The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-22
AS WE SEE IT
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

with little items of news about the
circus, which now starts on its
yearly round to amuse the Ameri-
can people. The press association
advises its clients that the cores
pondent will supply them with
"springtime stories, with nothing of
oil scandal or investigation in
them" The capitalist press. tho
compelled to publish the news break
ing with such fury around the heads
Of the Coolidge cabinet in Washing
ton, does so reluctantly so when an
other circus shows up, they trot
along and try to switch interest to
the most inocuous.
Much fuss was created in St. Jo-
seph, Mich, by Daugherty's agents
during the Communist trial, about an
alleged sum of money received by
the radicals to carry on propaganda,
with the object Of taking this gov
eminent out Of the hands of the
oil grafters. While Attorney Cen
eral Daugherty was busy trying to
frame the Communists in Michigan,
it appears from the evidence present.
ed at the D. of j. probe in Wash
ington, that the famous friend of
law and order was engaged in pro-
tecting criminals and sharing in the
proceeds Of their energetic looting
of the United States resources. We
venture to say that the farmers of
Berrien county, who were called on
to pay the costs of the trials are
having a hearty chuckle now. They
refused, Of course, to be saddled
with the expense Of the trials after
D. Of j. dicks promised that the ex-
penses would be paid by outside
sources. Who paid the bills? Were
they paid from the proceeds Of the
oil and booze graft?
The New York east conference of
the Methodist Episcopal church does
not know whether or not it should
favor another war. Several speak
ers voiced their opposition to organ
lied murder in behalf of the capt.
talists, but Bishop Wilson, whose
religion is of the shirt sleeve vari-
ETY., that swallows every dogma,
lock, stock and barrel, from the
transmutation of water into wine to
the immaculate conception, upheld
Mars eloquently, and declared that
If there ever was another war that
he would do more killing or cause
more killing-the gentleman re-
manned in mis- pulpit-than in the
last big carnage. When the bishop
reached the heights of his CORY
rhetoric he was stopped by a great
burst Of applause and many of his
followers of Jesus frothed at the
mouth with patriotic frenzy.
These are hard days on Oswald
Garrison Willard, enemy Of arma-
ments and the classification of the
press. We do not wish the vener-
able Mr.. Willard any i'll. He is as
consistent as it is possible for a
liberal to be, but he has our sym
pathy when he bases his hopes for
world peace on the fimsy founda-
ton Of British Labor Party imper-
ialism, and his goal of free press
on vague prayer that modern cap
italism will go back to the days
when Horace Greeley Numbered in
the New York Tribune and the elder
James Gordon Bennett edited the
New York Herald. Now, the Ram
say Macdonald government contin-
ues to shoot Hindoos, and capitalist
papers continue to consolidate, the
latest merger being the New York
Herald and the New York Tribune.
The former was swallowed by the
latter.
A new move was initiated here a
few evenings ago to give the Illi-
nois state police force bill another
forward boost. Speakers from New
York told of the favor with which
the cossacks are received in that
state by organized labor. The move
ment for state police is nationwide
and it would be a matter of little
surprise to have the so-called lead
ers of the trade unions everywhere
boosting the cossacks. Labor off
Gals in this vicinity, until quite
recently had a reputation for pro-
gressiveism, but they are turning
to the right so fast that they prom
Use to outstrip Gompers and COM
pany before very long. They are
quite busy just lodging action in
the dressmakers' strike.
A local district attorney tells us
that half of the Chicago police were
accepting brides from breweries en-
gagged in selling beer in violation
Of the national prohibition law, until
the federal department did away
with the beer. 1t was then that the
beer runners began to kill each
other-when the stuff got scarce and
the competition grew too keen. Nat
urally Mayor William E. Dever did
not like this, so as usual, he asked
the district attorney to give him
the evidence and he would furnish