The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-09

AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY.


success outside of providing the Re-
publican party with fig leaf in the
form of the Four Power Pact to cover
its militarist nakedness. The Wash
ington conference concerned itself
with an attempt at reducing unneces-
sary naval expenses. The powers that
attended the conferences parked their
daggers outside until the pow WOW was
over and went away thinking up new
schemes to violate the spirit of the
agreement. If anybody imaginfs that
the political atmosphere is more
peaceful today than it was before the
Washington conference was held, he
ought to be kept under observation.
THESE attempts on the part of the
capitalists to reduce their arma-
ments are really preparations for war.
The bandit powers simply jockey for
position. Was not the Gear of Russia
the leader in building a Peace factory
at the Hague? But he was everything
but a man of peace as the documents
exhumed by the Bolsheviki from the
archives of his war Office showed. At
ter the other European capitalist
heads are buried in a we'll or what
ever kind of last resting place a
grateful proletariat will give them for
taking their carcasses out of the pic
ture, it will be shown that all the cap
italist powers were busily engaged
preparing for war, while pretending
that they were anxious for peace.
THE Communist international rightly
| branded the socialists of Europe
as the agents of the capitalists in their
efforts to restore the system back to
health. The Dawes Plan is the first
successful attempt of the international
finance capitalists to reach working
agreement whereby prosperity could
be restored at the expense of the
and of course, the working class.
Now, that the Dawes Plan is accepted
and beginning to bear fruit for the in
ternational capitalists, Mr.. Ramsay
Macdonald like a dutiful servant
starts on another plan, or indeed an
extension of an old plan, the League
of Nations. He proposes to hold re-
tuction of ornaments conference in
Europe.
THE League of Nations, a rather
clever scheme conceived by the
wisest among the international CAPT
talists, was left hanging like Moham-
meds coffin, because of the refusal of
the United States to have anything to
do with it. Woodrow the Prophet
broke his neck trying to shove it down
the throat of the young and virile in
dustrial capitalists of America who
wanted to go and loot without the
shackles of any world tribunal on
their limbs. They are the Nietsche-
ans of the industrial world. But even
since 1919, Wall Street has been TAX
ing in the slack rapidly, so that today
industrial capital and finance capital
are as close as two pickpockets, or
still better, they have become ANAL
gamated into one giant pickpocket
whose fingers can reach to the ends
of the earth.
NkIE can imagine Wall Street sit
Wv ting back and laughing at the
ranting patriots who froth at the
mouth over the suggestion of joining
the League of Nations. But when
Wall Street has Europe in such a con-
dition that Joining the League of Ma
lions will mean that the United States
simply takes over the Job OF world
overseer, openly and without camou-
flage our patriots can be tickled dex-
teriously under the chin with a golden
feather and marvels In the way of a
change Of convictions will be accom-
plished. Poor George Washington's
address will be hauled out as usual on
the 4th Of July, but the section warn
ing against entangling alliances will
be periodically laughed at. The Re-
publicans who dug Wilson's grave
with his fourteen points will claim
\ credit for capturing his League of Ma
tions for the great honor and still
greater profit of our country which
means in the language OF the White
House. Wall Street. And Wall Street
means capitalism SO much for that
just now There are other pressing
problems.
n S for instance. II is reported on
~ authority usually found reliable,
that the Prince of Wales, heir to the
throne OF Great Britain and Northern
Ireland (Southern Ireland having a
decided taste for raw prince, is left
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