The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-23
CURRENT EVENTS
BY T. J. o'FIaherty.
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bishops against Mexico. The consul
proved that the church, in the heydey
of its power in Mexico, never permit
ted either free speech, free press or
free assmblage. 1t kept the country
in the deepest ignorance. 1t brought
about the murder Of missionaries of
other denominations who attempted to
bring their particular brand of hokum
into the country and 1t executed
priests who strove to throw off the
Spanish yoke. The catholic bishops
have not a leg to stand on. Those
who know only a little about history
know enough TO convince them that
the catholic church has left nothing
behind it in countries where it held
complete sway except trail of ignor-
ance and superstition.
T LITHUANIAN Fascist, with the aid
~ Of the British, have overthrow the
social-democratic government. The
original excuse was that the social
democrats brought disgrace on the
potato republic by concluding COM
mercial and diplomatic treaty with
the Soviet Union. But no sooner was
the new government established, how
ever precariously, than it fastened to
recognize the same treaty. OF course
this is only gesture to kill time.
Britain is trying to forge chain Of
hostile states around the Soviet
Union. Therefore, the overthrow of
the social-democratic government is a
temporary victory for John Bull. The
social-democrats make virtue out of
their devotion to democracy, but they
only prove their devotion when at
tackled by the enemies of the working
class. They meet the protests of the
workers with sharp bayonets. Before
the power Of the fascist they are as
meek as lambs.
MILES LAMPSoN, British agent in
A'A China. failed to fool the Cantonese
with spicy promises of
British Intentions and with assur-
ances Of British love for the Chinese
people. And on the very day that
Lampson's failure became obvious sew
eral British warships left their base
in the Mediterranean for Chinese
waters. The British foreign secretary
delivered an attack on the Cantonese,
accusing them of being "disrupters"
and ''trouble-makers." How like what
an American labor faker would say
about the left wing members Of the
trade unions?
TT may never have occurred to our
L readers that cannibals did not eat
human flesh because they were pos
sessed Of the devil, but simply because
they must have meat, and this was
about the most accessible source of
supply. Having developed a taste for
his delicacy, the cannibals became
addicted to the habit, just as some
people cannot break away from the
rather unseemly habit of smoking to-
oacco, yea, even chewing the weed.
The powers of resistance of the can
nibals were progressively weakened
by the appearance of missionaries, on
whom the cannibals looked as their
meat" So they continued to eat mis-
,ionaries until they all died Of alco-
lolism. That solved the problem.
THE missionaries, naive things,
l. thought they could divert the
leathens from their evil ways by
christ into their hearts. Be
'ore the message had time to sink into
he heather the heathen's teeth
usually sank into the anatomy OF the
missionary. Thus they got religion in
This situation confronted the
with serious problem,
which they solved by first giving the
leathen hot meal. drink out Of
bottle and then sermon. 1t worked
ike magic. Those reflections we're
by story that appeared in
he papers OF two christians who went
IN fishing trip, only to be blown out
o sea by storm. In starving con.
lition, one OF the two went mad and |
lied. The survivor ate his flesh and |
lived.
We will send sample ooples OF Ths