The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-13
Professional Patriots
tContiuusd from last issue)

National prominence.
This statement concerning professional patri-
otto organizations is contained IN a COMPRESSION
al report made seUerGJ gears ago.
professional Patriots" is edited By Mormon
Hapgood from material assembled By Sidney
Holcard and John Hearley.
The Security League is less alarmist in its tone
charging Boshevism with responsibility for the federal
income tax law. Mr.. Solomon Stanwood Menken Pres-
dent Of the League, revealed himself oleheartedly
IN public speech before the Kiwanis Club of Buffalo
". y. October 81, 1929 "The Spirit of America"
We quote from League reprint:
"We have here 100000 Communists meetings weekly,
publishing so papers, attacking your country your
eminent your right to prosper, to bring up your own
children you will to enjoy the advantages of this
country as know it and forefathers planned it
To fight them of must get the job and help
take care Of the u S. A.
"Their attack has created disaffection and critical
attitude toward officials which has worked great
political injustice and is further reflected in the Social
isttc coloring of legislation fair example is tax
law, which throtles enterprise while reducing the fnan
efal return to the government This law entirely
proper for meeting part of the federal expense
but has become such burden to wealth that men Of
large will not take 100 per cent risk of principal
in reasonable ventures of benefit to the community when
the maximum personal gain is but 40 per cent (sic
How the enactment of such law possible? Because
the Reds and Yeows raised false issue to what they
call predatory wealth. and the politicians were msled
into believing that the noise they made the voice
of the American people.
sour course is fatuous in the extreme and we elect
to places Of trust Frazier, LaFoette and BrOokhart,
and young people read the red and yellow journals
and The Nation and The Republic, with the same per-
verified those of another time peeked into OBJ
Gene literature"
spoke at meeting of the Teachers Union of New York
early in 1927 and surprised every present by
pressing the opinion that teachers have right to hold
their economic views and express them freely irrespec
Of Oard0 f nth If
kind"
Inspiring Greed.
Another gem Of verse published by the Security
League written for it by Faith Baldwin. Here it
BOLsHE WIKI
"What the Sirens shrekn' for?" said Percy Par
lour-Red
"To speed the guest, speed the guest, the Loyal
Native said,
What makes you SMILE so GRIM SO grim?" said Percy
Parlour-Red,
"Im thinkin' of a muzzed hound" the Loyal Native
said
For they're shippin' Bolshe Wiki, you can hear the
engines purr,
They weighin of the anchor, an the decks
all a-stir
They've pinned number on him, an they've
branded him cur,
An they're shippin' Boshe Wiki in the mornin'
@What makes the People mutter 500" said Percy Par
lour-Red,
"Theyre wakn' up they're wakin' up" the Loyal Native
"what makes that fellow gup and quaker" said Percy
Parlour-Red
tits his turn next it's his next the Loyal Native
said
They are shipping Bolshe Wiki to port beyond
ken,
They have taken Bolshe Wiki with his poisoned
tongue and pen,
And he'll sail in half minute, the despsed of
decent men,
o they're shippin' Bolshe Wiki in the mornin
His speech very fine to hear" said Percy Parlour
Red
my ears are deaf to traitor-tak,o the Loyal Native
Il shook his hand not long ago" said Percy Parlour
'Then wash your own of alien dirt the Loyal Native
said.
They shipping Boshe Wiki to a far, unknown
place,
For he smirched the Flag which welcomed him,
and spat in Freedoms face,
And there's thousands like him still at large
Americas disgrace,
While they're shippin' Bolshe Wiki in the mornin'!
"whats that like blood against the sum-" said Percy
Parlour-Red,
~The Bolshe Wiki brand Of flag" the Loyal Native said
"Whats that that whimpers from the deck? said Percy
Parour-Red,
1.-THE Yellow Streak, that's san now" the Loyal Ma
tive said
For they're done with Boshe Wiki an his serpent
breed must co.
The People, they thinkin hard-but thinkn'
very slow!
Ho! America must arm herself to fight an I'M
clean foe,
An be shippin' Bolshe Wiki EVERY mornin'
Mr. Emerson Hough "the eminent author" also
wrote piece for the Security League worth quoting
entitled the zone Hundred Per Cent American" He
wound up his appeal with the following paragraph
Lyric Poetry.
do hold myself a hundred per cent American
! never asked myself about it, needed to. But
know if that and fashion Of hundred