MR. COOLIDGE EXALTS PLUNDER
MR. COOLIDGE EXALTS PLUNDER Millions For Slaughter— Mere Dollars For Schools fTHE following comparison of the funds appropriated by 23 governments for war and education fes been issued by...
...All I have to do is to choose some well-known stock broker and put myself into his hands...
...The tax burden of the farms has increased to 158 per cent above the pre-war level and the percentage of farm titles lost in the year ending March 1, 1928, was 22.8 per 1000 compared with 23.3 per cent the pervious year...
...18,485,000 1.815,000 85.00 31.00 Denmark, -26-27 15,955,000 9,550,000 96.00 120.00 Roland, '26...
...In one only of these years, the governments of 23 countries spent on "national defense" (the poetical way of describing preparations for war) over £505,000,000...
...SnWa u4 National - Edacitira National Edur»Tear D-fesee Talml Utlenee Man per Total Per Head Heaq AaSbaUa, -26-27 $23,465,000 $ S5.00 Aflntrta, -26...
...It compels the "barbarians'* to introduce its "civilisation" and its agents rejoice in terms of piety when this is accomplished...
...The two men whose work eighty years ago has inspired millions of world ngmen and women all over the world declared that the modern order had "resolved personal worth into exchange value...
...Undoubtedly the football team of Stanford University at Palo Alto, California, will soon Be celebrating its own successful season and we humbly suggest that the affair would be incomplete without the presence of our genial Mayor...
...THE SANCTIMONIOUS COOLIDGE And all' for what...
...Rothstein made money acting as wholesaler in the distribution of dope...
...They so present the data regarding the distribution of wealth that statisticians are perplexed...
...Perhaps we are unreasonably stubborn in wanting to see something in return for the money we pay in keeping up a large and elaborate police force...
...42,855,000 58,050,000 i 125.00 167.00 Norway, '26-27...
...It is an odd performance yet it has a logic of its own...
...Here is a case of "iroremitting toil," Mr...
...And in the meantime friends and relatives of the murdered man were permitted to do aa they would with these eaHghtenlng documents...
...Yet with nearly four million less workers on the farms they supplied twelve million more people with food...
...Nor ait those who frequent it noted for their hermit-like habits...
...And we are curious to know what your police department has done about this matter...
...The only thing you say about it is to express your satisfaction over "increasing profits...
...Coolidge and the rest of us with these pietistic words: "The country is in the midst of an era hi prosperity more extensive and of peace more permanent than it has ever before experienced...
...100.00 30.00 *»pan, 128-27...
...Roosevelt made •* liberal suggestion that persons guilty of prejudice JWMt Al Smith ought to be shipped out of the counMr- Roosevelt used a public service commissioner * collect his campaign fund in New York...
...If it was known, why was Mr...
...Yet despite this increased production the survey shows that wages as a whole have increased little since the business depression of 1921-1922...
...Rothstein...
...What did tbe Industrial Squad know about the actrvttles of Mr...
...Then there are the wage workers of the cities who figure in this same survey...
...26,850.000 i 5,380,000 96.00 17.00 India, 16-27...
...Eighty years ago two men, Marx and Engels, wrote a Manifesto that became the platform of millions of workers all over the ,world...
...Won't you give us evidence a bit more tangible than any hitherto produced, that you are doing all in your power to bring to justice the real murderer of Rothstein and that you are resolved that from now on there will be no more Rothstein*, "Frankie" Yales (by the way, what became of that case...
...It was also a critical ex- -', position of the philosophy of this class . With logic, wit and biting sarcasm these two men satirized the politicians and statesmen who served this class and bared the vulgarity concealed by the professed "idealism" of these politicians and statesmen...
...Japanese capitalism looks upon Asia as its special field of plunder and is ever suspicious of Great Britain and the United States...
...Word has come to us from these quarters of the killing of one-of the lords of this fascinating realm in which Your Honor is so familiar a figure...
...Had Mr...
