THE CHATTER BOX
THE CHATTER BOX More Sonnets To A Dark Lady At last I learn why all the rest are pale And cold, and sadly undesirable..... Once having loved you, I must ever fail The joy of loving others half...
...But there was no way around old Darter...
...nephew, while your uncle Fuller changes tactics...
...And they are not my facts...
...Let it go at that I believe in the Purity of Preparedness...
...In spite of my profuse apologies to the lady at the other end of the chain, still sends the willies through my sensitive spine...
...Ill say hip, hto hooray I For Despotism to astednshto, ds you hear me...
...Hence IT1 give you an asastratton that wfll cobs bandy later on, and rn ghe % to you now...
...Sweeping statements...
...After seeing them I. believe that I shall be elected...
...But it also makes for some nasty spiritual disturbances...
...As kids we hailed him for play and banter...
...It is tat that we struggle and for that we stand...
...We assert that this myth has never been observed by the upper classes in any stage of our history whether it be the colonial or the modern period...
...Canal and railroad corporations were next in line for legislative favors...
...The same thing is true of the merchant magnates of the same region...
...They want your minds and bodies...
...That party has -for years been divided* over the issue Tinkham stresses, one faction being known as the "lily white...
...BuUall of which is as it should be In this beet of all worlds...
...This myth'has become our popular folklore...
...Who is Nosovitsky...
...allies' in the North and these allies increase at the Republican Party increases in strength in the South...
...The last convention of the A. F. of L. recognized the increasing danger of "'company unionism" but it is certain that members of the unions could not anticipate that this sort of "unionism" would , obtam indirect support in their own ranks...
...Which made tt mights' hard for Willard...
...the democracy that knows no privilege, the democracy that knows no special institution, the democracy of equality, the democracy of common right...
...So the connections were tightened and the switch turned on...
...We do know that within a few months two episodes of this kind have occurred in the United States and it is-possible that' somebody else with more -skill and low cunning man either Hearst or Nosovitsky displayed may light a torch that will set two nations aflame...
...He is broken out all ovah with pubsphretion on account of a sudden dastoh to isk her papah to mairwy his daughtoa...
...It is from the same American military manual...
...the Clergy subscribe to if They ale the modern sorcerers who share in the plunder taken from the skinned They guard the sacred myth from impious criticism...
...Imitation of the rooster crow by one of the audience, Mr...
...I'm an Inventor...
...xsatii Alright, here's the fltastratton: Willard Qutoey Hathaway is a youth...
...If in the face of tmsJhistory the Negro thinks he has any hope in the G. O. P. we marvel at his patience and credulity...
...Of course, I had seen a Utile of the Riverside Drive Pomeranian Pup parades of mornings, when the fine ladies aired their pets with such exclusive posturing...
...Will they get them because of your inactivity ? It is for you to answer...
...And maybe that is why I am writins...
...There...
...You may like Hell...
...Recently, Harvey pergusson pnnuccu a book about her New Mexico which was eminently successful...
...the bird if' freedom, the aid "democratic emblem, For the party of real democracy, the party of Thomas Jefferson, the iparty of the common people...
...Big men of brawn, and broken men stand to tatters, ahiver in bread lines, and sleep on park benchea It to aa old story, this phrasing of dog and man...
...Cries of *we batters yea/) Ska may believe aw and trust to the result So with this policy r ask tor your"^rummge'''(Ories'otf •you win get them.') Good night" Not many hours later, Mr...
...I said it, dldnt X? Yes, and m so farther...
...Woll may cooperate with the reactionary Civic Federation on the issue, but in so doing he is unwittingly helping to undermine the trade unions of this country...
...When I lived on the East Side among the toilers and pushcart merchants, a dog was a pennissable entity in my eyes...
...So now dear friends you know why I become dramatically inspired at times when viewing a dame and her frowsy pup at the other end of the chain, and misquote from "Julius Caesar**, 'Td rather be a dog and bay at the moon, than such a human...
...But again, if I had my way, I'd tax the hound out and induce the homeless Institution-ridden child into the sterile household by some tithe measure or another...
...This faction accepts the policy of disfranchisement and fights- for<it in Republican conventions, it also has its...
