LA FOLLETTE'S ADVICE:
LaFollette Advice convention* had odopted (bJ^^fl nro^etuirmeidml/otnMr tkm American people 1 * have learned that neither party can be trussed;/1 tos^ptn*rpr?mUe**\^^, ,vvS ONE of he carious...
...ssS*dwSesl SrLr^a- *L » ^^^n^ : ^s^^v^sf^^^^sss^^^yy^ ^t^i ir 'wk f t** b *tt nTt^^^^n^ ^^TsW*TT^^asa^^*^^^waf*sT»*'^^Jnii^^s^*S 11111111 Along with Mr...
...LaFOLLETTErS ISSUE AND SMITH'SRailroads have been influential in running the go fernment since the Civil War...
...Here is what he said four years ago: "BOTH PARTIES WITHIN THE LAST QUARTER OF A CENTURY HAVE REGARDED THEIR PLATFORMS, AS THEY REGARD THEM TODAY, NOT AS A CONTRACT WITH THE PEOPLE AND A PROGRAM OF ACTION, BUT AS DEVICES TO CATCH VOTES AND TO GAIN POLITICAL OFFICE...
...No dollar sweated from exploited labor will find its way into the Socialist campaign chest Every dollar comes from men and women or organizations that honor any cause by their support There are many thousands who are now for the first time being approached to help the campaign and we hope that every man and woman who receive Jhe request will respond...
...The actors are considered hamV-ts, including the two chief comedians...
...The Democrats may that there has been "grave abuse?1 and the Republicans that injunctions have been "abused.** The difference between the Smith and Hoover platforms on this use of the judicial club is a letter "d...
...Not a watery statement that injunctions had been abused...
...What does Smith and his platform say...
...Address the Socialist Campaign Committee, 15 East 40th Street, New York City...
...The heavy shots fired by Seldes and Harrison is evidence of a healthy reaction against a view that has become a fad...
...Every serpent passion kul'd...
...LaFoIlette and Cssasn sssm an Ttcegcr were the two men , in Congress who did not accept the Democratic version of the war...
...The LaFoIlette platform clearly stated: "We favor abolition of the use of injunctions in labor disputes.** There is no equivocation...
...A revolution in politics followed a similar stagnation a few years before the Civil War...
...When a vote is taken at Washington on what is regarded as a party measure the alleged party division is shot to pieces...
...Four years ago LaFoIlette in announcing his candidacy for President paid his respects to Smith's party...
...Another says that, as Rogers is a professional humorist, as President he will "be consciously funny...
...I did not mean to convey the...
...If you can spare a dollar, or five dollars, or more, by all means contribute it without delay...
...Earth at last a wariess world, A single race, a single tongue— We have seen her far away— For is not Earth as yet so young...
...Every biasing desert tiU'd...
...Debates are not followed because there are no debates...
...Now it is the Owens, Raskobs, duPonts, Lehmans and "bankers concerned with the financing of foreign trade" who represent "gigantic industrial combinations...
...In the House the situation there is a little better...
...Gilbert Sfldts points owt that every quackery in our history since the Salem wrtchcraft had its origin first in the upper riswsrs end then seepsd down to the nssaees and he amply deirnartsfrarrs las thesis...
...They seek compensation for failure in verbal lashing of the underlying population...
...The JDollar That Counts JF the Socialist Party had a tiny fraction of the funds that are at the disposal of the Hoover and Smith parties in a single doubtful state there is little doubt that it would roll up a tremendous vote...
...The "Anti-Bunk Party" y^E regard the publicity given Will Rogers as the Presidential candidate of the "Anti-Bunk Party" as something more than a venture in humor...
...Here is a group of comedians broadcasting to a radio audience their reasons for supporting Rogers...
...They favor "legitimate business" and add that "honest business, no matter its size, need have no fear of a Democratic administration...
...Do not permit this notable political struggle to pass without you doing your bit...
...From a certain paassga In my truck, Mr...
...I did not rosea to apres any opinion on the subject—but I am quite well see how Mr...
...Because the Democrats cannot invite the condemnation of the Democratic southern millowners who exploit childhood in their plants...
...One may often look in on the Stnate and observe a statesman drating to empty chairs...
...Wash and Mr...
...The twaddle now heard about rum and religion on both' sides is further evidence of the decay of the parties...
...Not only is there no interest in the country at large in what the professionals do at Washington...
...Four weeks remain of the campaign...
