The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-23
By Upton Sinclair

He wanted to know Paul didn't believe any
killing the rich classes in Russia Paul said he didn't doubt
been some the French
revolution What had to remember the the Russian
people had been treated by their ruling classes and the kind Of
they you judge their revolution
by their standards and by Paul smiled and added that
mistake for American employer who had tried to
give his square DEAL identify himself with those mas
tiers had beaten their with knouts and turned
them to the Cossacks if they attempted any protest
That pacifed Dad little but he said the seemed to
him, these Bolshevis st many German agents He
told about the train that had carried LenDad called him Lee
nynehrough Paul asked whether he had watch
ed the that had from the negotiations the Ger
had apparently been much afraid of the Russians we
These Bohevks fighting the ruling classes of both
sides and the Germans might find the they had made
dangerous to them than the fghng the revolutionary
ganda might spread their armies and to the Western
Front
There expecting Dad to anything compl
Gated that The declared that the Russians had really
wanted to help the cause OF peace and justice they should nave
stood by the allies until the Kaiser was put out OF business Then
Paul asked whether Mr. had read the treaties of the
allies and Dad obliged confess that he had
heard of them Paul explained how the Soye after demand
that the allies should make their aims and having
attention paid the had revealed the world all the
secret agreements which the allies had made with the Tar for
dividing the territories they to take from the Germans
and Ausans and Turks Paul declared that the text of these
treaties the most important news Oh the gay haa Deen sup
by the American newspapers going into this
bndoded help Great Britain and France and Italy and
Japan impera aims then people being
ceved and day they would have bitter awakening
Dads that simple Paul might assured
those secret treaties would turn out to be Bohek forgere
Had not already given out lot of documents
had obtained in Russia proving the Bohev leaders be Ger
man agents 1hose were the Cue anu a WouIu
find day. and be ashamed of having doubted
Bunny sat- taking in every word of this discussion was
puzzng and hard be about but seemed to him that
Dad right what could good American do in wartime like
this but his government? Bunny little shocked
doubts about his supeo and he considered his duty
get by himself tell him the things
four minute had said in school and try inspire him with
intense patriotism But Paul only laughed and patted
Bunny the back that they quantity of
ganda here in the training camp.
evening they all hear Eli; in great tent such
would hold hreeng circus with thousands of parked
the fields about and sawdust rewn in the aes and hundreds
benches crowded with soldier boys and ranchers
their wives and children There platform with the
gehs wearing white rope with golden star on ms Doso Ior
all the world like Persian and there Silver
band with and basstubes cleaning that they
your eyes big blazers hymn glory
and the audience started rock and shout praise the LOd
the top of that tent would bulge out!
Eli preached against the Hun telling how the Holy Spirit had
revealed him that the be routed before the
of the Lodproded Of that they had rejected
saved by Ell In the middle of the stage
tank constructed with steps descending into and the con
sitting the platform CARRIED in white nghtes
the ceremonies arrived Eli descended into the
himself and grabbed his victims by by the backs
their necks and in the of the Father and the Son OF the
Holy Ghost he them forward souse! into the water
the last hair of their
bodies from the holy water then contracted OF those
diseases which the penalty of sins even among military
crusaders-we they had do back again and
themselves heaen by the prophet of the Third Revelation
Nex+ da the family drove home and how much they had TO
gossip for weeks thereafter Bunny
that Of the nrepration he was getting in school
Dads influence he be in officers
training camp full Of conservation and working harder
than a. his duties.
March began that longdreaded onslaught on the
'front.' those battles which the world had grown
extending miles of front and last
ing all day night weeks Such battle was
not named from town CITY, but from province TINS was
battle of Pcardy broke through the Brit
them back in for thirty forty miles and
hundred thousand and seemed ha Lad worst
forebodings to be realized.
But neither the Germans the allies knew that in OBJ
village the fruit orchards of California might
prophet exercising his magic their behalf II CHANGED
that Watkins item from the 'front.' declaring that
the only thing which could the British armies rain ard
assembled his hosts of and all night long they
rocked upon and their hands unto the Lord
invoking storms in Pcardy the Lord heard them and the