...Town proprietors and land speculators of New England acquired their wealth and made it secure by their control of colonial legislatures...
...But when prominent trade union leaders for a year or more give their assent to such a program, con> servatism in the unions has reached a point where' it systematically aids in destroying the Pinions themselves...
...Without these references one is unable to determine which is old Prussian and winch is modern American...
...Each vote cast for their program will be worth a million or more dollars and fabulous fortunes will be awarded to capitalist investors...
...Willard squirmed again but cams out with it...
...If it were to my power to decide, I would gather up the «^_Uibe_«t tljese neta together wttbJbete Joptoa...
...On boys sod ghosts...
...My rebel senses would sputter a bit, and I would content myself with the ancient question, flung half-aloud at them...
...They warn rural and urban workers never to look to government and legislation for help...
...These are printed in rotation as paragraphs, one front a Prussian and one from an American, and alternating from one paragraph to another to show that the two farm a harmonicas whole...
...you how old...
...One day, while "hurrying to the station, I stepped upon the cute little footle of one of these running-nosed tootsies...
...it snickers and snivels and laps the hand of -the lounging mistress...
...They belong to the world...
...I cant right now," soacakod tltirwosa, squirming...
...There are two other facts that refute Tmkham's conclusion...
...There was no revolt In the northern Republican press because of this speech...
...And whatever opposes Despotism to not sttalnsMs, dp yea sjp hear me...
...It understands...
...Children of the poor have little of food, wear rags, live in filthy hovels, and Just don't get a chance to live...
...The way their human keepers trot them about the lawns and walks of the Parkway, you would suppose that a dog's Ufa has it all over the one of Reilly...
...Now he turns up in this second episode of forged documents...
...These myths are systematically cultivated to keep the "lower orders" working for the ease of the groups enjoying leisure...
...that O'Neill wfll be sleeted and that the next duty which devolves upon us will be the duty of carrying out your will...
...Oast into all manner of predicaments, these two servants of the Lord respond like well trained catechisms...
...One has to gb^a^^o>?Bh«'Geiirany of Mrtyjvemriigoio/ find^a-Jparairef^wr&t »^nnp^knlt^hcre...
...The myth will not stand investigation and workers who permit it to irn^ence their poh'tical beliefs and action simply subscribe to a superstition that helps to perpetuate, tjheur os/a aeryijjKk, The Last Speech of Henry George (Delivered at the Central Open House to New York on October 28th, 1897...
...Obi Oh...
...You are wrong...
...So let It be...
...It is true of the owners of slave property and large plantations in the South...
...r» net Here te the word: Despotism...
...Our Military Caste rA...
...He''was'the first Republican president to openly approve the attitude of the "lily whites...
...It is the imperialist era which gives them their opportunity and so long as an aggressive capitalism survives we will face the peril of rats at large...
...What is to be said of these rats who plot and forge in a dirty game which, if successful, tends to muddle relations between two countries and invites the disaster of war...
...In 1926 he induced a woman to bring a suit for breach of promise against Albert Weisbord, one of the leaders of the Passaic textile strike.- Nothing came of the suit and Nosovitsky disappeared...
...In this era of4.imperialist adventures and loading up of arms by .the.leading powers there are more than enough explosives stored...
...And which of these you are, I may not tell, Unless I yield to anguish and disclaim The sanctity in which I keep your name...
...Can you support inert The question was thunder itself...
...rve called attention to the fast that we can't run and hide from a thtog that everybody knows And nobody can help but realise that Justice for all and special privileges for none never hsppsnsil tnd never will happen oa this i end ring footstool...
...Propagandists are instructed to fight all opposition by questioning the character and damning the motives of every man and woman who do not submit...
...The Gpcky impudence, insufferable arrogance, and gloriat itL the Pnsiwsrt aristflsrste arc offered here hi , potnpus ernpty-ncaas m tnc nanus ot sxiikxnry...
...As young men, he somehow blended into our own days of Job-hunting and poverty...
...On to his tomb...
...Woll on this issue and accept the view that the aged veterans of industry are a social charge on society, that they sohuld be assured a comfortable existence in old age, not as a matter of charity, but as a compensation which they have earned by their services to society...
