The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-03
Berger's Socialists Are
Worse Off Than the Bat
Aesop Wrote About
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL

TODAY Victor Berger the lone socialist congressman in
Washington gets his picture In the papers Not that he
has wounded capitalism, BY any attack made upon it.
Berger not given this attention because of any fear he
has aroused in the ranks of the enemy of labor His pic
tre Is not published that Of capitalist foe He is only
being rewarded by the kept press for tickling its humorous
se in speech that he made trying tanaze the LaFo
ette progressves in the house of
gress Tor processing themselves good republicans"
But the funniest slant Berges is that can
be used against Berger himself better than fits the bedfe
lows Of the socialists In the recent presidential campaign
Representative Frear of the LaFoette republicans
from Wisconsin, who joined the badger in little
badger game Of oong the petty bourgeois into believing
they going to have nice middle class third party made
his speech defending the right Of the LaFOee progress
sves to play the private of the republicans He
argued for the right Of the LaFoee following TO remain in
the republican party when these LaFolette politicians
supposed to meet in Chicago this month form
party they said In reply Frear Berger came to bat
with bat story as follows:
Aesop q war between the uuadupeds
Birds quadupd according which aide
was victorious But the bat was found out and Stunned
after
my colleague Wisconsin, Mr. Frsar reminds me Of that fsb.
and Of that bat Mr. Frear .
when the less sOoasc LaFette campaign up
big political horizon.
"And lol Mr. Frsa has humby kissed
in him. -
Any man who claims to be progressive
form ought to be willing pay the price, II not then he weano
unHcant be almost deuusthe loss Of position on COM
mees The republicans have right to control their
But where does that let Berger off? Berger quit the
utonary struggle for socialism when he decided remain
with the Second (sociaist international and fight the Com
munst International and the Russian revolution Like the
ba Berger part of the Second (sccast international had
merely the cloak of socialist principles casting aside
in the hour of the open struggle with capitalism
Instead Berger with the American socialists counteparts
of the socadeocrats in all lands puts cloak Of cap
talst reforms and with the middle following of
LaFolette, in the vain hope It will break with the two Wall
Street parties Now LaFoette going to cheat the social
lists out OF even the liberal third party not to mention fake
labor party Berger surely the who is Stunned the
hand by working class evouonss the by
liberal reformers who find it comfortable remain In the
republican and democratic parties.
Frear and the rest of the LaFoette following have this
compensation They at least have hole crawl into as
Berger admits Mick Longworth, son-in-aw of the late
Roosevelt who controls the house of Representatives says
the LaFoete outfit back into Wall Streets c. O. p
any time they pledge themselves to behave Which they
no doubt, prepared to do good republicans"
Berger, the other hand hasn't hole crawl into
He isolated completely; gaining attention only when he
plays the clown and makes funny speeches congress to
provoke smile from his fellow political agents Of Wall
Street Berger is off than the bat Another fable
should be added to the Aesop collection the special
of Berger's socialists.