The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26
By JOHN L. sPIvAK


William Dudley Policy, ma
tional leader of the Silver
Shirts" in his pamphlet.
What Manners of Govern
ment Is the Christ to Set
Up?" came back to earth and
began to see and hear more things
than ever before. One Of the first
things he did was take peek into
the past and there he saw Atlantis.
the legendary Island supposed to
have sunk somewhere in the At
lantic seons ago and by gollyl there /
was the Christ state, functioning
beautifully, with no Jews and no
Communists and no bankers and no
taxes. It was grand He tried to
tell what he saw to the college /
professors but it Just didn't DO no
good so he was convinced the pro-
fessors were Suppressing it, He
doesn't tell in any of his writings
that I read how he knew it also
existed in Peru $500 years before
America was discovered but what's .
trifie like that2 I'm willing to
take his word for IL that he saw
that, too.
I could continue indefinitely quot /
ing from Pelley's writings and .
speeches and present enough evi-
dence so that even an inferno in 8
hospital would sign commitment [
papers to the nearest asylum for the |
national leader Of the Silver Shirts .
but that would not explain the ap-
peal he makes to his following, not .
all Of whom. certainly, are stark, /
staring, rsYing lunatics. Let's have
a few more samples from the |
Christ Government" lest the reader
think deliberately picked out only
an isolated passage Though even an I
isolated passage like the one I |
quoted Is enough to send man .
to an insane aSylumD:
The Great Pyramid (the Egyptian, |
in case you didn't know told Policy
that between Jan. 81, 1888 and /
March 4, 1945 the change" would .
come about. On the latter date the .
nuts would get control Of the coun-
try. The Great Pyramid did not
give the hour, I am terribly sorry
to report.
Among the outstanding things the .
Christ Democracy" offers Is mo
more taxes on the citizen of any
description" and mo more foreclos- /
ures on property of any nature .
whatsoever"
So far as the farmer is concerned /
God told Pelley a little about him.
too, and Pelley passes 1t on cat so
cents large booklet and 10 cents
a small pamphlet.
THE farmer is the public sup
porter Of the State in that he takes |
from Gods storehouse the where
withall to keep the State in exist
ence. AS such he is going to be
recognized as a special privileged !
class that labors for the state ex-
actly as the statesman labors for the
State, and with quite as much honor |
and esteem. He will be remunerated
by the State, exactly as public ex-
ecutiveS are at present {, page |
s Of the pamphlet
Remember" Policy continues,
that what you are here reading is
not any description Of Utopia, |
thought out in any one mans
brain. It is no clever sociaistic or
communistic system brought for
ward for consideration by the citi- /.
zenry. II is ok-forward into the /
near future clairvoyantly and q con-
sultation clairaudiently with those
who can see what humanity is work
ing toward from the Higher Van
tage-points Of Time and Space"
I had heard that Policy was Just .
another racketeer pulling the legs
of the suckers who pay dues men,
berships to his organization. He
may be doing all that but cannot .
conceive Of any sane rscketeer who
sets out to make money out of the
misery Of a people in the depths of .
depression, conceiving such a mad .
idea as this clairvoyant and clair
audient stuff unless he himself we're
insane.
QACK of Peuey's insanity are some
" interesting points; in the first
place there are vast numbers of spir-
itualists in this country, men and
women who believe in that sort of
stuff and the vision" appeals to
them, and secondly and more prac-
ticsl, Policy makes his appeal to the
somewhat unbalanced followers by
pointing out things that are self
evident and offering solution that