The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-20
Told You So

Continued from precious column
untrue. And Mike Gold, in the
last New Masses, what a fierce
lie he told about Yankees always
being the first to scab on a strike.
What lie! I've watched the la
Dor movement in the United
States of America for forty-five
years and if the American worker
hasn't suffered worse than any
workers in the world, then l can't
see.
On July 16 you say: "The av-
erage 100 per cent American is
willing to sell his vote for any,
thing from ten dollar bill to
thousand" | want to ask you is
all I've heard about the Irish ward
heller in all the big cities of the
United States, herding great num-
bers of the foreign-bor to the
polls every election, false?
I've heard that since l was a
child, and it was commenced right
here in New York City under
Tammany Hall.
l don't believe any real Ameri-
cans, those who really consider
themselves Americans, ever sell
their votes. So take it back, and
say what is true.
The people who after ten Tor
forty) generations never call
themselves Americans, viz, the
Irish! the Jews! the Italians (the
latter don't need to, for no one
would believe them if they did).
Now, comrade, if evolution is a
fact, shouldn't race in the forma-
tive period have some qualifica-
lions little in advance of races
that are acknowledged by social
scientists to be degraded? Il re-
fer to the Italians-in that last
word.) For you and other COM
rades to profess that American
workers are on lower level than
the foreign-born isn't going to
win any membership to the Work
ers Party. l am a member, but
have failed to find the foreign
born up to the standard of char
acter of the American. l know
what you will say, as a young
woman told me recently: "You
are American middle-class-not a
class-conscious worker"
l am class-conscious, all right,
but am not going to stand by and
see Americans villified. 1 know
such rotten foreign-born workers
that when l think of them it
turns my stomach.
What are my ideals? Lenin's
ideals-truthful ideal and scien-
tificl
You know only too we'll that
Americans are not clannish. We
are far more likely to be turned
into slaves for the Jews and Wops
than we are to become clannish
and preserve our new racial char
acteristics.
And this is why l hate our pre-
datory class with a hatred that is
undying. What do they care for
country in which the people who
deserve the best are getting the
worst?
am farmers daughter and
come from a long line Of farmers.
My father, his father and l were
born in Butler County, Ohio, and
my fathers grandfather and his
brothers were in General Wayne's
army in Southern Ohio right after
the Revolution. We have always
called ourselves Americans and
nothing else. We (the old stock
are the people who made America
We cut the forests for roads and
farms and scattered out in a
straight line from the Atlantic to
the Pacific.
We laid the foundation for free
dom and happiness and it has
been snatched from our hands;
for agriculture is the foundation
of all human happiness, and you
know it.
can see my father, bowed and
broken, after so years toll, and
my only brother, too. My father
knew how to raise everything,
grains and animals, and how to
make everything, too. If that
isn't intelligence, then what is?
Trickery, cheating, getting the
best of your fellow-man on all
counts? That's not my idea of
intelligence. Commerce and trade
never added anything to human
happiness.
I can remember this country
clearly back to 1874. Suffering
Americans! What difference!
If the writer's for the WorkeM
Party make more enemies THAI
friends amongst the American
people, we are more likely to have
a civil war than a revolution, and