The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 5, 1924, Page 9

By T. J. O)FLAHERTY. Before the proletarian tailors of Russia fitted the czar out in a brand new suit of clothes cut out of the Rus- sia which the Little Father claimed to love so well, the: greater power known today. as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was represented in the animal kingdom by the bear, just as Britain has the lion and the United States the eagle. Kipling, the singing British imperialist, wrote of “the bear that walks like a man.” The bear had a habit of starting on a stroll in the direction of India every now and then, which tendency made Kipling sing and the guns of the Brit- ish navy thunder. In 1917, November to be exact, the Russian bear changed his skin, but his ability to make trouble has not perceptibly lessened. Indeed not! Whereas formerly he bothered Eng- land chiefly, every capital in the world is now anxiously watching his movements. He is the “Red Terror” in the eyes of the capitalists» And nowhere is greater anxiety shown than in Washington, the capital of the United States, and the seat of our Teapot Dome government. And of all the men in Teapot Dome, no- body is more grieved over the an- imadversions of the Red Bear, than one Charles Evans Hughes. The dip- lomats of Europe have already parted with most of their hirsute adornment in frantic rage over the rise of this new and embarrassing phenomena. Our American Baptist secretary ef state has still some chin alfalfa left, which may account for the fact that today he stands almost alone against this mighty power that threatens the - regime ofthe old codgers of capital- ism and the capitalist system itself. Let us take leave of the animal king- dom for the time being. Shortly after the United States gov- ernment began its crusade fur democ racy and incidentally to protect the shekels of J. P. Morgan, citizen of the world, excepting Soviet Russia, the Russian workers and peusants led by the bolshevik party and by Lenin in particular, took over the country bag and baggage, and decided that they wanted peace, bread and land and were going to have them. Strange to say, tho these were peaceful aims the other nations associated .with Russia in overthrowing their competitors, the kaiser and his capitalist owners, felt very much aggrieved, because the Russian workers and peasants would not continue to fertilize the trenches of Germany, Poland and Austria with their dead bodies. It is well to state here that before the November revolution in Russia, a “democratic” and “kindly” gentleman "by the name of Kerensky, was prem- ier of that country. He was a short bridge between the rile of the czar and the rule of the,workers and pea- sants ‘thru the Communist Party. Kerensky was very kind and peacec- ful; kind to the czar and his followers, kind to the European and American representatives of the brigand govern- ments, but not so kind to the mil- livns of workers and peasants, he was sending to the trenches at the com- mand of Morgan and the rulers of France, England and Italy. During the short reign of this nice taan Kerensky, he appointed-as his ambassador in the United States, one Boris Bakhmeteff, who figured much in the news, usually in the role of prophet. A more unfortunate prophet never lived. Jeremiah weeping by the waters of Jericho, was no more path- etic figure that this name Bakhmet- -|tion began to crack. have been by some victim of hay fever. A man may be down politically but he is never out, provided his pocketboo! has the graceful curves of a Parisian mannekin. Bakhmeteff was not out, ow: ing to the generosity of his, friend the white Baptist of Standard Oil and Tea- pot Dome, with a residence in Wash- inton, but the United States treasury is out $187,600,000. It ig often said that a prophet ts never honored in his own country. This was true of. Bakhmeteff. It was also true that he was honored by very few in any country. But the few who honored him were mighty, and he stay- ed and liquidated, literally, most of tho $187,000,000 which the generous Charles Evans Hughes, allowed him t» draw from the United States treas- ury i It came to pass as the scripture would say, that after the Russian workers and peasants seized power, toppled the czar from the throne and did a lot of other necessary scayen- ger work, that the governments with which the United States was asso ciated in smashing the Central Pow- ers, refused to “recognize” the newly organized Soviet Republic, even tho it was the expressed wish of the Rus- sian masses that the czar and his bureaucracy should land on the rub- bish heap of history in such a condi- tion that their return could not be ex: pected unless there was a modern re- surrection pulled off. There wasn’t. The various governments sent ar- mies into accewsible parts of Russia in an attempt to overthrow the Soviet The White Babtist and the Red Bear In addition to the countries recogn-| Won a victory, without it costing them izing Russia de jure, other countries have important trade agreements with the Soviet Republic. This is the case with Czecho-Slovakia and Hun- gary while Japan.is reported to be on the verge of signing a treaty with Moscow. Thus in seven years from the date on which the Bolsheviks overthrew the Kerensky regime and establishing the Soviet Republic “all the great powers, and most of the small nations have either recognized the workers’ government of Russia de jure or de facto, with the excep- tien of the United States, which is now the outstanding figure in a cir- cle of irreconcilables, among whom are listed, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Irak, Hedjaz, and the south American republics who are afraid to antagonize the Wall Streot eagle, ; A capitalist diplomat must have an excuse for the predatory excursions of his masters. When they go to war it is one thing, when they refuse to wake peace is something else. A cap- italist diplomat who cannot dig up a decent excuse for a war or what- ever other adventure the capitalist class he is serving may be engaged in will soon find himself digging for his breakfast in some other gar- den. The American capifalists are even more moralistic than their older and more blase European contempor- aries. Thus in the matter of Soviet recognition the European govern- ments fought until they were licked to a standstill, in the meantime A DETACHMENT OF RED SAILORS power. They