The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-14
Told You So

"a
political grip on Missouri. He
supported wet for the senator
ship but dry won. The Missouri
ians, however, to show that they
have no fundamental objection to a
schooner of beer gave the guberna-
torial democratic. nomination to
man who would grow two beers
where there is now only one. And
the successful dry wired AL Smith
that he would do his utmost to put
Missouri in the Smith column and
help keep the beer pumps working
in the cellars of New York.
Ii L. MENCKEN says that Al
AA' Smith is an exhilarating cock
tail while Herbert Hoover is a dose
of aspirin. Queer that such re-
sourceful fellow as Mencken did not
think of running bromo seller
with AL.
THE Public Committee on Power
is crashing its teeth because the
plan to consolidate the proposal to
merge the Consolidated Gas Com
pany and the Brooklyn Edison Com
pany was approved by the Public
Service Commission. The commits
sion refused the Public Committee
on Power hearing tho Governor
Smith, for reasons of political ex-
pediency, suggested that they be
given a chance to take crack at
the merger. Fighting consolida-
tions is Quixotic business. Bet
ter consolidate the employees of the
gas trust into powerful, militant
industrial union and organize for
the purpose of taking over the gas
companies and other public utilities
for the benefit of the workers, I'M
der a Workers and Farmers Gov
eminent.
COMBINES the Nicaraguan peo-
pie who are defending their coun-
try against the American imperial
lists are termed "rebels" and some
times bandits" The New York
Times will have them bandits, come
what may. Strange how this man
SANDING succeeds in leading the war
Of liberation despite the frequency
with which he is bombed, killed and
captured. He even surrenders oc-
casionally. Reminds us of General
De Wet Of Boer war fame. De Wet
was always getting surrounded.
and just when London was about
, to go on a victory spree and sing,
eve don't want to fight but by
lingo if we do, we have the men
: we have the guns and we have the
money do" the foxy Boer would
, show up in the rear of his pursuers
!, and pepper their posteriors with
lead.
lord ASQUITH'S war diary
which is running in the Hearst
: papers makes interesting reading
!, What lot of dumbbells those Bri-
! fish strategists were! Rarely were
the generals and high politicians on
speaking terms with each other.
Scores of thousands of men were
sacrificed because of the incompe
tency of General French who kept
{ well-stocked harem at the rear
! of the front But for the trenlen-
e dous resources of the British En-
: pire and the aid of the American
: ruling class at the most crucial mo-
n ment in the war, the tight little
e isle" would now be either Work
!, ers' Republic or a hunting ground
Y for the Kaiser.
HOOVER is going to wage hell
IL ish campaign. All his pep songs
! carry the smell of birthstone and
: sulphur. His national anthem is.
"Hail, Hail, the gangs all here;
! What the hell do we care; What
: the hell do we care" and for an
encore he has: Besides hell of an
: engineer, he's hell of a regular
e guy" This is getting too hot. What
4 will the bushbaptists of the alfalfa
6 regions think of this kind of propa-
d ganda?
O CHICAGO has finally succeeded in
" demoralizing Greek political life.
Our latest information from Athens
is that several prominent Greek
politicians were kidnapped on the
eve of election and are held for ram
som. In fact the Greek opposition
went farther than their contempt
raries in Chicago. The worst the
Chicagoans did was to hold the enc
r my until after his ward was made
Y safe for the kidnapers' candidate.
They might take him for 'ride"
or bump him off if he proved OBJ
streperous but it is not recorded
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