The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-22
MARYHILL HOAX
is HILL TRICK
TO Shine MARIE
Railroad Magnate Plays
Royalty Game


fessed, at so much per word, that her
dear people miss her when she is
away, and that life for the Roumanians
seems less worth, while in her alb
sence, the hard-boiled staff of the state
department wonder just how much of
the international record of her gov
eminent she hopes to obscure by her
American near-vaudeville tour.
Not so long ago an American min.
lister came home from the Roumanian
capital and told how the Bratiano cabi-
net, hackers of the royal family, had
enacted its confiscatory law affecting
foreign oil companies in that country
In confidential talk with the press
ne gave most convincing description
Of the manner in which Roumanian
cabinet official is Convinced" that
foreign corporation is entitled to
something it wants The impression
given was that the Roumanian govern
ment was Matchmaking institution to
which American oil companies would
have to pay tribute in cold coin,
slipped under the table.
Debt Question.
At that time, too, the Bucharest
authorities were ignoring every sug-
gestion that they pay their debt to
the American treasury and to various
American companies that had sold
them railroad equipment and other
necessaries on credit. Later they
found way to settle, but they were
among the last in all Europe to be
willing to pay what they could.
At that time, too, King Ferdinand
and Queen Marine were worried over
the revolt of the peasants in Bessa-
rabia. Prisons were filled with sus-
poets, many of whom were tortured or
killed Gin trying to escape" From
this peasant uprising there developed
panic among the Roumanian ruling
class, which led to wholesale arrests
of trade union leaders and the virtual
suppression of the trade unions for a
while. When at last trade union
| congress was permitted to meet it's
first demand was the restoration of
the actual right to hold meetings and
carry on trade activities, since the law
that guarantees this right was ignored
by the police and military.
Jewish Persecution.
In the background of these anxieties
on the royal head is always the Jew
ish persecution on which Roumanian
royal power is based. When the Rou-
lmanian agents who sAme to Washing
ton in 1917 to beg for loans were
asked whether they would modernize
their attitude toward minority peoples
and give citizenship to the millions of
Jews in their territory, they grudg-
ingly said they would. They got the
money, but the Jews did not get lib
erty. Anti-semitism is still a prime
tenet in the faith of the royalist party
in Marie's realm.
The MaryhlIi Hoax.
Americans east of the Rockies never
heard Of Maryhill Wash, until Queen
Marie's press agents began to trum-
pet that name abroad. She is to ded-
icate Roumanian room in a museum
at Maryhill, overlooking the Columbia
river. Diplomats who have looked into
the matter discover with plain citi-
zens that Maryhill means the Jim Hill
estate. A son of the late railroad mag
nate has entered into a social-promo-
ton arrangement with Queen Marie
whereby Marie has an excuse to go to
the Pacific coast while Hills family
gets into certain fashionable circles
from which they have thus far been
excluded. Inasmuch as young Hill is
no tightwad, it may be assumed that
press agents bills will be duly paid
with railroad dividends.
This Hill scheme has made the de-
ficit-laden promoters Of the Sesqui ex-
position in Philadelphia envious. The
Philadelphia papers print advertise
ments for the sale OF seats in the sta
dium when Marie will positively ap-
pear, morning and evening" Com
plant is made by fight fans that boxes
at this show cost $50, as against only
SIS for the late Tunney-Dempsey COM
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Big Loan Looms.
Meanwhile the men in Washington
who know most about the Roumanian
queen and her Bratlano cabinet back
ers are watching for evidence Of her
business errand. A big loan is the
iavorite guess as to what she has come
for. Then there is anti-Soviet propa-
ganda to be spread as safeguard
against future American neutrality on
the demand Of the Soviet Union for
the return OF Bessarabia.
All this while the political police in
the Roumanian prison towns are TAX
ing horrible revenge on the peasants
and workers for their gestures toward
freedom.
"Cal" Is Opposed to
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