...It to proud and saaaetons of its class...
...It is from die same American military manual...
...Is none othah than Wade Cahtah, who to a brain to ha factory by day and a heart to any social fathering which be chooses to step on it ntoht Excuse me...
...However, be gulped first...
...We must accept them, in the same spirit aa we approach the prevalent stupidities, vices, and tmp'saeanfaneases of our living in this wholly unholy age...
...Now, I come in contact with this peculiar annoyance every morning as I go downtown to work...
...Let me ten you something: X hear myself...
...We do not know...
...Mr...
...But with these rats slinking in underground channels and messing around these explosives the lives of millions of'human beings in...
...What then...
...First it is Hearst and how it is Nosovitsky...
...So that tots as out —and you in...
...Bert MacDonald Within less than twenty years even the air 'has become almost completely monopolised by big radio corporations What would they do to us, tt they.could bottle the air and sell It to us at so much per quart...
...The present super-power propaganda is an example...
...I take it that most of those who go in for dog-loving cannot or win not' have children of their own...
...Now I offer this as a rsasnwsble assumption: Wluardy Boy might net have ost the blond which he praferred If previously he hadn't misplaced his mind...
...two' nations are the possible price of their work...
...man is too big in the labor movement to avoid criticism...
...George then spoke, as follows: "Fellow democrats: I hear above your shouts, occasionally the rooster crow...
...Our National Myth JN primitive societies the medicine man and sorcer obtain dominion over the minds of the herd through myths...
...We live in a-workf governed by Divine Jaws which we can neither alter, nor evade...
...A hundred and fifty...
...There are human perverts who have gone to the chair for crimes of less danger to human society than the offenses attempted by rats of the type oi Nosovitsky...
...So you see, anger does not always lead us aright when we are trying to settle a question under its hitter influence...
...And as yen leak straight Into them they seem to draw the pupils of his eyes so near the surface that they almost poke through...
...1MTR- GEORGE appeared obviously tired and ul as he entered the hall at 10:30 P. M. He was accompanied by Mrs...
...And that answer dldnt do a thtog but rapture a blood vassal to the babbls, Phut...
...But then, upon second thought, this legislative idea of mine would hardly be fair to the innocent boy or girl child that it would force upon these houndhugging families...
...We feel helpless in facing this ever-'present danger...
...Wett cease to a kedy and wef Wetl east fear to the shite, knowing (hat to a anion of cowards there to sawgsge ef ike wildest kind...
...We believe that a general discussion in the unions followed by a referendum vote would show that the members are opposed to the Civic Federation and Mr...
...It is for that I stand before you as the nominee of my fellow citterns for this high office...
...Which may be either sad or sensible as the case may be, and none of .my profane business at that...
...My duty to done whether yours is or not...
...The reader is referred to another page for references identifying each paragraph...
...I'm win slug on aa invention...
...I've tried so hard to meet you half way...
...And I feel to happy over this whole Despotism business that X can scarcely keep from being frisky...
...He was the first foremost American openly to declare that all of the people should at all times, not have the power to govern all of the people...
...I have been travelling far, wishing in the democratic manner to show myself to the citizens whose suffrages I ask...
...George was dead...
...ParopMet of the Committee on Militarism in Education, "Militarizing Our Youth," is the most important survey we have seen of the extent to which the military caste has penetrated the educational institutions of the United-States...
...There is something altogether too holy about her Archbishop and his faithful Vicar...
...Financial legislation of the First Congress created fortunes for eminent "fathers" who held Continental securities...
...Then- unresponsiveness to humiliating to me...
...On to mob formation...
...Rats at Large . ^HE Senate committee investigating the faked ¦Mexican documents hawked by the Hearst papers had not piade its report when another revelation of an attempt to traffic in similar documents was made by the New York World on Monday...
...Neary all such substitutes for the genuine union of workers is accompanied by a bogus pension system for the aged...
...Their only major...
...What to it they oafl a man past eighty...
...P/esidents, governors, congressmen, politicians, editors' and...
...Surely, from a Prussian military fop...
...We have in mind the attitude of Matthew Woll orf this matter...
...slaves...
