The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-15

Heney and of Pinchot mean that all
the muck that can be raked from
this whole field will be raked up,
and it will keep going until election
day"
Watson Meat Packers.
1t is true that Pinchot has been
anxious to get the facts as to nom
enforcement by the prohibition unit
of the treasury, under Secretary Mel
lon, brought to light What has hap
pened to many thousands of cases of
Mellon Overholt whisky is the sub
ject of whispered rumor and conf
Dental report that is not adding to
MELONS reputation as pillar Of
public order.
Heney showed up Jim Watson
some years ago as a secret spokes-
man for the Chicago meat packers.
Mellon, partner in the Overholt dis
tillery, has final charge of the entire
enforcement machinery-which has
the one investigator in America
whose qualities and experience war
rant the prediction that he will show
the country why enforcement has
been farce.
But even more serious is his in
tention to disclose the reasons for
the nationwide propaganda conspir-
acy in favor of the Mellon tax bill
Mellon has failed to disclose his own
financial operations as requested by
Senator Couzens committee. Presi-
dent Coolidge, at MELONS command,
senate, reversing the position he took
when Daugherty appealed to him for
protection against the light. Back Of
Mellon and Coolidge are the banks,
which do not want any rummaging
among the records in the treasury by
man Of Heney's courage and keen
ness. They have sent down to Wash
ington that hint that a panic in the
stock market might result from the
announcement that the treasury was
to be really investigated in the way
the naval oil leases and the Daugh-
erty crookedness was probed.
cooIidge's Modified Fascism.
A sort of modified fascism, armed
with courts prepared for just such a
political emergency, is what Coolidge
has disclosed in this claim that the
administration shall not be further
brought to account by congress and
the people. In Montana a Coolidge
picked judge and a hostile district
attorney refuse to deliver to Senator
Borah's committee the evidence upon
which Senator Wheeler has been in
dicted.
In Ohio, county Judge who was
formerly Harry Daugherty's law part
ner, has enjoined Wheeler and Brook
hart from examining the books Of
Daugherty's brothers bank, in which
the mysteriously acquired Wright
Martin Aircraft stock and other new
wealth of the late attorney general
was laid away.
And in Washington the president
himself stands between Mellon and
the senate, defying the authority of
these elected ambassadors of the SOW
ereign states. The speech of Jim
Watson, in which he declared that
never with his consent would any in
vestigation of the prohibition unit be
carried out, served notice on the
country that the rule of law was out
of date.
Calls Defiance "UgIy"
How ugly is the defiance by Cool
idge and his political crowd of ordi-
nary standards of decency in public
service was illustrated by the vote OF
30 to As, by which the progressives
and democrats managed to keep in
the appropriation bill for the tariff
commission the clause adopted by the
house, which forbids any member Of
that commission from helping to de-
eide tariff rate on any commodity in
which--as instanced by Commission
or Classic in the sugar rate case--he
or any of his family have an invest
ment interest. The old guard, 80 Of
them, voted that Classic should con-
tinue to fix the tariff on sugar, to his
own family's enrichment.
Mussolini could have done II no
more brazenly. The whole press gal
lery laughed mockingly at this party
loyalty" vote.