The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-23
Socialists Also Join in
Effort to Make 'Great
Man" of Sen. La Toilette
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY strenuous efforts being made by friends of
Senator LaFoette to lift him the pedestal of "a great
include many socialists" altho the Socialist party
its last convention resolved break with the LaFoette
third party movement begerent delegates de-
nouncng the treason to the class struggle committed by
crawling unresevedy aboard the presidential bandwagon
OF the late Wisconsin senator.
Human greatness" depends on who writes history It
is that the histories written by the capitalist writer's of
today, who will give LaFoette honorable mention will be
scrapped the morrow when labor comes into power
thought they great in their day Russia. Soviet
Rule has finally placed upon them their true value canta
ism today auds its military heroes much any ruling
class in the past But workers will live that Spar
Roman Caesars that all down the pages Of history there
are hidden away obscure mention of owy agatos pro-
names will loom bic as the Napoeons Baro oV weOs
tons and their whole breed present day are forgot
ten or remembered only hdeous offspring Of babarous
LaFoIette not "leader" in the sense that he was
the standard bearer Of some The agitaor
is bounded and jailed by the rulers of today he who
ucates and organizes the overthrow of the
capitalist system.
Waiter Thomas Mills the Socialist" who secured some
prominence the author of 1.-THE Struggle for Existence"
in the days before the war; rds himself Of some superbun-
combe when he declares:
"rhe country greatest in its history LaFoste
was the leader Of the history
with that Of Lincoln and Washington
Aho Lincoln led the fight the overthrow of chatte
slavery there before him John Brown maryred in the
cause OF the black slaves emancipation Washington led
the war against England, but it the property
owners OF the coones who had slaves both white and black
and who worried little about the human rights of oppressed
mankind. ,o3
But LaFoIIette has led fight. He showed himself a
clever politician to be He sided with sufficiently
to get the support of the arstocracy He lifted
his voice for the farmers but only loud enough get some
OF their votes When he developed presidential aspirations
he dsowned the Negroes, fearing might him among
those who really the ballots South the whites
LaFoee definitely and decisivey showed where stood
in the present when he denounced the Farmer
Labor Conference, of June II, 1924 in ST. Paul When
workers and farmers rise power they will not forget The
historic retrospect of the years to will show little
terence between Coolidge and LaFoette Both champion
the system of private ownership Coolidge the big own
ers Lar GILLETTE for the little private properly All
that divided them the fact that Coolidge for cap
taism in the White House, while LaFoette was irving TO
There are whole ocks of LaFoettes top many nations
today and they among the oppressors of labor
lake Mlerand, BRAND and Vviani in France who were
even socialists" in their earlier days.
In the Chicago Federation of Labor, the Socialist"
Chrstan W. Madsen former member of the legislature
introduces resolution declaring LaFoee "a champion of
human freedom Many there who have uttered words
TOR human freedom But LaFoIIette and his following in
congress wouldn't even make fight for free speech during
the war; American labor has been smothered with political
Patudes and still staggers under this narcotic influence
Lar oee was an excellent utterer of phrases But every
call for action found him wanting for his own middle
class; when he failed join the Roosevelt break with
the republican party in 1912 again after the war when
ne delayed the organization of his so-caed progressive"
forces into third party because he thought the
people are not yet ready for it."
When the Communists in the New York Conference of
me american Labor Party last Saturday refused to stand in
tribute to the memory OF LaFoee they were bitterly as
sailed by the socialists who reve In their doatry for this
middle class hero homage must be budgeoned on behalf
OF gillette IN the days that his corpse being buried small
chance that he will long hold niche in the memory of to-
days rising working class that will win power in spite of
such misleaders as he.
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