The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 21, 1926, Page 6

Pr Page Six THE .DATLY WORK E re ene ere THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4732 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (in Chicago only): | By mail (outside of Chicago)? 1113 W. $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Itinots ————— Hditors J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J, LOE jusiness Manager En.ered as second-class mail September £1, 1923, at the post-oilice at Chi- cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1879. Ei 290 Advertising rates on application. Kellogg’s Plattsburgh Speech Speaking at Plattsburgh Wednesday, on the 112th anniversary | of the defeat of a British fleet on Lake Champlain, Secretary of State | Kellogg made a new declaration of independence, the dec aration | of the independence because of the supremacy of American im- | With the indirect approach customary among diplomats, an art which even the not very astute Kellogg has been able to learn, he prefaced the dec ion by referring to the century of peace be- tween Great Britain and the United States and saying that “it is inconceivable that anything can bring these nations again into the conflict of war.” But on the question of disarmament Kellogg gave small com- fort to the rival imperialists of Great Britain who are for the league of nations. The United States, said Morgan’s secretary of state, “has made clear its position that this government would not agree to placing the supervision of its armaments or the carrying out of any plan for the limitation of armaments in the hands of any in- ternational body.” ARTICLE IV. “Less Sentimental and More Dis- criminating” By WILLIAM F. DUNNE HE introduction of the Bacon bill and the drive to repeal the Philip- pine land law limiting the holdings of any one corporation to 2,500 acres is part of well-thot out plan, The last is the more dangerous just at present as it appears to have some measures of support from the nationalist lead- ers, The proposal backed by the Fire- stone rubber interests extends the acreage allowable to one corporation to 500,000 and authorises leases run- ning for 75 years. HE New York Times relates some of the circumstances under which this proposal is being pushed in its issue for August 3: Mr. Firestone spent several months in the Philippine Islands. At the request of Manuel Quezon, presi- dent of the senate, he investigated the soil conditions. He found them especially adapted to the growing of rubber. His findings so impressed the Philippine government that he was asked by the Supreme Council to make an official report. IN THIS HE RECOMMENDED THAT BE AMENDED TO PERMIT THE HOLDING BY FOREIGNERS OF As for the neva conference, American imperialism will br’ ing} pressure for disarmament in the spots where it feels. the most good | can be accomplished for itself, but it does so with the proviso that! it will tolerate no interference with its army, navy and air fore Kellogg, the former small town lawyer from Minnesota, thru the accidents of complicated American politics, becomes the medium thru which the fabulously wealthy American plunderbund serves notice on the pauper nations of the world of its drive for domination. The Church Offensive Weakens The defection of considerable numbers of priests who have ac- cepted the government’s terms, the arrest of Estrada, the firm at- titude of the government, the strong support given it by the entire labor movement and the rather remarkable coldness to the catholic offensive among the masses of the American population in spite of the powerful influence of the catholic organizations, have all helped to weaken the ‘position of the Mexican catholic hierarchy and it is not surprising that the church now is asking for terms. The fact that this is a congressional year and the Coolidge administration, probably fearful of raising any new major con- troversial issues such as intervention in Mexico until after elec tion, also makes the possibility of substantial aid from imperialis sources, now that the church has shown itself unable to organize a real counter-revolution on religious issues, much less likely. Portions of the statement sent to President Calles by the Roman catholic episcopate of Mexico are worth attention of American workers. One section reads: We answer the charge of not having petitioned for reform of the constitution by stating that the governors, for one reason or another, did not enforce the objectionable clauses, so we were not called upon to demand a repeal of the clauses, which were a dead letter. Similar action with regard to. the constitution of 1917 we considered less called for .... Nor did General Obregon urge compliance with the objectionable laws. The “for one reason or another” is enlightening. The catholic church has held over the head of every progressive Mexican govern-} ment the threat of doing exactly what it is trying to do in Mexico today—organize a counter-revolution with American backing—if the complete separation of church and state, and the laws prohibiting the holding of