WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT
What's It All About By The Man On The Street Outside newspapers o! the reactionary stripe, published in some of the mo."; monopoly-cursed stales ol the union, have for years made It a point to...
...We do not...
...They are starting lawsuits and writing letters to the newspapers...
...In the southern section wages Including board were $24 a month...
...After spending more than a year creating this monstrosity, to which Mr...
...ven if wheat is being given away for 88 cents and »aw-dust brings in a larger price than rve...
...But before the ink was dry came the news that the supposedly omniscient Tribune, which knows so much about Wisconsin, did not know what was going on in its Own office, for an investigation has shown that Albert Linjle...
...the reporter of The Tribune staff who was murdered, was connected with the murderous gangsters who have made the very name of Chicago a stench...
...They act just like person...
...These Con-servative...
...In horror at mention of the word "competition'' and howl like a dog that is hungry and can't find a bone...
...They are the first one to raise a cry against municipal-ownership competition with the power trust...
...in most ca.*es...
...A new hotel in New York Is to have, eold-plated door knobs...
...If the farmers would get together and align themselves under the Progressive banner they soon would get what they want trom every law-making body...
...at its national convention in Kansas City, promised lo encourage and promote agriculture...
...who are terribly excited over something that is important...
...Don't try to tell the farm hand that America is the land of opportunity—for him...
...Kohler to the governor's chair...
...They fail utterly to tell their readers that with municipal ownership would come cheaper rates, because no community is so devoid of sense as to charge its people fifteen times the cast of current, as Ambassador Sackett declares the power trust is doing...
...A federal judge in Iowa has given us another exhibition of tyrannical club-swinging by means of the no-torius Injunction...
...We elect a whole lot of men and a few women to represent us in congress...
...They do very little for the farmer and a lot for the money bags...
...This wa> reproduced In every Con-servative organ in Wisconsin...
...Here's another excellent reason to be added to the many that have already been advanced for the passage of the anti-Injunction bill that has reposed In the senate committee for two years...
...These newspapers, nearly all of them, that enjoy a monopoly in their line, feel in duty bound to defend •all kinds of monopoly...
...Recently the Chicago Tribune, which modestly admit...
...We advise them in the future to limit, their quotations from the outside to "the old lady in bombazine...
...monopoly-cursed stales ol the union, have for years made It a point to "horn in" on Wisconsin politics and brazenly undertake to instruct the people of the forward-looking Badger state how to iotr for their state officers, United States senators and members of the house of representatives...
...You see...
...Watch the newspapers that hnvt a monopoly of publication in their towns and...
...as the Boston Transcript is affectionately known...
...This Is a rase where the buck simply cannot he pa&ed...
...they roll up their eye...
...But let us examine how it works...
...We suggest that, this will be an" ideal place to held a convention of chain bankers...
...Monopoly breeds monopoly...
...For this offense they might be imprisoned for contempt of court, without the protection of trial by Jury...
...mind you...
...Now we are informed that farm wages were the lowest on April 1 of any date since the department of agriculture began gathering statistics in 1923...
...Louis Post-Dispatch this Judicial oligarch ha« forbidden workers to write or to whisper even to their mothers or their wives that they did not, like their work, that they were dlssatis-\ Med...
...The Sleepy Sentinel iChaini of Milwaukee doesn't like Phil La Follette That's one of tne reasons why thousands of us are going to vote for Phil...
...Instead of chicken, millions have been lucky to jet a dish of what the sailors call "slumgullion'—bones and hot water...
...Why not use this energy in trying to solve the grievous problem of unemployment...
...The people know by experience that they cannot put their trust in the palaver ground out by the Con-servative press...
...Both parties are pledged to abolish judicial tyranny In the form of Injunctions—but promises, you know, are only promises, * - » A writer complains that the farmers are a minority clajfi and unorganised, and says that U why they find needed and helpful legislation difficult...
...Hosannahs were sung hy the Stalwart editors »s their presses printed the Tribune's editorial...
...Our representatives in congress pay no attention to us...
...The people know that they can accept un-questioningly the word of a La Follette...
...The Tribune neglected to do some sweeping before its own door And the editors of the Con-servative organs in Wis-»nsin appear to have unusually long ears...
...The trouble Is that a whole lot of farmers have been deluded Into really believing that there is a halo about the O. O. P. ticket, and that is the reason they keep on voting It straight...
...And the G. O. P...
...and jnme of them Chain, organs, make a great effort, to hoodwink the people by telling them that municipal ownership will put a great burden on the taxpayers...
...With rye selling way below the price of sawdust, and wheat down more than 31 cents a bushel from a year ago, and many other farm products at an unusually low figure, it has been estimated that the farmer will experience a snrinkage of $1,250,000,000 in their income from this year's crop as compared with the sum they received a year ago...
...you will find that they are monopoly shouters...
...The theory of our government is excellent...
...Wages when the worker boarded himself were about $25 above the figures given...
...The members of congress who voted for this tariff atrocity and the president who signed It must walk the plank...
...In the far western states wages with board were S54 a month...
...Hoover affixed his signature without any bands playing or any photographers in sight, our wire boys ask the tariff commission to make an investigation oi a number of rates fixed by the bill...
...We have heard much of the plight of the farmer and the city worker who has been out of employment, since the great Hoover Depression began, but little has been said of the condition of the farm laborer, known in the old days as the hired man...
...the Progressive choice for governor...
...They slap us in the face with a bulky document we never asked for...
...that it Is the greatest newspaper in Gangland, because It believes Chicago Is the greater part nf the world, has hern telling Wisconsin voters to re-elect Walter ,1...
...something that Is called a robber tariff bill...
...This is shown in the manner they have attacked Phil La Follette...
...Why not change the text books in the public school., and teach the kids the truth—that we have a MISREPRESENT ATIVE ' form of government, in practice, and REPRESENTATIVE In theory only...
...we haven't forgotten that the mendacious Sentinel promised everybody chicken stew if Herbert ws= elected...
...What do our alleged representatives do...
...While admitting that regulation of public utilities is not doing the work expected of it when it was inaugurated, while admitting that teeth must be put into the law...
...instruct them to help the money bags, most of whom have got too much wealth...
...The subservient, dumb bells who write the editorials for the Con-servative newspapers of Wisconsin always :<nip out these outside editorial comments and gleefully reproduce them on their editorial pages, pointing with pride to the fact that the outside monopoly worshippers agree with the editorial errand boy of monopoly within the confines of Wisconsin...
...We tell them to revise the tariff so as to help the farmer, who is sorely afflicted...
...Overproduction in commodities and in bunk -hat |s the country...
...In the words of the St...
...that they were going to quit...
...Instead of doing the job right they do It wrong and then ask another body to correct the evil they have done...
...The people of Milwaukee are fussing with one another oter the question of shoving the clock an hour ahead...
...Day wages were $1.20 a day m South Atlantic states, and Included board...
...We protest, loudly and repeatedly...
Vol. 1 • July 1930 • No. 32
