The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-01
CuyY9ntEUentS
By t. ]. o'FLAHERrY.

THE New YORK Telegram aShS
I Mussolini is mad after reading the
latest piece Of bombast from the
Fascist dictator in which the notorl-
GUS renegade declared that he wanted
an army of 100000 strong with
which Italy would participate IN
war that would make the rest OF tne
powers sit UP on their hind legs and
wag their ears to all Benito's de-
mands. The demand Of international
Fascism INDUCED In a last chuckle az
the expense of the corpse OF liberal
ism and the protests from our own
worshippers of democracy were few
and far between.
DERHAPS Mussolini is mad but we
l are not aware that sane Wall
Street bankers loan money to luna
tics. Indeed we know quite few
INDECENT, tho mentally healthy citi-
zens who would be looked on with
suspicion should they seek a loan
from the same bankers that drop
their millions at Mussolini's feet. And
the reason why they loan their money
to Mussolini is because, first OF all,
they will make a profit on the loan
and secondly the money will be de-
voted to the strengthening of the sys-
tenn on which the bankers look with
a benevolent eye.
COMING to think it over we are OF
" the opinion that Mussolini is not
crazy. Any more than Napoleon was.
Or Kaiser Wilhelm. He might have
been considered crazy had he appeared
on the world political stage twenty
years ago. Ever the former Kaiser Of
Germany in his palmiest days never
brandished the sword as threateningly
as Mussolini does. The explanation
can be found in the shaky condition
of capitalism in Europe and the in
evitability of the spread of Fascist or
CARNATIONS to cope with the growing
militancy of the workers. The issue
in the future will not be between die
tatorship and democracy but between
the Workers and Farmers govern
ments and the black dictatorship of
capitalism.
CTILL the government has not made
y an appropriation out of the treas
ury for the relief of the victims of
the Mississippi flood. Perhaps this
money is being saved for the pork
barrel. Hoover is on a panhandling
excursion and in the meantime the
people Of the flooded areas are suffer-
ing. Woe unto the unfortunate. Their
misery will excite public compassion
for few days, then some other nov
city hoves in sight-this time it was
Lindbergh-and the world joys along
as usual.
If the Washington administration
was as much concerned with the
fortunes of the poor farmers in the
Mississippi Valley as it is with those
Of big business in Mexico, Nicaragua
and China, it would not wait to tap
the public purse before lending aid. 1t
spends millions of dollars on expedi-
tions to those countries, even going
to the extreme of shooting down de-
fenseless people simply because they
stand in the way of Wall Streets
interests. It's capitalist government
and there is no more humanity in it
than there is in the soul Of pawn
broker.
last Sunday our ministers had
II good time telling their flock that
Lindbergh crossed the ocean without
a mishap because he believed in god.
We do not know whether he does or
not but his father didn't believe very
much in superstition. Had Lindbergh
failed the spiritual aviators would
have declared that "the sins of the
father are visited on his children, yea,
even unto the fourth generation"
anyhow, for once the preachers had
a topic that had almost universal in
terest&
AMBASSADOR HERRICK made
n good hhing out of the Lindbergh
feat. This, flunkey is about the most
colorless of the United States ambas-
; sailors and unless there happened to
\ be some new development in the debt
controversy between Washington and
tparis, he was lucky to get notice in
ahe society columns. But when Lind
lbergh hove in sight he stuck to him
like glue to blanket and then pulled
off an anti-Bolshevik speech in the
warm rays Of the aviator's reflected
glory. Clever stunt! Millions who
read the drivel were thinking of the
young flier and assumed that "them's
his sentiments"
y
THE date set for the execution OF
Sacco and vanzetti is approaching
and there is reason to feor that the
agitation necessary to concentrate
mass opinion on this threatened legal
assassination Of two innocent workers