THOMAS CHALLENGES FOUR SMITH AND HOOVER MYTHS
THOMAS, NORMAN
Thomas Challenges Four Smith and Hoover Myth W. E. B. Du Bois, Kirby Page, Sinclair, Fold La Follette And Others State Reasons for Endorsing Socialist Ticket if ore than 400 men and women most...
...Was LaFollette ever silent in the face of wholesale election frauds in tbe principal city of his state...
...White designates Piatt's organization as the "Piatt Legislative Trust and Investment Company" tbe stock of which "was a fairly safe investment for New York capitalists...
...Anyone who dared fa attack or arraign the astonishing pollt leal machine which dominates twelv* states of the United States and is in almost absolute control of 130 out of 631 electoral votes, is supposed to be reaction...
...Unless the voters have a chance for effective choice after fHsiMlsninn...
...Hoover, he has endorsed the practice of private distribution of power and has given no evidence of desiring to restore to public ownership the water sites already alienated In private hands...
...They have been slowly approaching each other for many years, and now occupy almost identical ground as the advocates and supporters of concentrated wealth and power as against tbe scattered masses of our people...
...They have found no one in either of the old parties...
...Hillquit, more, than $2,000 was...
...Both are reactionary, and both ire tops...
...In addition, he is continuing as i speaker for the Fall River local of the United Textile Workers...
...And tbe "Open Letter to American Liberals and Progressives" ii even more explicit in attacking: The very backbone of the Democratic Party, tbe old, reactionary bourbons of tbe South still engaged in the shameful policy of r"*v<"t it an but impossible for great numbers of tbe Negro population to vote, a Southern bourbon class which, with the industrialisation of the South, Is now pressing its claims for high tariffs and for tbe private exploitation of the water powers not already bequeathed by tbe nation to private monopoly.'' But even here the main result is not sufficiently stressed, and that result Is that of tbe 5*1 electoral votes a Third Party today can only appeal to S85...
...This group also exercises incalculable influence In politics, Journalism, education, organized religion, and other phases of modern life...
...In the great arena to nominate him...
...While Al Smith is less conservative than Mr...
...There ha* been BO dlsain M quixotic since the New Republic started out to liberalise the World War by its editorials...
...Contrast LaFodette's own platform in 1924 with Smith's acceptance speech for the measure of the difference...
...They call themselves practical: They are bought with vagus promises and personal favor...
...Harriet Miller, who travels in from Belleville, N. J., to atend circle meetings, acted as secretary of the circle while It was In the process of organisation...
...Was LaFollette a aaeaahoi and eulogist of Tammany Hall or tta equivalent...
...It has not been played In America where our ¦ Bbcrala for tbe most part have been lamentably futile In thought and action...
...aawltag before the rich...
...Some liberals sincerely believe that the work of building that party should first be done by localities or states and a national labor party campaign should "be avoided...
...Such a part has been played In Europe notably in the work of the Fabian Society and more especially the Independent Labor Party in England...
...It Is the function of the Socialist party to do that work...
...Tour as* Pork statesman," says White, "•J"*'* ** t vest button off here and there wm...
...Building up a party f» **¦ against parties for money Is ttl"* ¦ creative goal of the hour, h -»T .°w< the easier to respond because tafc ** parties have nominated about ttTi...
...White's portraits should contribute many epigrams to our political lingo...
...Opportunism is the deadbest enemy of political progress...
...Indeed the chief use of this national campaign of the Socialist party is to arouse the enthusiasm, spread the Ideas and make the contacts without which effective local work is impossible...
...After a short time the meeting broke up amicably at about midnight...
...Circle Six, Manhattan, which meets every Sunday, at 8:30 p. m. at 82 East 106th street, will be addressed by Mandel Freed on "Nationalism and Chauvinism...
...sometimes at hardly higher price than a slap on the back by a 'prominent politician...
...Bo we can vita you into a clean crowd, with u» comparatively easy task of Injanfa...
