The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-15
The Great Political Crisis
(Continued from Pace ID

men that the nv auunt transferred from public
country which sought
for itself privileges destroying
Senator IaFolette Republican, in the Senate, Feb
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hs Snats h action + today lay creates one @ the
taken action to cause the By the President Of 01e
pf his cabinet officers The votes confirm
James R. Nourse; correspondent of the Herald
s P ts IA that ss e r. The citizenship
1T G mott r sSaSi today aS democracy today
Herald Examiner editorial Feb
m in fact the public mind such that predatory
adds popular sIaS
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Half an Eye"
frederick Lands up the dsgaeu selling people
Of ea sew @ wH G n sa easqFf m the mSa d
suspicion communism
Arthur Brisbane in the Hearst papers of Jan. 27.
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Letter by McAdoo to his campaign manager 12.
The capitalist be in very desperate situation
if it is forced to speak in such of itself.
An explosion endangers the foundations of Repubc
gravity or the situation can hardly be exaggerated!
datcns!
Private monopoly gained control of the government!
The faith of the people in their government is shaken!
The security Of democratic institutions is imperied
The United States is not democracy today 1t is
republic today!
The popular revolt will elect nsursen Third Party can
didate
The corruption of Washington fumes Of disgust
suspicion communism!
The conditions Washington more dangerous to gov
eminent than Bolshevism itself!
And affirm with gee that the ruling capitalist class
and its indeed in the danger They
are in danger of completely losing the confidence great
masses And that mortal danger for the capitalist govern
ment The capitalist government of small
minority but exist only If confidence of
the great noncapac The every capitalist
based actorss the hand physical
force the of the state machine and the other
the confidence of the u.s. therefore, and
sided for believe that overthrow of the capitalist
government force alone is sufficient And equally naive
and onesded of to believe that pure which
wins the alone, sufficient accident that lost
the best occasions for revolution lost war
destroys the the tool of physical force
and destroys at the time the confidence in
the capacity of the the affairs of the
nation.
The Teapot Dome scandal is less than war for the
American capitalist class but thousand more than
ordinary of political corruption The Teapot Dome
scandal will shake the army and the bu
resucracy has shaken and will shake still further tb
other pillar OF the of the ruling class the
the
should not overestnate the significance oe b To-
pot Dome scandal isolated single OF course it
unque in that all the leaders both political parties
of capitalism thoroly compromised But we
clearly that whole series of deep political
factors operated simultaneously make possible the effect Of
the tremendous Teapot Dome scandal
The of the loss confidence of the
masses IN the leadership of the capitalist class did begin
with the Teapot Dome scandal but
Its present high point with the Teapot Dome sup
pressing monopoly of trusts the first great factor which
affected the
Our participation in the world the
which hed the non-capitaiist with discomfort
The great economic crisis of l921-22 its FIVE and
half million unemployed workers exercised deep and bitter
effect. ~ 800
The frightfu crisis of agriculture which hurl. million. Of
farmers into misery and bankruptcy another
utionzng factor.
The present economic depression which the
second half of 1923 again ingredient evong deep
enng the general discomfort.
All these factors have been operating together years to
sharpen the class conflicts undermine the
n-capltalat elements