The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-07
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At LAST! At last! The govern
"A ment issued a warrant for a
"malefactor of great wealth" and the
trusting populace expected to see
Abraham Lincoln's ideal of govern
ment of, for and by the people real
lied. Harry Sinclair, the oil man.
moth, would be hailed before the bar
of justice just like a fellow caught
stealing bottle of Grade B milk, and
kicked into the nearest prison cell for
having dared to defy the majesty of
the law by engaging in the purchase
of a jury on the installment plan.
RUT the hopes of those who still
believe that rich and poor are
equal before capitalist law, were des-
tined for a speedy establishment.
Alas, no sooner was the warrant for
the oil Mahatma issued than it was
withdrawn and Sinclair is still in the
open spaces. Sinclair has plenty OF
faithful servants who are willing to
stand the gait for him. In the civil
war days, wealthy patriots hired poor
men to take their bullets for them.
Today, wealthy patriots can hire me-
malls to take their jail sentences for
them.
ALBERT B. FALL is still slippery
IA artist. He went thru Hardings
cabinet like soup thru a sieve and
stole the naval oil fields with as little
inconvenience to his muscles or his
conscience as a dip would feel in
lifting your watch Of course it must
be admitted that "Barkis was willin',
Barkis in this case being the "Ohio
Gang" that got into office for the
purpose of loot and legitimate pillage.
Even bungler could make good
living under the benevolent regime
Of Warren Gamaliel Harding.
WHAT commends Falls technique to
" us just now, is the nifty way he
has of falling i'll whenever the tolls
begin to wrap themselves around him.
Juries have conscience after all and
it takes a mighty sturdy citizen to
mete ont appropriate punishment to
a man who looks as if he might pass
in his checks When Fall heard the
prison angels calling for Sinclair he
decided to beat Harry to it by devel-
oping serious case of congestion Of
the lungs. What can be done with
fellow like that? Of such is the
kingdom of graft.
THE time will soon be ripe, says
Coolidge (you still know whom we
are referring toy, for further discus
sion of the proposed treaty to outlaw
war between England and France.
And no doubt to continue to discuss
the question of the French indebted
ness to the Unit 81 "a s.
There is not so much enthusiasm for
pact to outlaw war between the
United States and England or between
the United States and Japan. Or
even between the United States and
, Nicaragua. By the way, what hap
, pened to those treaties outlawing war
that William Jennings Bryan was
busily engaged framing, in the good
old days when pacifists were in flower
: and when many professors believed
that Denmark with a few ounces Of
radium could make the rest of the
world look like Gene Tunney with his
legs shackled?
MARSHAL PILSUDSKI is pretty
; w darned tired of cleaning parlia'
ment of refractory members who will
not do just exactly as they are told
! This pestiferous assembly has been
, terrible strain on Pilsudski's patience
for a long time, but Warsaw CORE
spondents see the end approaching. A
, few days ago the Marshal gave the
. elected representatives another chance
but had to give them the buns rush
, in exactly five minutes and half,
Lest you might forget you are hereby
, reminded that the Poles are of those
Happy SiHdll pSoprSS WIN WIN "-S"A
freedom as a result of the world war
THEY simply will not let William
Hale Thompson alone. That pa
triot has been eating up his nerves
with patriotic fever for years over
the depredations committed on the
regulations of our revolutionary
fathers by unpatriotic historians
They made a booze-hound out Of
George Washington and even the sa'
cred memory Of Abraham Lincoln did
not nccana their scanda ln11s mems Rut&