The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-24


serve itself?
Fortunately both editorials contain their
own explanations.
First the Nation editorial A careful
reading shows that what the Nation objects
to is permanent stain upon the record of
capitalist Justice" AS the Evening Tele-
gram explains, "it is the boast of those who
believe in a republic as form of govern
ment that the citizen has his say through
the vote. If he does not like one party he
can go out and organize party of his own
and put his ticket on the ballot
The Evening Telegram and the Nation
both know that for the Millionaire finance
capitalists to continue to rule the country
and enjoy their parasitic positions in security
it is necessary to maintain the illusion that
the citizen has his say through the vote"
Of course hundred times it has been proven
that this is not true. But the Nation and the
Telegram are liberal capitalist organs
the masses. They protest apparently against
the suppression of the Workers (Communist)
Party, but in reality against the fact that
the stain on capitalist justice may be
permanent" lie. that the working masses
may continue to see it), and that the work.
ing class may learn by these suppressions
that it is lie and an illusion to believe ''the
citizen has his say through the ballot
The Evening Telegram says the point is
that the Communists "are expressing them.
selves through the peaceful methods of the
ballot, and yet it sees with uneasiness that
by voicing the real needs of the working
class and by using the election campaign to
mobilize the workers against the capitalist
system in class struggle, the Communists are
showing the workers that the working class
cannot accomplish any effective change
through the ballot of capitalist democracy
The Evening Telegram and all sane CAPT
talists want" the Communist Party to dc
party does-that is, to delude the working
class with the idea that the liberation of the
working class can come through the election
laws which the capitalist class so kindly
supplies. But the Communists by honest
workingclass use of the election period only
mobilize the working class through showing
them that the capitalist class and its gov
eminent will not permit any injury to the
capitalist system through the ballot" Ir
the attempted suppression of the Communists
campaign, the capitalist government expose:
its own game. So the Telegram says: "Also
it is bad tactics"
The Evening Telegram supports the most
extreme capitalist reaction and does not wan
this reaction exposed.
The Nation supports the other Wall Stree
candidate, equally reactionary, and car
function as liberal organ only by making
this reaction appear decent" But we can
not drop the subject without fixing finally
the meaning of the last sentence of the Ma
ton editorial: "The Communists have called
off their part of the New Bedford strike" etc
The Nation neglected to say that the strike
of the $4,000 textile workers was broken BY
the socialist party "reformists" and A. F
of l.. officials with the help of The Nation
1t is necessary to show that the organs Of
liberalism though they may cry against
the nakedness of the methods of the reaction
nevertheless always support the cruellest
reaction when it can merely cover up itself
with liberal fig-leaf. For instance The
Nation is now cheering on the American i'm
perialist government to make use of the
bloody Kuomintang to strange the Chinese
workers and peasants.
The liberal organs of capitalism are the
shrewdest organs for preserving the system
of slavery.
Workers. vote against capitalism.