The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-16
The Happy Warrior" Smells
Powder

The first big blast touched off in the cleo
ton campaign exploded last Tuesday, when
the announcement was made at Smith cam
paign headquarters that the big powder and
politics magnate Pierre Du Pont, cached $780,
900 in AIS treasure chest The news rocked
Wall Street. Indeed not since the Du Pont
powder wagon exploded in front of Morgan's
headquarters in 1921 was there so much ex-
element in the lair of the financial pirates of
the United States.
Fears were expressed that the Happy War
rior," hitherto stranger to the smells of the
battlefield would not stand up under his first
Whit of powder. But according to reports
from the war correspondents stationed in the
bomb-proof dug-outs of the General Motors
Building, AL came up smiling after the smoke
cleared away. His brown derby was little
too far down over his left ear, it is true, but
his cigar was smoking as usual
It is just like a dynamite king to blast a
pioneer path thru the slush fund wilderness,
where other feared to tread since Doodle in
politics became anathema to the reformers
who did not get their share of the swag. Du
Pont hurled his bomb at those anti-corruption-
lists with the sang froid of a white-collar slave
spending a dime for a bus ride for his sweet
heart.
Fifty thousand dollars!
It's a lot of money. But we are informed
that profit of several millions of dollars is
collected yearly by the Du Points from their
powder and poison gas factories. Several thou
sand workers toll daily at risk of life and limb
to produce those profits for the Du Points,
some of whom are replenishing the election
arsenal of the G. O. P and others that of the
democratic party.
Fifty thousand dollars may look like high
premium to pay for an imperialist insurance
policy, but a couple of colonial wars would
bring that sum back and more besides War
and Imperialism are like Siamese twins. The
Du Points are not manufacturing powder only
for Fourth of July demonstrations. They are
not giving their money away to Al Smith be-
cause he is a conscientious objector against
war. They are giving it away because it will
insure dry spot for Du Pont powder, no
matter which of the two imperialist candi-
dates wins in the elections.
The defamation from the Du Pont blast was
heard in Nicaragua, and served notice on Cen
eral SANDING that the election of Al Smith, the
democrat, whose platform platonically MUIR
murs against the occupation of Nicaragua.
means continuance of the republican admin
istration's policy in his country. The Du Pont
donation is a symbol of Imperialism.
The class-conscious workers of the United
States have plenty Of food for thought in the
powder magnate's contribution to the demo-
cratic campaign fund. What are they going to
do about it? This is what they should do:
They should become increasingly active in
their support of the Workers Communist
Party ticket. They should rally around the
Communist program in this election campaign.
the only program that purposes to organize
the workers for the struggle against Wall
Street, against the imperialist war mongers
who batten on the oppressed masses at home
and on the colonial and semi-colonial peoples 4
They should contribute to the 100000 Com
munist Campaign Fund, which is being raised
with the object of carrying the message of the