large estates by the church, were enforced. The Calles government decided to take the numerous papal bulls by the horns, so to speak, and did so. The evidence, docn- mentary and otherwise, tending to show the attempted organization thruout Mexico of a counter-revolution in which church dignitaries landlords and reactionary generals are involved, continues to pile up. Dispatches state that many of these documents are in a special code which in itself shows the conspiratorial nature of the pro- ceeding. What is needed in Mexico is the establishment of an educational | system in which the catholic church shall have no part, the strict enforcement of the land laws and the exclusion of the church from political activity. This, in view of the 75 per cent illiteracy of the rural masses, is particularly necessary. The Calles government and the Mexican labor movement in their attempts to accomplish these aims need and are entitled to receive the wholehearted sypport of the American organized labor movement and the whole working class. CHICAGO Y. M. C. A. HEAD DEMANDS RESIGNATION OF SHERWOOD EDDY FOR PRAISING THE SOVIET UNION William Francis, president of the Chicago Young Men's Christian Asso- elation, in a letter to Adrian Lyon, chairman of the association’s general board, and to Fred W. Ramsey, president of the fational council, demanding that Sherwood Eddy, member of the international committee, be forced to resign | for spreading his speech praising. the Soviet Union, Rouse Ire. + The ire of the big business tools in ization was aroused over a de by Sherwood Eddy at a banquet given by Olga Kameneva to welcome a group of Americans now in the Soviet Union studying conditions, Eddy in his speech praised the So- viet Union for its militant stand and declared that Russia stood as a chal- lenge to “nations ruled by swollen, selfish capitalism,” Francis’ Statement, Francis in his official bulletin that will appear in about a week denounces Eddy in the following manner: “For many"years Mr, Eddy has been an unsalaried volunteer worker con- nected with the national council of the Y. M.-C.-A., as a missionary and Jater a8 a.traveling evangalist. Hie views as reported in press dispatche” from Moscow, expressing sympathy with the soviet government and re- flecting on other nations as ruled by swollen, selfish capitalism are not ap- proved by the officers and Mrectors of the Y. M. C. A. of Chicago, which em- phatically disclaim all sympathy the sentiments attributed to him, “Mr. Eddy, a Yale graduate, is wealthy. In his individual capacity he is conducting a group of tourists thru Europe to study local conditions. He has the temperament and attitude of an evangelist whose views are dic- tated by his sympathies and emotions, cather than by good judgmont.” fitve dollar will renew your uh for a year, if you send it in “fore Auguat 15, LARGER AREAS. The report was favorably received in some quarters and the Philippine legislature is now Ernest Haeckel on “Last Words on Evolution” (Continued from previous issue.) In view of the great influence that catholicism still has on public life in Germany, thru the center party, this change of front should be a great gain to education. Virchow demanded as late as 1877 that the dangerous doc- trine of evolution should be exciuded frem the schools. The minisiers of in- struction of the two chief German states gratefully adopted this warning ‘(rom the leader of the progressive party, forbade the teaching of Darwin- ideas, and made every effort to sdge. wards, the Jesuits come forward, heek the spread of biolagical know)- { Now, twenty-five years after-| and | e~ mre eee eerie SS Independence Movement. considering a bill to carry out its recommendations, (Emphasis Mine.) HE energetic rubber king is optim- istic, He says: . all that is needed is favorable legislation, My belief is that the law will be amended and that American capital will go into the enterprise. Then comes the smoothly worded threat: Mindanao has 25,000,000 acres that is very fertile and adapted to rub- ber planting. Less than,.10 per cent of this acreage wouldin time take care of the rubber requirements of America, In other words, if the Philippine legislature does not repeal or revise the land law in accord with the desires of the rubber interests<there is the Bacon bill which will make of Min- danao part of a separate province un- der an American dictatorship. HE leadership of the Philippine independence movement is placed in a difficult position by the latest maneuvers of the rubberinterests and their agents. Anxious .to see the Phil- ippines develop industrially, and with- out any clear understanding of the new tendency which does not admit the possibility of complete: independ- ence for the Philippine population, the nationalist leadership seems to be fall- ing into the trap set for it by Amer- ican imperialism, The leaders still are demanding independence in accord with the preamble of the Jones Dill but they are also intrigued by the possibility of industrial development pictured to them by the Firestones, Wie any broader conception than that of