...The charlatan cannot stand laughter...
...It may be even a veil for a dangerous semi-dictatorship...
...I believe In conserving the traditions of democracy and civil liberty...
...His cohorts and henchmen were well-bred, white-collared, kid-gloved, silk-stockinged, plug-hatted...
...But the mass of the workers will not permanently tolerate a system which skims off millions for a few at the top and leaves a bare livelihood for the masses at the bottom...
...I do not suppose that a group of miscellaneous liberals and progressives such as I am now addressing can rebuild the labor movement...
...Please forward your remittance In care of Maude A. Tollefson, studio director WEVD, 3 West 16th Street, New York City...
...Harding enters as Wilson disappear...
...Tbe dark side of the picture is to be found In the attitude of those liberals and progressives and labor leaders upon whom logically we should have the right to count...
...Eh answer was, T do not need any one te die tor me...
...I speak what I knew from personal observation when I say that Smith's chance of carrying the solid Sooth rests entirely apon the ¦¦rim of the effort* oi machine psaHbtaas who hare MqM a< bo form of reft low In the pi I—ilii and bo type of appeal to racial blxotry...
...To become president, s, had parted with every conviction he lag ever expressed—save only the right of rfc* men to rule tbe world and to maze thanselves richer...
...Th< mmmm «•» >u who pays hu mu...
...Coolldge comet to Week tagton on the "moving stairway of aUeav chusetta state politico" and enter* a* at "odd fish" into- tbe White Boost...
...Page quoted tbe Washington Post as estimating that 30,000 directors control corporations which produce half of the manufactured products of this country...
...Did he ever gtve has state a pubue service commission notoriously friendly ta the atUlty companies or ass one of its commissioners to collect has pre-oonveatlon campaign fond...
...Ana Pomerantz, the Educational Director is the only veteran...
...ary, opposed to national unity and a fanatic on the race problem...
...The difficulty of making the appeal o: the Third Party effective, arises in pan from our Indirect method of electing presidents, but the greater reason is the socalled Solid South, ibis Is a difficult: which for years no gentleman was permitted to discuss...
...The delegates were addressed by a representative of the League for Industrial Democracy...
...He is silent on unemployment tnswrartce ant is not advocating tbe use of taxation ai a means of curbing financial autocracy Many of the wealthy and most conservative men of the country are backing hhx and footing the bins of his campaign...
...Exit Harding...
...We want plenty and Justice, but not enough to challenge the system which denies them by its very nature...
...The basic evil In our world is that we who must live on terms of friendly cooperation In the great km of making a living try to manage our machinery and our necessary lnter-dependence by the law of the Jungle...
...where some difficulty, has been experienced...
...Page declared that Mr...
...Tbe pillars of the social order were shaking from tbe assault when Roosevelt stepped ta with his "Muck Rake" speech and denounced this crusade...
...What happens then, continually, (It happened In 1913, and in 1934), is that the practical voter has So choose between tbe Democratic ticket, backed by the Solid South and a Republican ticket...
...What could and should be dona about them...
...Both parties are financed by the same interests which thus insure In two companies...
...Parties cannot be...
...Seas Material Far Building Party Some of you may object that In spite of everything, we do manage to make some progress...
...The Nation's Business is right in saying that the two major parties have divided on no major economic issues.' *T am casting »my vote for Thomas as a protest against the prevailing system of tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee...
...They barter away principles and organic programs for immediate advantage, and usually they lose tbe Immediate advantage...
...Other editors, fearing the consequences, announced that they would be "good...
...Thomas Challenges Four Smith and Hoover Myth W. E. B. Du Bois, Kirby Page, Sinclair, Fold La Follette And Others State Reasons for Endorsing Socialist Ticket if ore than 400 men and women most of them not affiliated with the Socialist party, joined in faying honor^ to Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for president, at a dinner in New York City Monday evening, Oct...