...LaFollette Advice convention* had odopted (bJ^^fl nro^etuirmeidml/otnMr tkm American people 1 * have learned that neither party can be trussed;/1 tos^ptn*rpr?mUe**\^^, ,vvS ONE of he carious freaks of this national raninajpi spvj the letter of Frank P. Walsh and FresleHc C Howe in the LnFollette supporters of four years ago fas hestaff of the "Progressive League for Alfred E. Smith...
...At s matter et tat, I do not agree with Shaw...
...I hold that Man werg3 these points...
...Something kindlier, higher, holler— All for each and each for all...
...The LaFoIlette platform declared for public ownership of the railroads...
...PEOPLE HAVE LEAKNED* NEITHER PARTY CAN Bnyj ed to KEEP ITS PROMt***^ That ia also the SoctoSst pa*** It does not feave yoo awgebwg which to lean...
...Howe...
...For the rest we have an enumeration of investing groups which gives the party an admitted capitalist character, an admission' that is rare in American politics...
...It was a positive declaration of the action to be taken...
...Wot that we accept year »** that when the Democratic fSf*/t" been baptised with the —Stes at en* eoatribnted fey the Raskess, ©S«* Lehmans and duPoota that U UmUcome "progressive.'' Net aMa> m we win sesame the* H fees te**** whet yea say it to...
...Russell asks whether Man em definitely "subscribed to the idea <* equality as a principle of Boclanm " TBI answer Is that he did not In his more widely known works, Man hardly mentions the subject...
...e But suppose by some tortuous reasoning Mr...
...Where was the Tammany Sachem who is...
...Both party organizations have their "Fat Cats" who are generous with money and huge sums are being spent to float the two shows...
...Vision of the Future When the schemes and all the-systems...
...Russell Implies that I accept Bernard Shaw's view that eqqaBtr el to come should, must and win smafl...
...If that is not genuine humor, we do not know what it is...
...In other words, the new creed is a sort of defense complex for "frustrate souls...
...llllilg mm...
...Stronger ever born of weaker...
...Other problems face us and they will be solved despite the cynicism of "superior persons...
...The assumption is that the Tammany Sachem is the heir of the late Senator LaFoIlette and has views...
...What did the LaFoIlette platform say about it four years ago...
...Boodle is flowing like water in both camps...
...But ln tat letter which he addressed to The German Social Democracy, crlUdnnc tht program or platform adopted si tht Ootha Congress, he don take it trp...
...Perhaps two of his colleagues may be found chatting, another reading a paper, and still another mingling his snores with the orator's speech...
...Did Smith ever raise his voice against it...
...The professionals themselves have no interest in their job...
...Russell cooM dm* such an inference...
...Not a word...
...So far as I can see,** writes Harrison, "the earth-shaking pronotiihriiteiit comes down Just to this: that commonplace Americans act in a commonplace way.'' He goes on to ask how "do our writers expect commonplace people to act, and why...
...How daring...
...From the highest source we have an official pronouncement that is worth careful attention...
...that it Is possible for the wertosr to benefit by increase of wean, Oka...
...All diseases quenched by Science, No man halt or deaf, or blind...
...It's a bowl of chop suey...
...Your contribution now will do more than it will three weeks later...
...What was the declaration of the LaFoIlette platform four years ago...
...It is a rather hard question, but we are considering hard facta and It Is far yon to answer...
...When it contributes to Democratic campaign funds...
...On this crying issue, will Mr...
...now supported by Walsh and Howe...
...The rest of the members of the upper diet will be found elsewhere enjoying a smoke or discussing Babe Ruth's batting .average for the season...
...One declares that if he is successful Rogers will appoint a Cabinet of comedians and give us a real show...
...B"a¥3j at the Tammany ahrtee rzJ exhibit if you wflL batathufrSJ From the NEW LEADES MAILBA Editor The New Leader: • > Leonid wish that ArchlbUf Ofl%Jf andarstood me better sad Biahst as Be seems to think that I reyaat tbnaj9 ton theory of value, and Saraa...
...How does his platform differ from that of Hoover on this issue...
...When we begin to laugh at them their prestige is on the decline...
...There Is not one first-rate man iii either party...
...The Socialist campaign is absolutely clean...
...Henry Sydnor Harrison in the Autnmn number of The YaU -Review also considers the current literary fad of sneering at humble folk as -hopeless boobs...
...Every tiger madness muzzled...
...If, as yon insist, Smith is the heir of LaFoIlette, does Smith also Inherit thia concep' tion of the parties of pelf -and plunder...
...Howe please state why Smith has inherited the support of those voters who voted LaFoIlette...
