The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-25
AS WE SEE 1T

BY T. J. O'FEAHERTV
GENTLE hints appear in the news
- dispatches from China on the adj
visibility of capitalist Intervention
to save that country from the warning
generals whose armies number in the
aggregate approximately 100000
What the scribes of the bourgeoisie
mean is, that the tremendous unex-
plotted wealth of China must be saved
Tor the plunderbund whose itching
fingers have hitherto been unable to
close on the juciest plums because of
The opposition of Sun Vat Sen, now
lead.
UNFORTUNATELY for. the capital
- list powers, the history Of their re-
lations with China in the past is not
conducive to breeding confidence in
their future dealings. The death of
Sun Vat Sen is heavy TOSS to the
Chinese masses but the Koumingtang
party still remains and the power of
the workers and peasants Of Russia
is behind the exploited masses who
stood with Sun thru the many years
Of his conflict with the greedy CAPT
talists.
THE catholic church which is such a
4 bulwark of claw and order" is
proving in France and in Mexico that
when its interests are threatened, it
throws its pacifst pretentions to the
winds and fights vigorously for its
privileges even against the existing
governments. In Alsace, school chill
dren were called on strike against tho
secularization of the schools and the
bishops issued a statement denouncing
the government teachers for pervert-
ing the wills of the children with ra-
tionalist IDEAS The extreme con-
servatives are lined-up with the bish-
ops against Herriot. The cardinals
declare that politics must be subordin-
ate to religion, which means that the
government must be subordinate to
the church.
TN Mexico the slumbering hostility to
the church which has existed since
the Carranza revolt, broke out afresh
last week in Mexico City resulting in
loss of life. A section of the clergy
and the least supersititious of the
catholic population have decided to
sever relations with Rome 1t appears
that the Gales government turned
over one of the richest catholic
churches to the separatists The or
thodox bishops do not relish the idea
Of losing their property, SO they fight
Or get others to fight for them.
"C EMERALD DAWES intends to
" carry his fight against the senate
rules to the country during the sum-
-mer in series of speeches. We are
also informed that he has presented
refractory senator's with specimens of
his famous undressing pipe. Pehaps
it is the pipe of peace, or it may be
possible that the willy goddess nicotine
is capable of sending the enemies of
the vice-president into deep slumber
hru the ministrations of the pipe
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts"
should be the slogan of the senators
whom Dawes wishes to placate with
lis briars.
THE British tory government is 60
l. ing ahead with its project to build
the Singapore naval base. This is
looked upon as a threat against Japan.
Ramsay Macdonald in the house of
commons warned the government that
Soviet Russia was gaining increasing
influence in the Far East and that the
building of this base would tend to
throw the people of the Orient still
closer to the Communist government.
This he suggested rather than said,
was one of the greatest dangers liable
TO spring from the tory decision to re-
build the Singapore base. Macdonald
is a socialist of the Victor Berger
Morris Hillquit type.
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THE German campaign for the presi-
Il dency of the republic has opened.
The Communist candidate is Thael.
mann. Dr. Jarres, the candidate of
the right bloc, insists that he is loyal
TO the republic but insists also that
he must have the right to express his
admiration for the old imperial colors
and his contempt for the November
revolution which sent the kaiser into
exile. There is no doubt but in the
event of the victory Of the right bloc
at the polls that steps will be taken
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