...It is notorious that there Is no real and valid difference between our old parties...
...These will be parcelled out to the circles that require replenishment Conference of "Thomas for President Clubs" Held A conference of delegates from the various colleges In New York City, Including C. C. N. Y., Barnard, N. Y. U., Hunter and Columbia, was held at the Rand School on Tuesday, October 16th...
...Lowell Declines Rapidy LOWELL, Mass.—Nine months of 1038 have seen a drop of 11.600,000 in Lowell's cotton mill payrolls...
...A sort of harmless and good natured slob who regarded Roosevelt as a "Wild Ass" after the latter bad kicked htm Into tbe White House...
...The first of them Is sometimes pat In these words "Smith is as progressive as LaFoUetta...
...It Is a myth that his own record and speeches have effectively exploded, at least in this latitude and longitude...
...ij General Motors many Demc<sata...
...William Jennings Bryan was "the man with an answer but never a reason," one who had "fine Fourth Reader views of the relations of life...
...Inevitably there will be times of profoundeat discontent and agitation in this country...
...Attend I New Hampshire Labor Wants 48-Hour Law TILTON, N. H.—Enactment of a state 48-hour law limiting working hours of women In the cotton mills was the dominant demand of the New Hampshire Federation of Labor convention...
...At their last meeting,- a member of the I. W. W. addressed the members of Circle Eight, Manhattan...
...By Kirby Page Kirby Page, editor of The World Tomorrow, declared that the chief issue of the campaign was whether the country was to be ruled by a financial oligarchy, or whether we are to have genuine democracy in politics, Industry, In education and Journalism, in religion and all of life...
...Sees Danger of Violence In times of comparative peace and what passes for prosperity In this crazy world of ours, the evils of this situation are not so obvious and pressing as they will become under other conditions...
...The crusade died, the magazines turned to Inspirational "success" themes, and in later years the thieves and grafters were played up as models of virtue...
...He said that Hoover bat trained himself for politics by tervbx a the most currupt Cabinet America Sat ever seen...
...Both the old parties dodge every vital issue of foreign relations that may lead to peace and war...
...Freda Lomhoff, Corresponding Secretary...
...The socialist platform sets forth clearly and explicitly...
...As President Coolldge '^eetrisdled progress face backward" sad to Or plain the "odd flab" White quotas s vsttnont-born Kaasan: "Vermont should st ^ let aside as a nation** game utueen* as< allowed to function as It Is for s theetand years, that the American people always be able to see exactly bow ¦*» primeval ancestors once lived...
...Thi Solid Sooth has been the backbone of the Democratic Party and the South is exceedingly conservative on economic questions...
...The experience of these ;rowded weeks has shown me how much iven a few folks can do, if they will ortanise and work Intelligently in the building of a party, it is for that that I plead...
...I scarcely need to continue...
...15m, arranged by the Independent Committees for Norman Thomas...
...Red Mike StiU in New England "Red Mike" Shulman is still In New England...
...ALL MEMBERS ARB URGED TO ATT&t&> THE MEETING—it is ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL TO HAVE A odcb ATTENDANCE...
...The Populists staked their all upon it...
...less...
...Miss La Follette stated briefly that she was voting for Norman Thomas because she agreed with his platform...
...It must be attacked and attacked frankly and openly, and the smoke screen of the "Negro problem" must not divert tbe attack...
...The third myth to that the Democratic Party may he rehabilitated...
...We and we only have a program tor the terrible social disease of unemployment...
...often me ting a sorry mess of their porta...
...it to dl**^» urith dynamite...
...The small-town XZk back in Marion had been a 'platform sitter * •Jl important public gatherings,'' ksed as all-night game of poker "from which sea recover in time to go to church by (lews o'clock the next morning...
...The American temperament is not averse to violence...
...The Hew srowd In Harding's day hadn't tJ'-* Mtton from its collar to Its shoes...
