The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-14


ans. Wheeler was in opposition, to
some extent, to the world war. Sen.
Norris Republican of Nebraska)
responds in the same way to the
agricultural interests of his state,
that are concerned more with sell
ing wheat and corn than with the
protection Of vested interests" in
Latin-America,
The playing Of politics within the
old parties, however, can be seen
as an effective gag on the war OBJ
position in congress.
Senator Borah Republican of
Idaho) seems to have hamstrung
his usual anti-imperialist attack
with his presidential ambitions, now
being nursed again in anticipation
of next years elections. He cannot
get the treasured nomination with
out some assistance from the
moneyed East.
The LaFollette group has been
basking for few weeks now in the
warm sunshine of Wall Streets
"Old Guard" and seems to like it.
No one has heard any great cry
against the threatening war from
Senators Frazier and Nye, Of North
Dakota; from the farmer-labor SEN
ator, Hendrix Shipsted, of Mime
sofa; from Senator LaFollette, of
Wisconsin. They have all been
strangely silent; silenced, it seems,
with favors either already delivered
or hoped for.
Laurence Todd, the Federated
Press representative at Washington,
points out that, when Senator
Shipsted of Minnesota, farmer-labor,
member of the committee on foreign
affairs, said he had been unable to
get information as to why the arm
ed expedition against Nicaragua
was sent, or where 1t was to lead
the country to, Senator Copeland
democrat of New York; suggested
that since Shipsted had been eating
breakfast at the @White House he
ought to inquire there. Shipsted
replied that he had gathered no in
formation from the president at
these meetings."
Nevertheless, Shipsted seems to
lean much closer to the White
House than he does toward the
workers and farmers Of Minnesota.
The large foreign-born popula-
tons thru all the middle western
states, in addition to the fact that
they are agricultural states, made
American entrance into the world
war extremely unpopular among
them. The elder LaFollette was the
leader Of this opposition until he
was threatened with expulsion from
the senate. Then he pulled in his
horns sufficiently to hold his seat.
The younger LaFollette evidently
does not intend even to run the risk
of being thrown out of the senate.
Victor L. Berger, the socialist
congressman from Milwaukee, is
also very much mum. Berger has
looked on with approval at past in
terventions in Mexico. He has taken
the position that Wall Street i'm
perialism's conquest of Mexico and
the other Latin-American countries
would hasten the development of
capitalism in these countries and
thus better prepare the soil for the
particular brand of socialism that
he espouses. 1t Is on the same
theory that socialists fight the Com
munist effort to establish socialism
in the Soviet Union, claiming that
Russia is not yet ready for 1t.
Russia must first pass thru the cap
| italist stage OF development" The
situation is complicated for Berger,
however, by the fact that the Hill
quit-Cahan section of the socialist
party halls the Gales government
in Mexico as a socialist regime.
Therefore, Berger Is In dilemma.
The mere fact that voices are
indicates that there are broad Sec
raised in congress against the war,
tions Of the population opposed to
the war. The opposition must be
deepened and broadened. The
Observation-Disclosures demand for the
withdrawal Of Wall Streets battle
ship armada from Nicaragua must
be supported. II war comes, the
war opposition in congress will be
quickly submerged by a lingo wave
OF fag-waving hysteria. But the op-
position, weak as II is and while 1t
lasts, offers an opportunity to carry
the anti-war message to broad
masses of the American workers
and farmers.
The most advanced section OF this
struggle against the imperialist war
will crystalline itself about the un-
wavering Communist opposition.