The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-11
By H. M. Wicks

the galleries were crowded to visw
the slaughter OF the Coolidgs-deinO-
crat combination. The galleries were
not disappointed. On their own,
ground and with their own arguments,
Borah annihilated the contentious Of
the administration supporters. Con-
stantly interrupted by the admtnistrA-
ton apologist, Lenruot, OF Wisconsin,
the Idaho senator continued his
course. He proved that the league Is
not an instrument Of peace but Of
war, that the court was unthinkable
apart from the league.
But the burden Of his speech was
that the United States would be at a
disadvantage in the court because
England with her dominions and colo
MES would be able to dominate the
court. Said Borah:
"canada is a member Of the
league; Australia Is a member Of
the league; Egypt Is a member Of
the league; and under tho statute
Great Britain could have a member,
and either one Of the other British
members Of the league-canada,
Australia, or any other membnr--
could have a member on the court"
Whereas, Washington and tbs
founders of the nation had warmed
against entanglements in the affairsf
Europe, the Coolidge-democratic coali-
ton was striving to plunge the ma
ton into the troubled waters OF Eu-
ropean diplomacy. Such was the ar
gument of Borah.
The opposition could not refute his
charges without committing them
selves as agents of the House Of Nor
gan. It is only the MARKHAM, the pro-
letarian revolutionist, who can raply
to the arguments of Borah.
Living in the Past.
DORAH and Shipstead and the other
- liberals and representatives of the
middle bourgeoisie live in the past
Their ideas, Like those of the late La
Toilette, belong to the colonial period,
when the United States was a weak
nation, struggling to establish it's
right to exist. He repeats the isola-
zionist slogans Washington, Jefferson
and the other giants of that period
penned against the great mOnarchtst
nations of Europe that threatened all
bourgeois democratic institutions Of
their day.
1t is true that Great Britain has
seven votes in the league, but that
does not brighten the House Of Nor
gan. Borah specifically mentions
Australia and Canada as potential
votes against the United States. Nor
gan and his agents know that fnstead
of counting these two nations as enc
mics he will be able to rely upon
them as allies in a conflict with Brit
ain. Already Canada is under the a.
nancial domination of the United
States and the liberal C1) Mckenzie
King government Of that nation Is far
more responsive to the demands o.
Wall Street than to those Of England.
Australia is also being drawn into the
scheme of American imperialism and
is rapidly becoming alienated from
England.
Within the world court and the
league the House of Morgan hopes TO
achieve political and diplomatic vic
tories that will further defend It's
economic interests in these British do
minions as we'll as turnout the rest OF
the world. That is the point that
Borah and his supporters miss and
being the central point of Morgan's
policy it explains why they are inn
potent against the administration
democratic combination.
Next ArticIe-Some Of Borah's Aids
in the Court Fight.