...Of panties ta general the author atp that "tbe American creed to that see* ixxlltirlans of all parties are bad, *• worst onea generally being in the oOzf party, and tbe good ones all dead »«* >f office...
...Instead of the apparent!, hv possible one of throwing the-i — By Upton Sine...
...He can be reached either at the Socialist Party, 21 Essex street, Boston Mass., or at Clarendon House, 197 Middle Street, New Bedford...
...Did he, under pressure, cleverly evade all his pledges in behalf of the Child Labor amendment...
...For example, he declares that Roosevelt "called out the brass band, rang for tbe fire department, put on a military parade, and tbe nation saw tbe show...
...Comrade Alexander, who attended every meeting of the circle, and Comrade Sutton, Socialist Party State Organizer for New Jersey, did valuable work In helping organize the circle...
...The author goes back to the figure described ta the old Fourth Reader sad quotas: "And Eugene Aram wslktf between, with gyves upon his wrists...
...William Allen White,'the noted Kansas Journalist and independent Republican is tbe author of one of the best books expressing the new mood (Masks hi a Pageant...
...The Rockaway Mansion, 696 Rockaway avenue, win be the headquarters for the organisation of a Ylpsel branch in the district...
...Praises Socialist View of South The Socialists In this campaign have attacked tbe Solid South...
...He hopes to organise a Ylpsel circle there, having already organized two circles ta New Bedford...
...contributed to push the campaign...
...Is the supreme political opportunity and duty...
...The second myth Is that Smith wtH go to office qisshHgated to politicians...
...Upton Sinclear criticised both tht oa party candidates...
...If labor wexe winning by the official program of tbe A. P. of L, I should have little to say...
...are of necessity involved polWeen, «J those elements which have bieneat at grace on us all in the last tMia:ii and S either can claim a 'w^Z...
...If we had a Fascist dictatorship In tbe United States, we might organise another against it...
...I shall simply Insist that our social progress, lags dangerously behind the pace of our mechanical Inventions...
...In response to an appeal for funds made by Mr...
...with the Increasing denial of ^r*** of the citizen to the wccklna fcZ1** mere acquisition as a primary^*1 with oppression of men, women •m*^ cJren, in straight forward hMhkL?'* need a party of the peorjf^ * to face and fight the parties ofNowT* ticiana...
...Was Baskob his national chairman...
...Because I am a pacifist and am opposed to .all violence, I expect to vote for Norman Thomas...
...My efforts to discuss these matters In almost every state of the Union have found eager listeners...
...But neither can offer\n,?T* of a better world for manhocdaas^ manhood, and both have of ~1 fully identified themselves with tht^S which have presented themselvss...
...He reviews the Uvea and careers of notable politicians since the days of Croker, that "prestation hulk of bone and sinew" who came "crashing up from tbe swamps splashed with tbe slime of pre-Adamite wickedness...
...Hence, arise parasitism and waste, tyrraoy and war...
...In addition to thoses whose talks are summarised below the speakers were Morris Hillquit, Fola La Follette, and Robert Morss Lovctt, icho presided...
...McKinley "walked among men a bronze statue, for thirty years determinedly looking for his pedestal...
...To White, William Howard Taft appeared as "a terrible muddle...
...The choice this year at best is between personalities, rather than Issues...
...democracy becomes a mockery...
...For us to help build a new party of the workers In the effort to use government as an agency of orderly progress in winning plenty, peace and freedom...
...The meeting was called for the purpose of establishing a city-wide committee of the clubs already existent and to completely organise groups in those college...
...record than the other in any puna...
...In scores and scores of addresses and hundreds of personal conversations throughout the United States X have made this charge and it is not denied...
...votes, nevertheless, with tbe help of tbe Solid South, tbe Democratic Party could be triumphantly elected...
...All Ylpsels in tbe 18th AD...
...WEVD Radio Station Still In Need The Debs radio station renews Its appeal for Immediate monetary assistance...
...These things in our present state of social evolution are unnecessary...