sent navies to bombard threatening never to “shake hands|Years of struggle, the but | Peasants’ later they did, and sent perfumed|than ever. its coasts. They subsidized counter revolutions, provoked rebellions, hired spies to hatch plots and sabot- teurs to destroy bridges, wreck rait- ways, mines and in general bring the Republic to ruin. How they failed to accomplish their purpose need not be told here. The successful struggle of the workers and peasants of Russia against their myriad foes is an epic in human his- tory that will thrill countless genera- tions to come when the rotten cap- italist system is no more and the red flag of Communism floats irium- phant over the capitals of the world. The Soviet power stood the impact of the terrible blows rained against It by the enemy. The spears of capital ism were-shattered against the shield, fashioned out of the bone and sinow of the Russian working class The Sov let power stood like the rock of Gibral- tar. There were scars, but there were more on the enemy. Finally whan the capitalist powers found they could not destroy it by the old weap- ons, they decided to make the best of a bad bargain. The anti-Soviet coali- The fissures opened wider and wider and it was finally rent in twain. One nation after another made peace with the Soviet day as follows: y, Austria, Denmark, Esthonia, Latvia, Lithu- ofjania, Afghanistan, Finland, " with the bloody Bolsheviks” mueh, outside of a few billion dollars which they did not miss They looked on Soviet Russia with the eye of im- Placable hatred. They felt them- selves ordained by the God of capital- ism to wage eternal war on this un- holy monster that threatened the pro- fits of the money hogs. When cap- italists get this idea into their heads, particularly healthy capitalists like ours, it takes a lot of knocking to re- lieve them of their illusions. And when euch ideas become part of the mental processes of a White Guard Baptist, like the bewhiskered Hughes, it is safe to say that nothing short of an intellectual delousing process will suffice to cure the pat- ient. Since 1917, the United States has been the most outspoken and threat- ening foe of Soviet Russia. While I.. K. Martens the envoy of the Soviet Republic to the United States was finally hounded out of the country by the Harding administration in 1921, the bogus ambassador Bakhmeteff, unrecognized by Russia except as an unprincipled scoundrel, ranked high among the diplomatic corps in Wash- ington, while he squandered the funds of the United States treasury, posing 18 & representative of a dead govern- ment. The recognition of the Soviet Re- public by w'rance on the eve of the seventh anniversary of the great re- volution, which for the first time in human history saw the coming to power of the proletariat, is the worst blow yet delivered against the policy of Baptist Hughes and the battalion of death that supports him. While in Europe, the labor movement, reaction- ary tho it is, unanimously favored re- cognition of the Soviet regime, here in America, the spokesman of the American Federation of Labor, was the strongest anti-Soviet bulwark of the Coolidge-Hughes administration. Gompers, no less than Hiighes, feared the psychological] effect of such action on the part of American workers who were fed for years on atrocities and tales of horror and misery, govern- mental inefficiency and progressive debility of the Soviet power. To be obliged to recognize “these horrible monsters” after all the cursing and praying, would put these political skypilots in a bad light. The American capitalists have held out well if not wisely. But it ié not very likely that they will succeed in accomplishing their main purpose thru this policy, namely the over- throw of Soviet rule. After seven workers’ and government is stronger International capitalism industrial machinery of the Workers’|people of whatever \pillgrimage to notes to Moscow telling about the| 248 felt the power of the Red Bear in cordial relations that hitherto existed|the east. He comes now to the ex- between the Russian people and the|Ploited masses of the world in the country found ara be then He causes no itselt obliged to talk business with| {eur i their } a Hohe ce rac the revolutionary government of Mos:. ond well he might. But they must cow. recognized him. He refuses to be ig- It is no accident that the govern.|nored. ments of Europe were obliged to do|~ The capitalists of the world find penance for their sins by makins ©|they must recognize the Soviet gov- Moscow, the Mecca/ernment. They know this will of the social revolution. Bankrupt] strengthen its rule, but yet they can- as a result of the war, their product-|not help it. One sixth of the earth’s {ve powers impaired, the markets of| surface cannét be wiped off the map the world lost to them, Jost in must} by the stroke of a diplomat’s pen any instances to the United States, which| more than the red army could be | profited by the war “for democracy,”| Wiped out by strokes of the capital- ‘they hungered for the Russian mar.| ists’ swords. Like the believers in kets and the Russian wealth that lay| Predestination, the capitalists are out buried in her soil waiting to be #x-}0f luck either way. “They'll be ploited. Their fesr of Bolshevism _— z Pier thy Bd bs Dn was t, but beggars can’t he choos- ’ ers aa taste to choose between the oe ganged they are damned the bet- evil of Bolshevism and the deep bluc : rete oo industrial bankruptcy, they| The lone Baptist of Washington took a chance on the devil, hopiny|™ust now jean more heavily than against hope that he could be de |°Ver on his “labor” prop Samuel Gom- horned and dehoofed and otherwisc| P's: But instead of a prop he will made to conform with the God of|*%20” find himself leaning against a far bie ‘ta’ the coffin, in which will be enclosed the ee ee ne dead hopes of the enemies of Sovict winner. Russia. There: may still be enough The United States capitalists did]of the $187,000,000 given to Bakhme- not find themselves in the deplorable |teff out of the United States treasury, condition that confronted the Europ-|left to pay the funeral expenses. Bapt- ean governinents after the war was|ist Hughes may have the honor of over. ery was in good condition and they] the wore cocky with the feeling of having They had gold, their machin-| reading the prayers for the dead, as = the world shout: Soviet Russia!” “Long od ea SL