The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-28
What
a
World
Buzzard Liberals and other
Birds
By Michael Gold

~
one who ever wrote book review Tor
the New Republic, the Nation or the
Survey, is down at Washington, Dusty
serving the government.
It is their revolution. They were
kicked out of power with woodrow
Wilson, and have suffered for long
wears in colleges, or as advertising
men, lawyers, secretaries Of research
trust funds, etc, etc. Some OF them,
stripped by the stock market both Oh
money and theories, even became bit
ter. They actually gagged at Herb
Hoover. A few went democratic.
But god. evidently, is a kind of super
Walter Lippman, and he saved his
bows from the final shame - from
Communism.
Yes. the stockmarket Hamlets met
a kinder fate than did Shakespeare's
gloomy liberal. BY a miracle, a phil
osopher became king, new Abe Lin
coin rose to save America, a new
Kerensky. And so now, it is said, the
city of Washington, is simply lousy
with brave triumphant liberals.
let me admit: I have few super
l. stitions, and when liberals. swarm
around and become enthusiastic about
ANYTHING it sends a mystic chill Of
fear down my spine. I get scared,
that's the truth of the matter. 1t
was during the late world war that
they first most frightened me to
death. In the New Republic, for
instance, this bunch boosted, in a
famous editorial, "that the intellec-
tuals had willed the war" |. E., the
liberals had buncoed America into
the war.
Who can forget that Newton D
Baker, a Tom johnson liberal, and a
most pious quoter Of Kropotkin
Henry George and Tolstoy, was the
mean little secretary of war who
shipped the boys off to France and
slammed conscientious directors into
Jail? Who can now forget that
George Creel was a liberal-Socialist
and that Ernest Poole, one Of his
assistant liars, Dragged naively thai
a majority of the writers in the Cree
war propaganda bureau had red So
cialist cards, had been party mem
bers in good standing for years?
AND then, of course, there were
n William English Walling, and
Carl Sandburg, Walter Lippman, Char
les Edward Russell, and others TOT
numerous to mention. Many Of then
worked earnestly in government JOBS
Some broke strikes, others wrote anti
Hun poetry and publicity or die
posters. Many were rats In the mill
tary intelligence and turned in theil
old friends. But all did their part
They really believed, many of them
that they were saving the world fol
democracy.
And they we're more dangerous
than the Germans to America. No
body wanted to go to war, but these
liberals talked and sold the idea tt
the American people. Whether they
knew it or not, they we're J. P. Nor
gan's best agents in this country
They gave the necessary liberal glitter
to Mr. Morgan's bloody Juggernaut.
Today they are swarrning around
Mira like an army of bluearsed flies
around a decayed mule.
1t gives one the filters. These
people in a government are always
barometer Of the approach Of
greater calamities to the WORKING
class
ONE of the marks of liberal is thai
" he cannot work with Communists
He hates Communists, they rouse al
the intolerance and indignation in hi.
system. They are treacherous anc
Jesuitic, he says; they believe in crude
force, they have no mercy or fairness
they eat peas with knife.
But with capitalists, the liberal |.
surprisingly mellow and tolerant. Sid.
ney Hillman, Oswald Willard, John L
Lewis and others could never worl
with such an "uncouth fanatic" a.
William z. Foster. In Grover Whalen
however, they find all the virtues
They can sleep with him in the same
bed.
This is the tailor-modeled gentle.
man who as head of the New Yorl
police proved one of the most bruta
strikebreakers. 1t was he, also, WHIT
bought the forged documents from
the white guardist Boris Brasol. thu
so-called Communist Internationa
instructions which John L. Spiyal
uncovered as the work of a New YorI
printer. Now Whalen is the ad.
ministrator for Mira in the New YorI
District.
WELL, enough on this painful sub.
" ject for today. Mira Is here TO,
a while, and will cut all our wage,
and break all our heads before i
meets its own fate. And the liberals
are going to do us good-as they die
in the late war. It's the same gang
spouting the same noble phrases. anc
promising the same fascist utopia. DR.
Luttinger said recently that "con,
stipation is one Of the worst enemie.
of the revolution" This was as witty
and profound remark as I had evel
expected to read in the Daily Worker
But our good doctor-comrade SHOULD
have not forgotten that one Of tn,
chief reasons why some reds suffel
from constipation Is liberalism. 1t
as the saying goes, gripes our CUTS.
r. has surprised many people to SEE
\ the good old Daily Worker flxins
itself up with new set Of American
clothes, radio column, movie notes
sports, comic strips, DR.. Luttinger'.
advice, and now, this, let us hope
column.
I am also surprised. For nearly ter
years have been one of those who
knew this was needed. To reach the
masses one must talk their language