The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-15
AS WE SEE 1T
By T. J. o'FLAHERTY.


socialist parade, expressed his desire
city is planning to sell. II guess
there is a bit of sentiment behind
my wanting the horses" said Davis,
most of the served when l was
Mayor here and several of them
were used to quell the memorable
May Day riot"
The local Ecripps-Howard paper
has the following comment on this
statement: "If Mr.. Davis wishes real
souvenir of the so-called riot, he
should buy one of the motor trucks
that was stationed in East 9th Street,
hours before the riot filled with
rowdies armed with bricks and clubs
and driven by chaffeurs who were
instructed to charge into the march
ers and break up the parade at any
cost" The workers of Cleveland1
who were peacefully celebrating the
international day of jubilation of the
working class of the world had re-
ceived a permit from Mayor Davis
to march, but, lick-spittle that he is,
he obeyed the orders of the capital
lists and sent his police to smash the
heads of the people it was his duty
to protect.
Is France willing to trade the Vir-
gin Islands to the United States for
the French debt? According to a
statement published in Paris paper
recently, the subject has been dis
cussed in Washington, tho u. S. Of
ficials have denied there is any truth
in the report. The alleged French
proposition would turn over the West
India Islands to the United States,
while the latter would wipe off its
slate the French debt and assume the
responsibility Of the French debt to
France.
American imperialists are of the
opinion sthat their government should
own more islands in the West Indies
for strategic reasons. This was
really the motive behind the pur-
chase of the Danish islands during
the war which cost the government
$25,000,000. The French debt how
ever, is three billions and the adj
ministration does not value the
French island possessions at any
thing near that figure. Perhaps the
United States government will event.
ually accept the islands or anything
else the French may offer in lieu of
the three billion loan which will
never in all probability be paid.
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The Chicago Tribune has added an
other liar to its list of foreign cor
respondents. He is stationed at Ber-
lin. The Riga prevaricator was
growing stale, and he needed rest.
The new man is giving a good ac-
count of himself and may deserve the
iron cross if the Kaiser ever gets
back to the throne. The Tribune
is very anxious to see Trotslzy fill
neat fitting overcoat of cold clay
and as the possibility Of Icons de-
parture to the world from which
sinners never return is only equal
to that of any other mortal, the cor
respondents of the Worlds Greatest
Liar in Riga and Berlin, weave ina
gipary yarns with Trotzky playing
the role of applicant for speedy in
terment. The latest act of this
imaginary Trotzky was to hurl defy
at the Third Internationale and ,chal-
lenge the Cheka. Moscow is getting
each day its daily thrill and life is
perlSing up noticeably around the
Kremlin.
BoIshevism faces France, declared
M. Tardieu in attacking the Poincare
financial bill which contains a pro-
vision for a 20 per cent tax increase.
The Clemenceau supporter is not far
wrong. The rule of the workers
hovers like a Damocles sword over all
the capitalist governments in the
world and the French government
being one of the most reactionary is
liable to go thru the experience be-
fore very long.
Bishop William Montgomery
Brown is at last liable to have the
opportunity of facing his accusers
in the house of bishops of the Prot
kestant Episcopal Church. Since he
wrote Communism and Christianism'
the revolutionary bishop has been
under constant fire but his enemies !
did not dare bring the case into the
clerical court. The charges were
filed by Bishops A. c. A. Hall Of
Vermont, Joseph M. Francis of In
dianapolis and Warren L. Grave+- &C
West Virginia. Bishop Brown is
charged with ''holding and distribut-
ing thru a book Communism and
Christianism' certain doctrines con-
trary to those held by the Protestant
Episcopal Church Of America" The
Bishop will fight.
An epidemic of bank failures is
swearing the country but the public
is getting rather used to it and bank
crashes are no longer played up on
the front pages. Banks in rural sec
tions Of the country are shutting
their doors daily. Here in Chicago
during the past year many of them
have given up the ghost. The latest
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