mere political inde- pendence the nationalist leaders are unable to do more to rally and arouse the Filipino workers and peasants than to urge domination by Filipino capitalists as against domination ‘by American capitalists. It is for this reason that, when the multi-millionaire rubber king Firestone’ takes them up on the mountains and shows them the glorious world that will be theirs when hundreds of thousands of Filipino mon, women and children are planting, gathering and refining rubber, that the vision of national independence tends to become dim. ig can be said with certainty that those who rule Ameriea have not the slightest intention of allowing the Philippines to become an independent state, Evidence of this is to be had on all sides, Early this month a session of the | Institute of Politics held in Williams. | town, Massachusetts, was devoted to discussion of Philippine independence. The views expressed there by Rear Admiral William Rodgers, Newton W.: Gilbert, former acting governor-gen- eral of the Philippines, Norbert Lyons, secretary of the United States mission of the American chamber of commerce in Manila and Charles C. Batchelder, former under-secretary of the interior of the Philippines, and J. M. Wain- wright, former assistant secretary of The F ‘ake on be ilipino Freedom—The Vanished “Little Brown Bsather Period’’—“‘Divide and Con- quer’’—Philippine Rubber Possibilities —The Philippines as 4 Strategic Base for Amer- ican Imperialism in the Pacific Area~—Natural Resources Other Than Rubber—Mobilizing “Public Sentiment’’—Some Defects of the war, are at least semi-official. All of these distinguished gentlemen spoke against Filipino independence. The reasons they gave for. their at- itude varied in detail but in essence were the same—that the United States sould not afford to let the Philippines 30. ‘J'HEIR speeches fitted in well with the cautious but sinister utterance of Vice-Governor Eugene A. Gilmore made for the Filipino press as he was boarding the, ship catrying him back to the United States; He said, as: re- ported in the New York Times of Aug. oF The people are just as altruistic with. respect to the Philippines as when they assumed responsibility forthem.... The American people doubtless ARE BECOMING LESS SENTIMENTAL AND MORE DIS- CRIMINATING IN THEIR ALTRU- ISM and are-going to decide what is the best way to realize the high ideals they set for themselves when they took over the islands. (Em- phasis mine.) Te American people are not de- ciding the Philippine question. Their rulers are doing it for them and we shallsee from the opinions of eh? ‘WITH THE bel ice 8 | | gaing Things 5s Fran Here and } There Which Have Inspired , | Us to Folly or Frenzy | Let the Government Do the Dirty Work This is a comedy in two acts of two men—both prohibition agents—who thought considerable of their job, and incidentally took tit seriously. Act 1— Scene, prohibition agent’s office, Chicago. The tele- phone rings. It is answered by one of the agents. Agent—Yes, this is the prohibi- tion agent’s office. What? A two cardload — shipment? Labeled kindling? Hard stuff, eh?» Sure, we'll nab it. Directed to a bakery, This is going to he soft. those closely-in touch with big capital |(Hangs up receiver and turns, to that “to realize the high ideals” of janother agent.) which Gilmore speaks they do not in- tend to allow the promise of inde- pendence contained in the Jones bill to interfere with business. (To Be Continued) Guess Who'll Be the First Victim lemand the opposite. They recognize cile it with the creed! of history! same story when we read the strug- gles for freedom of thought and for | the recognition of evolution in tho! ther educated countries of Europe. In Italy, its cradle and home, edu- | cated people generally look upon papacy with the most profound \e dain. I have spent many years in Italy, and have never met an educated Italian of such bigoted and narrow What an irén; ; With success in the reichstag by the center party. It is proof enough of | the reactionary character of German | ribes them as his most vigorous sol- diers, and points them out as models | to the faithful of other nations. A: the whole history of the Roman church | shows, the charlatan of the Vatican is | deadly enemy of free science and | e teaching. The present German} | emperor ought to regard it as his most | sacred duty to maintain the tradition | of the reformation, and to promote the formation of the German people in the sense of Frederick the Great, Instead of this we have to fook on with heavy hearts while the emperor, badly ad- vised and misled by those in influence above him, suffers himself to be caught closer and closer in the net of the catholic clergy, and sacrifice to it the intelligence of the rising generation In September, 1904, the catholie jour nals announced triumphantly that the adoption of catholicism by the em- peror and his chancellor was close at hand. The firmness of the belief in conven- tional dogmas, which hampers the progress of rational enlightenment in | orthodox protestant circle? as well as catholic, is often admired