...The actor could not survive ridicule and be paased off the stage...
...It is folly to imagine that a system like >urs can run on forever without explosion, unless we undertake in time Its planned and ordered modification Bach year that we leave drift by increases the likelihood that we or our children will shoot down the rapids of Imperialism to the dreadful sataraet of war...
...Nevertheless tbe failure of %11 local efforts like the Non-Partisan League which djd not stage a national campaign, the history of the Socialist party, a consideration of American psychology and tbe nature of our government which is presidential rather than parliamentary persuade me that we must seek to act nationally...
...In the past few years the dissenters have revealed a new mood...
...The other officers are Ruth Samuels...
...improvised over night Neither is a political philosophy bom fun grown out of emergency...
...He thrives on moral criticism and ta turn is able to laugh"%t the critic and keep his following...
...For instance, there used to be a myth that Hoover, tbe engineer, might be s progressive...
...and Helen Foer, Recording Secretary...
...Thomas a Protest Symbol Mr...
...Ia vigorously denying this statement, I deny neither tbe so««suor's ability, his likeable personality, nor his humans impulses...
...The author writes of the final scene when this doddering old broker totters into obscurity—"a potsherd flung to the ash beep, dust to dust...
...It Is to this situation that we are rapftsy coming in America...
...The Progressives, led by Theodore Roosevelt, made their chief appeal to this Southern machine, and the Farmer-Labor Party, while It did not actually appeal to the South refused in any way, even by implication to attack Southern political methods...
...Their attack has not been given prominence or been developed as its importance demands, but, nevertheless, the platform does demand tbe "reduction of tbe representation m Congress of those states where large sections of the dtixens are disfranchised by force or fraud...
...Neither has any clear stand for the pre*erv»ti» covery, and use of natursj ^TT"* % the benefit of the whole nec«I^*l,|» The Socialist Party is elstTlL ' these matters and presents an2L25 courageous man as the «ym>>ni cT?** orahla and courageous puroae, not play with details but growing concentration of wealth sas er...
...now there are few in the billion dollar class...
...It is a compound of cynicism and laughter, mainly directed against the pontics of capitalism and the professionals who play the game...
...Our Oak) statesman was tbe ripe fruit of the ofidomlnated convention of 1930 m charge a* the "plug-hat phalanx which bettewt piously in prosperity and patriotism and » decent eight per cent on Its mvestsuat* The thieves who flocked around htm ti Washington "were tremendous patrioa, Red-hunters, spy-chasers, witch-burners by way of diversion, but they knee that their redeemer lived in Warren Harare...
...The topics of some of these programs are, "The Causes of War...
...Hiding bad of these excuses, there has been built us in tbe South a political machine baton which Tammany pales into insignificance It is a machine which dictates tbe presl dency, declares war, fosters Imperialism maintains a protective tariff, bolster plutocracy, and above all, makes thi chances of any Third Party movement Impossible...
...He was "on the whole decent, on the whole dumb, and rarely reaching above the least common multiple of the popular Intelligence...
...In this Instance be reminds bis readers in two footnotes that Roosevelt is his weakness, a sort of half-apology for his admiration of the Strenuous One...
...Yips Is who were active In their units reported on the work that had been accomplished...
...For many years we have seer In the United States tbe rise of Thin Party movements which have come U naught...
...Having been bom in the Boots, and raised under the shadow of Tammany Hall, I know both parties," said atnehfe...
...W. E. B. DuBois The pressing political problem in thi United States Is that of establishing th principle of a Third Party movement...
...Hoover's whole philosophy of life rests on a foundation of individualism...
...On the contrary, he will be obligated, if elected, to the politicians of the solid South as no candidate in recent years has been obKgatoi...
...To have two parties to divert the people is Ideal for special privilege and well worth the extravagant costs of our political campaign...
...By Norman Thomas t TAKE your attendance at this ninnm not as a personal tribute but as proof of your belief that American political action may be made*" a means of progress and your faith that in that task the intelligent liberal or progressive may play a real part...
