The Chatter-Box
THE Chatter-Box Here.. . . Hn » in a world that runt rut For fool pott of gold, Where grace goet to thote who can hug k\ And laughter it told, ^ Where love it a bartered-out flimsy_ / dream...
...The members of the Assembly are pledged to it...
...It persecutes and kills working men and women not of its own ruling clique and barters Russia to alien capitalists...
...who were present, especially women and children...
...It is significant that tho Republicans appear tp accept his suggestion, as they only differ as to the time when the referendum should be held...
...Stealing the Workers' Heritage ONE marked characteristic of the past ten years has been the tendency of the masses to surrender the best traditions of American history to our profiteering oligarchs...
...It was these Babbitts who constituted the main conservative shock troops of the North in behalf of slavery...
...Not until the hates and hysteria of the World War gave them their opportunity did these classes step forward to claim the virtues and boat traditions of our history...
...They made no friends and it is certain that t*K...
...What is true of Rome was true of Spanish dominion...
...With the extension of capitalist control abroad the civil rights of the peoples subjected to such control are either restricted or suppressed altogether...
...The statement of Francis, if made in the United States, would have been regarded merely as a part of the daily routine of a newspaper...
...Tha only onaa ear tain of auccaas art the oligarchs at the top—for tbe present, at least...
...The organs of capitalism alone were permitted to circulate freely...
...Over the radio, in the newspapers and magazines, in Congress, the 100 percenters have for a numjjer of years posed as the representatives of American traditions...
...Workers have their share of failures, but so have the possessing classes...
...The Communists managed to sink to the lowest depths and in their conduct unwittingly expressed Crabb's definition...
...Upon the backs of millions of toilers at home and the subjected abroad have been built this "glory" of empire...
...The messages that appear in this issue show that The New Leader has won the affection and hearty support of many sections of the Labor movement...
...For these reasons the enemies of the amendment have every reason to drag out a long discussion in a referendum in the hope that other States will not be influenced by any favorable action which every member of the Assembly is morally bound to take...
...Wall Street took courage...
...The "glory" of empire is of interest to the property holders of any age, always a small portion of the total population...
...THE CHILD LABOR AMENDMENT IN N. Y. STATE C^l OVERNOR SMITH'S recoov ¦ mendation for a referendum of the voters in New York State on the child labor amendment is likely to play into the hands of the National Association of Manufacturers...
...According to other cables, the failure of the Vienna cooperative was due to a price-cutting war which the cooperative could not meet...
...Ilend your back, And let it crack...
...The organized workers, many of whom supported Smith as a "progressive," may now contemplate the jwssibility of their having bartered the future of the child slaves of this country, for the defeat of the amendment in this State may mean its defeat nationally...
...For ourselves, we may say that w» have saved up a fine collection of funw stories and tragic wise cracks that wo M tend to shower upon the Epicures ¦**•*"' bled, provided, of course, time, the honor* able speakers, the toastmasters, and »s chronic soup-dredgers do not intervene, any rate, our table ahall be a conspicuous one, and you will be able ta point us out w all of your celebrity-hunting friends...
...We should recover the stolen goods...
...This is quite an installment of "liberty," but what is this "glory" of empire...
...We have seen this economic war work the ruin of many private capitalist enterprises in this country without editors rejoicing that the failures implied the failure of capitalism...
...We do not liKe to lose a strike or a cooperative, but the loss of either is not proof of the failure of Socialism or of the inability of the workers to manage their own affairs...
...Here on a tea breathing tlowly The tpice of the tkiet, Where Hit wind's lightett whitptr it nolu...
...Jackass—see Democrat...
...By withholding credit, or threata to withhold it, a number of the offending magaxinei ware induaed to be "good...
...Speaking over the radio through eight or ten stations to his vast audience last, week, a representative of the National Security Leaguo boldly coupled the names of Lincoln, Gary and Rockefeller together...
