The daily worker., 1927-04-27
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By T. ]. o'FLAHERTY.

By 7. j. O'FLAHERTY.
president MACHADO of Cuba is
in Washington and Calvin Coolidge
posed for picture with Wall Streets
Cuban overseer. Machado deserves
good treatment and no doubt he will
be entertained royalty while visiting
his paymasters. This great democracy
Of ours is certainly hanging up a fine
record these days. Supporting this
murderer of Cuban workers, encourag-
ing bandits and assassins to make
war on the Mexican government, tie
ing the hands Of the Nicaraguan iber-
ais while their enemies shoot them
and helping to crush the Chinese
revolution.
THE capitalist system does not seem
to be a decided success in Japan.
The government has declared a mora
torium on account of the financial
panic. Yet despite this situation
there are rumors that the new cabinet
is contemplating a more aggressive
policy in Japan. The deeper the capi-
talist system goes into the puddle
the more desperate they become. Per-
haps England may help out their
former ally with a little cash tho
John Bull is not as solvent as he
used to be.
WE hear little or nothing of financial
p" stringency in the Soviet Union
nowadays, from capitalist sources.
The fact is that the Soviet Union is
doing very well and that the living
conditions of the masses are improv-
ing. The peace that prevails thru
out that mighty country is not due to
the presence of armed forces. 1t is
due to the fact that the people know
they have government which is truly
theirs and that is always considering
ways and means of making life bet
ter for them. Tho the government is
obliged to spend considerable money
on defense it is increasingly able to
appropriate large sums for develop
ing industry.
II was rather disappointing for the
AJewish Daily Forward banqueteers
that James Ramsay Macdonald who
was brought over from London at
considerable expense to grace the
boards on the occasion Of the thirtieth
anniversary Of the yellow sheet, could
not appear owing to illness. How
ever the assembled guests were as
sured by Mr.. MacDonald's daughter
that the British Labor Party is now
quite popular and that the better
''clawses" can belong to it without
having to fumigate their clothes after
having attended labor party meet
ing. 1t is no longer a class party.
1t is an all-class party
THE rift in the lutes of Aimee Mac
Pherson's Angelus Temple orches-
ira have widened to such an extent
that the lutes and their operators
departed. Aimee seems to be as un-
happy in the selection of choir con-
ductors as in her choice of radio oper-
ators. The choir leader left with
his orchestra and organized another
church. He is of the opinion that
Aimee is not near enough to god to
suit her eX-orchestra leader. We are
afraid Aimee would have more unity
among her assistants if she were as
generous with her coin as she is with
her prayers.
THE Truth Seeker, a so-called sra
Ationalist" weekly, is worried lest
the general public becomes convinced
that freethinker and Communist are
synonymous terms. Because Commu-
nists are not accustomed to carrying
around antique superstitions in their
mental garTets, the impression is pre-
valent that all those who deny or
doubt the existence of personal
deity are revolutionists. Nothing
could be farther from the truth, in
sists the Truth Seeker, in the follow
ing language: "The freethinker is
not concerned so much with the trifl-
ing governments OF certain sections
of the earth; he is rather chiefly con-
cerned with the government of the
universe. He may be democrat, re-
publican, socialist or even occasionally
an anarchist or monarchist. In every
case, if persistent, he upholds liber-
tai,ian principles"
THIS is very nice and comforting for
1 the ruling classes, who do not mind
in the least if skepticism and religious
doubt ,oervade the social atmosphere
in which the upper classes do their
thinking such as it is. But it is
serious matter if free thought is un-
hitched from its marriage with pure
atheism and used as an instrument to
open the minds of the workers to the
connection between organized reli-
gion and the capitalist system. A