The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-15

panherS VIII Duy them at a miser-
able discount that would be dis
graceful, as they bought the Liberty
bonds"
AT this point Senator Curtiss, of
Kansas, the republican floor leader,
tried to heckle Heflin, claiming the
Liberty Bonds had deprecated dur
Ing the democratic administration
and that the Wilson regime had en-
tered the open market and bought
up the bonds at a discount. Hef-
lin refused to get off the subject,
however, continuing:
Il am talking about the bonds
that had been bought by and were
In the hands of the people of the
South and West; they were gotten
by the bond sharks of Wall Street
for so and So cents on the hundred;
and they will collect the money on
them from the government at 100
cents on the dollar. They are now
clipping their coupons while the
farmers of the South and West are
suffering from the losses they sus-
tanned"
Evidently failing to appreciate the
fact that Wall Street recognizes no
god except the almighty dollar"
Helm continued as follows:
Il am praying to god that those
brave boys who went abroad, 5000
miles from home, to offer their lives
at the battlefront for the rights and
liberties of the world will not be
treated as the hundreds and thou
sands Of patriotic bondholders were
treated. l am hoping and praying
that something will be done to take
care Of those boys to meet the hon
est obligations this government
owes them. What shameful spec
tacle to have one of these brave,
outstanding, manly young Americans
walking up and down the country
with government certificate in his
hand begging somebody to relieve
his distress by loaning him some
money II we owed to these
boys this amount, We ought to have
paid them in money instead Of Civ
ing them worthless certificates to
peddle about the country. 1t is a
shameful outrage"
Helms hopes and prayers will be
in vain. Capitalism does not respond
to prayers. Its sense of hearing is
attuned only to the clink OF dollars.
All capitalist nations have plumber
ed and will continue to plumber the
many to pay for capitalism's wars.
The capitalists everywhere treat
their cannon fodder the same. Sol
diers are paid low wages to murder.
When the slaughter is over the
MANNED are thrown on the human
scrap heap with other social out
casts, many of them becoming beg
gars upon the streets to ward off
death by actual starvation.
Workers and farmers of the Unit
ed States are opposed to the impe-
rialist war that threatens. Veter-
ans of the last war oppose the next
war. That opposition must be crys-
tallized into effective resistance. If
Wall Street wants war, let it fight
its own war. In the moment that
Imperialism cannot find soldiers to
blindly fight its profit cause, at that
instant it must crumble.
Arthur Brisbane, in the Hearst
press, comments on the declaration
of the Giornale d'Italia that says,
United States policy may be call
ed one of authority and force. When
necessary there are cannon behind
American dollars"
Brisbane truly says in comment
that, Dollars without cannon be-
hind them are feeble things, like
flabby jelly fish. 1t is the cannon
that transform flabby dollars into
vertebrate dollars"
With the masses refusing to fight
the wars of the dollar owners, the
whole capitalist structure built
about the dollar crumbles and the
triumph of the producers, the work
ers and farmers, must inevitably