...WELL-WHAT ABOUT LIBERTY ? CHICAGO is responsible for a nickel weekly, Liberty...
...J s.A,mWJt% THE NEW LEADER DINNER AMONG the first casualties of the World War was the destruction of radical and Socialist publications in this country...
...We played Bohemian once too often, a p. parently...
...Henry Harrison...
...Certain of a large attendance at the dinner, we advise our friends to obtain their reservations without delay as otherwise some will be disappointed...
...oFor a Wordy Casanova It matters not what piercing cry You've flung to flaming stars...
...New York State is a strategic sector in the struggle...
...It is a long stride since the days when Polish, Greek and other refugees were welcomed in the United States and the "glory" of empire was spewed out for the real thing it is...
...The world movet forward on itt eourte— Oh, you who'd cheek it thus, We are tht forward movement, and Tht world movet on with us...
...The harvest springs from new town earth Not from the fallow field— We are the new-town tarth today...
...Do you object to trampling upon Haiti, San Domingo, and the isthmian republics...
...Capitalist—unprintable...
...who odtlined the first programe for univeraal free public achoola...
...The white upstarts sent to boss the natives, especially when they come from the Southern states, carry with them hatred of colored races and often act with little regard for the islanders...
...So bend your back, And let if crack...
...We cannot have this imperialist bullying abroad without it eventually striking us at home...
...It was these Babbitts who appealed to archaic customs and the fear of chango to prevent the wiping out of surviving colonial injustices...
...who have made many legislative bodies their private brokerage houses...
...Cowardice and hypocrisy cannot bear uninterrupted discussion and we thank the Teal exponents of the Russian mania for their exhibition...
...The swenters of child labor claim Lincoln...
...TOMFOOL...
...FREE YOUTH FOR excellence of typographical display, contributed and editorial matter, Free Youth, the monthly magazine of the Young People's Socialist Tieague, exceeds any publication that has been produced by young Socialists in this country...
...Comrade Life Insurance Agents: Please send us your literature, but do not call personally...
...It would also have an influence upon the action of other .States...
...With their fingers dripping with the loot of the nation during the World War, with the savings of farmers for a generation ia their coffers and enormous dividends which they have divided in the past few years, they have the insolence to steal the one valuable asset that remains to the toiling masses—the best ideals associated with American history...
...who carried the etruggle for manhood auffrage to victory) who waged war against the allocking crueltiea of imprieonment for debt...
...It permit...
...In the case of the Virgin Islands color prejudice plays an important part...
...Now this is a serioua question...
...A referendum is unecessary...
...Chamber of Commerce—evolution of the forty thieves...
...M. Julian Funk'' Work Song Toil and sweat Hill pay the debt, Sn work, you lazy mad men...
...The lying publicity agents of the child despoilers have been given a free hand in presenting the most absurd arguments against the amendment and their success in Massachusetts shows their power to swindle and deceive...
...Ribald cat calls, smirking jeers, passing the lie and other conduct that can 'only be characterized as that of either the feebleminded or of agents provocateur— this was their contribution to the meeting...
...These upstarts were then on the defensive...
...The great masses of slaves, conscript soldiers and peasant farmers of Rome never shared in this "glory...
...Or else your wife And kids will sip no toddy...
...His suggestion ia made despite the fact that the State platforms of the Republican and Democratic parties approved the amendment...
...All that such failures indicate is the struggle that is ever present in this chance world of capitalism...
...The atorm blew over...
...It is not surprising thai its local devotees become frantic and exhibit marked traces of lunacy when a man comes from abroad to oppose this degenerate offshoot of the Czarist autocracy and misrule...
...to these traditions claims them...
...Brains—something that we don't take to the polls...
...It was the early Babbitts who opposed free schools on the ground that so long as mental capacities differ it would be absurd to educate all children in the elementary forms of knowledge...
...The workers who are entitled to them permit them to ba stolen...
...Nor with what majestic mien You've hurled your tcimitart...
