The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-20

are bondsmen
around the Tombs. The great heart
of America was touched because,
forsooth, Morgan's millions were in
vested with the allies and it hap
pened that it was to the best in
terests of the dominant capitalist
elements in the U. S. that the
Kaiser should be licked. The Allies
got the cash.
RUT anybody will tell you that it
is much, more pleasant to receive
than to give money. The Allies had
Jolly old time burning up the Wall
Street loans. They won the war
and democracy was saved. Don't
ask US for bill of particulars. Like
the old lady in the play, who ex-
claimed when she heard that her
daughter was being suffered by the
vice-president of corporation: "He
must be nice. Isn't he a vice-presi-
dent" we never doubt the words of
statesmen. But the worst began to
come almost Immediately after the
victory was won. Poetical, but un-
pleasant.
pIG-HEARTED Uncle Sam wanted
his money back. He did not care
where it came from. So the Allies
decided to take it out of Germany's
hide. Now, it is fact, well known
to gardeners and even gentlemen
farmers that you. cannot extract
blood from a parsnip, so in order to
enable Germany to pay the cost of
getting licked, she was allowed to
engage the services of United
States financial expert. He got the
money. This fellow is still on the
lob But the Allies have not yet paid
their debts to the United States,
which is not so good for them, be-
cause whenever they get fresh with
Sam, and pull off some pleasantly
like the secret naval-military pact
between England and France, Uncle
threatens to send the sheriff. Then
there is weeping and crashing Of
| teeth.
| TO get to the point long deferred.
At the Forthcoming international
conference on PREPARATIONS, the for
me- allies will try to arrive at some
arrangement whereby they can pay
off part or all of their war debts.
The French would like to sell $780,
100000 of German bonds with which
to pay the United States the amount
due for war supplies. The British
would take slice from some other
part of the Teuton economic ana
tony. The United States would be
millions to the good in the trans
action, tho it would not mean an ad-
ditional doughnut on an American
workingman's table.
1T would all be sweated out of the
German workingclass. Low as
the German workers standard of
living is now it would be hammered
down still further. In order to COM
pete with their rivals, the German
capitalists would again cut wages.
This would react in other countries.
And to make long story short, the
brilliant schemes of the Allies would
end where thew started-in an i'm
passe, from which there is no relief
except thru the stern method of revo-
luton. The workingclass of the
world must pitch war debts and all
other debts incurred by their mas
ters into the cess-pool of history and
start out with clean slate to build
up a social order, where cooperation
for the common good, will take the
place of the competitive system, un-
der which men, women and children
of the workingclass are slaves to the
parasitic few that hold political
power and thru force, control the
productive machinery of society.
The workers and peasants of Soviet
Russia have blazed the way for the
rest Of the. world. 1t is the only
path to freedom.