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...the Progressive candidate for governor of Wisconsin, "the people now have a tariff act which RELIEVES' the farmer of $1.25 for every dollar it gives him...
...Where are "the fortunate few...
...That would he the right slogan for the G. O. P. in this eye-opening campaign...
...when the highest primary rate in the state outside of Seattle will be 5:, cents, the present city rate...
...Ad?' * * * The Standpat Wausau...
...But these "human dynamos...
...Mr...
...There arc many kinds of "relief...
...Things are breaking belter for Harry .Sinclair, one of the spirited war hows of the G, O. P. Hr recently made a profit of $28.311.000 on a little deal with his ft rnos of Uu Standard Oil Co, of^Lndiana...
...How well he t* able to hit the ball is -shewn hr the score In the second inning...
...Writers for monopoly newspapers and magazines are continually telling us how wise are leader...
...The appropriations of the second session of the 71st congress amounted to nearly $5,000,000,000,-000...
...The G. O. P. admits that this is an increase of more than $200,000,000 over the second session of the 70th congress...
...We can assure the Stalwart newspaper that Phil will never let up in his fight for a square deal for the common people until the forces of monopoly are beaten down and the last reactionary confesses his mountain of sins and begs for mercy...
...The Democrats assert that the excess Is really more than $459 000.000...
...He bought his way into the United States senate— and the senate had the very good sense to kick him out...
...It seems odd that political machinists suffer more from Iocs of memory than do the plain people who have to work for a living—if they are lucky enough to find a job in the very midst of Hoover Prosperity...
...These policies have undermined the state's and nation's power to absorb Its production...
...One glaring example is the gasoline price-cutting war that they got into out on the Pacific coast...
...How about a man named Smith...
...Hearst was one of Herbert's chief boosters only two short years ago He used every one of his far-flung chain of newspapers to Influence votes for "the superman...
...Who are they...
...We believe the shock of such a request would have brought on nothing less than apoplexy...
...Suppose someone bad asked the Big Boys to donate $30,000,000 to relieve unemployment, or to provide for old-age pensions...
...Rich people always try to belittle the effect of money in elections...
...Record-Herald says that Phil La Follette "is in a fair way to fxhaust the subject some time before the primary election is held...
...Where difficulty hag been experienced in a direct lowering of wages, the same effect has been accomplished by reduction of working hours...
...which was obtained when the people of Seattle built a municipal plant...
...With the farmers of the stale of Washington mak-ing a vigorous fight on the power trust, the Puget Sound Power and Light Co...
...In California...
...In Seattle a generous supply of "gas" was given free to any motorist who bought a change of oil...
...The Fortunate Few...
...The G O. P. has relieved" the farmer...
...When a man named Hoover was running for president in he told in that It w»s his Him to abolish poverty...
...And what of the promise made by the "best minds" of Big Business when they met in the White House a few months ago that wages would not be cut...
...although he had been peddling out cash to some of the county managers...
...The loudest backfiring that has been heard this summer is caused by the new robber tariff law...
...This appeared in the Hearst papers, which bam-booaled millions into voting the Standpat ticket on the promise of "A Chicken for Every Pot...
...A certain very rich woman...
...Phil La Follette described them accurately when he opened the campaign: "Special privilege legislation has enriched monopoly with the earnings of millions, and has imposed upon farms, homes and small Incomes the major share of the costs of government...
...Oregon and Washington gasoline was sold at five cents a gallon, including the state tax...
...The other day the Hearst papers carried this admission: "There has been a wave of salary and wage reductions...
...Can you beat that for a flop...
...They have brought ruin, hardship and suffering to the MANY, and unreasonable profit and privileges to THE FORTUNATE FEW...
...Do the people think they are getting their money's worth...
...Ruth Hanna McCormirk gays you cannot buy a political landslide in Illinois...
...industrial giants," and so on, pull some terrible "boners...
...of Big Business...
...when stories as palpably inspired as the Siirphis-Deficit-Stirphis rotation are printed, run a little credit-line above them reading 'Treasury Department...
...Tell the power trust's politicians about this when they sneer at the Progressives' assertion that the way to fight exorbitant prices Is through municipal ownership...
...or year: Rons Hits Errors Xone None rienty * * * A financial writer speaks of The Maladies of 1930...
...When steel magnates concluded a conference in Cleveland at which a division of trade territory was discussed they left !he building by the fire escape—to avoid the reporters of the newspapers, who represent the public...
...Andy Mellon has been so industriously using the t'nited Slates Treasury department for G. O. P. propajanda thit the clever weekly, the New Yorker, makes his ballyhoo (he subject of a satirical article which concludes with these words: "Why not...
...has been forced to slash its high rates, with promises of another reduction on Starch 1 next, and still another cut in 1932...
...A steam yacht for every millionaire...
...The cost of this Business Men's War is estimated at the immense sum of $30,000,000...
...Some of them go the whole route—and prove fatal to the patients...
...and which imposes inexcusable increases in the cost of living upon the great consuming public...
...The professions of Big Business that it has nothing to conceal does not square with its performances...
...Everybody knows that not only In Illinois but in many other states money has been used so insidiously that when an election was over the people have discovered that they had been hoodwinked into voting against their own interests...
...This law is A FRAUD UPON THE FARMER, and an injustice to every family in the state...
...That title is being used as a rampaign song by the opposition to the G. O. P. * * * 'Unemployment is the great blot on industry...
...It also developed that some members of a racial organization were paid $25 each for the use of their motor cars on the primary election day...
...Here is a confession that the workers have been bunked •gain, and it comes from the mouth of one of the chief bunkers...
...In the front ranks of the Standpatters, whooping it up for the re-election of a reactionary governor who hM his eve* Axed on a seat in the United States senate...
...And how In the words of Phil LaFollette...
...This is much better picking than that obtained by Amos and Andy of the celebrated "Fresh Air Taxieab Company, Incor-polated...
...Like the Stalwarts of Wisconsin, some of the G. O. P. politicians of Illinois are grievously afflicted with loss of memory- In the senate inquiry into the distribution of Ruth Hanna McCormick's slush fund, which It is charged amounted to a cool million dollars, her political secretary admitted that he might have handed eight $1,000 bills and one $500 bill to the man in charge of her campaign in Sangamon county, "but he could not remember about it...

Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 39


 
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