...Our respiratory and gastronomical provinces were thoroughly sated...
...It is true of Japanese and British dominion today...
...Charge them with ba-ini the obstruction to human progress today that their ancestors were in the past...
...But it is of more than usual interest that a publication with a very large circulation can glorify imperialist conquest and even include the old Prussian type as a model to be admired...
...Bolshevism appears to defile everything it touches...
...So here we are saved for you, our desr bards and patrons, and may we all survive to hear of such further experiences, twenty-five years hence, since in such cycles de our unfortunate indispositions oocar...
...We shall try to accommodate as many as possible, but to do this it is necessary to know the number of reservations a day or two in advance...
...Well, let us look at Rome...
...The Song of the Workers And would f/tm tot the clock-hands bark, And ring a backward chimef And would you bring the old day bach, And stay the pull* of timet The sea upon it* current goet And wifl not fettered be— The ruing wave it ourt, wt are The current of the tea...
...Bronxites will tread where dye-peptics fear to go...
...on contemporary problama...
...It has completed its first anniversary, which will be celebrated at a dinner arranged next Thursday evening in the ballroom of Yorkville Casino, 86th street and Third avenue...
...It is no unusual thing to hear of some representative of organized capital or finance, or one who accepts its dominion, representing his class as...
...J Patriot—one who sells guns to shoos everybody but his own family...
...Therefore it is all the more important that the Yipsels should be encouraged in their fight with the reaction to capture the young people of America...
...Receiving orders through their two publications in this city to attend and create a disturbance, they played the coward's role of trying to prevent the j speaker from being heard...
...This insolence pi our professional "patriots" is in marked contrast with the period of twenty years ago...
...Those that survived had to contend with a postal dictator and the war mania that afflicted millions of human beings...
...For a time capitalist aociety waa ahaky...
...With its Koo Koo complex we can understand why Texas is fearful of too much education...
...oFAILURES UNDER CAPITALISM WE are not alarmed over the cable to the Times stating that Vienna Socialists had been forced to sell a cooperative bakery after operating it for fifteen years...
...The attempt to rescue our children from the capitalistic despoilers is given a "Bolshevist" interpretation...
...It was not to their credit that the meeting did not break up in a riot to the serious injury of many...
...Hn » in a world that runt rut For fool pott of gold, Where grace goet to thote who can hug kAnd laughter it told, ^ Where love it a bartered-out flimsy_ / dream and grow old...
...In fact, in some of the Latin-American countries more or less controlled by American imperialists the dark skin of the Spanish people brings upon them the same treatment...
...Tho capitalistic and financial cliques who own our powers of productiop and distribution...
...oThe Dabster's Dictionary Conservative—one who has" got his ow» and yours...
...oBe pleased to remember that—The N«* Leader has arrived at the ripe old age <¦ ONE YEAR, and »i find no way in whica it can be better celebrated and cheered thsj in an old style Get-together Banquet suei as you see announced within the paper tn» week...
...And God heart no liet, Where the wavet make tong to the galt'$ mad meter— / dream and grow wite...
...Political brokers breathed sighs of relief...
...One year ago The New Leader appeared to take up the work of education so much needed in thin country...
...Then, thanks to modern medical instruments ef persuasion and our spouse's indefatigible care, we came out of the laud of doubt into the world of despair again...
...Its intellectual aupport waa endangered...
...They should not let profiteers, grafters, politicians and professional "patriots" steal them...
...Bedlam broke loose, not once but a dozen times...
...Glory here, glory there, glory everywhere...
...The most sinister forces in American life again felt safe...
...That anything survived in Austria under the strangling policy of the allied victors is a marvel...
...Recently It inquired, "Well -What About Rome...
...our recent illness and the absence of our Column last week...
...But even if Socialists were to lose a cooperative under normal conditions this would be of no more consequence than the loss of a strike...
...Contrasted with these claims is a marked inferiority complex it, many sections, of the Labor movement, a tendency to surrender our best traditions to the profiteering gentry...
