The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-07
Vol. Ill. No. 176. c s
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BY THOMAS J. o'FLAHERTT

SAMUEL INSULT, utility king, adj
~ mitted that he spent almost 5000, 900
in the last Illinois senatorial primary
campaign, but how much more he re-
fused to say. What he gave to the
~Crowe-Barrett machine and the Cook
county Deneen machine was not with
in the province of the senate commit
tee to insist on finding out, he said. In
sulrs explanation of his generosity to
Frank L. Smith was due to the latter's
hostility to the world court, he said.
Yet he gave $4,000 to the Deneen
committee, which supported the pro-
court Mckinley! And he gave hand
out to Grove, who, in insults opinion,
was believed to be against Smith until
he made the deal with Thompson.
TT is a great mistake to imagine that
1 the American working class is any
mora concerned with purity in poll
tics than their masters. AS matter
OF fact, they are infected with the
same virus of corruption that Is ex-
posed every time the pin of inVestiga-
ton is jabbed into the bubble of CAPT
talist morality. What is going to
make the workers fight for themselves
as a class is not the spectacle of see
ing few capitalists purchase repub-
:lican and democratic politicians, but
the pinching of the economic shoe,
which sets the inner lining of the
stomach to tickling the backbone and
then shoots warning message to the
brain.
ITO "get the stun" is the slogan OF
L the average worker, who believes
that II is still possible to get his by
hook or crook, It does not matter
which. He sees a William Durant
clean up one million and half in a
stock gamble over night; a Mcintosh
from Canada a similar sum in a wheat
pit furry; a bartender turn bootlegger
and amass million, and a baseball
player don the amor of Jesus and quit
in three years with few million dol
lars to his credit. Why can't the av-
erage worker do likewise? When he
tries to get wise" as the vernacular
has IT, he learns to his cost that jails
are made for him, and for other fool
ish people who try to grab what does
not belong to them in the bona fide,
Legitimate way, legalized by the pro-
fessional crooks.
CtLUsH probes leave the average
~ worker cold. Even in England
where the level of class consciousness
is higher than here, Ramsay MacDon
aid took the biscuit" from Sir Alex
ander Grant to the tune of $15O,OOO
and an automobile beside, yet outside
of the Communists there was hardly
a futter over 1t. It is doubtful If II
impaired Ramsay's popularity even
slightly,
ALI, capitalist politicians are cor
"A rupt. They could not be other
wise. Nothing they could do could be
any worse than their support of the
capitalist system When the workers
realize that the capitalist politicians
they vote for are but servants OF the
employers and that the employers are
enemies of those who labor for a liv
ing. then they will seize on slush
probes and use the revelations against
the capitalist parties. But If the work
ers we're in that frame of mind. 1t Is
quite possible that the democrats ano
republicans would play low on inves
legations of each other.
THIS is not a bughouse fable thai
L strolled into the wrong ward. Il
is an honest-to;goodness excerpt from
George Lansburys Weekly, a delight
full English gentleman, who is a social
list, but why socialist, even one from
los Angeles, should imagine that thu
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