The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 24, 1926, Page 11

Translator A. Landy 5 ha (confused): Who are you? 1 RAGGED ONE: e life in man. 1 PRIEST (as if stunned): What is the ‘ection and the Life? You talk like a Tam the Resurrection 1 RAGGED ONE (powerful): Revolu- 1 PRIEST (cries out): Revolution Help Police (to the altar boys): Fetch the police! I always had the sus- anyway that in case he really lived, must have been a lunatic; a normal per- es not allow himself to be crucified. 1 RAGGED ONE: No, he ‘looks around ninister’s seat. 1 PRIEST (in despair): Nothing is holy 3 mon ‘Now he is even blaspheming it tie government! That is more dan- ;than to blaspheme against God, for God ands no servants with machine guns and acks. Run children, do, fetch the police. two altar boys hurry out... The church regin to ring). aay & E PRIEST: The congregation will be lirectly. The empty cross over the altar . This disorderly conduct . .. If the 2 learns of this . Just in my con- tion a thing like that has to happen. . ¢ ling): Go backyto the cross again and serve*you my whole life léng! E RAGGED ONE: How often have you ly told that td the people? E PRIEST (helpless):. The people, the 2! What-is the people to me? E RAGGED ONE: I am the people i you crucify. I am the dead people who risen. Woe unto you! (Two policemen into the church). E PRIEST (panting): Here . ‘ . Blasphemy . Inciting to hatred . . . ACommunist .. . E OF THE POLICEMEN: That’s enough. -E SECOND POLICEMAN: Wait (to the ed One): Have you papers? Who are (E RAGGED ONE (drawing himself yo The Ré€d Savior who has come to . this % {(E FIRST POLICEMAN: There you are, i. (Both policemen fall upon him and hifa out of the church). [E;| PRIEST (confused): A nightmare ‘ frightful incubus . . . Did not sone come and say, the legend of Christ ue, God lives? ... ¢ organ begins, singing resounds from the choir: : is arisen! Halleluja! Halleluja!) The Story of J. Pierpont Morgan’s Fortune vith the kind permission of the author and the lishers we are herewith beginning the publica- 1 in the magazine of a series of extracts from 1e History of the Great American Fortunes,” Gustavus Myers. This work of three volumes 3 published by Charles H. Kerr & Co., Chicago. 2 selection of the extracts will be such as to tiliarize our readers with the origin of the tun§s of those magnates of capital who are to- , fe a determining role in the imperialistic “os the United States, eeee . PIERPONT MORGAN is not one of those magnates coming wholly under the clas- Sification of being’ a “self- made man.” is father, Junius S. Morgan, was a million- Ascending by successive steps from the tions of farmer boy, dry goods clerk, bank k and commercial man, Junius S, Morgan ume a partner of George Peabody in the king business. When the civil war came George Peabody and Company were ap- ited the financial representatives in Eng- { of the United States government. Syn- »mously with this appointment their wealth jenly began to pile up; where hitherto they amassed riches by stages not remarkably d, they now added many millions within a 7 few years. His Father's Career. tow did they contrive to do it? Biograph-— narratives aver that it was done by legiti- banking methods, although what those hods were is not explained. But if we are elieve the comments and criticisms appear- LL his life he was a team driver. Firstly, becduse he wasn’t handy enough to learn anything else. Secondly, because he liked to get his tips on deliveries and now and then he would also profit on goods left over on his delivery wagon. He knew a trick that brought the profits. One day there was a change of managers. And because the new manager believed in lat- est improvements, he introduced a new system, one of his plans being to install motor trucks instead of teams. By this he found that more . than half of his team drivers had to be dis- charged. Among the discharged was the hero of our tale. Though he had a chance to learn to drive trucks, as was.offered him by the new manager because of his record of being a -“snick” against his friend drivers, he declined to do so. He felt he wasn’t able to learn truck driving nor was he literate enough to sign his name to receipts on goods delivered or re- ceived, as was the rule introduced by the new manager. , Though out of a job and elderly in years, he did not seem to worry. Since his younger years he was trying to save up for a rainy day and with a view of going some day into busi- ness for himself. Nobody would ever believe he had actually saved any money from his small wage and with a family to support. But he did. By telling the manager tales of the would-be or real thievery of other drivers he kept suspicion from himself and profited by it.. He would tell the foreman that Jones has done this and Charles has done that and’ an- other fellow has done something else, all the while looking out for himself and incidentally putting away bit after bit for the rainy day. Having found himself out of work, he de- cided to go through with his old plans, and bought himself a little grocery store in a poor section of the city. He figured it was easier to cheat the poor and handier to deal with them. His judgment was good. And since he knew all the little tricks of petty business, he was getting along nicely» In a short-while his-busi-»* ness horizon became widened. He saw chances opening before him and, being wide awake, he grabbed them. oJ * e A couple