The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-02
An American Bishop
Fears Aid Russians
May Give to Chinese
BY J. LOUIS ENcDAHL.

Chinese
ton ne very much afraid that Bohevk support Of the
cause of Sun Vat Sen may detrimental
the mperialist punderers in the Orient.
This fear was voiced by Bishop l. j. Birney in charge
OF the Shanghai China of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. at the opening Of the s5th Annual Session Of the
Rock River Conference this same Methodist Episcopal
Church, held at Sterling, Illinois.
This the feature of the story that the CHICAGO Tr-
bunes expert church matters, the Rev. w B. Norton
sends in to his paper and the headline writer falls
spirit Of the news by putting headline folows
"Sovets Worst Peril in China, Bishop Asserts"
The Bishop confesses that he has much greater inter
ests in the Orient than converting Heather Chinese to
the Christianity Of John Rockefeller and j. Perpon Nor
gan. He is looking much the pocketbooks of the
great American bankers and ndustrasts he to the
souls of the Orientals.
1.-THE constitution follows the flag" one of the saw
ngs that constitutes the backbone Americas colonial
policy But the American missionary financed by the great
wealth poured into the churches by the nations muItm
lionares precede both the flag and the constitution in
developing possible foreign fields Of exploitation
The Bishop tries TO dismiss the present troubles around
Shanghai something of consequences Internecne war;
fomented by American and British goId Chinese
resistance to the foreign invader, does
clergyman Thousands slaughtered in order that the Al
mighty American dollar might win little advantage
position in the Shanghai sector spur him to
notice the blood upon his own hands.
True, the fighting Shanghai is only incidental
to the greater effort of American and British bankers
overthrow the rule OF Sun Vat Sen at Canton Listen the
Bishop proclaim:
The Southern General Sun Vat Sem
soIshevt The general who leading
Chang Tso Lin commonly believed to be in sympathy with
Government
There 500 soldiers
If this danger
of the fall Of Picking and of the government"
Well, what of it?
There good American precedents for all the aid that
the Russians may desire to give to the Chinese revolution
During the American revolution, in 1916 when the
colonists were fighting valany to overthrow British rule
on this side OF the Atlantic ayette Won Steuben and
host OF other sympathzes with the of the coonsts
crossed the Atlantic to fight the side of the revolution
Without the aid OF foreigners is doubtful II the American
would have succeeded we'll did. Even in the
British parliament there who raised their
voices on behalf of the American revolution in defiance of
the king.
We do not know how many Russians there are fighting
on the side of the Chinese revoIutionists.
The only regret of American workers should be that
bishop compelled to claim that many Americans
enlisted under the revolutionary standards of Sun Vat
Sen.
With the bishops and missionaries on the side of the
Oriental headquarters Of Standard Oil and Wall Street.
y behooves Americas working class to offer
of foreign mperasts to wipe what progress they
won during the of hard struggle since the emperor
was overthrow and hurled into the discard.
Where is LaFoIette, who claims he is opposed to Wall
The Chinese evouticnsts have not single friend in
grsss This Is easily understood when realized that all
the ar weather friends OF Russian Recognition have taken
to their storm cellars during this campaign.
Yet it is fitting that only the Communists in the United
States should raise their voices behalf of the oppressed
in China. Even the Macdonald Labor government in Eng
land falls in line to support British imperiaist designs
against the Chinese revolution.
we'll that the bishop brought up the Chinese ques-
ton Many workers will get little more interested in his
task in the Far East
Jay Lovestone, in his pamphlet American Imperial
ISM shows how the church falls in line with capitalists
seeking foreign markets. On page eleven he points out that's
"our capitalists
African
about half dozen countries United
Stone Webster Electric
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