The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-05
BY T. }. o'FLAHERTY.

new suit Of clothes cut out of the Rus
STA which the Little Father claimed
to love so well, the greater power
known today as the Union Of Soviet
Socialist Republics. was represented
in the animal kingdom by the bear,
just as Britain has the lion and the
United States the eagle. Kipling, the
singing British imperialist, wrote of
the bear that walks like a man." The
bear had a habit of starting on
stroll in the direction of India every
now and then, which tendency made
Kipling sing and the guns Of the Brit
ish navy thunder.
In 1917, November to be exact, the
Russian bear changed his skin, but
his ability to make trouble has not
perceptlbly lessened. Indeed not.
Whereas formerly he bothered Eng
land chiefly, every capital in the
world is now anxiously watching his
movements. He is the RED Terror
In the eyes Of the capitalists. And
nowhere is greater anxiety shown
than in Washington, the capital OF
the United States, and the seat Of
our Teapot Dome government. And
of all the men in Teapot Dome, no
body is more grieved over the an
imadversions Of the Red Bear, than
one Charles Evans Hughes. The dip
lomats of Europe have already parted
with most Of their hirsute adornment
In frantic rage over the rise OF this
new and embarrassing phenomena.
Our American Baptist secretary Of
state has stlll some chin alfalfa left,
which may account for the fact that
today he stands almost alone against
this mighty power that threatens the
regime of the old dodgers of capital
ism and the capitalist system itself.
Let us take leave of the animal king
dom for the time being.
Shortly after the United States gov
eminent began its crusade for democ.
racy and incidentally to protect the
shekels OF ]. P. Morgan, citizen Of the
world, excepting Soviet Russia, the
Russian workers and peasants led by
the bolshevik party and by Lenin in
particular, took over the country bag
and baggage, and decided that they
wanted peace, bread and land and
were gong to have them. Strange to
say, tho these were peaceful aims the
other nations associated with Russia
in overthrowing their competitors,
the kaiser and his capitalist owners,
felt very much aggrieved, because the
Russian workers and peasants would
not continue to fertilize the trenches
Of Germany, Poland and Austria with
their dead bodies.
1t is well to state here that before
the November revolution in Russia,
democratic" and kindly" gentleman
by the name Of Kerensky, was prem
Ter Of that country. He was a short
bridge between the rule of the car
and the rule of the workers and pea
SAINTS thru the Communist Party
Kerensl1y was very kind and peace
full; kind to the car and his followers,
kind to the European and American
representatives of the brigand govern
ments, but not so kind to the mil
lions Of workers and peasants, he was
sending to the trenches at the com
mand OF Morgan and the rulers OF
France. England and Italy.
During the short reign Of this nice
man Kerensky, he appointed as his
ambassador in the United States, one
Boris Bakhmeteff, who figured much
in the news, usually in the role Of
prophet. A more unfortunate prophet
never lived. Jeremiah weeping by the
waters of Jericho, was no more path
etic figure that this name Bakhmet
eff, as one after another his predic
tons of the collapse Of the Soviet
government were impaled on the
sharp bayonets of the Red Army. Job
scratching himself on the dungpiles
OF Jerusalem was an object of. envy,
politically and propheticalIy speak
ing, compared to the countryless am.