The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-31

dilOuR THESE DI1ISHeTS WIN dS
much tact and grace as one Of his
long-horned steers from the south
western plains. He wasn't going
20 put on any society flummery, he
was an old cattle-puncher from
Oklahoma, and if "Old Spats and
Monocle," as he called Great
Britain's leading oil magnate,
didn't like him, by Jeec he could
lump him Bunny attended ban
quet at which a group of the rivals
sat down together, and it seemed
to Bunny that Verne was more
noisy and more slangy than even
at his own dinner-table at the Mon
astery. There was method in it,
the younger man suspected; Verne
frightened these strangers with his
wild western airs, and that was
the proper mood for negotiations!
They had needed our navy damn
bad few years ago, and had got it
free of charge, but they weren't 60
ing to get it that way again, and
Verne was the Teller to tell them
so. The next time, it would be the
oil crowds say about the battle
ships-and the same with the dol
lars, by Jees.
There was a new deal in Ameri-
can diplomacy since the war. The
state department had taken charge
of foreign investments made by our
bankers, and told them where to go
and where to stay away from. The
bankers had to obey, because they
never knew when they might need
the help of the marines to collect
their interest. What it meant in
practice was that a few fighting
men like Vernon Roscoe could go
to foreign business men and say,
let me in on this and give me a
share of that, or you can whistle
for the next loan from Wall Street.
The procedure is known to all cattle
men, they call it ''horning i'm; and
after a few of the Britishers had
been "horned in on" they learned
what the little fellows had learned
back home-who were the real
masters of America!
VII
Dad of course had no trace of
interest in seeing the place where
men had had their heads chopped
off five hundred years ago; and
Bunny tried it, and found that he
didn't have much either. What
Bunny wanted was to meet the men
who were in danger of having their
heads chopped off now. There was
a great labor movement in England,
with a well developed system of
workers education, supported by
the old line leaders; also bunch
of young rebels making war on it
because of its lack of clear revo-
lutionary purpose. "The Young
Student" had been exchanging with
the "Plebs," and now Bunny went
to see these rebels, and soon was
up to his ears in the British struggle
"a wonderful meeting at Albert
Hall, and labor members of Parlia-
ment and other interesting people
to meet.
A couple of papers published in
terviews with the young oil prince
who had gone in for "radicalism,"
as the Americans called it. And
this brought an agonized letter
from BERTHE. She had been beg
cling them to come over to Paris
and meet the best people but now,
here was Bunny, six thousand miles
away from home, still making his
stinks! Couldn't he for Gods sake
stop to think what he was doing to
his relatives? Eldon just about to
get a promotion, and here his
brother-in-law coming in and queer
ing it all! You could see BERTHE
making a strong moral effort on
paper, controlling herself and pa
tiently explaining to her brother
the difference between Europe and
California. People really took the
red peril seriously over here, and
Bunny would find himself COM
plete social outcast. How could
bluob
cate matters of state policy, if they
knew that members of his family
were in sympathy with the muir
derous ruffians Of Moscow?
Bunny replied that it was very
sad indeed, but BERTHE and her hus-
band had better repudiate him and
not see him, for he had no inten-
lion of failing to make acquain-
tance with the labor and Socialist
movements Of the countries he Wis
ted Having got that off his chest,
bunny sat down to write for "The
Young Student" an account Of all
The red things he had seen and the
red people he had met so far.
The little paper was coming, and
Bunny was reading it from the up
per left-hand corner Of page one to
the lower right-hand corner of pag
four, and finding it all good. Yes
Rachel MeDzies was going to make
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