...The Socialist Party alone has repeated this frank declaration and on this one issue it is entitled to every vote cast for LaFoIlette four years ago...
...woman knows this...
...Every normal man and...
...Craig misread swig] On reading it over, I am coasana !say mat I think the fault la to* Ms* Brine...
...e • e e "> What does Smith and his platform say about child labor in industry...
...Still they must admit that LaFoIlette had no use whatever for the two capitalist parties and all their platforms...
...Rogers and the "Anti-Bunk Party" have a serious as well as a comic role in American politics...
...When is bussiness "legitimate*' and when is it "honest...
...There is nothing striking about commonplace actions and beliefs except that some wis* writers have recently discovered that there are such actions and beliefs...
...Howe insist that there is no contradiction between LaFoIlette and his program and Smith and his program...
...Hoover and Smith and their respective associates are doing their best to put on a good show but it is all too evident that the audience is bored...
...Walsh and Mr...
...This vegetation in stupidity cannot last forever...
...Speaking as a Marxian, ktmstJtst the mere fact that Marx JmmMtm does not Impose it upon us as an arts* of faith...
...Universal ocean softly ? Up to either pole she smiles, Robed ln universal harvest Washing an bee wariess totes...
...Tenneyon porting your belovee^ssnmew/ Very well...
...Everybody knows of this abuse...
...Their.fight even now is a caressing game with soft pillows as .weapons...
...Nor is it true that the American people are peculiar in subscribing to quacks end quackeries...
...He was with the enemies of LoFoUette...
...That is a very positive view of the late Senator LaFoIlette based upon many years of experience...
...Another one is now due A Bowl of Chop Suey y^E call the attention of our readers to the statement by Walter Lippmann of the New York World on another page regarding the groups which the "new" Democratic Party will represent...
...What does Smith and his platform say about it...
...Is Smith entitled to LaFoIlette support on this question and if so, why...
...It is the first time in our history that the pompous brokers have been lampooned on such a large scale...
...Here, ia what he said t "In the last years of the Democratic administration, under the notorious regime of Attorney-General Palmer, , monopoly was recognized us beyond the reach of the law, WHILE LABOR UNIONS, FARMERS' ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUAL CITIZENS DARING TO ASSERT THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AGAINST THIS TYRANNICAL POWER WERE SINGLED OUT FOR ATTACK AND DESTRUCTION...
...and as*,the it is our business to correct hts sow," he was given to correcting be ess e> rors when be discovered thaw...
...The debtors' prisons, universal suffrage, trade unions, public schools, indentured bondage, slavery and many other former issues show that progress is possible even with a lower level of general culture than we have now...
...Even Senator Borah, who is often pointed to as a type of the old scholar engages in the same fustian and bombast that is typical of the dull professionals...
...The Congressional Record is not read...
...Craig's letter TtoSsr Lebder prints one from H. o. Haass d Nova Scotia, who raises the ejssslBI d distribution in the cc-operathe es> monwealth...
...Lippmann declares that the party is to represent the farmers who export, manufacturers who favor a lower tariff, exporting and importing capitalists^bankers who finance foreign trade, and lesser 'capitalists threatened with extinction by the greater capitalists...
...Here is the platform declaration of the LaFoIlette-Wheeler ticket: "We favor prompt ratification of.the child labor amendment, and subsequent enactment of a. Federal law to protect children in industry.9' Why is Smith and his platform silent on child slavery...
...All the full brain, half brain races, Led by Justice, Love and Truth...
...In 1924 LaFoIlette declared that one of the fundamental issues of American politics was "to break the combined power of the private monopoly system over the political and economic life of the American people.** Walsh and Howe approved this view four years ago...
...They may be found m all countries...
...LaFoIlette cared more for the children than he did for campaign funds...
...This includes the "smaller independent business men who are being exterminated by the growth of gigantic industrial combinations...
...One classification has its rich humor...
...Are the Democratic Raskobs, Owens and duPonts legitimate and the Republican Mettons, Butlers and their hind illegitimate...
...All the millions one at length, With all Visions of one's youth...
...contrary...
...B> here declares quite categorically that,* least during an indefinitely keg trsaV tion stage, the return which each seducer will receive will be proporttoosS to the work he performs...
...Every grim ravine or garden...
...A rotting regime is first pilloried by laughsmiths before it is carted to the dump...
...THE DIFFERENCE ON INJUNCTIONS Walsh and Howe in'their letter state that Smith favors legislation "to curb unwarranted use of injunctions...
