The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-07
By 7. J. (

TWO prohibition =
4 ed to seeing their comrades Iall
for twenty or twenty-five dollar
bride, were swept of their feet a few
years ago when two bootleggers jam
med a wad of bills-S4,000 in all
underneath their smelling organs on
condition that they be deaf, dumb and
blind so far as the load Of liquor said
bootleggers were unloading, was con-
cerned. The prohibition boys were
rendered unconscious by the size of
the bride and-how could they re-
member anything? The sequel to
the tale was told before one of Chi
Cages judges recently. The poor
fellows are now in the cooler.
nNHE boys admitted that they had
4 done wrong, but how" they
pleaded to the Judge, could two
Americans be expected to turn up
their noses at such respectable
bribe?' The assumption is that had
the bootleggers offered them a five
dollar bill, in return for looking the
other way, they might have him ar
rested for contempt Of court, less ma
jeste or something, but could $4,000
dollar proposition be treated except
with anything but respect? But the
judge had just read in the papers
that Albert B. Fall, who, while secre-
tary Of the interior turned over the
naval oil reserves to Doheny and
Sinclair, for az couple Of hundred
thousand dollars was freed on a tech
nicality, looked with scorn on the pair
of pikers in front of him, and snarled,
to the can with the vile caitiffs!"
THE prohibition agents had a good
argument but they didn't have the
money. How could a 100 per cent
American turn down his thumbs on
a $4,000 bribe? He wouldn't be a
one hundred percenter if he did But
the cost of Americanism is going up
faster than the cost Of living and per-
haps His Honor thot that the two
specimens in front of him were a dis
grace to the tribe. They got a year
in the coop and $500 fine, the rest
of the dough, probably went to the
lawyers. 1t is likely that A. B. Fall
will write of his adventures in the de-
partment of the interior. Crooks who
have failed to make good, could do
worse than purchase a copy, that is.
if they have the price But perhaps
Fall, is as good a sport as old Do
heny, who liked to stake bis cid pals,
when they we're down and out.
TT should not be assumed that we
L have any desire to gloat over mo-
raj frailty, even when exhibited by
prohibition agents, evangelists and
professional patriots. But the news
must be commented on. Lyell L. Ra-
der is an evangelist. so much so that
he was sponsored by William Jen-
nings Bryan. RAIDER, declared Ameri-
cas- perennial presidential candidate
would prove "a strong ally in rescu-
ing science from materialism" Adri-
an Joyce of Cleveland, will now admit
that RAIDER knows the Science of
materialism" thoroly, at least what is
vulgarly termed materialism. RAIDER
now has $4,000 that Joyce once call
ed his own.
A T that, RAIDER is away ahead of
1.-The fallen prohibition agents. One
must admire ingenuity. The evangel-
ist, knowing that the bourgeoisie are
on the lookout for an opportunity to
add to their wealth, informed Joyce
that he had scheme for making gas
carbon black, by a process cheaper
than is now generally used. In or
der to convince his victim, that his
story was not an imaginary flight,
the evangelist produced specimens al
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