The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-27
SLUSIHEl)lOD PROBE opens TN CHICAGO
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By THOMAS J. o'FLAHERTY

THE law Of supply and demand is to
\ blame for the prevalence Of speak
castles in the vicinity of the county
jail. The prisoners demanded liquor
and other citizens were ready to sup
ply 1t. We rather jocularly kidded the
iovial sheriff In this column recently
about the possibility of somebody,
bent on mischief, planting still in his
sanctum sanctorum. Before the words
were In print big hole was made in
the prison wall by dynamite bomb.
A few days afterwards several guards
and notorious gunman walked from
tha Jail into tho court and amused
themselves at the courts expense.
TINE worst Was yet to come. The
l. jan began to be the envy Of
thirsty citizenry. Committees began
TO "investigate" It. Then somebody
got the bright idea of watching the
movements Of the guards, and the re-
suit was the discovery of combine
ton brewery and saloon across the
street. Wealthy prisoners, members
of the several gangs who hi-jack, ped
die alcohol and turn over wards to
their political angels in elections, could
have their favorite drink in few min
utes by whistling, once or twice To
complete the farce it is necessary that
Mayor Dever should declare the city Is
dry. He is few minutes late with his
daily statement
THREE hundred thousand dollars
is the least that candidate for
the United States senate can make
decent campaign on, in the opinion Of
George f. Brennan, leader of the dem
ocratic party in these parts. George
knows there is quiz on the way and
he Is preparing the public for his audi
tors report. Three hundred thousand
dollars is not such a small sum of
money, but Brennan In the senate is
worth every nickle of it to the big
business interests of Illinois. In fact,
he will suit them just as well as his
republican opponent, Frank L. Smith
OURS is the philosophy OF equal
" opportunity and fair play de-
clared F. N. Shepherd, executive man
ager of the Bankers Association,
speaking before the Montana Bankers
Association. No doubt this was the
philosophy that animated the murder
crs of Frank Little and still continues
to guide the policy of the Anaconda
Copper Mining Company, which pays
its thousands of slaves miserable
wage for exceedingly hard work.
MIR. SHEPHERD grew enthusiastic
4'1 under the influence of Butte's
hracing atmosphere, and perhaps other
5timulants for which Butte is not in
famous. Listen to this: THE inventor
and the engineer have lifted the bur
den from the backs of the people and
placed it upon the tireless shoulders
of the machine. In agriculture, where
generation ago one man, afoot, bend
ing over a hand planter, put in two
acres of corn a day, he now rides in
comfort on checkrOwer and plants
twenty acres a day. In industry one
man plus machine takes the place of
ten shoemakers, twelve men with an
automatic conveyor replace $50 coal
miners, and so on. AT the same time
the wages of labor have Increased
steadily and the hours of labor have
lessened."
lLTELL, WE'LL we'll! So that is why
w western farmers are singing
thanks for the buggy ride: We are
having a wonder-f-ool time" and tell
ing 1t with cactus plants to Calvin
Coolidge, If the opulent farmer did
not have to till the soil he might be
obliged to do his riding in Central
Park, New York. or somewhere on the
Gold Coast of Chicago. And the $50
coal miners who are displaced by
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