The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-02
Senator and Rabbi Give
Views of War Clouds
Gathering Over World
BY ]. LOUIS ENGDAHL.

a United States senator and
n Jewish rabbi joined in giving
New York audiences last Sunday
their views of the war clouds now
lowering over the world. They
didn't agree.
U. S. Senator Burton h. Wheeler,
OF Montana, declared:
al predict that after congress
adiourns breach of relations with
Mexico will follow the killing OF
an American citizen, or some 9TH
er incident and that incident will
be followed by war with Mexico"
DR.. Stephen S, Wise in the Free
Synagogue in Carnegie Hall,
states that;
"Thc American people had just
done something that no nation had
ever accomplishod--held its gov
eminent from war. Failure to go
to Mexico was due largely to the
American press. My gratitude to
the American press is unlimited
is really unutterable."
The politician thinks that the
state power of the capitalists
waits on his departure from Wash
ington, on adjournment of con-
gress, before mastering enough
courage to declare any war that it
may deem necessary. This is the
egoism Of the capitalist statesman,
who thinks that he is the center of
world developments.
The man of god, who has faith
in prayer and miracles, believes
that another miracle has taken
place, that the war danger has been
averted, and that the kept press
had hand in averting it.
Thus politician and preacher
find satisfying niche for them
selves as the crimson clouds OF ap-
preaching slaughter prepare to
drench the world in new blood
bath, more horrible, more universal
than the last.
Wheeler, in speaking to a select
New York crowd Of silk-stocking
liberals and long-faced socialists,
scolded as follows:
"What hypocrisy-yes, what
towards you are in the fact of your
pretensions and the pretensions of
your statesmen and reinstatement
when you let your own government
permit a few mercenaries in your
fair city of New York to take away
the sovereignty of a free people in
Nicaragua, in Haiti, in Santo DOM
lingo, in Mexico, or in any other
country"
Thus Wheeler proves himself one
Of the worst hypocrites of them
all. There is no power in this land
that can stop war, except the
power welded by the predicting
masses, the workers and farmers
of the nation. In Montana, which
is Wheeler's home state, the far
mer-labor forces have organized
and built their power against
Wheeler's bitter opposition. AS can
didate for vice president in 1924,
on the LaFollette ticket, Wheeler
acted as force attempting crush
ing the independent political power
of labor. The politicians cannot
stop war. The preachers cannot
stop war. The people" cannot
stop war, no matter how often
Wheeler and his fellow members in
The working class, conscious Of It's
struggle against the capitalist,
can stop war when it has suffi-
GENTLY developed its class power,
which must also be arrayed against
the politicians and preachers. mere
harpies of capitalism.
What does Senator Wheeler and
Rabbi Wise mean when they say
that war will not be declared until
congress has adjourned, and that
war has been prevented. The United
States government today, obedient
to the dictates Of Wall Street, has
thousands Of lue-jackets and ma
rines in Nicaragua, greater num-