The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 18, 1926, Page 7

a — A WEEK IN CARTOONS $ GETS . WORKERS -AND PEASANTS OF \ “RUSSIA; CHING, EGYPT. SYRIA, Buyplmet of THE DAILY WORKER Second Section: This Magazine Section Appears Every Saturday in The DAILY WORKER, AFGHAMSTON , = BRABIA INDIA, Y/>- TURK P Tce B, FALL and Edward L. Doheny—you have heard of the boys—were right. They are patriots of purest ray serene instead of the grafters and burglars they were reputed to be. Sure, Doheny had no thought of profit when he leased the Elk Hill naval oil reserves through the good offices of AL Fall, his old prospecting friend. What of it if Doheny gave his friend Al $100,000 in unmarked bills in a black satchel just about the same time the deal went thru? It was Doheny’s money. The fact is that big-hearted Ed was doing a big stroke of patriot- ism, even tho $100,000,000 in profits might accrue to him and his heirs out of the deal. Did we not say recently that it was as hard for a rich man to go involuntarily to jail as it was for the biblical camel to go thru a needle’s eye? A jury of his peers found Messrs. Fall and Doheny “not guilty.’ The old black satchel hag still a kick left, . * = ; f LESS all signs fail there will be an exodus of republican senators from Washington when Frank L, Smith approaches to demand the seat vas cated by the death of Senator McKinley. Smith has Len Small’s appointment tucked away in his pocket, The G. O. P. has nothing against Smith personally, but he was caught in an embarrassing position polit- ically, when the slush fund probe caught him after having spent Sam Insull’s money buying up the electorate, The G. O, P, strategists tried to shoo Smith away, but Smith is no martyr. Like Samson, he ig ready to pull down the @, O. P. edifice rather than go to the block alone. § * . * MITH was elected by the unterrified voters of Illinois, chiefly those moral persons who follow the anti-saloon league and the methodist church, which are almost synonomous terms. He was elect- SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1926 By M. P. Bales itt LOOK! LOW a. ALEX. BITTELMAN, Editor. — CANTON AT LEAGUE AMUSED AT ed with the aid of public utility money. McKinley, his opponent in the G. O. P. primaries, spent half a mnillion of his own money for the same purpose and died in the attempt. Governor Smal] who is chased around the prairie by state bill collectors, trying to separate Len from that elusive million dollars he got away with when he was state treasurer, is lord of his own balliwick and recks litile of what the master strategists in Washington may decide on. Len gets his graft in Illinois, so he will stand by the grafters. There should be hot times in Washing- ton when Smith gets there. The Teapot Dome crooks may put on their gas masks, as an attesta- tion to their purity, And Smith may tear the roof off. Honest people should keep their ears open. * . . LLIAM GREEN, the methodist president of the American Federation of Labor, sent an ultima- tum to Liis Morones, president of the Mexican Fed- eration of Labor, warning Mexican labor that unless ‘the quarrel between the Mexican government and the ‘catholic church is settled (he did not say in whose favor, but the suggestion is that the govern- ment surrender) the hitherto existing friendly rela- tions between the two federations would be jeopar- dized. It is sugnificant that this letter reached the public thfu publication in Columbia, official organ of the Knights of Columbus. . ° . OINCIDENT with the publication of this letter the catholic bishops In the United States pub- lished an attack on the Mexican government, and the American oil interests announced they would resist the Mexican petroleum decrees. Last week Kellogg instructed all his agents in Mexico and on the border to send in every scrap of news in their possession on the history of the dispute between Mexico and J T STATES MEN NOW 5 OF CANTON Gov By T. J. O'Flaherty the United States since its inception. The history will be given to the public in the near future. So the stage is set and all the agencies of American imperialism from the purchased officials of the A.-F. of L. to the clerical agents of Rome are <Jingd up on the side of all Street. The reliance placed by the Mexican government on the A. F .of L. aiid on the yellow socialists now provqgs to be a broken reed. ; * . * HEN the Knights of Columbus on instructions from the pope, opened war on Mexico and de- manded that the United States break off relations with that country, we pointed out that in all prob- ability Coolidge would not obey immediately lest the protestant elements come to the conclusion that the administration was acting as a servant of Rome. This was prior te the congressional election cam- paign and Coolidge wanted the K. K. K. and anti- catholic vote in general, since the bulk of the catho- lie vote in the United States goes to the democrats, But no sooner wag the election safely over, than, just as we predicted, the administration adopted a more truculent attitude towards Mexico, culminating in the crisis which now seems to be near hand, .For the benefit of those who may think that the A F. of L.’s ultimatum may have been forced by the catholic members of the executive council, ft is noticeable that the foreign policy of the A. F. of L, in recent years follows the diplomatic gyrations of the government as a tail follows its dog. * * 7 OHN M. GLENN, secretary of the-Ilinois Manu- facturers’ Association, pleads for vigilantes and lynch laws to put down banditry, This is the gentle. man who raised $50,000 to hang the Herrin miners (Continued on page $)