...The Old Southwest to»7XIJLA CATHER, who heretofore has w devoted her defecate pen to subjects fines for tt, stlsmpU to her latest novel, "Death Comes to the Archbishop" (Alfred A. Knopf), to achieve a tale of a lusty land—New Mexico to 1850...
...What invention...
...Jane Addams is "the most dangerous woman in America...
...I will not seep yea longer.rhe hour is getting late...
...But, I did not live-on the Drive, and the matter would be crowded out of my mind by the press of more familiar .experience...
...Here are two examples...
...Printed instructions are provided and even the names of men and women are listed for blasting...
...I have become a bit statistically curious about the cost of care and upkeep of these pampered four-legged household monstrosities, and also somewhat busybodisb about the private lives of their owners, and I come to the following dull conclusion that it would be hardly more expensive to feed, and clothe and bring up a foundling or orphan child Into useful life...
...The later period beginning with the establishment of the Constitution is no exception to this general truth...
...The medicine man and sorcerer share in the plunder taken from the lower orders and the myths become sacred...
...everything that opposes religious and political double dsslhtg to not...
...expands in ' the South...
...If they have their way the "despotism" which they openly favor will be permanent...
...So that even when I left the old life behind, and commercialized enough of my ability and time to move into a "sweller" part of the city, I managed to retain my sentimental affection-for the canine species...
...Wen lot the hammers pound bat bones until the skeleton to shapeless and the broken pieces cry out: "Give me Slavery or give me Death...
...But later on—" "What has later on got to do wtth tt...
...And as a further offering, before X close, i am constrained to make reference to hat great law of Nature discovered by he elder Kuppenheimer to the frontal obe of the sixth century, namely: No -rood can ever come 'from greasing the seat of ones breeches, and trying to sflds lown the rainbow...
...f The second fact is the late President Harding's significant Birmingham speech...
...Are you afraid to say tt...
...In 1920 he was one of two representatives sent by American Communists to a secret meeting of the Third International in Amsterdam although he was a spy...
...He declares that the amendment which is supposed to protect Negro' suffrage is "mandatory," that is, Congress is required under the Constitution to enforce it...
...What I am you probw/ *^^o^^yw^^o^*^e* ^awaws»_ t*sw^*p^^iwy c? Mpswsrsm"n>t do^ltenevo^talrhai has bean the jtaaitos of Mr, CWy —the saytac nnthtog and I use tog to the power or msiilsalhi Z behave tt tt banker and bettor to mset^ones feflow to^^rtosxtf^awtfato ^fcsTattte** whet X can, honestly, faithfully, conedsnttousty and ftoilsssli, to carry out the priiwstJss tor whtoh I stand...
...there be seme for whom emotions yield An interchanging crop thru interval Of fruitage now, and then a fallow field...
...In fact all her silken accoutrements simply were burned to a crisp by its heat and passion and as a monument to her defeat, she leaves a cairn of gray words...
...Individuals who do not voluntarily have or adopt one of their own kind for love and care are hardly fit for the responsibility even though the law make it imperative that they assume the rearing of children...
...Slave owners profited by' their share in control of" the Federal Government and complete mastery of their respective state governments...
...a same Of pagan tribute in a ritual Where youth la flung and shrivelled in the flame...
...I have met everywhere with crowds like this...
...In this case spurious papers were offered to the Mexican Consul in New York, papers purporting to reveal plots against Mexico and hatched in this country...
...Hers fc ** stoksaslsa teas, .'But deal feel bast Mr yon shan't be hurt : Trembling reader, X have about ssaar up my mind that yen saw the angel who tears to tread and X am one of several who rushes to...
...And in this world of oars, force...
...T IVING in a well-to-do neighborhood has its comforts for the flesh...
...written for the New Leader by one Who Heard the Address...
...The legislation of this character since the Civil War is so vast thaf it is impossible to enumerate its items...
...The priests of our history and acquaintance are much different fellows...
...i Moreover, discussion would bring out the, fact that the Civic Federation attitude is distinct support of "company unionism...
...I have act sought this office, bat if the majority >f the people, as I nodi tbtok$will be he case, do believe Jtbafc their interests ire best subserved by our election, elected se win be...
...Then he said: *Tm about to discover Perpetual Motion...
