The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-26

to do: eating rye bread instead of
wheat, calling sauerkraut '1iberty
cabbage" saving our tinfoil and old
newspapers, contributing to the Sal
walton Army, buying liberty bonds,
listening to four minute orators, sing
ing cover There" spying on our Ger
man neighbors, lynching the l. w.
w We sent a million men overseas.
and they showed themselves heroes,
and we who stayed at home showed
ourselves the prize boobs of history,
and taught our money-masters that
there is literally nothing we cannot
be made to believe.
Then came the Russian revolution,
and gave our predatory classes the
greatest shock of their lives. Before
that, a Socialist had been a long
haired dreamer to be smiled at good
naturally. The present writer, a
queer, excitable youth who had
"aimed at the public's heart and by
accident hit it in the stomach" had
even been permitted to publish two
Socialist articles in Golfers Week.
ly" But now all that was ended
overnight. A Socialist became a
bloody bandit, who wanted to kill all
the capitalists and nationalize all the
women; the news art of manufactur-
ing tropisms were turned from the
Germans to the Russians, and today,
ten years later, there are patriotic
societies, having millions of dollars
to spend convincing the members of
the Women's Christian Temperance
Union that Jane Adams is a Soviet
agent, and the child labor amendment
to the Constitution a Moscow plot to
undermine our young people. And
don't think that | am Just amusing
myself with wild words; the earnest
and credulous church people of this
country are taught just exactly that,
and by propaganda societies which
big business maintains and pays for
that job and no other.
So the doctrine of the open door
in affairs of the mind was scrapped
forever, and tolerance and fair play
were slowed away in the attic of
American history. No longer does a
big magazine of national circulation
extend to young writer the oppor-
tunity to explain how democracy may
be applied to industrial affairs. There
is to be no democracy for American
labor, the American plan" is another
name for stoolpigeons and spies,
blacklist and terror Each Individual
steel-worker may bargain on equal
terms with the most gigantic corpora
ton in the world, and if he doesn't
like the terms, he will be slugged, or
thrown incG the can, or if he is a
foreigner, shipped back home to be
shot by his native Fascist.
And all over the world, America,
which once went wild over Kossuth,
now subsidies defenders of claw and
order" such as Kolchak and Denikin,
Horthy, Mussolini and Rivera. Mr..
Herbert Hoover's aide boosted in the
Worlds Work" how he starved out
The revolution of the Hungarian
workers; and Mr.. Richard -ashburn
Child, ex-minister to Italy, and
Fascist-in-chief to the Saturday
Evening Post" tells his friends how
Mussolini came to him to ask whether
the American bankers would sub
sidize the march on Rome; they
would, of course--and so we have a
stable government" which has
crushed every vestige of modern
thought in Italy.
AS / write, we are preparing to I'M
dermine the workers government of
Mexico, we are waging a war to keep
our bankers in control of Nicaragua
and we are letting the British i'm
perialists lead us blind-folded into Q
war to defend the right of their mer-
chants to poison a hundred million
Chinese with opium raised by the
labor of famine-haunted Hindoo pea
SAINTS.