The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-16

LEGION Speakers Defend Biz War Grafters
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

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MOT since Albert B. Fall, and his
l v friendship for Edward L. Doheny
the oil magnate lit up the political
atmosphere of America with a glare
IN which could be seen the figures of
Coolidge, Daugherty, DENLY and other
prominent republican officials, taking
their share of the precious oil cake,
has such man-sized sensation broken
from it's moorings as the recent story
Of how Ramsay Macdonald took the
biscuit. 1t is true that great events
sometimes cast their shadows before
and it was thus with MacDonald's con-
tribution to the gayety of nations.
DEFORE the real sensation was
- sprung the capitalist press broke
the news gently. 1t was reported
that Ramsay Macdonald invested a
considerable sum of money in bis
cult manufacturing concern. Where
did he get the money? That was the
question on every lip. Then the
bomb burst. Sir Alexander Grant, a
friend of MacDonald's being con-
Gerned over the premier's health and
the fact that he had to ride in the sub
way, offered him an automobile and to
~,oI~a e,,~o 4bof Danocox mould not
run out of gas, endowed the automo-
bile with $15O,O0O, which invested
IN Sir Grants cracker factory, would
bring in an income sufficient to pur-
chase gasoline, tires and everything
else that an automobile uses.
@HARITABLE people would accept
~ this explanation without shaking
their heads, sticking their tongues in
their cheeks or placing the thumb
against the right side of the nasal ap-
pendage while moving the other fin
gers fan like in the vicinity of the
optics. But it appears that the Eng
fish are not charitable, tho they are
quite generous. To prove the latter,
they allow Mr.. Macdonald to draw
four salaries. One as journalist and
writer of books on socialism, another
as a member of parliament; another
rs prime minister and still another as
minister for foreign affairs. But tho
charity may be related to generosity
It would seem that in this case the re-
lationship was not recognized.
AIR. MACDONALD, in order to es-
lVI cape from the fetid atmosphere
of the London subways was obliged
to accept the above token of the
friendly wishes Of his good friend
Alexander Grant, millionaire biscuit
man. Four salaries cannot support a
man decently in London as any Lon
don decker can tell you, so when Mr..
Grant, later on "Sir," asked Ramsay
how was that cold of his and if he
still had that ugly wheeling on his
chest, and Mac replied that his throat
was getting dusty, the biscuit man
gently limited that he would take steps
to take his friend out of the subway,
where the foul air is everything but
beneficial to wheezes and coughs.
1T took great courage for Alexander
l to make the suggestion, for every
body knows what a hard customer a
social democratic presbyterian-Scot
man is in an attempt to force money
on him WITHOUT due process Of law.
Alexander. however, was friend of
his so he made bold to approach the
premier and in the following langu-
age eased his ideas into him: Ram
aay, old pal, you are socialist after
my own heart and the way you are
rubbing it into that COMPOUNDED sin
uer Marx is pleasant to my sense of
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