The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-17
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BY THOMAS J. o'FLAHERrY

BY THOMAS J. O'FLAHERTY
TIME motto of this great city of ours
4 is 81 Will" Indeed we are ready
to do most anything. We have even
gone to the extreme of exposing our
selves in the favorite outdoor sport
of stealing elections. This is to giggle
rather hilariously. Because Jarecki,
the pure souled judge of county cleo
tions and democrat to boot, after
Drawing the hyenas of gang politics
in the interests of civic purity was
amazed to learn that his friends prac-
ideally stole votes in his own behalf.
This was surprise to the Judge.
Watch him swat his friends!
DUT that is not what we were going
- to get you excited about. The
Elks are here. MIR. O'Brien, subbing
for the mayor, who is boosting Dever
in Denver informed the assembled
Elks that by the time they get thru
examining our great city they will
realize that 81 will" does not mean
maybe Acting on this assumption,
Elks should be seen whispering to bell
boys in several Chicago hotels and
disconnecting their lips from the
ears Of hotel detectives while their
faces beamed with smiles. And then
they could be observed hitching their
galluses and asking the elevator girl
TO let them off at room i.
DOR the benefit of those who have
i heard about Chicago for the first
time, we will explain that everything
goes in Chicago, provided there is a
vote or dollar at the other end.
The whispering Elks in the hotels
wanted something to protect their
lungs from the bituminous dust and
Mr.. O'Brien showed by his kind words
that in the event of his running for
mayor those who cater to the wants
and desires Of guests. whether they
be Elks. Moose or just plain donkeys,
can vote for him with the assurance
that laws were made to be obeyed
only by those who do not make them.
WHAT little fighting can accomp-
w lish in the way of reform was
amply demonstrated by the action of
the imperialist powers in withdraw
ing from the rights" hitherto ex-
ercised by them in China to have
their citizens tried by their own
courts rather than by the courts. of
the country whose laws they violated.
The Chinese nationalist revolutionists
supported morally and perhaps other
wise by the workers and peasants of
Russia, have for the past few years
tried a little gentle persuasion on the
imperialists. Instead of praying to
Confucius they hauled forth their
trusty swords and playfully poked
them into the anatomies of their foes
THE result of this diversion has
i been interesting for the student
and rather fruitful for the Chinese.
At first the imperialst got angry with
the Chinese and slaughtered many of
them. But there are four millions of
Chinese in China and to slaughter
them all would be a costly business,
particularly since the Chinese insist.
ed on having two eyes for one and
a whole set of ivory molars for every
one knocked out by the invaders.
Then the imperialists got to blaming
Soviet Russia and bribed WI Pei Flu
and Chang Tso Lin to unite against
the "Bolsheviki."
HOWEVER all the "Bolshevilxi''
IL were not in Russia 1t is true
that the Chinese revolutionists were
defeated so often on paper and
slaughtered in such large nubers that
one wondered how even four hundred
millions, no matter how fast they
multiplied, could stand the strain.
But now we learn. not in the news
columns of the capitalists sheets. but
surrepitiously thr uthe editorial col
umns of the Chicago Tribune, that
Wu Pei Flu and Chang Tso Lin, the
two tools of foreign imperialism, have
recently suffered heavy defeats at the
hands of General Feng and the natio-
nalists armies. Please note that this
news did not appear in the news
columns of the Trib. II was deliber-
atedly killed" But truth will out as
they say in murder trials. How nice
the imperialists can be when they
have to?
A CCoRDING to reports from quart
"A ers usually considered reliable,
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