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W E V D Flashes Picked Up Out of the Air From the Programme of Education WEVD, the Eugene V Debe Memorial Station v over for Its aapirelist b..... the Job cd ujiili ilsTHa ths...
...These include Washington, Oregon, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Minnesota, West Virginia and two states in New England among the most important...
...Ton ar* a millionaire...
...One who reads the original accounts of brutal whippings by order of Puritan priests is revolted at the shocking cruelties...
...Then there is the fact of another prostration of capitalism throughout the country...
...But we had not realized that the Episcopal Church in this country was such a sporting proposition...
...it might be well for Mr...
...Even her revolutionary history is a fraud...
...Why didn't a few poor slobs get mixed up in this Job, so we could send SOMEBODY to Jail...
...O'Brien asserts inspires American intervention, was not displayed till American capitalists and bankers had stakes in these countries...
...Oudegeest Heads Holland P«**T An extraordinary congress of the De*** Socialists met in Utrecht...
...As a citizen I claim the right of tM speech guaranteed' by the Constitution under which I have always lived...
...Steward of the Geaton OH Syndicate: And because you refuse ts testify before our august body oa how much boodle there was in the deal when Coffeepot Oil was sold to the Oanovtm Group...
...O'Brien seems to think that l>ecause he has accompanied American forces that have invaded a number of Latin-American countries his view of American intervention is final...
...Extra.' Sinclair, Alleged Thief of $800,000,000 Naval OQ Reserve, Is wintering in Florida...
...Therein lleth most of my secret...
...He would not suppress criticism of American foreign policies,* yet he left the impression that opposing opinions "undermine" the government...
...In aos* they cannot legally...
...Extra...
...The smaller powers also know it...
...What are the glorious arts'>«s they sit and sine...
...I simply can't get anybody locked up to stay put...
...however, wheat tt wfll come oat of that committee...
...spirit of fiay...
...the Job cd ujiili ilsTHa ths workers...
...The Mockery of Art To-day What is the wealthiest land on earth, if the millions suffer and cry...
...Federalist writings and speeches seethed with contempt for the mechanics and laborers of their own towns and for the hunters, farmers and trappers in the West who were enduring the hardships that made civilization possible in later decades...
...CANTO TWO...
...News, Tribune.....(There is nothing much to this Canto except a timid girl and on* New Leader...
...It is the doctrine of the "big stick...
...It has drugged the minds of millions...
...Only the rich boodler, the rich adulterer, - The rich thief or murderer can afford me, I am a famous lawyer and a smart lawyer...
...I here hereby expressed my conviction regards* the illegal and shameful uiuteadme* ef the United State* in Nicaragua...
...their high officials, tried to divert attention from the Knapp case by starting an investigation of the State Labor...
...Extry...
...But out in the interior are devoted comrades crying for help and the national office is anxious to give it...
...Steward: But my dear Senator, that Is quite impossible...
...Again we urge you who can help to make a weekly or monthly contribution...
...We do not mean the Tories, but the upper section of revolutionary leaders whose profits in smuggling and piracy were at stake, After the revolution the Federalist aristocracy was allied with" the kept pastors of the Congregational Establishment and every citizen regardless of his religious views was taxed to pay the aristocratic clergy...
...watch them with noses down In the garbage pot of news, lifting thair heads only to lick their mental chops, unctuously, there being much oozy dripping...
...Four years gone already, and not a cell in the Federal Prison occupied by an Oil Bandit...
...I am a famous lawyer in this land...
...There is no doubt of the return of the Socialist' Party to its old vigor, no doubt of a large vote in November, no doubt of an increasing membership, and no likelihood of any other third party movement this year to compete with the Socialist appeal to all who are disgusted with the two parties of capitalism...
...Mr...
...Kellogg knows this...
...O'Brien and others who think as he does to carefully read Lincoln's First Inaugural where the right to completely alter our form of government is not only affirmed but even the "revolutionary right of revolution...
...this does not depart front New England's past Of all the f rands that have been committed on a gullible nation it is the myth of New England traditions of "freedom.'* That section imported the medieval policy of savage persecution of dissenting opinions...
...How do I do it...
...Apparently it was all in -th...
...My fees are suite prohibitive...
...bones...
...O'Brien's defense of American policy in relation to Latin-America is based on the Monroe Doctrine and the fact that frequent revolutions have disturbed Latin-American countries...
...Playful Cornaire In the N. Y. political world, interest centres on the sending of the charges against Mrs...
