The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-04
BY T. ). o'FLAHERTY

IN LOuuOA llOuCCS
L recently passed away character
famous in a way, man who went
by the pseudonyms Of Lucky Bow
err and "The Man Who Broke the
Bank at Monte Carlo" This adyen-
turer and gambler after leading a
useless and hectic life found him
self so cracked financially in 1920
that he organized society called the
Liberty League It's aim was to
fight Bolshevism and save the ma
tion from ruin. Among the promi-
nent people attracted to the league
were Rudyard Kipling and Sir Rider
Haggard. The society was shortliv-
ed Whatever money came in was
considered by Mr.. Bower his own
personal property. He was as eff
cient in breaking the treasury Of the
Liberty League" as he was in break
ing the Monte Carlo bank.
TINE domestic life of the patriotic
4 Mr.. Bower was not marked either
by felicity or tranquility. One of his
wives was the widow of a we'll
known Hungarian sportsman. She
had fortune of S5,00O,000. Patriots
always seem to keep weather eye
open for the main chance. Bower
made violent love to his wife's mil
lions and succeeded in his siege to
a considerable extent. Finally Mrs.
Bower went behind the ramparts and
refused further connubial and finan.
cial relations with her patriotic
spouse. Like a real he man, Bower
dragged a small cannon into the
house loaded it with powder and
threatened to blow his sweetheart's
boudoir into atoms unless the be-
sieged one made a complete and I'M
conditional surrender. The white flag
was speedily hoisted and the gallant
Mr.. Bower scored another victory.
THIS is the stuff of which heroes
L and anti-Bolshevists are made.
1t usually develops that the greatest
and most accomplished grafters are
most frequently heard extolling the
virtues of honesty and the burglars
who wish to get near government
treasury in order to loot 1t are loud
est in their vocal war on radicalism
as foil for their desired raid on
the nations wealth. The National
Security League, the American De
Tense Society, tha Constitutional
League the Allied Patriotic Society,
the Ku Klux Khan and similar organ
izations of odoriferous reputation
are in existence mainly for one pur-
pose, to collect graft. There is not
a single grain of honesty in the
whole lot. They fleece the wealthy
the only people who can be fleeced
and in return broadcast lurid yarns,
about plots and conspiracies design
ed to shake more money out Of the
business men.
NOW that the prohibition forces
IN are being reduced and the pro
fessional stoolpigeons who were used
to perjure themselves in order to
put radical workers in Jail in Cali.
fornia are unemployed, there is a
probability that the number of pa
triotic" societies will increase and
multiply. Soon we are liable to wit
ness the spectacle Of rival groups OF
patriots shooting at each other with
sawed-off shot guns like the Chicago
bootleggers, for the spells to be de-
rived from the exploitation of patriot
ISM These are the vermin that CAPT
talism vomits up in its declining
years as paragons of public virtue
Mr.. Bower, the English libertine
rum soak, gambler, race track tout
and all around degenerate, was a
worthy type of this breed.
TINE DAILY WORKER has not the
l. time or the inclination to make a
collection Of what H. l.. Mencken
has immortalized under the title OF
americana" which term stands fol
the quintessence of imbecility, ignor
ance, moral turpitude and everything
else that would qualify person fol
membership in the Loyal order oil
the Moose. But when a particularly
attractive chunk of this indigenous
by American commodity can be pick
ed up without any special effort, it is
not TO be turned down or sneezed
at. With a few words of explana
ton will represent for the edifica
ton OF our readers as choice n NOR
sci of Minnesota literary offal as ever
polluted the atmosphere. 1t is de
composed babbittry, perfumed by the
output of a barrel of pole cats. See
II II is not
THE author OF the mental garbage
4 is William Il. McEwen. editor OF
the Labor World Of Duluth, a cham
Der of commerce labor skate. It ap
pears that Duluth, Is going to have
"frolic week" The details of the
proposed affair are not given. but
Mr. McEwen the labor" editor In
boosting It turns loose flood of bah