The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-21
Senator Curtis Reply.

The late Ebert Hubbard used to say:
when someone beats you in an argument,
DO not despair All is not yet lost. You
can still call him names"
Hubbard, pen valet extraordinary for the
capitalist exploiters of this country, only for
mulated in a concise and comprehensive man.
ner that which has long been the chief stock
in-trade of democratic and republican as well
@as socialist party politicians.
The latest example of such political ar
gument," was the retort of Senator Curtis OF
Kansas, vice-presidential candidate on the re-
publican ticket to farmer IN Spen-
GER. Iowa, who asked questions that could not
be answered about the -Mellon-Hoover-Cool-
idge policies, with particular reference to
farm relief and Teapot Dome. Mr. Curtis, IN
stead of replying to the questions OF the
farmer, pointed a scornful finger at him and
said: You're too damn dumb to understand
it, anyway"
In this reioinder is revealed something
more than mere impudence on the part OF
Curtis, himself one of the most servlle,
stupid. incompetent ornaments of that cave
of the winds known as the United States
senate. Curtis was one of the regulars, Vot-
ING like a marionette on all the republican
swindles and approved every act of every
CRATER in the entire history of the Harding
Mellon-H oover-C Coolidge Teapot Dome cab
met.
Curtis reply to the Iowa farmer is classic,
a .LoI;, IN con4oncp the at
titude of the old party politicians toward the
exploited masses of this country The poll
ticians believe themselves superior people,
destined to rule over dumb, driven cattle. To
question such people about their records at
Washington is regarded as impudence. 1t is
a wonder the hoodlums that usually follow in
the wake of old party presidential candidates
did not throw the questioner out of the hail.
especially in view of the fact that his queries
were such that Curtis could not even attempt
to reply otherwise than by calling the
farmer names.
The difference between Communists and
all other political parties is no more clearly
revealed than in the attitude toward the
workers and farmers who comprise the audi
ences. At all Communist campaign meetings
questions and even discussion from the floor
is welcome. Inc arguments ana program Oh
the Workers (CommunisD Party can be
defended anywhere, against anyone, because
the Communists alone have program that
will solve the problems facing the exploited
masses of workers and farmers.
Political parties are instruments by which
classes endeavor to gain control of the gov
eminent. No party can speak for all the
people. However, the old parties-as well
as the socialist party in its present decrepit
state-try to conceal their class character,
hence their programs are deliberately de-
signed to deceive the masses, to conceal their
real class character. On the other hand the
Communists are the vanguard of the work
ing class and go before the masses with an
avowedly class program, hence we are al
ways ready, willing and anxious to explain
the most minute details of our program and
policies. We have nothing to conceal, while
the other parties have to conceal the very
reason for their existence-the fact that
they represent the exploiting class against
the workers and farmers of the country.