...COOLIDGE EXALTS PLUNDER Millions For Slaughter— Mere Dollars For Schools fTHE following comparison of the funds appropriated by 23 governments for war and education fes been issued by th% International "Federation of Tode Unions with ^headquarters at Amsterdam...
...Aeronautics is of interest to him only because of its aid to commerce and although "the cost of national defense is stupendous" and has increased $118,000,000 in four years, the "estimated expenditure for 1930 is $668,000,000...
...For instance, in Germany the Reich pays very little towards education, because the great bulk of the expenditure is borne by provincial and municipal authorities...
...Certainly in view of the bonds of friendship and regard which bind New York to South Bend there could be nothing more fitting than that our Mayor should journey to the Mid-West to assist in the celebration of a football victory...
...Do the gamblers on the stock exchange obtain their gains by "unremitting toil" ? What of the land hogs in the great cities whose land values are increasing from year to year because of increasing population...
...Also they have been most vigilant In herding up pickets fat garment strikes...
...Cox, Democratic candidate for pres*** In that year...
...May we inquire through Tour Honor whyIt has taken your police department so long to bring to JaU one George McManus, who Is now under indictment for murder...
...With a few thousand dollars I can be an owner in Massachusetts textile mills on Monday, in Union Pacific on Tuesday," he wrote...
...that on armaments exceeded that on education by 270...
...Was it unknown to the Narcotic Squad of your Police Department that the late Mr...
...Coolidge Speaks of Peace the Amsterdammer (Honaad) THE CHARMED CIRCLE...
...Is It the custom of your police department and the District Attorney's office to conduct parleys with suspected murderers before arresting them...
...A Messiah In The Making T9J0SE naive liberals whose sum and substance of political Interests must always be wrapped around ***** Messiah are having...
...McManus, the police and the District Attorney's office before Mr...
...A* we suggested above, we represent the working class of people of New York City who do npt have the opportunity to get about to such places as are described in the columns of "Variety," "The New Yorker" and "The Morning Telegraph...
...18,580,000 12,050,000 50.00 31.00 Broil, -26...
...to fear from a thorough "de-bunking" of the Rothstein case...
...The data we mention above show that it is not the real "unremitting toilers" who get the major portion of this income but the unremitting spoilers who get it...
...Coolidge concludes by congratulating Mr...
...And the politicians become almost poetical in their praises of this order...
...and their like running this city for the benefit of pimps, burglars, gun-fighters and dope-vendors...
...prepared for them a new J!*der in the person of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...Nev*™cless, signs are not lacking that there are many TV* young (and old) liberals ready to take a buggy7*jrlth Mrs...
...37,550,000 35,790,000 80.00 21.00 Germany, "26-27 165,315,000 3,830,000...
...Perhaps they will believe you...
...The reader will note that the two leading rivals in appropriations for destruction are Great Britain and the United States, the latter leading the "Mistress of the Seas...
...110.00 22.00 Sweden, "26-27 . 38,725,000 34,705,000...
...McManus telephoned Pottos Headquarters aad said that he was ready to eomo In...
...JAMES J. WALKER, New York Gty Hall, (Please hold until Mayor's return from South Bend, Ind...
...Cuba stands as a witness" against this view...
...There are so many things that can be given to capitalists and these recommendations enable the reader to understand what Coolidge means by "national income*" Mr...
...Did you not know that Mr...
...But 'that's the way it is...
...In 1926-27, these states Upended 12/5 per head of their populations on >nrtaments and 3/5 on education...
...They, too, will surely be putting on a celebration which will necessitate still another trip to the coast and the possibilities of celebrations on the part of Southern football teams are tempting now that cold weather is coming on...
...Nevertheless, it is shown that our funds for "defense" exceed that of any other nation...
...I don't even have to use my judgment as to where I shall alight...
...The "timid and the suspicious" may think that this country is militaristic and imperialistic, he declares, but they are wrong...
...I can flit like a butterfly from industry to industry...
...Tbe detectives who discovered it, raited up Police Headquarters and the man down thaw who can read, came up and spelled out the name...
...Bothstetn...
...Questions For Our Mayor About Mr...
...Dear Mr...
...Many years before Mr...
