The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-24
Socialists Also Join in
Effort to Make Great
Man" of Sen. La Toilette
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.


Senator LaFoette to lift him to the pedestal Of "a great
man The noisiest among these LaFoIette boosters
its last convention resolved to break with the LaFoette
third party movement some begerent delegates even de-
nouncng the treason to the class struggle committed by
crawling unreservedy aboard the presidential bandwagon
OF the late Wisconsin senator.
Human greatness" depends on who writes history 1t
IS sure that the histories written by the capitalist writer's of
today who will give laFolette honorable MENTION will be
scrapped on the morrow when labor into power.
The cars the grand dukes and the grand duchesses
thought they great in their day in Russia
Rule has finally placed upon them their value Capital
ism today lauds its military heroes much any ruling
class in the past But workers will live to learn that Spar
tacus the rebeIous slave be honored than the
Roman Caesars that all down the pages Of history
pagandsts of and fighters for the day whose
names will loom big the Napoeons, Bismarcks, Yelling
ten or remembered only hideous offspring Of barbarous
age that is gone
LaFoIette "Ieader" in the sense that he was
the standard bearer of cause The agtator who
is bounded and jailed by the rulers of today
ucaes and organizes the workers for the overthrow Of the
capitalist system.
Walter Thomas Mills the socialist" who secured some
prominence the author Of The Struggle for Existence"
in the days before the rds himself of superbun-
con1be when he declares:
"The country greatest In history LaFoette
was the leader of the history will place his
with that of Lincoln and Washington"
Atho Lincoln led in the fight for the overthrow of ohatte
slavery there came before him John Brown aryred
cause of the black slaves emancipation Washington in
the against England, but of the property
owners of the colonies who had slaves both white black
and who worried little about the human rights of oppressed
mankind.
But laFoHette has led no fight He showed himself
clever politician to be He sided with labor sufficiently
to get the support of the trade union atocacy He lifted
his voice for the farmers but only enough to get some
OF their votes When he developed presidential aspirations
ne dsowned the Negroes, fearing it might hurt him among
those really ballots the South
LaFoIette definitely and decsvey showed where he stood
IN the present class denounced the Farmer
Labor Conference of June II, 1924, in ST. Paul. When
workers and farmers rise to they will forget The
historic retrospect OF the years to will show little diff
ference between Coolidge and LaFoete Both champion
the system OF private ownership Coolidge for the big
er gillette for the little of private property All
taism in the White House. while LaFoIette was irving to
patch in the instead of seeking to DESTROY it.
There are whole focks oLaFoettes top many nations
today and they among the oppressos of labor
Take MIerand BRAND and Viviani in France who were
even socialists" in their earlier days.
In the Chicago Federation of Labor, the socialist"
Christian M Madsen former member state legislature
introduces resolution declaring LaFoette "a champion of
human freedom Many there who uttered words
for human freedom. But LaFolette and his FOLLOWING in
me war American labor has been smohered with political
patudes and still staggers under this influence
Lar GILLETTE was an excellent utterer of phrases every
cali TOR action found him wanting, own middle
Glass; once when he failed join the break with
me republican party in 1872 and again after when
ne delayed the organization of his socaIed progressive
forces into third party because 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 in
tribute to the memory of LaFoette they were bitterly as
sailed by the socialists who reve their doatry for this
middle class hero IT homage must be budgeoned on behalf
chance that he will long hold niche In the memory of To-
days rising working class that will win power in spite of
such misIeaders as he.