The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-27

AS WE SEE IT
BY 7. J. o'FLAHERTY

DREMTER Mussolini of Italy was
i not we'll pleased with the recep-
ton his empire of Italy" prospectus
received, so he reiterated some. What
he had in mind, after all was not an
empire modelled after the Roman, but
An empire of the mind" Mussolini
has brains enough to realize that his
.boasted fascism is running counter to
the stream of evolution and will not
last. A dictatorship based on minor
ity of the population is not destined
to be lasting. Some day the workers
and peasants Of Italy will revolt and
make short work of Imperialism.
british dispatches persist in re-
~ porting that section of the lead
ership Of the British labor party
favors an alliance with that part of
the liberal party which is dominated
by Lloyd George. The latest rumors
are that ]. H. Thomas is in favor of
lining up with the Welsh Wizard"
There is nothing in common between
MacDonaldism and the revolutionary
section Of the British working class
that believes in getting rid Of the
empire and all that it implies.
BECAUSE Baldwin insisted on a
- vote on the Mosul settlement, the
British labor party representatives
walked out of the house of commons
and gave the tory government prac-
tically unanimous vote. The leaders
OF the British labor party are COM
mitted to the league of nations and
OF course the generous souls did not
want to repudiate the league, tho they
felt politically obligated to dodge the
MosuI settlement which may draw
England into war with Turkey. This
is an example of the cowardice OF the
labor takers and the yellow socialists.
II ABOR has powerful political in
~ fuence in China today. This is
admitted by no less person than
the Shanghai correspondent of the
New York Times. The main reason
for the growth Of labor's political in
nuence is the fact that large factor
les have brought the workers together
and put them all in the same boat.
Thus evolution marches on. Large
factories enable the capitalists to
make more profits while at the sane
time sowing the seeds of revolution
among the exploited.
HHANG-TSO-LIN has fallen on evil
" days In Manchuria, and Japan,
which hitherto posed as Chang's fairy
godfather now shows tendency to
let Chang fry in his own fat and an
nounces willingness to do business
with whomsoever succeeds in tying a
can to the pig tail of the former
tuchun of Manchuria. That is the way
It goes. So long as Chang was able
to deliver the goods for Japan he was
the candy kid, but when his bayonets
went back on him, he is out of luck.
And II you will notice the American
bankers treat the white guard Rus
SLAMS in much the same fashion. Woe
to the vanquished!
THERE is quite battle on down in
4 Washington between those who
believe that the founder of christian
ity favored the cup that cheers and
those who believe that he was pro-
hibitionist. The anti-prohibitionists
bring forward the feast of Canaan as
an argument in favor of liberal dis
pensation of light wines and beers
while the prohibitionists claim that
lips that touch liquor will never get
beyond the threshold of what they
call heaven In the meantime both
factions are getting along very nicely
without doing any useful labor. In
other words they should worry.
A RUSSIAN purchasing commission
"A went to Argentina and left a lot
of Russian rubles in that country in
exchange for hides. Those Russians