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there may be 4 physical wreck, with
medals hanging on his wasted frame,
who may mutter, with all the vehem-
ence of a leading actor in What
Price Glory" What the hell did |
wreck myself for?"
WET despite all this evidence which
l. is Haunted in the face of the work
ing class, who contributed the main
human toll in the war, we find wage
slaves who still boast Of having de-
feated the kaiser They may not have
job, or il so, It may be a bum job,
long hours and short pay. But they
are proud of having won the war so
that the ouse Of Morgan could place
Europe under tribute. This is the
kind of thing that makes superficial
radicals pessimistic and hopeless.
They say. 1.-THE workers don't apprec-
late our sacrifices, so to hell with
them" For that kind Of radical the
ash can Of oblivion is the proper re-
ceptacle.
THOSE who throw in their lot with.
4 the revolutionary movement and
take the sour with the sweet in the
expectation that the masses will
sprinkle their path with roses are
not the kind that go thru to the end.
Leaders, whether in the capitalist
ranks or in the ranks Of the working
class, receive the support of those.
they speak for, just so long as they
succeed in convincing their followers
masses may desert them when they
are right and follow them when they
are wrong. They may stone them
while they are living and build monu-
ments over their graves when they
are dead. A good deal depends on the
time. Had Lenin died in 1917 instead
Of 1923, it is probable that his mau-
solemn in the Kremlin Square would
not today be visited by millions Of
Russian worekrs and peasants. Karl
Marks grave in London is not so fire.
quented.
WOODROW WILSON was an Amer
W lean hero in 1917 and for few
years afterwards. Today Calvin Coo
lidge is the little tin god Wilson at
least was man of intellect. Coo
lidge's brain could be squirted into a
gnat's eye without making the little
thing wrinkle his brow. Coolidge is
the spokesman of the policies of the
republican party, and in an era of
prosperity--for the rich of course
Coolidge goes. But let capitalism find
itself in crisis and Coolidge will
fade away like set of false whiskers
in cyclone. Then you may find
Borah coming to the front. W
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ETHIS is a complicated world and
people who demand their politics
simplified are liable to die, cursing
their fate. Trotsky once said that the
shortest distance between two points
is zig gag. Perhaps Trotskya did not
invent the phrase. 1t is a good one
nevertheless. Anybody who has made
study of European politics since the
war can see that the powers involved
have been busily engaged ever since
trying to liquidate the results of the
struggle. The Locarno pact marks
point in that effort. A war between
nations is like a fight inside a politi-
cal party, magnified millionfold. The
lower the theoretical level of the
party, the more necessary it is for the
leaders to appeal to the prejudices of
the membership in order to hold them
in line.
THE rulers of capitalist nations in
= times of war personify the leaders
of the competing powers as inhuman
monsters who must be crushed if the
wives and daughters of civilized" ma
tons are to go their graves unsullied
and pure. At least, If their virtue is
furnished the vile deed must not be
done by hated foreigner. This is the
kind of stuff that made our American