The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-05

un ooVlet Russia with the eye of i'm.
placablo hatred. They felt them
selves ordained by the God Of capital
ism to wage eternal war on this I'M
holy monster that threatened the pro-
fits of the money hogs. When cap
italists get this idea into their heads,
particularly healthy capitalists like
ours, it takes a lot Of knocking to re-
love them Of their Illusions.
And when ouch ideas become part
OF the mental processes OF a White
Guard Baptist, like the bewhiskered
Hughes, it is safe to say that nothing
short OF an intellectual delousiRg
process will suffice to cure the Pat.
lent
Since 1917, the United States has
been the most outspoken and threat.
entng foe Of Soviet Russia. While
L. K. Martens the envoy Of the Soviet
Republic to the United States was
finally bounded out of the country by
the Harding administration in 1921.
the bogus ambassador Bakhmeten,
unrecognized by Russia except as an
unprincipled scoundrel, ranked high
among the diplomatic corps in Wash.
ington, while he squandered the funds
Of the United States treasury, posing
as a representative OF a dead govern.
ment.
The recognition Of the Soviet Re-
public by france on the eve of the
seventh anniversary Of the great re-
volution. which for the first time in
human history saw the coming to
power Of the proletariat, is the worst
blow yet delivered against the policy
of Baptist Hughes and the battalion
of death that supports him. While in
Europe, the labor movement, reaction
airy tho it is, unanimously favored re-
cognition Of the Soviet regime, here
in America. the spokesman of the
American Federation of Labor. was
the strongest anti-Soviet bulwark of
the Coolidge-Hughes administration.
Gompers, no less than Hughes, feared
the psychological effect of such action
on the part Of American workers who
were fed for years on atrocities and
tales Of horror and misery, govern
mental ineficiency and progressive
debility Of the Soviet power. To be
obliged to recognize these horrible
monsters" after all the cursing and
praying, would put these political
skypilots in a bad light.
The American capitalists have held
out well if not wisely But it Is not
very likely that they will succeed in
accomplishing their main purpose
thru this policy, namely the over
throw of Soviet rule. After seven
years of struggle, the workers and
peasants government is stronger
than ever. International capitalism
has felt the power Of the Red Bear in
the east. He comes now to the ex-
plotted masses Of the world in the
guise of deliverer. He causes no
fear in their hearts. But to the capi-
! talists he is nightmare and a terror
; and well he might But they must
recognized him. He refuses to be ig-
nored.
Inc capitalists Of the world find
they must recognize the Soviet gov
eminent. They know this will
strengthen its rule, but yet they can
not help It. One sixth of the earth's
surface cannot be wiped of the map
by the stroke of a diplomats pen any
more than the red army could be
wiped out by strokes Of the capital
lists swords. Like the believers in
predestination, the capitalists are out
Of luck either way. They'll be
damned if they do and they'll be
damned If they don't" And we say,
the sooner they are damned the bet
ter
The lone Baptist of Washington
must now lean more heavily than
over on his labor" prop Samuel Com
pers. But instead Of prop he will
soon find himself leaning against a
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