The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-04
AS WE SEE 1T
By T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

III By T. J. O'FLAHEKlI.
An Irish worker from California
does not understand why we favor
an Irish Republic and yet throw the
hooks into the -eign of the Catholic
political machine in Ireland. If our
correspondent had to choose be-
tween an Irish republic, which he
| favors, and the Catholic church, he
would choose the latter, as life is
only short at best and he does not
want to run the risk of having to
associate with Martin Luther, Rob-
ert G. Ingersoll, Charles Darwin and
Lenin on the other side of eternity.
Now, we feel just the other way
about it. Wherever the above men
toned comrades are we want to be
there; whether it be to hell, heaven
or purgatory. But that does not
answer the question why we are for
republic in ireland and against
the Roman Church. In the first
place we favor a workers republic
in Ireland as the Workers and Peas
ants of Russia have. This form of
government would enable the pro-
ducers of Ireland to determine the
conditions under which they live and /
give them the opportunity to build (.
up state of society where poverty
would be eliminated and knowledge,
the foe of ignorance and supersti-
ton, available to all.
The Roman Church is the bitter
enemy of the emancipation Of the
workers in all lands from the rob-
Der rule of capitalism. It wants to
keep them enslaved so that in their
misery they will look to a world
beyond the grave for consolation
and a reward for the miseries they
suffer in this world. While believ-
ing this humbug they are easy prey
for the clergy of all denominations
who in return for a fee, promise
them access to the sanctum sane
forum of a deity who exists only
in the imagination of the clergy who
have commercialized religion and
made of it the best paying business
in the world today, outstripping
even the oil business. 1t would
take too long to tell the story here
|
Labor, Nationality and Religion"
written by James Connolly, he will
learn something Of the relations Of
4 the Catholic Church to Ireland that
will remove some of the superstition
from his brain. The Roman Church
in Ireland and in all other countries
has been and is today the enemy Of
progress and general enlightenment,
and for that reason among others
] we condemn it.
/ The long expected has happened.
The Communists are charged with
responsibility for the Teapot Dome
expose. The friend who hands us
the taffy is none other than the we'll
known, Mr.. Fred r. Marvin, associate
editor Of the New York Commercial
and authority on what is not so in
the radical movement of the United
States. After thanking Mn Marvin
for the kind compliment which 1 re-
greet to say we are not entitled to,
our readers will be interested to know
by what mysterious process of rea-
soning Mr.. Marvin arrives at the re-
markable conclusion.
First let US give the gentleman's
location. He had the opportunity for
. taking the credit of exposing the re-
publican grafters, from LaFollette
and the democrats at dinner given
by the indianapolis branch of the
National Metal Trades Association.
Now, let him shoot. First, the Com
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worthy's efficiency as navy secretary.
: The Communists not being in favor
or large navies unless they are under
Communist discipline, got on the poor
Michigander's trail and creased the
skids for him. It's quite plausible,
but, DENLY was getting along very
well with his job as far as the Com
munists were concerned Given a
little more time he would have the
: entire navy on the rocks and then the
7 Communists would only have to con-
, quer Switzerland, sail into New York
: harbor and hold up the United States
with the Swiss navy. Indeed, had
). DENLY not been so busy testing the
amphibian qualities of his ships, he
might have given the rest Of the
country away to his friends. No sirl
DENLY was a perfectly good Secre-
tary of the Navy.
We got Daugherty because he
stopped mass action in the railroad
strike. We confess to little pride
in our share of the credit for Daugh-
erty's exit but what an excellent
Communist propaganda he was?
While Victor Berger the socialist rep
Preventative was trying to smooth over
the rough spots in the capitalist sys-
TEN, so that the workers would find
it tolerable Mn Daugherty was giving
the American workers and farmers
a turn in their stomachs. The Com
munists said: "Here they are, your
capitalist rulers. DENLY, Fall, Daugh-
erty, Hamon, Jess Smith and many
lother crooks dead and alive How