta, but several interesting dancing
engagements make the bleak prairie
look very dull. To get used to the
cows and the horses after, his gay
time on Long Island, is reported to be
causing the prince some misgivings
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INFILLED tonnage of the United
~ States, Steel corporation is re-
ported to have increased 102,505 tons
between July 31st and August 81, ac-
,cording to the monthly statement Of
the corporation. This means more
profits for the steel trust, little more
work for the steel slaves and another
argument for the Coolidge campaign
managers who will claim that these
orders are the result Of G. 0. p. man
agement. But these little boomlets
are only flashes in the pan, soon to
pass away. They afford scant conso-
lation to the millions Of workers walk
ing the streets without job.
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