The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-10

pensation and under corporal punish
ment.
This is the social system re-
presented by Senator Pat Harrison.
Naturally he does not represent the
masses of tOilers. He represents
their masters. But even the masters
are not of the class of the big bourge-
oisie-they are popularity primitive
and stunted petty-bourgeoisie. The
type represented by Harrison is the
crossroads sto-e-keeper, who lends
credit" to the impoverished tenant
farmers and who thus becomes their
bodily owner; and the landlord who
spends his life haggling with dozen
or a score of share" farmers, taking
customarily one half of their crops
as rent and the other half in repay
ment of '1oans."
The Mississippi system of serfdom
is backward form OF production and
cannot be made to produce large re-
suits, nor to produce really wealthy
bourgeoisie. Herein lies the peculiar
form of stagnation characteristic to
the most backward sections of the
Solid South. The master class for the
most part remains an impoverished
exploiting class, and this gives the
class character to Senator Pat Harri-
sons constituency. 1t is this which
orientates the Mississippi senator on a
myriad of questions, including the
question of whether the burden of the
income tax shall fall directly upon the
small parasitic incomes or the large
parasitic incomes.
Senator Harrison, representing the
snivelling, nickel-nursing parasites,
wants the big bourgeoisie of the far
away industrial centers to pay the
income tax.
Senator Bruce
Senator Bruce Of Maryland, repres-
enting a. class of parasites which has
been introduced to the more efficient
method of exploiting thru wage-slav-
cry in industrialized production (and
which nurses dollars instead of
nickels), wants the burden of taxation
to fall upon the smaller incomes.
So the two democratic" senators
fight. On the face of it, the two should
be members Of separate parties. each
| fighting for separate class interests.
But it is not so simple as that.
The case was stated sharply by
Senator Bruce. He tainted Harrison
with the very plain fact that the Mis-
sissippi democrat might logically be
expected to line up with wisconsin,
Nebraska and North Dakota"-mean-
ing. of course, that the Southern
cockroach bourgeoisie might logically
line up with the LaFollette move
ment which represents the cockroach
bourgeoisie of the country generally.
But at the same time Senator Bruce
tainted Harrison with the reason why
he DOES NOT line up with the coun-
try's general petty-bourgeoise move
ment. Bruce gave the reason as:
"ONE SINGLE. COHESIVE FEAR"
Fear Of the Negro
I He meant altho he did not prom
ounce the words-the single, cohe-
sive fear" of the NEGRO. He meant
that the Southern cockroach bourge-
oisie does not dare to face the slight
estdisturbance Of the political surface
of the South, the slightest disturbance
of its relationships to the Negro. He
meant that the backward exploiters of
Harrison's constituency do not dare
to break the front of the democratic
party. The party OF the Immortal
Jefferson" land Of Jefferson Davis,
Grover Cleveland and Woodrow vii.
SOM stood for half century as the
guardian Of chattel slavery in the
South, and for another half century
as the preserver of It's remnants. For
half a century the democratic party
in the South has been the accepted
political medium for preserving what
Is called white Supremacy"
The master class of the South in
general and of Mississinni In mar.