The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-17
Told You So

ninistration are the invasion of
Nicaragua and the slaughtering of
thousands Of the people of that
country for daring to defend their
rights against the American i'm
perialists. The slaughtering of hum
dreds of Chinese workers at Han
kow by shells fired from United
States warships. The general adj
vance of American Imperialism
turnout the world, accompanied by
murder and oppression whenever the
interests of Wall Street required
"stern measures The use of guns,
bombs, bayonets and injunctions
against the American workingclass
whenever they tried to better their
conditions or fight for the principle
of unionism by strike.
THIS is ony a short page of the
indictment that could be drawn
up against the republican party.
And should anybody come to the
conclusion after reading the fore
going that we entertain any hopes
for better treatment from the demo-
cratic party should AL be elected,
we simply point to the reign of
Woodrow Wilson and his bloodhound
Mitchell A. Palmer, attorney gen
eral, who had the streets of several
cities treated to the spectacle of
hundreds of men and women march
ing manacled to immigration deten-
ton points awaiting deportation be-
cause of their political opinions.
WE have no illusions about the
p" democratic party and when Al
Smith delivers his acceptance speech
we shall have something to say in
comment. The Al Smith who is en-
dorsed by the Fascist Alliance of
North America cannot be friend
of the workingclass. The AL Smith
who is alright for John ]. Raskob
of General Motors and General
Motors cannot be alright for the
workingclass. Lack of space pre-
vents me from carrying this thot
further today, but there will be other
days, so we will hold something
over, and we may repeat, since re-
pitition if the life of propaganda.
Ply way of comic relief, Bill Mathe-
- son, who is active in the mining
fields of Illinois sent me clipping
with Vancouver dateline which
reads: "a nameless marine creature
about six feet long, having an eel
like body and a head resembling
that of a sheep, was on display at
Provincial Police HEADQUARTERS here
today as evidence of the existence
of sea-monster which many people
have reported seeing in Lake Okan-
ogan, in the interior of British
Columbia. Perhaps its Coolidge"
hazards Bill No Bill, not yet. Cal
in will not have to turn himself
into a man-eating hippopotamus or
Texas toad in order to get pub
licity until after the elections. And
as for the description! All l will
say is that sleeps head is at least
toothsome when properly cooked.
THE Consolidated Gas Company of
New York and the Brooklyn
Edison Company, amalgamated a
few days ago despite the opposition
of certain liberals who are still
fighting the classification of in
dustry and supporting the political
parties that keep the trust wheels
CREASED. No sooner was the mar
riage ceremony performed by the
Public Service Commission than the
Consolidated Gas Company, the
name adopted by the happy pair, de-
clared 100 per cent stock dividend.
THOSE who claim that the days of
opportunity are gone in America
are dripping. The members of the
Public Service Commission were as
anxious for the merger as a canni-
bal for a slice of baked Baptist.
Party lines were disregarded, re-
publicans and democrats rushing the
ceremony with the haste of village
justice of the peace joining an elop
ing pair in wedlock who were
pursued by an angry parent, forti-
fled by applejack and sawed-off
shot gun. There may have been a
reason.
EAR be it from our purpose to un-
dermine the moral underpinning
of any prominent citizen, but if we
were not what we are but instead
looked on society as fat goose to
be plucked when the plucking was
good, we should not think twice Of
accepting a baby carriage-full Of
stock in the spliced gas companies
of New York and Brooklyn. After
all, it is hard to get rich by work
ing at it. And it is no more repre-
hensible to accept a bundle of stock
certificates from a big hearted gas
man than it is to rob one or one
thousand workers of part of the
product of their toll in mill, mine
or factory.
HOUSE of Morgan, United States
IL Ambassador to Mexico, Dwight