The daily worker., 1924-05-14
AS WE SEE 1T

muCn OF an lnrOd0 on the employees q
the Pullman Company. Else his owia
ers would not allow Edward F. Carry
to accept the title of Knight of st.
Gregory" from the Pope. We are not
informed what privileges go with the
title, but a picture showed one of the
honored ones holding Cardinal Munde-
lein's hat while some funkey was kiss
ing his ring. We hardly think the
Pope will knight" John Holmgren,
vice-president of the Brotherhood Of
Railway Carmen who is leading the
strike of the Pullman slaves for a
little more Of the good things of life.
1t would be interesting to know how
much the Pullman Company paid his
Holiness for the title.
The new Cardinal had much to say
about everything but the workers. He
had honors for the lieutenants Of Big
Business but not word about the
"meek and lowly" that the meek and {
lowly Nazarene liked to be with. We
are not so sure that Jesus of Nazaredh /
was CuCA a RdCAA1OJ az SAlA. Oul OUAke y
ion is that he was a fighting he-man,
who got as mad as hornet if he saw
the Prince Of the Church parade with
soldiers and military display thru the
streets of one of Americas principal
slave cities. But jesus like many
other martyrs, is dead and cannot de-
fend himself against those who claim
to be his followers.
William Dever, mayor Of Chicago,
humbly knelt and kissed the Cardi-
nails ring in token Of submission. Bow
ing the knee to a Prince. This will
get our Nordic Protestants boiling
mad. What is this republic of ours
coming to? Well, the fact is whether
our crazy Ku Kluxers know it or not
that Big Business knows, the Catholic
Church is the only religious institu-
tion that can effectively supply spir-
itual police force to the capitalist class
to keep their slaves in submission. It
isn't for nothing that James Farrell,
president of the Steel Trust honored
Mundelein with banquet, for his
services in the Chicago steel district"
The Pullman Company and the Steel
Trust and behind them both, ]. p. Nor
gan who is the Vaticans financial
agent in the United States.
The tremendous power welded by
the Catholic Church is not realized by.
many radicals. Wise capitalist govern
ments no longer fight Rome. They
compromise with it. British govern
ments for long time fought the Cath
olic Church in Ireland But during the
premiership of Pitt, that willy states
man, granted a large sum of money
to that Church to build Maynooth Col
lege, Catholic seminary for training
priests. Richard Lalor Shiel, con-
graduating the government in the oc-
casion Of the Maynooth Grant of 1S45
said: you are taking step in the
right direction. You must not take
the Catholic clergy into your pay, but
you must take the Catholic clergy un-
der your care. :" Is not a large
standing army and a great constabul-
atory force more expensive than thu
moral police with which by the priest
hood Of Ireland you can be thriftily
and eficaciously supplied?" Well said
and just as applicable now as then.
Two red hats are a tremendous as
set to the American ruling class. They
increase the prestige of the Bishops
and their value to their masters, the
capitalists.
News dispatches tell us that soci-
alists marched with the Fascist and
the monarchists in the Halle parade
that wound up with the murder OF
several workers and the injury of
scores. This is not surprising. Seven
ty-five per cent of the former mem
bership of the Socialist Party of In
diana Joined the Ku Klux Klan and
the writer met a man in Ohio, who
was a member of the Socialist Party
for nine years, who announced that he
considered joining the Klan as it stood
for things he always believed in. The
collapse of the Socialist Party in Ger
many and the rapid rise Of the Com
nunist Party is about the best news
for the workers of Europe that has
broken for many months.
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Raymond Poincare has decided Il
quit. Like William J. Burns and Harr q
NJ. Daugherty he stuck as long as he
could. Poincare was certainly will
ing tool of French capitalism and the
international bankers. lie aac a nice
little engagement with Ramsey Mac
Donald but now somebody else will
take the trip. How ungrateful the
French people are? The man who sac
rificed himself for French honor" by
sending troops into the Ruhr. thus
helping enslave the German workers,
is now tin can on the political dump
heap. The prospects of recognition
by France of the Soviet Republic are
much brighter with Poincare's fall.