The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-22
Toilette and Wall
Street Agree on Next
Wars Preparations
By J. LOUIS ENoDAHL

are practically agreed on the question OF preparing for
While Secretary Of the Navy Wilbur after his hurried
transcontnenal Washington is coseted
sdent Coolidge, at the nations capitol, Senator Wheeler
running mate OF the Wisconsin senator is talking
about the war record of LaFollette"
heard Wheeler make his speech in Chicago. Merely the
mention of 1.-THE record of LaFoette" brought ap-
pause. But that far Wheeler He dropped
the subject like hot potato turning instead to the Loer
Dawes bank scandal.
Fur further information however, about LaFoIIettes
attitude towards turn to the last page of the pamphlet
what there forth under the heading National De-
Tense These pamphlets distributed free of charge
This last page declaration says:
." believe the people great
ships under construction exceeding forty million
mposby years to come the
laying Of mines the STRENGTHENING defens and the building
OF r0as0"'Oe NUMBER OF submarines ana aircraft
The above paragraph is taken from speech made by
Senator LaFoette in the United States Senate, May 16
1921 the Naval Appropriations Bill. 1t typical of his
attitude during the entire trying to show the big capital
now thru the circulation OF this material campaign propa
ganda
LaFoIIette the fiction of national Defense" that
leads to socaled defensive wars Every capitalist
nation in the last world declared it waging "de-
fensve war;" The Russian workers and farmers exploded
this fiction when they quit fighting for the drew out
LaFoIIette opposed to s4ooOoooo batteshps So is
Washington. So the experts of Great Britain
France Italy and Japan They agree with LaFoette that
Submarines and aircraft will be the murder weapons Of
the future.
opposing preparations for the When the
comes he will not oppose it. He will merely offehs advice
how to it, especially the capitalists to adopt his
plans for financing it.
But there those who will exploit record of
LaFoIette" to the limit Among these will be found the
German capitalists and small business in the United
States The Steuben (German-Amecan) Society has
dorsed One of the members of the constitutional
council Of the steuben Society George Sylvester vereck
during the before the United States entry into it, the
Kaser's propaganda agent in this country.
vereGk was Literary agent for Theodore Roosevelt dur
bered that Roosevelt during his of Europe in 1910
stood side by side with the Kaiser reviewing the German i'm
Roosevelt to Europe after his lion hunting exped-
ton in Africa in 1902 and the Encyclopedia says of his Euro
pean tour His most striking experience in Germany,
where he was received with cordially by the Emperor
The German capitalists in the United States, those who
long for the of the Kaiser and the monarchy in Ger
many supporting LaFoIette in this campaign. When
against the endorsement of LaFoette it the ex-Kases
agent Vereck who is most strong his defense of the Wis
consn senator
This is one of the main reasons why German workers
and farmers the United States should bitterly oppose La
LaFoIIette is opposed the of capitalism, and
in the Wall Street protect the loans of the House
this country we'll workers and farmers of all other
natonaties who will be called into the trenches bleed
and die for the Almighty American dollar.
The interests Of the German workers this
country Identical with the interests of the hungry and
obless workers and poor farmers in Germany They all
faced with but srugge-he ending of the rule of the
capitalists in both Germany and in the United States
Let workers of all natonaIies in these United States
well natve-born Americans, ponder these facts
then they will realize why they must give their support the
Communist candidates, William Foster for president and
in the fight for the working class against the capitalist class
Coolidge Davis and laFoette the side of capitalism
against the workers. On which side are YOU?
Machinist Delegates go heresyhunins in the machins
n union, why you