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lodging his own tax experts poor
Andy leads fast life.
TT was a mean trick the Farmers
Federation played on Calvin Coo
lidge last week. The "Sphynx" came
all the way from Washington to help
elect a conservative after his own
heart, to the presidency. Cal told
the banker-farmers that their pro-
fession was an art, that he handles a
pitchfork occasionally-when there is
cameraman in the vicinity-that
farmers wife Is about the most valu-
able piece of animated protoplasm
on earth, because she supplies the
wars with the best eannonfodder, as
the industrial workers are either too
hungry or too saturated with factory
poisons to make satisfactory reposi-
tories for bullets. He said the farm
ers were a manly lot and should
fight on the barricades rather than
allow the government to help them.
This would be paternalism, and per-
haps alright for railroads, who were
brot up on such fodder, but it would
rob the farmers of their sturdy man
hood and independents. The farmers
showed their appreciation by burying
Calls friend, who ran for reelection
under a truck load 'of manure and
electing one who branded Calls
speech as hokum.
THE Russo-Germano trade alliance
4 doesn't look good to the Literary
Digest. Neither does anything Rus
sian-since November, 1917. Not be-
ing content with reprinting digests of
articles from various papers hostile
to the treaty, it reprinted cartoon
from the Montreal Star, depicting
Soviet Russia as hairy and
tattered bum, passing the hat to
world capitalism, saying: Help,
pleasel 1t is impossible to get
along without you" Needless to say,
this is about as far from the truth
as even a lying capitalist sheet could
get. Only few weeks ago a Soviet
commission was here to purchase
American sheep for breeding pur-
poses. They spent several million
dollars on sheep alone,
CINCE the trade treaty with. Ger
~ many was signed Berlin bankers
granted Russia credit of 100000
900. Curiously enuf, the Berlin bank
ers borrowed this money from Wall
Street bankers, whose government
has not yet recognized the Soviet re-
gime. Russia has already used up
three-fourths of this credit which
means that German manufacturers
have sold s75,O0O,O00 worth of goods
to the Soviet buyers since then. In
general Russia is far from being the
beggar she is represented to be by
her enemies. The workers standard
of living is improving. while that of
the workers in every capitalist
country is going down. That is what
I COuulS. vi COuioC Tie IlUooAdn
tocrats who are Topping all over the
world are not getting along so well.
d USSIAN economists estimate that
~ the country needs goods to the
value of $1,000, 100000. How this
figure will make the teeth of Ameri-
can manufacturers water! They hate
Soviet Russia as the devil is sup
posed to hate holy water, but a Rus
sian ruble looks much better to them
just now than the franc of capitalist
France, or the zloty of capitalist Po-
land. Both curriencies are going down
as fast as a plummet. With Senator
Borah's resolution for Soviet recog-
milton before the senate and all this
Russian business rushing by Amer
Ica's door Silent Cal may have an
awful hard time to keep his mouth
shut, when the manufacturers begin
to ask questions.