...The competition between these two powers shows that the struggle for the mastery of the world is between the two leading brothers in the holy crusade to "make the world afe for democracy...
...It would, of course, be much more interesting if we were able to compare the respective expenditures from all sources in a country for these two purposes, but at present this is impossible...
...If our memory does noft fail us, It was this squad that was so active in beating up subway workers when they went on strike for better wages aad hours...
...Mayor, if you can spare a minute or so from football celebrations, won't you assure us that you and your administration have nothing...
...as candidate for governor of New **** in the election Just ended, Mr...
...9.800,000 $ 5,845,000 27.00 $ 16.00 BHatum...
...To enhance our blessings private shippers must be encouraged and it "should be our policy to maintain necessary strategic lines under government operation until they can be transferred to private capital...
...Belle Moskowltx and her Messiah-to-be...
...However, as simple and unsophisticated citizens of your great city, may we humbly beg leave to ask your Honor a few questions, urging you to- answer them between trips, if necessary...
...The development of intellect and character is the basis of all human prog"ss...
...The fact is that the United State* is a paradise for those who HOW THE WORKERS FARE If Mr...
...i V-27...
...Not many have believed us...
...in the hope that they will also understand how to break through this circle' and end it for all time...
...Why then tbe delay In sawwehendhmg the said Mr...
...26,375,000 13,905,000 30.00 15.00 Spate, -25-26...
...We are not, like Your Honor, acquainted with night-clubs, speakeasies and racket-covers...
...r m And what about smuggling and bafFnxing andfl some other pastimes of this all-around man ? * There are a number of other questions we would Uke to ask about this interesting case but space confines us to this one: WHAT HAS BECOME Of THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF ROTHSTEIN AND WHO HAD ACCESS TO THEM AFTER THE SHOOTINGT Curious stories reach us to the effect that those papers would throw light on a number of political and gang murders that have been committed in this town under Tammany administrations...
...The following table shows these respective amounts both absolutely, and per head of the population...
...The Park Central Hotel fat not exactly an isolated spot...
...He may be ignorant or wise, he may be a child in arms or a greybeard in his dotage, he may live in Iceland or Patagonia: lie has no genuine role in the conduct of industry...
...Roosevelt*s campaign for the governorship was dejWof constructive statesman-like utterances...
...THE PROSPERITY OF SPECULATORS What a mockery of the millions still living in insecurity...
...And Haiti, Nicaragua, San Domingo...
...517.750.000 11.180.000: 111.00 100 The total population of these 23 countries comes to over 800 million souls...
...Do these gentlemen at the top of the heap indulge in "unremitting toil...
...from Nevada in the West to Indiana and Michigan in the East, and there is no indication that the bottom has been reached...
...In this year 1928 Calvin Coolidge, small town worshipper at the shrine of great wealth...
...We know it is, Mr...
...Federal census officials have never attempted to give a clear answer to this question...
...If so, what were the terms under which McManus, who was in town all the while the police were said to be ¦lanhssg for him, was wining to give up...
...130,00 166.00 Bwitawland, "26...
...IDs name was la the lining of the overcoat...
...These figures (even with our mental adjustments) 1*ak for themselves...
...Coolidge' turned to the American Journal of Sociology for July, which presents a survey of the "prosperity more extensive than ever before experienced," he would find that farmers are still deserting the farms for the cities...
...Of course, the funds for education in the United States are chiefly drawn from local sources and the jtco credited to the United States under this head refers only to Federal appropriations...
...But the "national income" is over 90 billion dollars...
...May we ask what negotiations went on between representatives of Mr...
...Japan, another partner in this crusade, is third in the race and this was to be expected...
...522,1,00,000 266,690,000 221.00 112.00 Greece, "25-26...
...We understand that you have undergone the rigors 6f the trip to that far-distant city in order to help celebrate the victories of the Notre Dame football team during the season just closed...
...Daring some of your recent stop-overs hi town you may have heard of saw Arnold Korhsteia aad how he was shot in the stomach at the Park Central Hotel on November 4th last...