...At Dayton Bryan for the first time met "the cruel, cackling laughter of a shallow, heartless crowd...
...The Three Smith Myths The Ssatth myths reqeire mere examination...
...I shall not quarrel with you...
...I emphatically agree that we shall fail in our task except as we get into wards and districts and know people where they live...
...Harding established "about bis court a free-and-easy oomrvierj ot thieves, yet without tbe traditional honor of the cult...
...Heredity and Environment," The Socialist Method" and "Aspects of the Class Struggle...
...Yet with all his admiration of Roosevelt he cannot resist a thrust at his hero...
...The Hoover Myth I am happy to report after thousands Of miles of travel in this country a new Interest in our great problems and a new teal for their solution...
...ciallat Party has never been hi a raHl to attract the grafters, the bootiZ and the bandits, and they art sTat publicans or Democrats...
...2) The election of a new Board of Dii l/skp*** wo° ** a member of Y. P. S. L. for' Bx months or more, and in good iitaydlng, is eligible to Join, the Assoc 1''salon...
...He looks with abhorrence on a public system of unemployment insurance and the limitations of great fortunes by taxation...
...It is superfluous to itemize the reasons for this dire need...
...Seriously to undertake a debate on the matters in band or to argue either the Justice or reasonableness of a system under which one per cent of the people own one third of the national wealth while one third of all our people 65 years }f age or upward are wholly or partially dependent on charity...
...Several mild debates ensued...
...It was tmmtdlateli after his release from prison, and they said that they would die for him...
...The New York joUticians are painted with a few wasa .hat should become classic...
...Now laughter is more deadly than a sober scientific analysis...
...It is always a show that White is describing with the chief actors either manikins, kingpins, or hamfrta...
...I know that they could help to create tbe Intel Ischial atmosphere, and give expression to the philosophy which will help and encourage those brave souls hi the labor movement who do strive for a finer program and a wider vision.' To this effective action by progressive there are certain obstacles which arise from myths centering about the personalities of the candidates...
...BSarsHog and CaslMgo Woodrow Wilson comes before the footlights ss "the Man who Would be God" watntsMsndlsnMye^ fore the final curtain...
...Chain stores are sweeping the country...
...Too much fine human energy, and hope and sacrifices have gone into winning the'ballot for us lightly to gjve It up...
...While Croker exploited the ignorance of the ••under-privileged," Piatt controlled "Republican pontics through tbe manipulation of men of the middle class, often of tbe upper middle class, ta the interests of the men of the top crust...
...White's One Weakness In this parade of the brokers appear Piatt, Grant, Cleveland, Banna, McKtaley, Bryan, Roosevelt, Tart, Wilson, Hardtag, OooUdge, Smith, Thompson of Chicago, and a few lesser lights...
...He bad put rings In the noses of the holy cattle of the little temples and had assembled the herd, docile if not happy...
...We and we only hare a program on International relations, which we have discussed...
...Drastic changes are imperatively needed...
...and he had done nouubf a make It better...
...Been w painted in the background of the politics which heaved bun Into public life and tbe only one that appeals to White is Roosevelt...
...Big business is in the saddle...
...The choice of the voters between Republicans and Democrats is the choice between two peas out of the same pod...
...Twenty-five years ago we had the "literature of exposure" which pilloried the capitalism that was passing from its individualist to Its corporate stage...
...who "never changed because he never thought...
...A few years ago there were no corporations with assets in excess of 100 million dollars...
...This circle, which is composed almost entirely of girls, has had some remarkable educational programs...
...The Democrats are struggling to be like the Republicans on the tariff without too much success, and the Republicans along for the wet vote of the East but don't Just know how to get it...
...All New England federations are now on record for the law based on tbe Massachusetts statute, Rhode Island and Connecticut labor having recently adopted similar resolutions...
...I believe in political action...
