The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-06

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Knapp been a poor working woman.
who, seeing her children hungry,
took a bottle of milk from a wealthy
nelghbor's doorstep, her punishment
would be more severe. AS it is, Mrs.
Knapp is said to be shocked at the
sentence.
A L SMITH may be gracious enough
- to pardon Mrs. Knapp, even
though her sentence could not be
mllder had she stolen a gander.
This would touch new levels among
the liberals and even some hard
boiled republicans might take the
gesture as sign that with AL
Smith in the white house legitimate
grafters would not fare so badly.
1t would be nice, you know, if gen
tleman's agreement could be reached
between the republican and demo-
cratic parties to share the loot on a
percentage basis, the lions share 90
ing to the party that polled major
lty of votes in any national, state or
city elections.
FORMER Judge Jacob Panken, of
the Municipal Court, returned
from the international Socialist Con-
ference in Brussels, is fully convinced
that the imperialist "anti-war"
treaty of Senator Kellogg will pre-
vent "big wars" The ex-iudge ap-
parently is not much concerned over
little wars, like the war on Near
aqua or the continuous punitive ex-
petitions sent against the peoples Of
India, Syria, and other peoples, by
the imperialist powers that enslave
them with the sanction of the
League of Nations.
MANY readers of the Daily Worker
AVA believe we are indulging in ex-
cessively severe Condemnation of the
socialists when we class them as
allies of Imperialism. Yet Panken's
and Thomas's views on the fake
Kellogg peace pact proves our con-
tention. The imperialist powers,
while preparing for war to defend
the loot already in their possession
or in order to grab off more spoils,
are continually drugging the mass
mind with pacifist illusions. Side by
side with the building of battleships,
bombing planes and the production
of poison gases goes the production
of peace propaganda designed to lull
their own cannon fodder as we'll as
to throw their imperialist COMPETE
tors off the scent.
HERE is where the socialists come
"A in handy. Of course the Ameri-
can socialists do not play as impor-
tant role in this game of bluff as
do the European socialists. But they
take exactly the same position on
this question of war; Wars between
big powers, or "big wars" as Bro
Their Panken says, the socialists are
against. Such wars are liable to put
too big a strain on the capitalist
system and result in nasty revolu-
ton. But little wars to punish sub
iect peoples for daring to demand
freedom, though Panken might send
fervent prayer aloft to Jehovah,
and Thomas an earnest supplication
to Jesus, to make the milk of human
kindness flow more freely in the
breasts of the ruling classes.
THE socialists do not object to i'm
perialism conquering other peo-
pies, stealing their land and natural
resources and putting them to work
as wage slaves. This is what they
call preparing the world for the So
cial revolution. But they don't like
to have to kill Nicaraguans and
others who resist this "civilizing"
process. They sometimes protest,
little less vehemently than the inn
nerialist political acrobat Al Smith
it is true, but still they protest
against the demonstrations" kill
ing of subject peoples who fight for
their freedom. But just as soon as
any subject people is having reason
able success in returning shot for
shot, they always find some darned
excuse for jumping on the defend
ants and threatening them with So
ciahst displeasure unless they lie
down and confine their activities to
writing letters to The Nation or the
World Tomorrow.
WHEN the polecat produces altar
" of roses instead of the perfume
by which he has hitherto won recog-
milton if not favor, imperialism will
become an agent of world peace.
Socialist leaders know this. They
are not political idiots, any more
than Smith, Hoover and Company.
They have cast their lot with the
capitalist system in conjunction with
William Green, George L. Berry,
John L. Lewis, and the rest of the
labor takers. They have stake in
the capitalist system. They are en-
gagged in the business of fooling the
masses. And no greater disservice
can be rendered the workers of the
world today than to give them the
impression that the Kellogg peace
pact will or can prevent big wars.
Lack of space prevents me from
touching on Incidents that have
TRANSFERRED since the signing of this
fake treaty in Paris, which would