...If it was Unknown why the Narcotic Squad ? Ton have had hi your Police Department a f roup of men known as the Industrial Squad...
...Thus the "national income has increased nearly 50 per cent, until it is estimated to stand well over $90,000,000,000...
...A alee delicacy which has not always to the past been la evidence in other eases, restrained officials from looking into this matter...
...In industry the volume of production continues to increase with the total number of workers unemployed estimated at four million...
...Bothsteta in fixing strikes...
...Rothstein allowed to go at large...
...The original figures in the table below were compiled in terms of British pounds and we have roughly translated them into American dollars...
...whose incomes are purely, workless...
...but it must be carefully borne in mind that the incidence of educational expenditure falls on different authorities in different countries...
...The present era of Coolidge is declared to be "the charmed circle of diminishing expenditures, diminishing tax rates and increasing profits...
...Roose*~*wrote a letter denying this, despite documentary to the contrary: thereby showing he is too •••cent or excellently fitted for Tammany politics...
...193,670,000 69,015,000...
...Elsewhere in the message he particularizes...
...President, is the aim of industrial democracy and the hope of ' the "unremitting toilers" of the world...
...As we understand it, you were acquainted for several years with the late Mr...
...By July of last year it had declined to 27,795,000, or 23.4 per cent of the population...
...40,690,000 1,660,000 26.00 .50 BaJgaria, -26-27 9,175,000 5,020,000 36.00 20.00 Cwchoelavaria, 18...
...Anxiously awaiting your reply, W © 1'CHI«slills very respectfully yotrra, THE EDITORS OF THE NEW IF.ADFJL...
...That document was an analysis of the modern order dominated by investing capitalists and bankers...
...It subjects "the country to the rule of the towns...
...The figures as a whole, as well as the comparisons, are approximate but they are sufficiently reliable to wariant certain conclusions which are drawn by the International...
...We shall quote you often in the hope that They will learn the full significance of what this "charmed circle" means for them...
...McManus has a brother on the cops and is not exactly unknown to the police of the city...
...In short, Mr...
...McManus, who has Just now, a month after the shooting, been indicted...
...Here also is "unremitting toil" and nearly four million for whom there is no work at all...
...17,145,000 1.510.000 ] 86.00 6.00 P. 8. A- "26-27...
...He rejoices over the government's helpful attitude toward "American business" and declares that there "should be no slackening of effort in that direction...
...You have stated the whole program of your class as we Socialists.have stated.it for many years...
...aosevelt made a colorless running-mate hi 1920 to colorless Mr...
...McManus left his overcoat hi the closet of the room in the Park Central Hotel which wan occupied shortly before tbe shooting by the defunct Mr...
...while, also during one year only, these tune governments spent on education (not glorified *T?fly specifically poetic title) only £138,000,000...
...What v of the absentee owners of great industries, who never see the plants in which their capital is invested...
...And that consurrrrnation, Mir...
...Imagine the strained sinews, the exhausted tissues, and the perspiring faces of these "unremitting toilers" as they turned to the financial pages of the morning paper at their sumer cottages to ascertain the increased value of their holdings...
...He and his fellows "are placed under the command of a perfect hierarchy of officers and sergeants...
...RothsteUCs Rackets JJON...
...Before •* myth-ma kin jf goes any further, may we be permitted a few reminders of Mr...
...After all, we do pay taxes either directly or indirectly, all of us...
...Mayor: It is not our desire to add to the great burdens which you shoulder so manfully as Chief Magistrate of the largest and richest city in the world...
...The state expenditure on education formed 27% of that on natonal defense...
...221,840,000 67,760,000 : 76.00 22.00 Ketherland...
...Coolidge had turned to his own Department of Agriculture he would find a continuance of the decline of farm values in twenty states extending roughly from Arkansas and Texas in the South to Minnesota in the North...
...There is the aggregation known as the Oregon Aggies which gave our N. Y. U. boys-a pretty thorough trimming not so long ago...
...Roosevelt's record: *r- Roosevelt, as assistant secretary of tbe Navy, •*»*» a constitution for Haiti which was later forced f *hat country by the bayonets of the Marines...