...Failure would attend the enterprise, an't you see...
...Deriving its sustaining funds largely from industrial magnates and bankers, we expect a report from this organization on this question that gives comfort to the big insurance companies and supports the hypocritical "welfare plans" of big industries which are sapping the foundations of trade unions...
...Are there any others working a private game of their own...
...To question them is a sin, for the moment the ."lower orders" cease to believe in them the main props of exploitation are removed...
...Don't believe, that Just because I. write for a Socialist weekly,- it is imperative that I give the economic interpretation of everything from Ampico pianos down to ham bologna, if I happen to be discussing either of these delectable commodities...
...There were cries of "What's the matter wtth Henry George" and Three Cheers for Henry George...
...This to what then: WsTl dig up hto bones...
...The few periods she Intends as drama are misled completely...
...That was a brflhant and burning scene she invaded wtth her fragile armor and there were many who hoped she would emerge from it afl the stronger for the trip- But she dldnt...
...sin seemed to be an inordinate yearning for the lettuces and leeks of their beloved France, and this the Church lasses neither as a mortal nor a venal transgression...
...George acknowledged same by a bow and smiled, as did bis wife) I believe, over these old Borjughs to this new Greater Municipality rou will hear the rooster crow...
...The apartment houses adjacent to and surrounding MoahOlu Parkway seem to be honeycombed kennels for triasled wet-nosed poodles, sniffy dachshunds, and stuck-up Chows...
...with crowds not merely in number, but great to purpose and intense in spirit...
...Abba Hind Stiver is denounced because He is pro-labor:" ' This is the brood and these are their ideas.' They are seeking complete mastery-of all education in the United States...
...Having children to bring up is one of the few Joys of living, provided of course you can afford to support their upbringing with some substance and decency...
...Either the trade unions are in favor of insurance companies and big industrial corporations exploiting human welfare or they are not...
...George and by his brother, John V. George...
...It certainly would be a whole lot more human and humane...
...Early industries received special subsidies and exemptions from legislative bodies...
...They are known to the world...
...Each war we have had spawned new fortunes for individual grafters and profiteers...
...But so is this moneymad, business-drugged world, an old, old and thoroughly disgusting story* I sometimes feel ashamed to repeat this propaganda chestnut to the workers...
...The dear little thing squealed its pain and outrage at my impoliteness right up to our own God's heaven...
...Yon are wrong...
...111 say hooray...
...Say lady, at which end of the string Is the dog...
...My goodness alive...
...Why his assertion was not challenged we do not know: Congress has often been controlled by his party since reconstruction days and that hope has never been realized because -of this''control...
...this little note of protest...
...Throughout the colonial period legislation was a matter of stacked cards against farmers, mechanics, white bondmen and...
...Wolf Song...
...it was appropriately called and Knopf also published it Forgusson dredged deeply Into that country and brought up wholly credible people who, tt Is true, performed rather Incredible deeds'viewed to the Hght of the more quiet...
...He belonged...
...Do we understand each other...
...What I want to become cantankerous about Into week is the subject "Man's Best Friend and Companion, The Dog...
...Again federal and state legislation favored land speculators...
...I certainly would not entrust the tender years and spirit of a child to the mind and heart and hand of a being that quite willingly centers all care and love and worship on a messy lap-dog...
...roared the man of wealth and the Hon of clubs...
...Democracy to not Hypocrisy is...
...I wish merely » show myself...
...I hope so...
...He claims to have been employed by Scotland Yard and the American Department of Justice some years ago...
...A "mutt", our pet name then for the mongrel hound of the gutter-refuse, sort of fitted in with our squalid scheme of things...
...They are within all logic and probability suited to and on, an intellectual level with the objects of their specious love...
...The statements are not more sweeping than the facta...
...In the fstmptilet mentioned, the author, RosweH P. Barnes, offers a selection from the writings and addresses of the former Prussian and'the present American aristocrats...
...The audience cheered for four minutes...
...The point to it's wrong to itrtve for the unattainable...
...And the strange part of the whole miserable dog business is, that most of the families consisting of mam wife and dog are economically better off than those that are made up of a slaving husband, a drudging wife and five underfed and undernourished children...