...Loss of the Pepper - eU and New Bngland Southern mills and curtailment in many others accounted for the drop In weekly payroll from $6,800,BOOteas^^ooa, The De-bunking Movement Grows William Allen White Lifts A Few Political Masks TW7TTH Win Rogers waging his campaign as the candidate of the "Anti-Bunk Party" and a stream of books and magazine articles stripping bourgeois politics of its deception and hokum, there is some hope, for the fatherland...
...New York Ylpsel Doings Murray and Celia Gross, Bronx- YIpse Is, are attending Brookwood Labor College on scholarships which they have won...
...In morals and in ideas...
...Dues are one dollar per year...
...made it clear that "be was heartily rt* . the tendency toward our lliiiillewj* plutocracy and that be bad no proletaries leanings...
...Herman Both, the lone male of the circle, Is its treasurer...
...He said that Smith, ho*, ever amiable, could never turn tbe Dasocratic party Into an instrument of r»w rest...
...7" either...
...declared the speaker, "to say that a small group of 100,000 investors, bankers and Industrialists holds tbe balance of power In determining tbe economic and financial policies of this country...
...Taft A Throw-back Piatt the Republican contemporary of Croker In New York was "a dwarf on stilts...
...By Jesse H. Holmes Why shall I vote for Norman Thomas...
...The strife between our parties is a strife for office...
...and after several years of Republican government, being convinced that nothing could be worse, be tries Democracy with disastrous results...
...The business before the meeting will consist of the following matters: 1) The re, aqtiaideration of the motion passed at a previous meeting concerning Immediate ¦ ptrbatcatlon of a .separate Ylpsel organ...
...ij**vjj^ tent's recent study of American p*^z' t to candid and cynical...
...w The sainted Mark Hanna emerges as tbe man who ran tbe Republican national convention in 1896, which "was the meettag of a large board of directors in a business concern...
...Thus Roosevelt as kingpin of the O. O. P. machine ta 1904 nominates himself for the presidency...
...The other members of the circle are Fanny Goodman, Celia Neidlsh, and Jane Thompson...
...The gods of the times created htm act of tbe red Ohio mud and pst htm to srj against the fence outside the xxecutrii Mansion...
...but firsthand observation convinces me that everywhere in the United States it is losing In numbers...
...Did he ever bestow a JlorTSJk Walker upon a more or leas gratilel city...
...They have failed, not becaust they did not have a good program and i right to persist and grow, but becaus* they could not get the proper politics hearing...
...In the first place It is the only effective method 0f voting against the Republican and Democratic Parties, which have become a pair of standing disgraces to the United States of America...
...The political power of tbe South built on the disfranchisement of two million Negroes and more than that number of whites, concentrates' In tbe bands of a ruthless gang, more political power than any machine In the United States ever wielded before...
...new CIRCLE in NEWARK " For nearly eight weeks Comrade Umansjbr, the executive Secretary of the New xjprfc Ytpsels has been going to Newark fox the purpose of organising a Ylpsel effete 'there...
...Did he ever veto most of the taws that would have made an honest election easier...
...Hoover Is a little more Intelligible on Farm Relief, but the only clear cut fact In that line Is that both want the farmer vote, and perhaps this other that neither knows exactly what ha Is going to do about it...
...Tbe Republican Party is the Instrument of reaction in American politics...
...We and we only set forth the methods by which taxation can be used to advance justice...
...it has been out of office while tta J^T onist has been at the trough ThtsJ...
...are requested to be "on deck" Thursday night, the 25th of October...
...In an ha coara, from Princeton to Washington, where Wilson set up his intellect as s graves Image, always there was some Bsspoao to grovel before it...
...they have, and we may be sura f/.T cent ordering of things as they as...
...By Dr...
...rascals out...
...We want peace after a fashion, but we do not catch up with the menace of war...
...The bankers got busy and either purchased or strangled the most offensive magazines...