of years later we find our hero the possessor of a real estate office with clerks and accountants taking care of the work and the former team driver getting the profits. Little by little he became very prosperous. He bought himself ‘a good pleasure car and ing in the American newspapers of the time, their methods were not only very far from be- ing legitimate, but were within the pale of the most active treason. The constitution of the United States defines treason as consisting in citizens levying war upon the nation, or in giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Accord- ing to writers of the day, the methods of George Peabody and Company were of such a character as to be not only treasonable, but double treason, in that, while in the very act of giving insidious aid to the enemy, George Peabody and Company were the financial plenipotentiaries of the United States govern- ment, and were being well paid to advance its interests. An ‘article for example, published in tthe Springfield Republican in October, 1866, as- serted: “For all who know anything of the subject know very well that he (Peabody) and his partners in London gave us no faith and no help in our struggle for national existence. They participated to the full in the common English distrust of our cause and our success, and talked and acted for the South rather than for the nation.” Evidently, it was the sight of the large bene- factions which Peabody was then giving that foptune, the remarks upon the origin of his ortune. Millions from Alleged Treason. The writer of this article went on to say that George Peabody and Company swelled the feeling of doubt abroad, and speculated upon it. “No individuals,” he continued, “contrib- uted so much to fl our money markets with the evidences of our debt in Europe, and The Team Driver - By I. Ozersky hired a chauffeur to drive it for him. Later he found out that good polished manners were a necessity for entering and getting on in so- called society. He therefore hired all sorts of people to teach him and his family good man- ners. He was getting along fine. He way buying up shops and factories, introducing the most modern methods of speed-up and squeeze out. In a word, he was on the right way, and what- ever he did not know himself his. hirelings would do it for him. One day at the height of his prosperity, and knowing the value of the power of his great wealth, he began to mingle with politicians, seeking newer fields for honors and riches. At that time most everything was at his dis- posal. Newspaper reporters would give him all the publicity he wanted; the writers break- ing their pet-points in their efforts to praise him. Artists were making his portraits. . The priests in the churches, built on his money, would praise his work in their sermons urging his workers to obey the Lord and the Boss. Government officials would be quite willing to help him out in his difficulties with the men in his factores. The officers would help him to break strikes, throw the strike leaders into jail, and generally cover up his bad, unlawful deeds. All this was the foundation of his pow- er and success, e + e One day a committee of politicians of his state came to offer him the candidacy for the governorship which was his secret desire and which he readily accepted. ge There was no end to his joy. He hastily left his office to tell his wife and family the details of the great honor that was conferred uport him. Upon reaching home he jumped out of his Rolls Royce, ran up the stairs of his pal- acious house, grabbed and kissed the butler who wondered what it was all about, and caught his wife by her hands and started to turn her around telling her of his luck and dancing and singing all the time. But seeing that his wife does not share his ‘jolty,"he stopped dancing and asked her what was the matter. She answered by asking wor- riedly whether he knows how to write. He laughed merrily into her face and inquired whether that was all she was worried about. When he saw her shake her head approving- ly, he called her an old fool and told her also that had he known how to write he would have kept his job as a truck driver instead of going into business and becoming a great power in finance and politics. By Gustavus Meyers breaking down their prices and weakening financial confidence in our nationality than George Peabody and Company, and none made more money by the operation. All the money, and more, we presume, that Mr. Peabody is giving away so lavishly among our institutions of learning was gained by the Speculations of his house in our misfortunes.” A writer in the New York Evening Post, issue of October 26, 1866, also made the same statements, accusing Peabody and Junius S. Morgan of using their positions as United States financial representa- tives to undermine the very cause that they were paid to represent, and profiting heavily from their treachery. of These are a few of the newspaper comments then current. Whether they were all true, or partially true, or not true at all, we do not know; no confirmation of them can be found in official records. The statements are given here for what they may be worth. But it should be remembered that not the one-thousandth part of what was going on in the world of capitalism ever found its way into official doc- uments. Reasoning from conditions prevail- ing at the time, it is more than likely that the accusations were by no means ill-founded.