The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-25
By WILLIAM F. DUNE.

THE Washington birthday speech
L of President Coolidge was hymn
in nasal New Englandese to the great
American god of business to whom,
according TO Coolidge, George Wash
ington was the first national figure
to pay the homage due 50 puissant
a deity.
What could appeal more to the
army of real estate boosters, sales
men, loan sharks, building contrac-
tors, "pay-as-you-g furniture deal
ers, hard-surfaeed road promoters,
implement manufacturers and deal
ers, etc, who preach the gospel Of
Service" to victims whose suscepti-
bility to the creed has been calculated
with mathematical accuracy, than the
following testimonial to the revered
George.
This practical business ability
and interest in broad and general
affairs made him one of the first
to realize that the future of the
American empire lay in the regions
beyond the Alleghenies in the ter
ritOry of the Ohio and Mississippi.
THE thrifty father of his country
L displayed no particular acumen In
believing that America would ex-
pand toward the west. If one wished
to be nasty about it one could say
that the Atlantic Ocean on the east
made expansion in any other direc-
ton impossible especially in a period
when the diving suit and submarine
had not yet been invented.
In the absence of a m airline or
amphibious civilization increase in
population was bound to enhance the
price of the virgin territory the
thrifty Washington acquired by the
purchase of land warrants at ridicul-
ously low prices from needy investors
and by other questionable methods.
Actually" said Coolidge, "no
American has ever done so much to
open up vast tracts of land, first
under the British and then under the
American flag, fitted to become the
home of millions of American far
mers."
THAT Washington held his shad-
L lily acquired titles against genuine
settlers who braved the dangers of
the frontier to carve homes for their
families out of the virgin forests, is
matter of record. By these acts
alone he automatically becomes the
patron saint of the modern real
estate Spectator and all others of the
leech tribe preying upon the workers
and farmers of America.
Another quotation:
Washington has come to personify
the American Republic. He pre-
sided over the convention that
framed our Constitution. The
weight of his great name was the
deciding factor in securing its
adoption by the states.
a MEXICAN historians whose opin-
IAions amount to a pinch of snuff
are agreed that the Constitutional
Convention was nothing more or less
than a secret and conspiratorial gath
ering at which no single representa-
tive of other than the landholding,
merchant and shipping groups was
present. An examination of the So
cial background of the delegates to
this convention made by anyone in
terested enough to consult recognized
sources will substantiate this state
ment.
THE convention had no authority
i from the people for any action
other than a revision of the Articles
of Confederation. Congress, on Feb
ruary 21, 1887 had stated that the
only reason it authorized the conven-
ton was for "the sole and express
purpose of revising the Articles of
Confederation"
The purpose of Washington and his
fellow-conspirators was to insure
their property against the populace
and perpetuate the rule of the prop
ertied classes. James Madison who
kept a record of the proceedings that
was not published until fifty years
afterwards, stated during the de-
bates:
In future time, a great majority
of the people will not only be with
out land but any other kind Of