The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
Lost Several HnLos

Two days ago THE DAILY WORKER pre-
dicted in this column that if the Teapot Dome
investigation was allowed to proceed the en-
tire Coolidge administration, including the
president himself would be found to be in
volved in the most odiferous affair since the
Grant administration peddled the public lands
to the railways.
Today Washington dispatches show that we
were correct; not only has the whole cabinet
been found to be up to its neck in the rich and
oily ooze of the Teapot Dome but President
Coolidge himself has been shown up as an
unusually clumsy prevaricator-an individual
who voluntarily makes statements in direct
contradiction with documents, which he must
have known were extant, and which are signed
by the now dead hand of his predecessor.
Letters made public today, signed by the
late President Harding, show concusively that
contrary to Coolidge's statement the matter
OF the oil leases was discussed not only once
but many times by the entire cabinet and that
no member of the cabinet is in a position to
disclaim responsibility.
These are certainly tough times for the SUI
per-patriots like Daugherty, DENLY, Davis and
Hughes who have been throwing the crimson
dust of the red menace in the eyes of the
American people while the rest of the gang
was quietly and efficiently gathering up and
secreting everything of value left ungrabbed
by previous administrations.
Acknowledgement Daugherty, who has been
so assiduous in bounding workingmen harbor-
ing unorthodox ideas and who spent many
thousands of dollars out of the public treasury
TO railroad Communists to Jail in Michigan.
never has been moved by any suspicious cir
cumstances to use his high Office to protect the
property of the United States stolen by his
colleagues.
Secretary of the Navy DENLY, than whom
there is none more worried over the helpless
condition of this weak and unprotected nation
in case of enemy attacks, complaisantly allows
the oil for his dear navy to be peddled for a
song to private spectators under conditions
that make sure supply of fuel impossible for
the warships manned by his gallant gobs.
Secretary of Labor Davis has been going up
and down the land pouring into the ears Of the
shivering patrioteers his tale of the nefarious
activities of the alien workingmen who come
here not to build but to destr-r-roy by r-r-r-red
r-r-r-revolution our free American institutions
During the excitement occasioned by his raw
ings with his knowledge and, it is to be sup.
posed, his consent, natural resources to the
minimum value of 500, 000,0 900 taken from
the public domain
And what of Secretary Of State Hughes the
white-petaled flower of everything respect
able, who almost single-handed, has beer
keeping the Bolshevik hordes from descending
on our shores? He, so his admirers claim, has
one of the great legal minds of this generation
1t is unfortunate but true that his master mind
was so absorbed in combating the efforts o.
Communists and other citizens to secure recog
milton of the Russian workers and peasants
government that he had not the time-per
haps not the inclination-to point out to hi:
erring colleagues of the cabinet legal-anC
therefore righteous-m method of acquiring thu
Teapot Dome swag.
Yes, we think the collective activities of the
members Of the Harding Coolidge cabinet il
connection with the Teapot Dome steal merit
but cannot stand further investigation. Oul
opinion of the bandit band behind which hide
the Standard Oil Company and the House o.
Morgan, has never been very high. Caugh
this time before they could wipe off the oily
smears acquired in their latest acquisitlve ad
venture they have done the American people
a great favor-they have destroyed many o.
the illusions concerning the high integrity anC
purpose of American capitalist government
and have placed it in a category that tn,
American people are familiar with--the on
that includes distillery robbers, prohibition
enforcement officers, real estate sharks, oil
we'll promoters and other shady enterprises.
Without being unduly optimistic we believ'
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