The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-05
BY HARRISON GEORGE.

N YOUR statement, Mr.. LaFollette,
/ in which you announced your can
didacy for the presidency, you said:
"The ii-gotten surplus capital
acquired by exploiting the resources
and the people Of our country be-
gets the Imperialism which hunts
down and exploits the natural re-
sources and the people of foreign
countries, erects huge ornaments
for the protection Of its invest
ments, breeds international strife
in the markets Of the world and in
evitabIy leads to war"
Logically, if your supposed opposi-
ton to war would be sincere and con-
sistent, the working class which you
expect to support you, should find in
your program adopted at Cleveland,
something aimed at what you ac-
knowledge is the source and root of
war7ei.e., the surplus over their wages
taken by capitalists from the working
classes thru the private ownership of
all means of production and distribu-
ton.
Your Platform Exposes You!
But what does your platform show,
Mr. LaFollette? Is there in it from
the first to the last, one word aimed
at complete and permanent abolition
of surplus capital acquired by ex-
plotting the resources and people Of
this country" Do you anywhere
pledge yourself that, if elected to
the presidency, you will work for ma
tionalization of all industry and re-
sources, including the 'monopolies"
you always claim to oppose? There
is positively not one word in your
platform to this effect Nothing!
Nowhere do you pledge yourself to
oppose the cause you, yourself point
out, of war.
You must advocate abolition Of sur
plus capital exploited from the work
ers, or you must acknowledge that
whatever you do advocate is not
enough, that you have nothing in your
program to give security to the work
ers from slaughter in capitalist wars.
More. 1t is fact that you not only
evade a real solution, are silent upon
any real solution, but you denounced
and politically assassinated the Ma
tional Farmer-Labor Party, whose pro-
gram declared for: "The Nationalist
ton of all monopollzed Industries,
such as railroads, mines, super-power
plants and means of communication
and distribution" So you are not
such terrible foe Of monopoly" after
all! Even this mild measure is OPP
posed by you, Mr.. LaFollettel
Still more. You denounced the Com
munists of the Workers Party, whose
program provides for complete. social
ization of all industry and the admin
istration of industry and government
together under control of councils
(soviets) of workers and working
farmers. Yet what program could
be better devised to end forever the
danger Of capitalist wars?
A Fake Solution Already Bankrupt.
It being proven that you do not in
tend, If elected, to work for any fun
damental measure TO end capitalist
war-that you in fact oppose such
measures-any other proposal in your
program is, naturally, only superfc-
ial. But we have right to expect
even this superiiciality to be plausible.
But what do we find?
We find that your program says
only that 1t favors an active" for-
eign policy Ito promote firm treaty
agreements with all nations TO out
law wars" That is CHASTITY jestl
Who is to wage war against Amer
lea II not the governments Of foreign
nations? And do we not now have
treaties with each OF them Except
Soviet Russia) pledging peace be.
tween us? II any would break their
present treaties Of peace and amlty,