...For a year or two it was not safe to be seen reading a Socialist publication...
...We sought exotic atmosphere and Roumanian broilings...
...He denounced the magasines for printing the revelations...
...This we did for almost four days...
...Moreover, the textile exploiters of children and their manufacturing allies have wads of money to spend on propaganda while the supporters of the amendment are short of funds...
...The best traditions of the nation belong to the workers...
...the guardian of the best traditions in American history...
...He thus represents in his person two sins that are offensive to an American aristocratic bully...
...If the blatk forces of reaction claim to represent the beat in American history and lb work..a do not deny tha claim they surrender a valuable heritage...
...dreaming that the "world Was a vaat storehouse full of empty shelving, and that all about were billions of boxes of all shapes and sizes, and that we were trying to place them into the shelves, but not one of the innumerable ones would fit anywhere...
...oFXH1BITING COMMUNIST MANIA C-^RABB in his "English Syno...
...It aurrenderi leaderahip in molding opinion...
...With holy zeal he asserted that the passage of the child labor amendment would be to violate the most cherished traditions of America...
...We found everything in perfect profusion...
...the de-apoilers to assign to the workera a aub-ordinate position it...
...Here on a field epread to heaven, Where daieiet lie flung, And tyring yielde for summer's ieaven The wreathe the hat ttrung, Where love it a bud or a tun-ravithti blottom— / dream, and grow young...
...who are today reaching out for the mastery u' our great power resources and whose control of city governments has made them a synon:.'m for graft and chicane, volunteer as the custodianB of civic virtue and the best American ideals...
...The Virgin Islands editor is all the more hateful to the American officials in that he is not only an educated Negro but also active in organizing the laborers of the island...
...Insurance graftera, trust magnates and the financial apidora were grateful to Rooaevelt...
...The Negro is not expected to acquire any culture and for him to try to improve the lot of Negro laborers through organization is regarded as little short of a slave insurrection...
...m*de some enemies...
...Come on and heed, Or, God, I'll break your bod'j...
...Certainly the "liberty" of some of our "real Americans" wears a | gag, a ball and chain, and lies prostrate under the boots of upstarts and dictators, -oWith 300,000 persons in Texas unable to read or write the State Board of Control ordered the burning of 400,000 school text books, following this action by awarding contracts for other books...
...And ourt tht harvttt-yield...
...Where's the speed...
...Considering that thousands of capitalist enterprises have failed in Austria in the last few years, it need not surprise anyone that Socialists may lose an enterprise now and then...
...You cannot set the clock-hands back...
...G. 0. P.—see jackass...
...When they fail, as they certainly will, capitalism itself will pass into history with all its other failures...
...modern aociety and to render their opi-.iions of little weight...
...Neither are we impressed by the assertion that Vienna Socialists had regarded the cooperative "as an example of modern Socialism...
...who have inherited the natural riches stolen after the Civil War...
...Address the Dinner Committee, The New Leader, 74East 15th street, New York City...
...It consists of the riches and comforts that were brought to a handful of the population of each imperialist State...
...The January number even excels the high standard set by the first issue, and if the edition is not speedily exhausted it will be only because its friends fail to serve it...
...Tom Lawson, Lincoln Stef-fens, Charles Edward Russell and a host of other writers revealed the secrets of those whose sole aim in life was to pile up dollars at the expense of despoiled millions...
...A few decades ago a number of cooperative experiments in this country were also destroyed by secret bargains of local dealers with wholesalers to the disadvantage of the cooperatives...
...No more degrading scene has been witnessed at a public meeting in this city...
...who first formulated the program of homeateada on the national domain for landleia and worklesa men, who were In the forefront of every atruggle for a larger and freer life for mankind...
...Now they clnim to be the special guardians of civilisation...
...Or out you go like tad men...
...Democrat—see G. 0. P. Business—up-to-date cannibalism...
