Judge — March 11, 1922 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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— = SSeS SS LITTLE Soviers, “These superwillies of the superdubs merely mark the presence of an inferiority complex in the wailers.” EDITORIAL By Wiiu1aM ALLEN WHITE OLD FAITHFUL AMUEL GOMPERS, that moss-covered rock of conservatism, registered his protest the other day against America Wr, entering the Genoa conference And by Zz why, a stranger to American diplomacy = if may ask, did not that dear old superpa- triot under the moth-eaten thatch,wish his country to be represented in the Genoa conference? Because it seems that at Genoa delegates from Soviet Russia will be found gathered around the fes- tive green baize. And Sam Gompers is “pizen” on Soviet Russia. Every time Sam Gompers and Archibald Stephenson meet they rush into each other’s arms and begin sobbing passionately about Soviet Russia. Their tears are the symptoms of a sort of occupational disease which may be called the superwillies. Let a man begin to feel that society or his fellow-men have the goods on him for any- thing—greed, graft, arrogance, or what not—and he begins weeping fluent and ill-concealed tears about the Soviet government of Russia. If ever there was a total col- lapse with no salvage, it is the economic theory upon which Lenine founded his communist government four years ago. But above the debris stand all the lachrymose superdubs of the earth flooding the ruins with their tears that they may thereby show how respectable they are. These superwillies of the superdubs, those passionate wailings against the miserable failure that once was the Soviet government of Russia, merely mark the presence of a strong inferiority complex in the wailers. As a matter of fact, Gompers has little to be ashamed of. But he thinks because Foster has had an unfortunate love affair with the I. W. W., that Samuel must stand at the wailing place and howl his head loose about the Soviet. It’s a grand and awful spectacle. THE AMERICAN SOVIET N the meantime we are so busy avoiding contact with | the decadent and tottering Soviet of Russia, that we are allowing the form of our own Government to change without much attention, and with no protest. Theo- retically we are a representative Government. We are supposed to elect representatives from each district in the country to the House of Representatives, and from each State to the United States Senate, who make our laws for us. But, as a matter of fact, power is passing from our elected representatives to representatives of special interests, trades, crafts, leagues, cults, parties, guilds, associations, and the like. More powerful in the direction of legislation in Wash- ington than senators and representatives are the paid executive secretaries and the legislative agents of, say, the Anti-Saloon League, the American Farm Bureau, the Woolen Manufacturers’ Association, the League of Woman Voters, the National Republican Committee, the United Railway Presidents, the American Federation of Labor, and a dozen others just as strong. These representatives of crafts, cults and guilds are our real rulers. Congress is merely the machinery through which these representatives of powerful minorities rule. These minorities are recruited as the Soviet was re- cruited, but after the American fashion. The Russian COMMEHDOOKSFCOM