...174,760,000 1,380,000 10.00 0y, Italy, 18-27...
...Coolidge, but who gets it...
...Ten years after the conclusion of the war which wis begun to save civilization, we have a chance of seeing how far our rescued civilization deserves its The League of Nations has issued a memorandum on public finance during the years 1922-1926...
...J-Jmcal realists will refuse buggy-rides and get to •2r *° acmura * high-powered automobile of their (The Nation tleast cot>v.} President Sanctifies Exploitation and Speculation, And Mocks The Farmers And Workers In Message To Congress XHE message of President Coolidge is characterized by his usual dullness and expressions of piety but it is remarkable in one re- • spect...
...Do the grafters and others who fill soft and useless berths in public offices recoil at the prospect of "unremitting toil...
...five on workless incomes...
...55.00 -50 Great Britain...
...18,500,000 14,815,000 86.00 111.00 Portugal, "24-25 16.740,000 4,730,0001 55.00 15.00 Romania, "26...
...In the cities the %/orker "becomes an appendage to the machine...
...Imagine the "unremitting toil" of these upper class bummers...
...Walter Lippmann found an easy birth, as Mr...
...15,380,000 8,950,000 90.00 51.00 Prince, -26...
...armaments lead only to death and destruction...
...And when I read in books on political economy that any profit I make is a reward for my foresight, my courage in the face of risk, I laugh...
...It is one thing to know what the "national income" is and quite another thing to know how it is distributed...
...exponent of the politics of invested capital and President of the United States, writes a message which confirms the wit, logic, and satire of the founders of the Socialist movement...
...It makes no difference who the gambler is...
...The cheap prices of its commodities "are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls...
...These three items constitute the holy trinity of power as administered in the interest of the owners of the United States...
...Last week we showed on this page from the preliminary report of the U. S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue that 66 per cent of the incomes of 35,527 millionaires were derived from such speculative sources as stocks, bonds, and real estate...
...Rothstein was engaged in a number of so-called rackets, a bit outside the law to say the least...
...To perpetuate "the charmed circle of diminish' ing expenditures, diminishing tax rates and increasing profits...
...whose dividends would flow to them if they were deaf, dumb and paralyzed...
...The power projects along the Colorado River may be trusted to "private enterprise" and of Muscle Shoals Coolidge would be glad to "approve a bill granting authority to lease the entire property for the production of nitrates...
...Far be it from us to mar with any crude intrusions of our own the dignity of the occasion which now calls you from our populous midst to South Bend, Ind...
...118,875,000 25,995,000...
...JVe shall not be permitted to take our ease, but shall continue to b& required to spend our days in unremitting toil...
...What of Doheny, and Fall, and Sinclair and their land...
...The Coolidge message is an essay which begins' by- paying homage * to our "unexampled blessings" and ends by saying, that while we deal "justly, we can well afford to walk humbly" lest we "become selfish and degenerate...
...Furthermore, Mr...
...The need of a constantly expanding market chases its capitalists "over the whole face of the globe...
...These are the "unremitting tori' ers" who reap the vast fruits of industry while the millions are considered happy mortals if they own a radio or a second-hand flivver...
...But, having reached this position, we should not fail to comprehend that it can easily be lost...
...Coolidge, toil that heaps up more products with less toilers while farm lands still decline in value...
...In short, this world of "national income," this income going to wasters, speculators and absentee owners...
...It needs more effort for its support than the less exalted places of the world...
...The greatest social revolutionaries that ever lived could never have indulged in a more profound and more cynical witticism than you have in this statement of the "charmed circle...
...For at least Ave days after the shooting no attempt was apparently made by any responsible official to take these papers into custody...
...Coolide did, he wrote in his Drift and Mastery of these upper class toilers...
...CURIOUS BUT NOT IDLE Our curiosity is not entirely idle...
...In 1920 the farm population was 31,614,269, or 29.9 per cent of the total population...
...Then there are other teams which have done pretty well...
Vol. 7 • December 1928 • No. 51
