The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-23
Tears and Bay0nets

THE working class has discovered through the bitter
lessons of history that the smiling countenance of
political liberalism conceals the hate of Fascist
ton.
1t would be hard to find more candid confession
of this than the editorial which appears in this weeks
Nation" under the signature of its leading writer,
Oswald Garrison Willard.
Mr. Willard writes an imaginary letter to the strik-
ing farmers Of the West, letter which he would
send to the farmers he President of the United
States
After paragraphs of quite characteristic
Nation" barney and Sanctimonious sympathy for the
terrifying situation of the farmers Mr. Willard then
lets go his real bolt, in these words
'"You have the right to refuse to sell II you
please, but when you try by force to keep others
from selling and prevent the children Of cities
and their parents from getting food you taking
unsociaI step which it is my sworn duty to resist
if have to call out every regular soldier and every
national guardsman in the country"
So behind Mr. Wizards so enlightened 'liberal-
ISM his nauseating pretense of friendliness to the
impoverished and suffering farmers gtters the sharp
steel Of bayonets the muzzes of machine guns, the
naked ruling class dictatorship of military suppress
sion!
The impoverished and ruined farmers are fighting
against the mercess exploitation and robberies of the
Wall Street grain and milk monopolies They are
fighting against the Wall Street finance masters who
driving them off the land into the hell of pauper-
ism through mortgage foreclosures. They fighting
for their homes and their farms against the devourng
rapacity of the Wall Street capitalist rulers who
trample the impoverished farmers and the city pro-
letariat alike.
And all that Mr. Willard the smiling friend of
the farmers the sanity knight Of Nation" liberal
ism offer them is the bayonets of Wall Street
troops!
He sheds tears the children of our cities"
These are disgusting tears Of hypocrisy. Does not
Mr. Willard know that these children of the cities are
starving for lack of milk precisely because the Wall
Street monopoies keep it from them by extortionate
monopoly prices?
If Mr.. Willard is interested in the milk of the
city children why doesn't he call out his beloved and
trusty troops against those Wall Street monopoles,
against Borden, against National Dairy against Shelf
field, ETC., etc, who doom millions of city children
to starvation because of extortionate milk prices?
If he is interested in the food of the childrens
parents why doesn't he call out the troops against the
Roosevelt government which, in its capitalist insanity
and rthlessness is raging through the cotton wheat
and corn fields, destroying with fire the produce that
the impoverished masses need?
Mr.. Wizards tears account of the farmers are
cheap indeed For while he Weeps he points bayonet
at those for whom he sorrows.
Mr.. Wizards liberalism cannot hide his concern
over pepeuang the mortgage debt slavery that binds
the impoverished farmers to their Wall Street rulers
He cannot conceal his anxiety the profits of the
big milk monopoles, in which, no doubt he has
few judicious investments.