The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-11
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By t. ]. o'FLAHERrY.

nj OW that the Snyder murder case
IN is off the front pages of our
moralistic capitalist press the victims
of the Mississippi flood may get
little publicity It is certain now that
they are getting more than publicity,
and getting It in the neck. AS the
editorial in yesterdays DAILY
WORKER pointed out, that interna-
tional ghoul, Herbert Hoover, is down
there in the interests of the gigantic
hawk shops known as banks to fas-
ten a loan around the necks of the
poor homeless and helpless flood
refugees that will keep their noses
to the grindstone for the rest of their
lives.
THIS is the man, touted as the
trouble man" of the Coolidge adj
hinistration, who used the money of
the government relief organization in
Hungary to crush the workers and
peasants revolution in that country.
Again in Russia he sent in an army
, of stoolpigeons in the garb of saw
Tors to help the counter revolution
lists do their best to wreck the de-
veloping Soviet government. Instead
of digging into the United States
treasury for money to aid the unfor-
tunate people along the path of the
Mississippi overflow, Hoover has
called the bankers together and
showed them how they can make
more profits out of the misery of the
sufferers.
THE government that can spend
L millions without the flicker of an
eyebrow on military expeditions to
subjugate Nicaragua and blow Chi
nese citizens into smithereens can do
nothing better for the victims of the
Mississippi flood than to pull off
public panhandling scheme for the
glory of the professional panhandlers
and bless the bankers in their schemes
to transmute misery into profits.
This callous attitude is typical of the
capitalist system and all it's votaries
who put the making of profits above
all other considerations.
VIZ nth the conviction of the two
w murderers Of the artist Snyder,
several sobsisters, philosophers, play
wrights and authors will be obliged
to advertise for extra work. Out of
the muck of testimony that cluttered
the pages Of the capitalist press for
weeks two facts stand out clearly.
One is that those two 100 per cent
Americans-thoroly average Amer
icans-killed another typical Amer
lean for his insurance. They took a
chance on the chair for the considera-
ton of the face of the policy-$96,-
600. The other fact is that out of
the thousands of words dragged out
of both culprits on the witness stand
nothing indicated that either of the
two ever read book of any kind,
not to mention a book that would
meet with the disapproval of Bos-
ton policeman.
IIAD the murderers been addicted
IL to literary fare such as Elmer
Gantry, An American Tragedy or The
DAILY WORKER, this tendency
would be blamed for their fall from
the straight and very narrow path
they had hitherto trod and might
have been successfully used by their
lawyers in pleading for their acquit-
tai. But they had no such luck. Ac-
cording to all indications they are
tabloid patrons and the lawyers would
not spoil good pictorial publicity by
hitting at its source. Yet The DAILY
WORKER is charged with sending
obscene matter thru the mails while
the average capitalist newspaper
makes a living at the game with i'm
punity.
A ROME news dispatch informs us
"A that the Vatican has sent out
instructions to all catholic bishops
urging them TO keep a weather eye
peeled for salacious literature. Since
the "holy father" has not time to
peruse all immoral literature-no
doubt much to the pious frauds re-
gret-he delegates part of the pleas
L anu ldbh W VIC piohOPos VIC WOiluCl
if the old testament comes under the
Van! Thousands of catholic youths
have used the holy book as a STEP
link stone to Rabelais and Boccacio.
ONCE upon time friend of mine
~ went to a priest to confess his
"sins." He attended nationalist
meeting and purchased copy of the
cage Of Reason" He was shocked
by its contents, nevertheless intrigued
and he read it from cover to cover.
Still his conscience smote him and he
felt that he needed relief. He told
the priest Of his deviation. The holy
man frowned and branded Tom
Paine's splendid contribution to men,
tai emancipation from superstition
as thing Of evil. But my friend,
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