...It is the two big naval powers that want to abolish the submarine...
...CANTO SR...
...Senator Hlgho to Mr...
...They are liable to fall on unprotected women and "Hy*—" as well as on armed soldiers...
...DO IT NOW...
...and Mrs...
...Steward: Oh, merely because X am a mfmonalre...
...Bank Clerk Absconder Caught...
...SEE THE JANE do the ELECTRIC CHAIR SHIMMY...
...as our unhappy sisters and brothers in Russia were outraged...
...United States cannot arrest .you* H so, then why not . . T ' Mr...
...The Board of Arbitrators has consisted of three parties: the representatives of the workers, the bosses, and the public After a vast amount of bickering, the publics representatives and the spokesman for the bo—as get together and vote down the man for the workers...
...Bxtt...
...For that perpose, we want material directly from the persons affected, showing Just whet dUBculues they have met...
...What Impudence...
...Considering that for over a hundred years American officials permitted Latin-Americans to have all the revolutions they wanted without our interference, it will take something more than "benevolence" to explain our bullying since the export of Ajsterican capital across our frontiers...
...The states that need help must have it for weeks to come...
...Who Is, or are, reepomsm tor this...
...Exclusive Photo...
...vote or serve *i Juries...
...the leader of the dtoasSis workers federation...
...Not because t ., H|rae j*n* at thing for the Innocent...
...If any worker la in doubt as to what compulsory arbitration means, 1st aim ask these who have had eessileaxe with this fatal thing in the United Mine Workers of America...
...For these reasons the declara/cm againM: "barbarous" warfare by two powers that seek to master the world is a piece of transparent hokum...
...They are no respecters of persons...
...and no 'serpent of revolutionary propaganda rear its foul head...
...What a business we wished on ourselves...
...This brilliant stunt tens thought up by Assemblyman Cornaire, a representative of the upstate manufacturing interests...
...And my fees for the Innocent poor . Or even the guilty poor...
...BOY WOLF TELLS . . . how he cut 13 year oM Girt to PIECES...
...First Lord of the Admiralty, declares that Great Britain will support the Kellogg proposal...
...Our marines are there shooting and rilling natives of Nlcarague...
...Herrick but d,id not make any recomendations other than those concerning the forgery, grand larceny,and the removal and destruction of state records charged to Mrs, Jnapp...
...The textile oligarchy of the modern period is an old story and need not be stressed here...
...f Therein heth some of my secret...
...Senator, taken aback: Gosh, that's so...
...Wealth is a curse, and art a mock, and science worse than a lie, When they're but the gttt of the greedy thieves, the ,. leeches that sack men dry...
...President of the SaveAmerica League speaks at the Banquet of the Antiquated Parasite and Coupon Clippers Verein: ......and we must preserve the Ideals and institutions an dtraditions...
...the guilty rich...
...American, Graphic, Mirror...
...The station is living up to its claim that all opinions can be expressed through it and it is the only station in this country of which this can be said...
...I mean Of course, that you take me in On your little pile...
...Sinclair Jury Mistrial Case Postponed on Technicality Until next World Series...
...That's my secret...
...I am ao three-dollar shyster...
...On the other hand, Mr...
...A Ballad for Queens County and Her Sewers...
...The proposal is like that of a lightweight facing a heavyweight in the ring, with the big bruiser insisting on the little chap removing brass knuckles which his gloves conceal in order that the big fellow may pound the little one into jelly...
...and after ten more minutes of putting the fear of the guillotine into the hearts of these doddering Louis and Marie Antoinettes, the Star Spangled Banner is played, a hundred thousand dollars is pledged as a patriotic bans for Red Bacteria...
...The most extreme reactionaries came from New England...
...But on second thought, every poor bloke that put his hand into this mesa bowl pulled out enough to become a millionaire...
...See diagram on page 96 showing limbs, rib, tongue and...
...For my purposes of defeating Justice, I have ' • Learned now to use the law's own clumsy weight And awkward gait against itself...
...It's a great little system, and wa don't wonder that the New York Times, the Bar Association, and Charlie Whitman are all for it, as wall as some of the mora reactionary elements in the American Farters Hon of Labor...
...There is ao Indira ti en...
...Juries and Judges squirm before me...
...I have studied not what the law says, BUt what the law does not say...
...I suppose you have your writ of habeas corpus with you...
...Then yon may hire me...