as an) ex- pression of the deep emotion of the | German people. But its real source is we hile these pages are in the press the journals announce a fresh humillation of | the German empire that will cause great On the 9th of May the nation celebrated the centenary of the death of Friedrich Schiller, With rare unanimity all the political parties of Germany, and all the German associations abroad, came together to do honor to the great poet of German idealism. Professor Theobald with] Ziogier delivered a very fine address at Strassburg University, The emperor, who happened to be in the town, was invited, but did not attend; Instend of doing so, he held a military parade in the vicinity. A few days afterwards he sat at a table with the German Catholic car- dinals and bishops, amongst them being the fanatical Bishop Bengler, gvho de- clared that a Christian cemetery was desecrated by the Interment of a Pro- testant. At these festive dinners Ger- man Catholics always gave the first toast to the pope, the second to the emperor; openly that the hated theory of evolu- | tion is established, and try to recon- | And we find much the, | views as we usually find amongst edu-| cated German catholics—represented | catholics that the pope himself de- | Ci their confusion of thought and their credulity, the power of conservative tradition, and the reactionary state of political education, While our schools are bent under the yoke of the creeds, those of our neighbors are free. France, the pious danghter of the church, gives anxious moments to her ambitious mother. She is breaking up the chains of Concordat, and tak- ing up the work of the reformation. In Germany, the birthplace of the re- formation, the rejehstag and the gov- ernment vie with gach other in smoothing the paths for the Jesuits, and fostering, instead)of suppressing, the intolerant spirit of the sectarian school, Let us hope that the latest episode in the historyijof evolution, its recognition by Jesuitical science, will bring about the reverse of what they intend—the substitutégn of rational science for blind faith, (To be Continued) Needle Trades Section T. U. E. L. Gives Dance A package party and dance will be | given by the Needle Trades Section | T. U. BE. L., Chicago, on Saturday, September 4, 1926, at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsh Blyd. Tickets are 25e. This will be a real get-to-gether of ail militant left wingers In Chicago. It is to be a sendoff for the dele- they rejoice at present that the panrey and the bad ore allie But the whole history of the papacy (a pitiful caricature of the anetent Cat! ie shows clearly that they are ural irrecon. ‘Noble enc # tes... emperor must ilo or popa, 7" ip iy gates of Chicago tothe Fourth Na- tional Needle Trades Con held in N. Y. on “emer oi chance of getting It. i Gov. John J. Blaine, of Wisconsin, the late Sen, La Follette’s political Neutenant, is out after Sen, Irvine L, Lenroot's seat this year with a good Lenroot Is a Coolidge man and was administration der In the world court fight In the senate. Blaine has the backing of the entire LaFollette organization and Lenroot will have./the gold of the na- Agent—Come on, we'll make a big haul here. Get some real hard stuff. (End Act 1.) Act 2—Scene in front of Bak- ing company; time—two days later. Box car labeled kindling is standing on the siding, men are just ready to open the cars. Agents step up to them, Agent—Here, we'll take care of that. Worker—All right, go ahead. Agents rummage thru both cars and find nothing but kindling. Agent—Where’s the hard stuff? — We were told these cars were fill- — ed with it. : Worker—There it is. Hard kindling. We need it in the busi- ness. Thanks for unloading the cars for us. Agent—Bah. (Walks away chagrined.) (The End.) eee HE GULPED AND SHE GULPED, “Why, now,” Wy) ret “Look here, Marcle, how can sk you, white | am stitl, a. marrl FJ woutdn’t be—tt ‘a not right, yeu compte of newspaper fiction, ; sees IF IT HURTS, MOVE... While the train was waiting on a. side track down in Georgia one of the passengers, a New York © man, walked over to a cabin near the track, in front of which sat a cracker dog, howling. The pas- senger asked a native why the dog was howling. “Hookworm,” said the native. “He's lazy.” “But,” said the stranger, “T was not tiware that the hookworm wae painful.” “Taint,” responded the garru- lous native. “Why, then,” the queried, “should the dog howl?” “Lay” “But why does laziness make him howl?” “Wall,” said the Georgian, “that blame fool dawg is. sitting on a sandbur, an’ he’s too tarna- tion lazy to get off, and 80 he jes” laets thar an’ howls ’cause it hurts.” AH! ANOTHER MORON CAUGHT! “Honey boy!” She was hang- ing on him tenderly. “You un- derstand now why I couldn’t say | Vd marry you? It wouldn’t have been right.” 4 “T suppose not,” he stumbled “Tt’s a hard situation.” “But we can be together,” ‘interrupted. “You love me, don’t” you?”—From a magazine’ ro- mance, eee Now You Tell 0, “There will be no price on pardons and pa- roles.” —Hinton G. Cla’ baugh, new Iinoia Pa~ role Board chairman,” né —— SU RE eae