The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-22
The Intelligent Worker
Is the 1Staunchest Ally
of Fight for Communism
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TO-DAY presents opportunity for comparing the number
of voters participating in elections in the United States,
under capitalist rule and in the Russian workers republics
under Soviet rule The actual figures give the Soviet repub
lie staggering lead this capitalist republic Under
Soviet rule the being drawn into participation
in Soviet public e while in the United many
Of the country show actual falling off in the number of
eligible voters who went to the polls in last years elections
In making this comparison there this great difference
to be mind United States has list of EEL
igibe voters selected list of the best citizens native
born natuazed In states those who pay certain
only allowed VOTE There residential
qualifications while in the South there many restc-
tons, of various kinds voting by Negroes The United
States therefore, in its egbe voters has selected list
in the figures for Russian Soviet rule we find no such
phrase eligible voters All have the right Of franchise
few bourgeois alone excepted Even the most backward
among the peasants but recently freed from the
black oppression OF drawn into the electoral
struggle. Yet here are some of the facts:
In the province of Kev from so 70 per of the
peasants participated in the elections.
In of the districts of Artemovsk province as
many as 80 per cent of the electors participated.
In Moscow province the average proportion of electors
participating the elections to village Soves held far is
1877 cent of the total electors and 4o per of
the women electors average OF 63o cent of the
total electorate.
increasing number of and peasant voters being
drawn into participation in this phase of public e Thus
Soviet rule is strengthened.
But in the United States with the right Of franchise
going back to the time that the first settler arrived in this
voters under the capitalist dictatorship today
figures show that only 5o92 per cent of eigbe voters"
millions OF dollars were spent Ito get out the VOTE
Only 81 states show gain for 1924 1920, while II
states showed losses Every southern state with great
natiVebon populations, showed loss, Mississippi
and Georgia Yet in Mississippi only 1923 per cent of the
egbes went to the polls and in Georgia only 1892 cent
SOUTH CAROLINA WITH 606,8 $50 ELIGIBLE VOTERS
CAST ONLY 50751 VOTES, OR A BARE 6.3 PER CENT.
When the growth of population is taken into account
those states that showed slight increases actually suf
fered losses This indicates startling Indifference on the
of the under the fraudulent democracy of
Wall Street rule This Indifference stirred at times by the
getoutthevote campaigns with their barrels of money
The stay eligible voters usually reactionary
in politics. They paid go the voting when
whether in local. state national elections They
deciding vote the side of ignorance and reaction.
Soviet rule however, draws its into the cleo
tons to win them for the intelligent rule of the workers and
peasants The stability of Soviet rule depends the
gence OF the most backward especially the
backward peasanry while American capitalist rule like the
ignorance that call to its aid whenever its
power is threatened
Thus capitaisms pet lie, that Boshevs thrives where
ignorance supreme is effectively and thoroy shattered
The drive toward Communism turnout the Union of
Soviet Republics grows in momentum the emancpatng
light of daWning intelligence drives the last
Vestiges of czarism and capitalism
An intelligent working class, which a working
class daily growing class conscious, working
class aroused against capitalism 1t increasingly
effective struggle against capitalism. in time, thru
the intelligent exercise OF the organized might of labor the
overthrow of Wall Street rule.
Capitalism has an ally in ignorance. The intelligent
worker is the staunchest fighter for Communism.