The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-06
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The Judicial Crisis
BY JORGE

III emma, from an aftlcIe bearing Ine mead
line: Wanted, Magistrates who not
afraid to die we learn that in recent months
sc magistrates have been taken for a ride by
'brigands or Communists" and that while il
ancient days magistrates would choose death
rather than flee from rebellous peasantry
younger officials hold life (more particularly
we understand, their own lfe) at a higher
value" So the colonial revolution is upsetting
Judicial poise.'
And not only is China affected, but right
here in Tammanytown the crisis has deepened
something awful for the magistrates. Hav
ing bought iudgeships on the installment plan,
and the business depression having affected the
graft income seriously among the petty
graft" Walker admits exists, it seems that the
downtrodGen judges can't keep up the install.
ments, and so are being removed"
One Judge, McCrery, owed $4,000 on $780,
600 "pay as you go' position according to re-
port, and hal to be "liquidated" while another
named Crater, seems to have fallen into the
volcano and disappeared altogether. Dead men
tell no tales, says Tammany, and especially
when they can't be found.
A gnk named Ch6Nes Adcock, said to be a
racketeer, was arrested so the papers say
charged with swapping pistol" at another
person. The New York cops are Indignant
at a gangster whose pistol only snaps. If he
had only killed his man, he might not only
be released, but put on the force in the special
"Red squad" to "handle" strikes.
What's this? The papers say that Mrs.
James j. Walker has returned from two
months vacation abroad. And just TO think
that we didn't know she was gone! Probably
Walker didn't know it himself. We wonder
what sort of toll Mayor Walkers wife takes
vacation from, anyhow.
Gangsters, gangsters everywhere, and a
headline in the Telegram says: "Mulrooney
Says He's Helpless" Funny how "helpless"
he gets in situations like that. But when there's
a demonstration of hungry jobless, he and his
hosts are Johnny on the Spot. Funny, ain't
it?
In these days when thousands of workers
are hunting through the garbage heaps to get
something to eat, and when news from Chicago
says that $500 workers are evicted monthly
for failure to pay rent, it may cheer someone
up to know that the Society for Prevention
of, Cruelty to Animals says-"There is no food
on the streets for abandoned animal pets" and
offers TO take care of unwanted dogs and
cats. 1t doesn't cheer us up. 1t makes us
swear.
Gov. Roosevelt of New York blooms out as
a "dirt farmer" which is term inyented by
rich farmers to cover up the differences be-
tween rich and poor farmers, and in the spirit
of this demagogy says that taxes are too high,
The poor farmers really ought to take this
seriously and, all together in one bunch, refuse
to pay any taxes at all until they come down.
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failure if they did that
The widow of John B. Kennedy, banker
and partner in robbery with the unlamented
James J. Hill, has bequeathed $10,0000OO to
foreign missions. The mission" of mission
aries is, as someone has said, to make the
heather wear pants so the imperialsts can
pick his pockets.
The much advertised Investigation of food
prices" in New York City, has now reached
the stage where it gets half column on the
fourth page. Which means that the food mono
polists are coming through with the graft, and
slow and painless disappearance of the Sin
vestigation." Food prices will, in the mean
, time, go up because of the added overhead due
to graft payments.
Santo Domingo hurricane notes: "U. S. Min
lister Curtis Home Destroyed Insane Asylum
Wrecked, Inmates Loose" If You ask us, we
think that u. S. Minister in Santo Domingo
is more dangerous to the toing inhabitants
than any number of maniacs set loose by the
hurricane, even adding the hurricane to boot
We are reminded that Mrs. Ruth Hanna
Mccormick who spent some 100000 to get the
republican nomination in the Illinois primaries
for the U. S. Senatorship which pays $4,000
year salary, is daughter of old Mark Han
ma. When asked if she was having private
detectives dig up some dirt on Senator Nye
who is Investigating" her campaign expenses,
the old girl said: II did it. | am still doing
it. What is Senator Nye going to do about
it?" And this is the system of society that
Professor Butler tells US is Liberalism" and
not Capitalism" Huh!