...The Bishop got all dressed up and paraded around the cathedral, with an entourage of sportsmen...
...Extry...
...All of them are stilt without the rights of citizenship...
...My fees may Reduce It somewhat, but then ' ' You'll come clean, or Just slightly soiled By Judge and Jury...
...Nova when Dr...
...THE CHATTER BOX U. S. A.--"1928 A POEM in Numbered Paroxysms Called Cantos, which form is the only thing that might suggest Dante's Divine Comedy...
...So do British officials...
...Lindsey .Rogers starts his investigation, and it is up to Cornaire to make good on his charges, that gentleman says in effect that he was only fooknfs, and that he really didn't think that anyone in the Labor Bureau had done wrong...
...The submarine is a deadly wasp capable of effecting enormous destruction of merchant ships, dreadnaughts and cruisers...
...Each hand holds out two or three coppers...
...I am a famous lawyer...
...Lincoln's birthday is at hand and...
...One must also remember the navalbuilding program of the administration to understand this attack on submarines...
...Our "Benevolent" Imperialism ARE glad that WEVD, the Debs radio station, gave J. R. O'Brien of the American Legion the opportunity to present the case for American intervention in Latin-American countries...
...A timid working girl hides her New Leader bemud the ''Tunes*' and reads . . . perhaps this vary'Cot-' umn Out of six hundred Subway souls oa this Express train, five hundred and ninety nine are reading the World...
...Bombs have no way of selecting armed mcaraguans to smash up...
...Then the sons of these aristocratic upstarts in the forties and fifties became the allies of black bondage in the South, some having investments in southern plantations and others marrying into the families of southern aristocrats...
...lnaers...
...Excuse me for — esheg you sB tins trouble...
...Some of them wen active rebels In the Revolution...
...The drug is no longer effective and it is possible for the Socialist message to get across this year...
...If the twcA leading naval powers oppose the submarine it is atso a fact that the smaller powers like France, Japan and Italy insist on retaining it...
...Afeer which prologue, we come to CANTO ONE...
...But it is also true that the "benevolence" which Mr...
...I cannot fee locked up...
...I consider that President Coolidge, Secretary of State Kellogg, Secretary of the Army Davis, and Secretary of the Nsrf Wilbur ere responsible and that ther ihould be impeached for violating the Constitution they have sworn to uphold...
...N. Y. C. kditor, The New Leader: It is my opinion that the United Stats Is carrying on war with Nicaragua...
...and let no shadow of anarchy fall upon our beloved land...
...Trial Is now in its Tenth Year...
...Its censorship of books and magazines is no departure from the past...
...Why not go the whole hog and have stained-glass windows showing -Tex Rickard counting the gate, or a couple of baseball sellouts getting their bribe money in the back room of a Chicago speakeasy...
...This aspect of the doctrine is not Monroe's but Roosevelt's, and it should be properly called the Roosevelt Doctrine...
...BBOOaXINS, MASS...
...The banning of Upton Sinclair's novel, "OU,IMJast year and now cancellation of the.printing eaptoact of The Bookmen which is running Sinclair's -^enr novel, "Boston," shows that the rating classes are determined to protect New England front 4t»e seepage of outside culture...
...If that is not warfare, a new deflnittc* of it will have to fee written end taught an this has been, and is being, done ta direct violation of our constitution which grants only to Congress the power to declare war...
...CANTO SEVEN...
...And if this brveetlration Is like most Oengrln.•eati ratios*, it w« end with a reeetatame, the miners are still la dire need of clothing and foot...
...You must invariably be Unquestionably guilty of a crime To receive my consideration...
...I have grown rich and fsrnons, > Because my fees are prohibitive .. To the frirve*^* poor or the guiRy poor...
...If you've gotten away With a million or more, And you want to keep out of jail, And enjoy some of the fruit of your (For sjrant of a gentler term Let m* can it) labor...
...There are SocirHists willing to do work in these states and they are doing it, but they need our help, especially our financial contributions...
...If their bands are wet with Mood and their feet befouled with festering...
...Now economic distress of itself does not create a Socialist movement, but it is also true that for a number of years the capitalist journals and politicians have broadcasted sermons on "prosperity" so that many have accepted it...
...In Ottawa Kellogg described submarine warfare as "barbarous" and in London W. C. Bridgeman...
...Are quite prohibitive...
...Usually the collapse affects millions in the industrial centers while agriculture manages to function fairly satisfactorily to the farmers...
