The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-24
AS WE SEE 1T

Chicago Tribune scribblers, in Riga.
Berlin and London, are drawing liber-
ally on their imaginations to keep the
Americans, who believe what they see
in the Worlds Greatest Liar, posted
on what is not happening in Soviet
Russia. There are almost as many
innocent bystanders murdered each
day in that country, according to the
|uninspired correspondents as the Eng
lish used to wipe out in France in
the early days of the world war, when
several German armies were ami
hilated weekly, by the British propa-
gandists.
It is not surprising that the capi-
talist correspondents should work
overtime, now that the Communist
International is about to go into ses-
sion. We will surely hear Of large
appropriations Of Russian chervonetz
to support the candidacy of Robert
LaFollette for the presidency, and
perhaps to help finance the Teapot
Dome investigation. There will be
plots to start another civil war in
Ireland, another political party in.
Germany and dual Ku Klux Khan or
CARNATIONS in America.
The only possible excuse that could
be offered for the appointment of VII
liam J. Burns to the position he held
as chief of the investigation bureau OF
the Department of Justice, would be
that ut takes a crook to catch a
crook" Instead of catching crooks,
however, Burns proved to be the
greatest crook in America. with the
possible exception of Harry Daugh-
erty, who seems to hold the lead over
them all. Since the graft investiga-
tons opened in Washington, it is re-
ported the forty thieves have gone
out of business.
Edouard Herriot, the so-called radi-
cal socialist and probably the next
premier of France, is assuring the
bankers and big business that they
need not fear his "radicalism." They
need not. He is quit esafe So are
the socialists who are little more
to the left than he is. The socialists
protest that they will not accept port
folios in the new government But
we fear they protest too much. Some
people are of the opinion that their
protests serve the purpose of enabling
them to strike better bargain. They
are itching for office and having no
principles to lose, we cannot see how
collaborating with the bourgeois left
bloc in the government can pollute
them.
Ramsay Macdonald is assuring the
Tories and Liberals in England that
if they have patience he will prove
that big business has nothing to fear
from the so-called Labor government.
At that he declares that the Tories
are easier to get along with than the
liberals. Yes. Sometime the liberals
vote against war credits and larger
navies. But the Tories never do.
Macdonald fears only one element in
Hnsidnu anu tnaL is the working
class.
If all the patriotic ladies who pro-
fess a willingness to die for the coun-
try should jump into the lake, the pic
torial supplements of the Sunday pa
pers would be easier to look at. So
far as we are aware nobody is offer
ing any serious objection to the
sacrifice of our patriots for what they
think is patriotism with the least pos
sible delay What we object to is to
have space which could be devoted to
legimitate murders and bootlegging
feuds taken up with the pictures and
statements issued by maids of ancient
vintage.