Save Your Money And Get Rich
PATRICK, GEORGE R. KIRK
What Labor Has Won In The La Follette Campaign By JOSEPH E. COHEN Election day ends one campaign and start* another. However badly beatea • the .^actionary element*, they ere all too fled to...
...They have been hurt in their most vulnerable spot—by loss of votes...
...That is the imperative demand...
...They would tolerate the trades unions, and kiH off the leaders with tht kindness of personal attention...
...According to their varying fortunes, one or the other element in the capitalist class will predominate...
...There is no doubt what the outcome will be...
...Constitutional rights, laws and authorities of the land, and would ruthlessly stamp out opposition...
...a Labor must be prepared to meet, the opposition of both kinds...
...But it only opens a period...
...In truth, When they pick themselves up and take an inventory of th...
...From this election on there will be a labor bloc in Congress and in every State legislature and city council...
...In either case, Labor alone can save the domestic situation and the white man's civilization by International fraternity...
...It must be organised better than ever politically end industrially...
...But American capitalism is the scaven ger...
...They would like to create their puny "Hell and Maria" open shop drives In crush the labor unions and reduce the wage workers to servitude...
...In this element they are just as desirous of ruling, just as hungry for pelf and power as the more embittered...
...There will be plenty of "farmers, miners, railroad seen, machinists, planters, needle workers, mill and factory operatives, educators and engineer* administering the'affairs of Government...
...For from n,ow on there ere only two parties: Labor and antiLabor...
...They imagine in their Moated veins flows the blue blood of royalty...
...The issue has been made...
...The great words are still to be written...
...Repr?sentation in elective bodies Will more nearly respond to the makeup of the population...
...They have only contempt for the...
...e •» Not all ta the plutocracy will be of one mind...
...They believe discretion is the better part of valor...
...To be sure the most assertive expression will be that of the American junkers who would oppress the workers with an iron heel...
...Fey the conservative and reactionary fractions in the two parties to g t ? t » » t t t r . w 4 e r o n « ««* will be difficult...
...They are nearest kind to tsars and kaisers and, if left to themselves, would readily bring forth the turbulent upheaval which would make them lose their heads altogether...
...It always wsited to see whom the old parties selected for housekeepers...
...a It may take a little while for tht old parties to realise that this is the principal fruit of tht flection, But it will be tatitr to diseovtr that something has hit both of them where the hitting was good...
...But they do not exhaust the capitalist class...
...This is the brightest sign of the times...
...wreckage, they will find that, like the two derelicts in "The Workhouse Ward," they are aWe to count only when they put themselves together to make one...
...tip to this time Labor took s very hesitating pert in politics...
...What Labor Has Won In The La Follette Campaign By JOSEPH E. COHEN Election day ends one campaign and start* another...
...Expediency will not have such an easy time...
...It must give all its energies free play...
...The campaign just made is in deed historic...
...Or it may revolt against the yoke...
...Capitalism is doomed...
...They are Die most plutocratic of the capitalists, the giants of industry and titans of finance...
...It will'de-* mand interest and principal...
...The intelligent cooperation of the people must rise above the selfish ambitions of money-mad plunderers...
...Not only will bona fide worktngratn and women be selected for ofnee, but they will run on a Labor platform...
...Now it has done so...
...The Democratic party mutt keep its name in the South...
...Too often heretofore they were permitted to climb on behind an eld party platform...
...There are otiters of quite another point ef view...
...When they won, Labor often lost...
...They would share a smsll slice of their profits and tell a remnant of stock...
...After its first charity, it extends help with a long string attaehad...
...However badly beatea • the .^actionary element*, they ere all too fled to be over the headache from the many blows they hate received...
...His name was first mentioned for the post after the death of W. S. Royce, Labor M. P., which took place on the day be intended to notify his acceptance...
...LONDON.—James O'Grady, late Labor M. P. for South-East Leeds, has been officially appointed Gover nor of Tasmania...
...They would soften the antagonism toward Labor...
...Labor stands for majority rule and democracy in industry...
...Instead of being a snuggery for politicians, office holdin* will become the seat of administration for the people's business...
...a Sure enough the war demolished the European house of cards...
...Capital stands for tyrannical rule by despotic judges over tht people and autocracy in industry...
...They would permit the passage of a lot of petty social legislation...
...Eminently fitted by training and experience for the post, it seemed for a period as if O'Grady would not be able to take it—merely because he does not happen to be a rich man, and the salary is insufficient for the expenditure of large sums such as previous Governors have spent on entertaining, etc...
...They would be king...
...The two grmlM-n?v?-.eome to grips...
...But it is csrtain that some covert way will be found whereby the tory 'erowdwiH vote for the same candidates...
...It must build up its own press and carry on endless publicity...
...Europe may kill itself trying to pay...
...It is making loans at the ratejf of 1,500,000,000 a year...
...Bat for the aggressive forces of progress, there is r/ily regret over the little lull until the people are agsin ready to listen to whet should concern them most...
...A large number of lawyers will return to tha practice of law, while their plates are taken by those closer to the flesh and pulse of tha masses...
...They would declare themselves "Socialists also...
...But they have picked up a hint or two from history, especially the revolutionary history made with the collapse of the war...
...then it west in, Tee often the door was slammed in its fees, and it wss left out in the cold- But until this day it never dared set up house for Itself...
...It must go in for extentive and intensive Labor education to fit itself to cope wi^b every tremendous economic and social problem...
...The Republican party name It too close to many hind-bound voters to relinquish It...
...There is a more moderate section...
...There has been correspondence on the matter between the British And Tasmanian Governments and it has been made possible for a man in his position to 'take the appointment Tasmania has a Labor Government, O'Grady was born at Bristol in 1866...
...As a small boy he started work in a mineral water factory, and subsequently served an apprenticeship in the furniture-making trade...
...The blood of humanity must be thicker than the grease of dollars...
Vol. 1 • November 1924 • No. 43
