The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-02
Now the Hamilton Club
Weeps Over the Woes
of the Nations Farmers
BY J. LOUIS ENcDAHL.

THE days here capitalism's puny statesmen
in Washington getting tired Of doing nothing They
want to go home They srenuousy pushing the
adjournment without attending to the pressing farm crisis
hailed by the Hamilton Club of Chicago FOUR greatest
national problem"
congress to remain in session until steps been taken
TO redeem the promises made to the farmers of the
Just what promises the HamiItonians refer to- it is diff
cult to say II all the promises made had been fulfilled the
farmers would be afuent enough to join the Hamilton Club
and Toll about in its sumptuous quarters for the
of their natural lives.
The Hamiltonians not pleading for the farmers
Every intelligent and wide awake tIer Of soil knows
that The Hamtonans bankers landlords grain gam
bers food spectators and big ndustrasts, who depend
on the prosperity of the faung agricultural districts to
be found wherever the compass points the farmers haven't
the funds to plant and raise their crops toing endessy
under the coming summers then the parasites of the
Hamilton Club may have to sell of their automobiles
and forget next winters oun in Florida Over that pros
pect they weep
The Hamilton Club named after that arch-reaconary
Alexander Hamilton who staked thru hstorys pages at the
dawn of the nation. Hamilton was banker in New York
City, founder of the Bank of the United States segov-
eminent institution. His position entrenched thru the
fact that he was secretary of the treasury under the first
president George Washington This the Job that sandy
Mellon now holds. Hamilton arstocrat He believed
in highly centralized government which the tyranny
OF big business Later he nearly became president
congress decided for Thomas Jefferson has given his
name to Jeffersonian clubs just Hamilton performs the
same service for Hamtonian clubs. The Jeffersonians
often rant about democracy The Hamitonans do
They feel themselves part Of the buebIOoded astocracy
for the poor farmers enough to chill the devil himself be-
fore his highest flaming furnaces. It is grim joke
Bankers landlords spectators on the board of trade
and the stock exchange the packers and their fellow
proeers are interested the farm problem only helps
their bank accounts It pointed in Bassets history of
the United States that when Alexander Hamilton presented
financial PLAN to congress pleased the property-own-
ing class The only farm plan that will please the Ham,
ton Club will be the plan that pIeases the propeyownng
class because that includes themselves. a
It may safely be said that there farm legislation
now before congress that will be of great benefit to farmers
This is true because the land workers, the grain corn
cotton and other farmers not organized the basis of
fight for concessions to their class They divided into
multitude of competing economic organizations. Po-
cay, they allow themselves to drift between the two old
parties Unity with the workers industry thru Labor
Party will develop the political struggle a class basis
Economic organizations wagng class fight against the
bankers landlords and SPECTATORS will develop struggle
where the real interests of the exploited will come
to the front for the first time The farmers yet
gun to fight That why the Hamilton Club shed hypo
critical tears and not make themselves the laughing stock of
everyone making any claim to the least intelligence When
the farmers begin to wage for their the
Hamtonans will wipe away their raise the pirate flag
of their class and reveal themselves buccaneern
capitalists that they