...We w|0 esawlsr contention also...
...Either I exnrsssaf...
...That is a nastier that cannot be seeded by a mere aaaialliiii It earn eedy be deter mined by the record and the record b> available...
...Another declares that Rogers "can wear a cowboy hat without looking pathetic" and that he has the advantage of having "read a book," which is certainly two deadly shots at Coolidge and Smith...
...The wage workers in the great industries are not considered as worthy of mention...
...Walsh and Mr...
...Despite the fact that quackeries having their origin almost without exception in the "superior classes" and then to become a part of American folkways, we have made progress and there is reason for believing that we will make more...
...Lustier body, larger mind...
...It is all good stuff...
...AIAEUKKI* New York...
...If we turn to Congress the same decline is evident The only time that the voters become interested in that body is when something like the oil investigation is being staged...
...Nothing more...
...Sept...
...LaFoIlette came near being expelled and Berber was twice expelled from Congress...
...We pass this pronouncement on to the "labor leaders" who are employed by Raskob„ Of course, the farmers are given special mention, those who "depend upon exporting their product...
...The important thteg S at Just to know what Marx said, sS»» derstead why he said it If w* «hasS that he was right well sad goe*-* conclusions become oars...
...e •siDid Wilson remove Palmer for his conduct...
...Beyond that transitional period, he seems to tee seen the probability, cot of "eaoslitj a* income,*' but rather of lbs radtofla of the oM communistic fftimS "For each according to bis capeduta, t» eaea according to his needs** alikTt.lsiHwl means the disappearance of thastaUsa of distribution through such ig tumm tn the power of production as «¦ s> sure abundance for all and sstosSsss* formation of folk-ways under aeaAv ence of the new social eniiiusawS ¦ wm make It a matter of tadtSssaw S A whether b gets more than to on a long as A gets all he cares to...
...There can be no informing discussions unless there are issues and there are no issues between the parties...
...The parties of capitalism never reached a more dull level than they have this year...
...With delightful satire Harrison declares mat the new criticism has "powerfully appealed to all Americans of intellectual or artistic leanings who somehow haven't done very well with their talents.....The movement has shown each frustrate soul how to believe, and mention to every bystander throughout his days, that he would have had a very brilliant life indeed, if only Omaha had been more like Paris...
...Tea met nam hack Into the rotten BasTttss LaFoDette always fought — Do not try to disgrace hfcasSSMB Is net fair to the deed...
...One does *not have to argue today that the two parties are kept by the same interests...
...It so happens that UtTOwm *"* years ago considered this vary ess* now...
...Now another question, Mr...
...Has the Democratic attitude changed on this matter now that nfc open shop Raskobs, Owens and duPonts are financing Smith...
...Smith never said anything against the terror...
...Life is doing its stint for Rogers and the radio broadcasts his candidacy, but with the fun one dejects a genuine contempt for the bourgeois politicians...
...to *s» ant whet did LaFoDette thtokf uu*m Ma words: "but even rr both nsJtsafr CAM AND DEMOCRATIC OBtW HONS HAD ADOPTED ough - going raosbassrsy^ PLATFORMS, THE AM...
...Kingdoms and Republics fall...
...Here again there is clearness...
...Moreover, there is consideration for the child slaves...
...The Democratic platform favors "efficient" and economical transportation...
...LaFOLLETTE ON THE PLATFORMS Perhaps yon say that the Democratic party is "progressive" this year asm if Lsufollette had lived ho would he ampParty Stagnation JUST what the present status of American political parties is we are unable to tell because we ¦re too close to events but there is certain evidence Of decay...
...On this question also we would like to hear from Walsh and Howe as to why they think that Smith and his platform are the heirs of LaFoIlette and his platform...
...If debate is unlimited in the Senate and nobody listens, in the .House it is practically gagged and dummy voting to the order of a handful of corporation poodles is the rule...
...Half the voters in#recent years remain away from the polls and it is not probable that many more will vote this election...
...This isn't a party...
...Baa**' |badly or Mr...
...Jeiausass —as, Indeed...
...Change is inevitable and when it comes there are thousands of the professionals in both parties who will find no difficulty in sleeping in the same bunk...
...The "fearless" Smith needs campaign funds from these textile masters...
...Raymond Hitchcock- explains' antJ-bunk principles by declaring that Republicans and Democrats sleep in the same bunk...
...The lesser capitalists who are being "exterminated" by the big ones are invited to associate with the big ones to check their own extermination...
Vol. 7 • October 1928 • No. 42
