The daily worker., 1927-01-25
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CURRENT E a.
By T. J. o'FLAHERTY

The United States senate has beer
partially fumigated by the refusal
of that august body to permit Frank
L. Smith, senator-elect of Illinois,
also appointee of Governor Small
from spending more than a few
hectic hours in the chamber. Franl,
was a very bad boy in getting caught
taking Sam insults coin. Fancy a
New York candidate for the mayoralty
caught with Interborough money in
his jeans. It would mean the re-
election of ex-mayor Hylan. Sam
insult, the public utility magnate
was qui te popular fellow in Illinois
until he was exposed in the role of O.
fellow out for good time. Some
people have a habit of throwing
money away on taxis until they get
down to their last five dollar bill and
then hoofing it in the slush until the
next ship comes in.
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Since The DAILY WORKER moved
to New York we could hardly resist
giving most of our attention to what
is taking place in this big city but the
Chicago papers much to our amaze
ment feature issues of such national
Importance as the senate's refusal to
scat Frank L. Smith. We have also
notice that the good citizens of Chi
cago are confronted with the peren-
nial moron problem. So serious is
the situation that doctors, lawyers,
students and some normal citizen
joined in round table conference to
discuss the menace. If the other
morons have a sense of humor thev
might be able to laugh off their de-
ficiencies.
Hunting morons is a favorite dodge
in Chicago when the grating poll
ticians desire to throw the blue-nosec
reformers off the scent or off the
track of some cash. This is not
peculiar to Chicago tho the art o
passing the bunk is highly develope,
there. Chicago capitalist papers tn
specialize in protecting millionaire
Gl.afters unctuously thump their poll
teal craws and thank Jehovah that
polluted recipient of filthy ducre, t.
wit, Frank L. Smith could not fino
q resting place in the senate. The
professional moralists who spend
their time shopping around houses OF
i'll repute and more respectable place
where Volsteadism is trodden on alsc
turn up their eyes to heaven when
some person with fishhooks in his
pockets gets a ride in the wagon
What hypocrites our capitalist
politicians are? The same senate
that ousted Smith, acquiesced in the
policy of the state department IN
sending marines to rape Nicaragua
politically, and in threatening waI
on Mexico and in the dispatch of war
ships to China. We are strongly in
favor of the ousting of Frank L
Smith from the senate. In fact j
would please US to see the entire
senate abolished. We would be bet
ter pleased if Soviet, representing
the workers and farmers of the United
States supplanted the senate. But
how those respectable senators strain
at few hundred thousand insult dol
lars and swallow the billions that are
exploiting the peoples of Mexico, Mic
aragua and China.
The Countess Salm-the title cost
her father half a million dollars and
the only thing the countess got out
CT the expenditure is a child-reach-
ed Europe under an assumed name
oddly enough meaning good thing"
Let us hope she does not run into
another count as European counts
know good thing when they see ii
and we cannot afford to allow our
country to be impoverished further
by permitting our wealthy women to
travel abroad at the risk Of losing
their virtue and our money.
Bishops of the Anglican church
arc conferring with view to elimin-
atia.g the word "obey" from the mar
iiage ceremony. They might as we'll
Nothing in the world is obeyed less
In connection with the Anglican
church nothing is more amusing than
to watch captain or purser taking
the services" on British ship. AS a
rule those officers celebrate on Satur-
day night.
THE right wing of the Liberal Par
ty in Great Britain is organizing
against Lloyd George, provided il
has enough vitality left to organize
It has some intelligence at least. That
counts little. Viscount Grey is the
organizer and his policy is truce be
tween capital and labor. Grey ha!
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