The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-17
By H. NJ. wICKS.

YIN COOlluBe journeys W OhS MIL
die West, proving thereby that even
though hope does not spring eternal
in the human breast it is hard to
erase from the presidential breast.
The first time he visited that part
of country he was not president; he
was merely vice president to the late
Harding. He attempted to deliver a
public address to the farmers at the
1922 Minnesota state fair in the Twin
Cities. His grotesque efforts we're
rewarded with insulting Interruptions
that finally eliminated in derisive
bowls that forced him from the plat
form before he had fairly started his
harrangue. The second time he in
vaded that territory was in the early
part Of 1926 when, as president of
the United States, he appeared be-
fore conference Of the farm bureau
in Chicago, urging the election of a
certain set Of reactionary candidates.
The delegates listened respectfully,
but silent. They then proceeded to
defeat the Coolidge candidates by
overwhelming majorities, before Cal
vim had left town.
Like most other mortals, Coolidge
learns by experience-rather slowly,
perhaps, but still he learns a trifle.
He has again journeyed to the middle
west. the seat of agricultural unrest,
but if he INDUCES in any speeches it
will be in the secluded Black Hills
section of South Dakota, we'll guarded
by federal police, and behind the
microphone of radio
On his journey to his summer
white house" he stopped at Ham
mond, Indiana, to deliver a speech in
dedication of a public park, where the
steel trust police and the ku klux
khan hooligans could be relied upon
to protect his precious person from
any effrontery on the part of the
inhabitants.
His speech contained the usual
piffle about life and light and liberty,
with a brazen plea for militarism,
wherein he made the profound ethno-
logical observation that patriotism
is indigenous to this SOIL" and as
serted that "such a people always
respond when there is need for mill
tary service" Recounting the wars
of the past half century, he showed
that the industrial slaves of Ham
mond, Whiting, South Chicago and
Gary had always done their share. Of
course he neglected to state that
most of the workers were foreign
born and were terrorized by the pa
trioteers into submitting to the war
hoax. particularly the liberty bond
fake during the late war in behalf
of the foreign investments Of Wall
Street as a means of holding their
jobs in the steel mills. In character
izing that conflict the president said:
Perhaps the chief issue was the de
termination of whether an antocratic
form or a republican form of govern
ment was to be predominant among
the nations Of the earth" This agent
of the mightiest imperialism in earth
concluded his sentence by asserting
that victory finally rested on the
side of the people" To emphasize
his observation he boosted: "When
America has drawn the sword it has
always been the people who have
won" This was indeed ironic in view
of the bestial suppression of the
steel workers by the armed forces
under command of Major General
Leonard II, Wood, who used a part
of the army to aid the steel trust
smash the great strike of 1920
and drive the strikers back into the
frigitful slavery from which they
endeavored to escape. When they at
tempted to realize some of the
flowery promises made them during
the war they We're given a salutary
lesson by the government, whose "lib-
erty bonds" they had bought and in
whose behalf they had suffered and
shaved under the promise that the
defeat Of the Germans would bring
freedom for all forever.
THAI COoldge is actively IN the
field as candidate for president in
1928 was clearly revealed during his
Hammond speech, wherein he said:
"While we have reached the highest
point in material prosperity ever
achieved, there is a considerable class
of unskilled workers who have not
come into full participation in the
wealth of the nation" The repub-
lican press of the country seized upon
this assertion to proclaim in big head
lines that Coolidge was in favor of
higher wages for the unskilled A
careful reading of his speech fails to
reveal one single utterance that
effort ~ hptrav the Nationalist