The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-10
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------ By MICHAEL GOLD -----l
USUALLY don't laugh at the socalled wit of famous
public people The gay little remarks the newsboys
report in their daily Washington columns about what Sen
ator Whoosis said to his valet the night he couldn't find
his collar button get nothing than grunt out
It's chronic condition just like dislike musical
comedies, radio
Huey Long Senator louisiana botae-nosed
big mouth from the bayous and the biggest and bazene CRATER the
Southwest many moon manage get
big horse laugh out Of me not so long
The Gyp Artists of New Orleans
II WAS during the little spat Huey had with his
henchman Mayor senmss wmsey gatc-receipts
from the vice rings the whoreoes and the gambling holes Of New
during graers Huey
wasey got in each others hair so much that looked
going be vendetta down around the delta with Longs
National uarden and the Mayors police doing most of the shoot
ing
anybody had any illusions left our democratic machinery
the battle him good There
must been Jeersonn the
good eyeopener
and the little pieces
the payon And the height of the squabble for the
when the citizens New Orleans expected morning wake
and hear the SCATTERING crash of artillery on the City Hall th Huy
along with of the sare little pieces Of reparee has
been my good fortune to hear
The Parable of the CRATER
NOW Huy like of the corngts
~ juice brought the the
language of the Lord His good old to that his
youth he got his proper dose of biblical scripture So was only
natural that Hueys best effects achieved the
language and the technique of the prophets Hu like the Son Of
Day Judgment comes Huey said to the world
at large the Angel Gabriel stands
to blow that trumpet of his what semmes walnsy
will be dongP Do think that in that moment he will be think
ing of all his sins? Do think he will be himself
to meet his Creator? By God He'll be running the
Of New Orleans getting the last payments out of the prostitute houses
before that trumpet hlows"
Turning the Tables
THAT'S masterpiece That's wit That's the real article
number natural. Only
T. smmes Wamsley the old CRATER could stand before the
microphon and the Huey
could change the story little bit
blows Huey building couple bridges big
fat cut from the contractors handing
while he sucked the Treasury dry for himself"
It's that kind joke. both guy
to be laughing last day in New viii
ing class
The Clown
UuEY LONG built reputation up always
IL shooting his mouth off wrong place
pulling designed
ropulace to him. For example his last appearance New Orleans
only headed hundred that followed
him wherever he went making music for the ciizenry.
the midst Hueys parade the
skttered by and dumped big cake Of ice The cake went M
terng the gutter into the
Huey do but make nyng tackle business shined
ALL up long forward
right back into the ice truck That vowed them.
Huey's Revenge
RUT all this Glowing and acting the cery
louisiana in the palm Of his fat white encrcd
State with of the best organized and largest ring
corrupters and grafters America has long
Huey originally focused attention himself with demagogc
attack the big oil companies dry
Monopoes companies Huey
ride He had lot tied Independent
oil wells and the monopoies had him. So this
becoming Governor Of the State started
big grandy peoples
being by Huey in his time
has mucted the people of Louisiana
earned money as the Standard Oil did.
The Democracy of CRATER
AS YOU expect besides his other accomplishments Euey
an ardent champion of democracy ONLY he saws that democracy
best which not of the pepoe but for the people How this
democracy for the people works the fascist
trenchments the liberties louisiana
they chued Hueys little antics obtained control Of
State election machinery crbed the the civil
tabished police the militia
way any time he chose without interference
And while the comedy maintained suckers,
the graft rackets continue gambling
the unemployed statistics and relief
but only the gamblers the prostitutes
laughing in New Orleans There different grim
the workers
WELL WORTH
Einr Peterson Chester Enclosed my
trbution help Change Word"-Quota $500