...Steward waving the well knownVwOL" ~ While the Senator soliloquizes: That's the trouble with this here quiz...
...ROOKS N. BALDWIN...
...A Brimful For Two Cents...
...Stole $1,000 and lost it in Wall Street speculating on Oil Stocks...
...Bach hand grabs up the latest editions...
...That is why I am a famous lawyer...
...Then the Monroe Doctrine became the Big Stick Doctrine of Roosevelt...
...Father of three children...
...Whereupon Mr...
...Extra...
...Seh. teheed to Seven Years' Imprisonment...
...As for the barbarity of submarine warfare, what can be more hideous than the employment of poison gas and the use of airplanes for bombing of cities, including the civilian population...
...That is my personal and private opinion...
...The correspondence of leaders of the Federalist party is filled with views that differed little from the most reactionary British politicians in the days of the corrupt George IIIWhen power slipped from the New England aristocrats in 1800 they began to plot for reunion with England...
...Because the World War demonstrated that the submarine is a potent weapon in the hands of the weaker powers in countering the large ships of the greater powers...
...New that the strike ef the seal miners la Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado has been dissevered fey a couple of our Ceagrassmea, after siaa months Congress ¦ getstg to iStvesUgate, by gam...
...to steal from our possession our worldly goods and happiness...
...We recall that in his book "The Man that Nobody Knows," Bruce Barton gave us a picture of Jesus as a crack golf-player and a good all-round he-man, who went to Rotary luncheons, liked his liquor, and on the whole was a knockout...
...Sixty million swam out of pens and palaces...
...All the guys are millionaires...
...Neglect this and we will have it return to us in disappointment in November...
...We challenge him to show where the Monroe Doctrine asserted the right and duty of American power to intervene...
...I am only a very humble cittern I am an American by birth My ancestors sere settled in Boston and New Hesa> shfa-e before 1700...
...Here is the explanation of Kellogg's "peace" gesture and its support by Great Britain...
...O'Brien is right in declaring that the Latin-American countries have for hundreds of years been disturbed by revolutions and frequently there have been revolts by adventurers seeking to fill their own pockets before other adventurers turned them out of office...
...r CANTO FOUR...
...Eduard Polak, who BP » the last elections was town cooncllkr* Amsterdam, and the previous ptesldeaa earl Polak...
...8. 8 Schmenrken go out shopping for 17,00000 gowns and a Rolls Royce...
...i The Civil Liberties Union has tried through quiet work > at Washington ts secure restoration of the rights of efct* aensrdp to all the 1,500 persons convlckd for their opinions during the war...
...And all but the happy, selfish few would fain curse God and die...
...Latest Death House Dope...
...Wt have not secured results by quiet methods and we are now about to engage hi a public campaign...
...Hew long, Ob Lord, could one continue la tins song and still retain soma soiaalsncs of sanity . . . ? 3. A. * TOL New Leader Mail Bag Editor, The New Leader: May we ask the help of your reads* in getting information concerning tat difficulties met by person* convicted during the war for their anti-war viewi...
...New England gOSTON, the -much vaunted "cradle of liberty," as well" as Ne^ England in general, is rapidly becorrring a medieval prison...
...SIN WIFE TO SING SING...
...Governor Smith turned over all the testimony in the ease to Mr...
...X hare Teamed that the law Is too stupid And teO alow for Justice...
...Socialists who can afford it will have to supply the funds and it is their solemn duty to make their contributions to the national office...
...What are the splendid sciences, driving- Nature with a bit of steel, _ \. If only the rich can mount the ear and the poor are dragged at the Wheel...
...Your Help is Needed "*^E AGAIN return to a matter of vital importance to all Socialists who recognize the unusual situation that confronts the party organization this year...
...1 am a famous Lawyer...
...The Btsesti ve of the Party has nominated three candidates for the election of the Fertf President: Jan Oudegeest, ex Uuiieearf of the I J.T.U...
...Before the era of overseas investments and loans the Latin-American countries could have revolutions every year and the United States did not intervene...
...It is well to stick a pin there as it is important...
...To the uninformed it presents the Coolidge Administration in the role of making a peace gesture but 'it is not even a gesture...
...by our unswerving allegiance to the Constitution...
...CANTO THREE...
...Win any of yew readers who know any pertinent facts or who have the names and address* of any persons so convicted be good enough to inform the American Crril Liberties Union, 100 Fifth Avenue, Ms* York City...
