The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-19
AS WE SEE 1T

Some time ago we commented in
this column on the miSfortune that
befell Chicago Tribune correspon-
dent in being expelled from Moscow
on his conviction as an incurable and
inveterate liar. A little later the
Mexican Republic, the nearest to
Russia in its working class character,
was obliged to apply the tip Of the
boot to the posterior Of another Tri-
bune liar. Thus two important
countries were not covered by the
correspondents Of what claims to be
the Worlds Greatest Newspaper"
Ever since, the Tribune has lied
eloquently about Russia and Mexico
and even went to the extent Of OPEN
ing campaign calling for armed in
Prevention in the latter country.
Now, Il happens that capitalist pa
pers even tho they stand with each
other In times Of crisis and against
the working class, are nevertheless
competitors and lose no opportunity
to proclaim their superiority over
each other and laugh at the discom-
future of their contemporaries, when
the latter get into such a mess as the
Tribune correspondents got into, in
Russia and Mexico. The Tribune
boasts Of its foreign service. The
fact is, it is very poor and very unreli-
able. The absence of its representa-
tives in Russia and Mexico placed it
at a serious disadvantage with its
competitors, therefore it was obliged
to give many excuses for the expul-
sion of its men from the two re-
publics.
One excuse was that the Tribune
correspondents were refused permits
sion to stay in Russia, because they
would not allow their dispatches to be
censored. But this hokum was nailed
at once by the Chicago Daily News
which has very reliable correspon-
dent in Russia in the person of Mr..
Mackenzie. He writes freely and
critically about the Soviet govern
ment and he is not interfered with.
He openly admits that he is pro-capi-
talist. yet he can write just as he
sees fit.
Now, the columns of the Chicago
Tribune are filed daily with lies
about revolutions in Soviet Russia.
Even the Tribune editors fear to put
them on the front pages, so they
are generally hidden away in the
most remote part of the paper. 1t
is the same old stuff that has been
furnished by the stool pigeons ana
Czarist emigres for the past seven
years to anybody who will give them
the price of a meal. The Tribune
in an editorial of March 18, makes
the claim that more truth about Rus
STA can be learned in Berlin than in
Moscow. And you can get still
nearer to the truth by hanging out
around the Office of William j.
Burns in Washington, the worlds
champion liar. That gentleman will
tell you any truth? you want to
know, about anything from the Wall
Street explosion to the film peddling
graft.
While the liberal weeklies are hol-
lering for volunteers to come to the
assistance of poor Ramsay MacDon-
aid who is trying to save democracy
in Europe, the Chicago Tribune on
March 10, comes out with an edi-
,torial sheer at European democracy
and suggests that these benighted
people are even less fitted for self
government than the Filipinos. 1t
does not say so in as many words of
course. The editorial is entitled
"The Downfall of European Demo-
cracy." 1t is worth reading. 1t
says that the French government has
abdicated in favor of Poincare, while
Poincare has abdicated in favor Of j.
P. Morgan who will not take up his
residence in Paris, having too many
other subject nations to look after,
the most important Of which is Amer
lea. He is living on his yacht now
and communicates with all his SUBJ
ject peoples by wireless.
Poincare is the nominal ruler Of
France. Morgan is the real ruler.
For one hundred million dollars the
American banker got a strangle-
hold on the French republic and that
country must now dance to his tune.
Italy, Spain, Hungary, Russia, are
ruled by dictators. Nobody rules in
Germany says the Tribune. Oh yes,
Won Seeckt. rules by the grace
Of the German Socialists who are
now kicked out. The Tribune has
interesting comment to make on the
Dawes commission. You may re-
member Robt. Minors cartoon in the
first issue of the DAILY WORKER,
representing the Dawes commission
as three brutal American bankers
with a satchelful Of dollars and a
whip to impose Simon Legree die
tatorship over Germany.