The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-26
Cu1YpntEUentS
By T. J. o'FLAHERrY.

+ He United States government has
decided not to join Great Britain
and the other powers in sending a
joint note to Eugene Chen, threaten
ing reprisals for the Marking Incl
dent, tho it is Chen who should be
protesting and not the powers, since
for every foreigner killed during the
affair it is estimated that one hun
,dred noncombatant Chinese lives were
lost. But the mighty will always be
righteous if not right.
HE refusal of Washington to take
. common action with Great Britain
n severe blow to Downing Streets
diplomacy. OF course Coolidge may
change his mind, but it was apparent
from the beginning that there was a
serious division among the American
ruling classes over the question of
Chinese policy. Some held that this
country should make common cause
with England and crush the revolu-
tion, while others were of the opinion
that the United States would be ill
advised to pull more of England's
chestnuts out of the fire that could be
extracted without burning the fingers
that expect to handle the dollars that
q reborn China can exchange for
American goods. Blood may be
thicker than water but gold is con-
sistent metal.
r oINCIDENT with the reported de-
" cision of Washington's refusal to
jump on England's war wagon comes
the news that strong agitation has
been opened in extreme tory circles
in London for a resumption of the
Anglo-Japanese alliance which was
ditched at the Washington conference
in consideration of concessions of
naval character made by the United
States to England. Now the Britons
are Of the opinion that the willy Yam
KEGS are as clever at diplomacy as
they are at trade and that in return
for their generosity in showing Japan
the cold shoulder what they got from
the United States cannot be transla-
ted into cash, credit or good will.
THE fact is, that despite English
speaking Union orations and pro-
fessions of undying friendship the
outstanding rivals for world COM
mercial supremacy are Great Britain
and the United States. Brothers and
sisters quarrel over legacies. The in
stinct of self-preservation makes short
work of kinship and tradition and
capitalist nations must be always on
the alert lest some other Civilized"
collection of legalized bandits organ
lied under the glorified name of gov
eminent, attempt to take away their
loot. This is. the civilization that the
revolutionists are slandered for or
ganizing to get rid off.
r. HIANG-KAI-SHEK has not yet
" succeeded in forming government
at Marking. This renegade is evil
IDENTIFY discredited among the masses
of the people. He is under the in
structions of the imperialists and
would throw his pretensions of hos
tility to Imperialism overheard i'm
mediately if he did not feel that the
day he openly made peace with the
robber powers would be the day of
his complete reputation by those
who followed him while he was lead
ing the revolutionary armies against
the northern militarists.
1T is rather amusing for those who
i have read the history of the Civil
War between North and South in the
United States to note the superior air
adopted towards the Chinese struggle
for independence and national unity
By the scribblers of the capitalist
press, Those hirelings who get their
thinking done for them by their
superiors, give the impression that
the Chinese are different to all other
peoples. that they will never be able
to unite, that they fight only with
money and propaganda and that the
main trouble with China is the Chi
nese population. Slaughter the Chi
nese and the rest will be easy.
NJ HE manufacturing elements of our
i Snorthern states and the planters of
then south battled for four years thru
the eloodiest war that was then known
20 kodern history and the stake was
CONTROL of the nation by one ruling
class group or the other. Freeing
the black slaves was the last cause
In the world that northern capital
list would spend dollar for. The
north won. History and the in
dustrial revolution were on its side.
The blacks were freed incidentally,
from chattel slavery, and regardless