...Did you ever 'see a hound dog lick Ms dripping chops after a messy feast...
...READ THE DAILY CUSPIDOR...
...presidency Against "Barbarous Warfare" person who understands the part that naval armament plays in the world struggle of the imperialist powers will for a moment consider Secretary of State Kellogg's suggestion to outlaw the submarine as anything but hypocritical...
...of equality before the law...
...A section of the Cathedral has been set aside for the glorification of American sports, and there are stained-glass windows showing Babe Ruth doing his stuff, Tunney knocking Dempsey for a loop, and other Christian-like activities...
...Now comes Julius Henry Oohee, a 1 lcally^^Urat**New Tork lawyer, the workers by having the court regulate the contracts between employers and sanplioysag...
...FRANCIS ADAMS...
...A number of times he paid almost religious homage to the institution of private property and left the impression that those who would alter-this institution forfeit the right to be heard...
...Send it to the National Office, Socialist Party, 2653 Washington Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois...
...Florence Knapp, former Secretary of State to Charles A. Herrick, District Attorney of AU bony Connty...
...It has not yet emerged from the Middle Ages...
...Our arsr/ aviators are there fesssfekB then* people...
...on their Jeweled thrones, 3a...
...Wife and Family destitute...
...L. G. Wearaerth...
...Extra...
...New England has always been ruled by an aristocracy and served by cowarddly politicians in office...
...Comrade Oudegeest^was^eheks^ shnort_uMuimously to th...
...This scheme, which has the official sanction at the Bar Association, and that noted liberal, Charles S. Whitman, at esse time counsel for the interborough, would make work contracts between unions and boas es binding by hew and would set up provisions for the settlement of industrial disputes by compulsory arbitration...
...Do not put it off...
...Not until our capitalists and bankers had interests in these countries did American policy become "benevolent...
...Just watch them, the millions of them, stenogs and lounge ladies, shipping clerks and ticker-ghouls, porters and pimps, good wives, bad ones, lore neckara and gold grabbers, all of them...
...Aa Oudegeest declared himself willing to accept the pee* the other two withdrew their candidatures...
...Congress has not declared war with Nicaragua, hence cur Constitution fe being violated...
...Senator Johnson ef California, Senator Baed of Peeeaylvenia, and gs—tag Copetand of New fork, are all eogftag an invest!gaties of conditions in the coal gelds, and they have a imuhiUea for such a ejnrvey with the Istoissalii Os—asi pi Committee...
...Extry...
...His Notion of Hell doesn't come within 1000 degrees centigrade of this one here belowe...
...Republicans, frightened ~ky the revelations of crookedness on the part- of...
...After all...
...Never in ths^tory o^th^aeo***handed out so ft ¦drj1, never hate corporations has such servile henrhmoa as our ok1 esprit Judge...
...Juries tremble and Judges squirm At my name...
...Extry...
...Bureau...
...I am famous and rich, because - ., I have defeated Justice whenever it reached out To pkniah my clients...
...W E V D Flashes Picked Up Out of the Air From the Programme of Education WEVD, the Eugene VDebe Memorial Station v over for Its aapirelist b...
...as Americans one and all...
...wa arrest you for contempt: ef the U. S. Senate...
...CANTO FIVE...
...A Spiritual Performance J^N amazing and fantastic performance was put on hy Bishop Manning recently at his New York trick cathedral up on Morningside Heights...
...These rights are fixed br the states, and therefore vary...
...To say that the great Senate of these etc...
...The innocent Are always poor...
...Bank Clerk Tried, Found Guilty...
...In others they cannot get licenses for certain professions or boH public office...
...S. Stan wood Schmenrken...
...Senator: What nerve...
...We ask them to turn to the party news page where the national office cites the states that need help...
...So long as the powers face each other in economic antagonism over trade, investments and loans, the smaller powers would be fools to surrender to the big power the mose effective weapon they have...
...invariably it has worked out In this manner...
...The wise and good and rich" is a phrase 'found over and over again in the literature of the Federalist oligarchy...
...The present industrial crisis catches the farmers still facing bankruptcy with millions of workers turned out of the industries wondering what this Coolidge "prosperity" is...
...Then it is the farmers who are skinned while the workers are kept content...
...Enormous dividends have been reaped by the masters of industry and the skilled workers on the whole have been satisfied, but even the skilled are now feeling the pinch of unemployment...
Vol. 7 • February 1928 • No. 8