...It waa the work-, era vrho opposed the more barbarous features of the common law...
...Many persons who went to the New Star Casino last Sunday to hear Rafael Abramowitz and who observed the conduct of a few hundred Communists there must have thought that the psychopathic ward of Belle-vue Hospital had emptied its inmates into the hall...
...The reader is carried upon a journey to marvel at the "glory" of Rome and her conquests...
...Since this occurs with us once in twenty* five years, it may deserve more than just passing comment...
...Too much waa being revealed and Theodore Rooeevelt interfered with hia fatnoua "muck rake" apeech...
...Radical—one who wants his own...
...It never meant anything else and it can never mean anything else...
...We paid our bill, subwayed home, wei.t to bed, and within the next four hours were perfectly prepared for our Workmen's Circle plot in Mount Zion Cemetery...
...who went to prison to eatabliah the right to organise...
...It deserves all the encouragement that the movement can give...
...It would "Bolshevize" the nation and nationalize children...
...An excellent program has been arranged and a host of friends of The New Leader will be present to celebrate the event...
...Their civic, political and economic crimes were flaunted in their faces...
...It is told to us now that for three dsys and nights we ran up temperatures that should have baked us to a Satanic delight, We remember only that we were day...
...The most reactionary classes know the value of coercing the minds of the young, shaping their views of life and its problems, cultivating an unthinking veneration of institutions and preparing young people to be submissive adults...
...I only know that here with me No majesty docs stalk ( That you who might ttir me to ton/, Stir me to weary talk...
...Toil and event Will pay the debt...
...It creates a militarist organization, calls it a party, and rules the working class through espionage and terror...
...rendezvous on Second avenue where nighU ly congregate the litterati, the vagabondia, intelligentsia, and shipping clerks of Gotham...
...It has substituted its own hangmen for those of the Czar, its spies and jailors for those of the Romanoffs...
...One night, two weeks ago, we ventured into one of those famous...
...Gagging editors in the Caribbean can only lead to gagging them in the United States and eventually making the military boot a symbol of a bloated imperialist capitalism...
...Show tome life...
...Governor Smith is playing into the hands of the reaction by making his recommendation...
...Nor ring a backward chime...
...If the workers permit our ruling classes to perpetrate this last, theft, they will lose a moral weapon that is indispensable...
...The best revolutionary traditions belong to us, not to our hankers, trust magnates, child slavers, political brokers and professional 100 percenters...
...Then there was the "glory" of Spain at the height of her imperialist career, the "glory" of England and even the "glory" of East Prussia and its eventual creation of an empire...
...A Labor movement without boldly aaserting its legitimate claima in thia matter ia a Labor movement: that mint forever remain on the defensive...
...The speedy passage of the amendment in this State by the Assembly would be a blow to the manufacturers and their allies...
...It waa the toiling maaaea who demanded univeraal auffrage in the revolutionary period and it waa the riaing capitalists, landlorda and alave ownera who defeated them...
...It was the period of the "literature of exposure" when magazines and newspapers were filled with stories pf the graft, the civic debauchery and disgusting mornl code of the plundering Babbitts of that era...
...Just a word to amplify the announcement in re...
...The class that has no righ...
...Philanthrophist—one who endows colleges with your earnings...
...Force tha pilferers to assume the defensive...
...Free Youth is an advance courier of emancipated youth, youth emancipated from the taboos, archaic traditions and class coercion that sustain modern capitalism...
...nymes" explains that "whoever is unable to act according to common sense is an idiot...
...You cannot bring the old day back, Nor stay tht pulte of time...
...GAGS IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS NEWS of the arrest and conviction of Rothschild Francis, editor of the Emancipator, a Labor paper published in the Virgin Islands, for a mild criticism of alleged brutality committed by a policeman, again emphasises the rule of American imperialism in the Caribbean...
...The theme is the glory that climes with imperialist empire...
Vol. 2 • January 1925 • No. 4