...And see bow things are added to them that believe in what, now...
...Tinkham is a Republican member of Congress and informed his audience that in the Republican Party lies the only hope of those who are disfranchised...
...sections of the community...
...See how he prospered...
...I've put to ten years working on it...
...Then try this on your piano.' "During the course of -a great war every government, whatever its previous form, should become a; despotism...
...The bawling-out I received...
...It is recorded that even the Pope has been known.to confess to.sin...
...If that's as too, we better find out what's sttamaras and what is not...
...owners, sand them, off to the Fiji Islands, or some such other region where men are still animals, and animals have a deuce of a Job living down the nasty habits of their human neighbors, and so remove at once a cruel looking sore spot from the body communal...
...Well, war to attainable...
...Woll has exercised this privilege freely and the members of the unions should avail themselves of it to check any jwlicy that leads to sterility and disaster...
...Therefore, behold me cut the ptoscawtog sad hear me shout: ~ Come aQ ye spoils and asasektss sal your stinsshnrluteal wtegs tesdgat as ss to light as to the toss* of a farmer father ef this nation, Patrick Henry tenants...
...is the ultimate power.'' That reads like General Fried rich Bernhardt but it is a question from an American...
...A, de Witt...
...Excuse me, folks, I don't Intend to start out here with a tirade against middleclass habits and bourgeois vices...
...I suppose, when we consider the whole matter coolly, these people and their dog-passion are Just a part of our Civilization...
...i Of course, aowlihat I think the matter over...
...But Wills Gather's people are simply Incredible, and while credence may be placed in then- actions, this is true only because they freed to sheer mediocrity...
...However I know this: bath lenses ef his shell-rim gtossss are thicker than any I ever heard of...
...Applause* < After rears of waiting, after years of longing, kfter having been pushed 'State, ¦ after tamocraey of this kind and democracy of hat kind, after the aeutoeraey ef Grow Cleveland (hisses) and the democracy oi Richard Croker, (hisses) there will come again the democracy of common men...
...that Dayton will be elected...
...Peace to not Despotism Is...
...Old...
...They are to fact two little Roues with turned collars loosed upon a peculiarly sweet population...
...rve come clean...
...In Reverse (?) The Late* From Patrick Henry y '¦Br Sana Rial ' nan Is I—thing asw...
...Watt, Wads Carter to a genarian of some kind, X feet —toto But X don't know Jest how many octaves...
...If this crowd gets, what it wants from Congress immense fortunes will be reaped by it...
...And even as I repeat It now, the only one who listens perhaps is Milday's Pomeranian pop...
...The notorious Jacob Nosovitsky turns up as the chief agent in this dirty mess...
...When this sort of thing is coolly written for use in propaganda to make American education a conscript for our militarists we have some comprehension of the ideas that inspire these gentlemenNor are they scrupulous in their methods...
...Nobody knows...
...Walt, m seratoh my head and to...
...Her papah, be it known...
...X mean, X want to cut out the hth-de-dah stuff...
...Nothing more criminal can be imagined than work of this sort...
...George 'Foster Peabody gets a black mark because .of his interest in the Negro...
...Once having loved you, I must ever fail The joy of loving others half as well...
...Dogs feed on dainty viands, wear woolly blankets, steep on soft cushions in steam heated elevator apartment houses...
...A National Scandal 'J'HE attack of the National Civic Federation on old age pensions has become a national scandal...
...The Republican/ Party is increasing in i votes as capitalist enterprise...
...Harding's address was perfectly consistent with the policy of disfranchisement...
...Our chief national myth is the fiction that wealth and ease have been acquired bv individual genius without aid of government...
...So rn call him Carter.- Plato Carter...
...Tinkham's Tactics REPRESENTATIVE George H. Tinkham of Massachusetts advised a New York audience of, Negroes to insist on the enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment "which requires reduction of representation in proportion to disfranchisement...
...May I base Madge...
...And there be those for whom our passions spell A rakish braggadocio...
...And rn inform you right off of the real that be is old...
...X admit it Bat who's to blame...
...Taf t told us about tt when he was vice...
...Wen smash hto bones...
Vol. 7 • January 1928 • No. 4
