The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-20
GUARD LEGION AS PARADE REELS THRU PARIS
Current Events
By T. J. O'FIahertp

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AJOR GENERAL LEONARD
IVA Ivory Soap) WOOD, late gov
ernor-general of the Philippine Is
lands left an estate valued at $780,
900. This is not so bad for a fellow
whose debts in the islands had to be
paid by the Filipino legislature.
Wood won the sobriquet of "Ivory
Soap" during the G. o. P. precon-
vention presidential nomination cam
paign when Colonel Proctor of the
famous Proctor and Gamble Soap
Company lathered the Wood bid for
the nomination with $1,0O0,O0O. War
ren Gamaliei Harding won, or
rather, oil won and soap lost.
CTILL, Wood got a good job out Of
it and to his credit be it said
that chagrin over his failure to ride
the elephant in the 1920 race to the
white house did not deter him from
administering the affairs of Ameri-
can imperialism in the Philippines
to the best of his ability. Wood was
a loyal soldier of Wall Street and
did not hesitate to slaughter the
natives of the fertile territory, who
were freed from Spanish tyranny,
when those natives failed to under
stand the benign and altruistic aims
of American imperialism. Is it sur
prising that an American governor
general should lose patience at times
with people who refuse to believe
that the United States is spending
piles of money in an effort to make
the world "a brighter place to live
for them? But subject peoples are
that way, whether in India, Egypt,
Syria, South Africa or Nicaragua.
The Filipinos insist that the United
States government is interested in
their country for the sake of rubber
and sugar rather than to save the
souls and improve the bodies Of it's
inhabitants.
WHILE King Alfonso of Spain was
dancing, Primo de Rivera was
fabricating ball and chain for the
monarch's ankles. Now, Alfonso will
have to dance to whatever tune Ri
vera chooses to play. This business
of making kings play the role of the.
bear on hot griddle is growing in
popularity among the strong men of
weak kingdoms. Benito, the duce,
raised the dickens with Emmanuel,
the little, of Italy. He did every
thing but appoint him bootblack at
Chigi Palace. Primo Of Spain, being
a rather awkward hoofer, envied the
terpsichorean technique of his maj
esty and decided to feed his own ego
by getting his fingers on the saxa-
phone that kept the king wiggling.
ALFONSO, with de Rivera's dagger
n pointed at a portion of the royal
anatomy, which ordinarily is capable
of wrapping itself around medium
sized dirk, signed call for con-
sultative national assembly, at the
dictator's command. Those who are
taken in by our old friend temporary
and superficial phenomena, may
think this is a retreat towards con-
stitutionalism. Alas, poor Yoricks,
they don't know their Spain so we'll!
The government, which is none other
than our De Rivera will appoint the
consultants and his majesty, the
stopper, will eat only if he watches
his steps.
WHILE one king is walking the
w plank another monarch is riding
on political bull market according
to unreliable reports. King Alexander
of Jugo Slavia (why does he look so
much like a dentist by wearing
glasses and two-thirds of a must
ache?) is expected to come out on the
right side of the Fascist dictatorship
regime that is considered inevitable
in that country. The probability is,
however, that some more capable
political gangster will be leading him
around by the nose before long, and
impressing on him the wisdom of
choosing bread before prestige.
II
DICTATORSHIPS seem to be grow
" ing fashionable. Anybody but the
politically blind can see that the
black flag of Fascism under one
name or another is flying over big
section of Europe. Parliamentary
government is either completely abol-
ished or rendered meaningless in
Italy, Greece, Spain, Jugo-Slavia,'
Hungary, Roumania, Poland, Lithu-
ania, Esthonia, Latvia and Bulgaria.
Yet, in spite of this evidence of the
decay of bourgeois democracy, the
socialists continue to rave against
the proletarian dictatorship in Rus
sia. AS a matter of fact, there is
no choice for the workers except a