...the party of Tammany Ball, the party of Frank Hsgve and hto corrupt Jersey r-*»'¦—> the party of Davey of Obto, the party of the southern Bourboni...
...The Ylpsel circles are requested to make monthly donations to the station...
...Yet it is perfectly obvious that merely to count noses gives monocracy—not democracy...
...It Is well within the truth...
...Our great monarchs of capital and finance and their clerks in the House and Senate feared the spotlight which was being turned into every nook of industry, finance and legislation...
...Smith is a trifle less militaristic and condemns our policy In Latin America, but he is going to protect Americans and their property with the best of them...
...8*"" sea Democratic Party has been takenoae...
...Every four years of delay sees big business more deeply entrenched...
...Cleveland "had lived a life as prosaic as an Index to an auditor's report...
...locality it is only because at thai...
...This is a devastating book...
...I urge progreealeso to recognise It and help to build It I oca heard some ardent admirers of Eugene Debs—leisure-class ladies of pacifist sympathies—express to him their great ad* miration and regard...
...are inclined to think, have to ksep as...
...New York: The MacmlUan Co., $5...
...Banna served as "an extra-constitutional power for five years" before he passed from tbe stage of American political heroes...
...8* we leave him ta our gallery of poBtaal saints...
...ixtra supply of buttons in stock...
...Grant represented "an era of gorgeous spoliation, a time when bombast concealed larceny...
...Faith In the *b*9g mrties and politics is certain ta **5| rben tbe reader closes tbe book...
...Even if the party gained a majority of tbe pop...
...In leal era ta bold relief or strips a "statesman" of the gilt and tinsel ta which political myths are decorated...
...I urge the recognition of tht Socialist party as a third party, sad the part} of tbe future...
...Tbe Democrats have adopted a position on the tariff which is almost identical with that of their major opponent They are now leaning over backwards ta seeking to curry favor with big business...
...volumes Donated to Y. P. S. L. Comrade Harriot Stanton Blatch hat donated over forty volumes of interest and value to Ylpsels, to the city office...
...I simply point to the record...
...You will do everything but the one thing I am urging everyone to do, which is to Join the Socialist party sod week for it.'" Organisation Education Solidarity FREE YOUTH JACK WASSERUAN editor yswas fnslil Published Every Week By The New Leader for the Yonng Peoples Socialist League Membership Meeting of Publishing Association To "Be Held Today The Ylpsel Publishing Association will hold a special membership meeting today, at 4 P. M. at the Rand School...
...We and we only have a program of civil liberties, a program for the acquisition and administration of those industries and services, which occupy the key position in our economic world...
...Wilson...
...As I read their platforms, and the speeches of their candidates, I realise that unless one chooses to regard prohibition as the only issue, he has little reason to prefer either to the other...
...There must be a work of organisation, agitation, education...
...If In the hour of need there is no tradition of effective political action, no Intelligent and well organised party of the producing inassss, I tremble for the methods that may be employed and for the results that may follow...
...Their records and their platforms are interchangeable...
...At the worst, it is at choice between bigotries, which distract the attention of the people...
...who at the Dayton trial was a "prematurely-old bulking figure, sitting like a squatting Buddha," and one who at Chautauqua "appeared with snake charmera, tumblers, bell ringers, elocutionists, stagers, freaks, magicians and notoriety seekers...
...Bryan's career carried the show character of American pontics to its highest developtnent and tbe man never appeared to be conscious that the play instinct of childhood survived ta tbe politician...
...a throwback to tbe eighties at the last century** or "a forecast of tbe twenties ta this century...
...If the five million liberals who voted for LaFollette would stick together and if they were Joined by all who were sick until death of the hypocrisy and sham which characterise the major parties, It would be possible within say sixteen or twenty years to build a party which would grapple seriously with the growing menace of financial and Industrial autocracy and pave tbe way for a functioning democracy in all realms of life...
...Neither cares anything about unemployment, or the injunction, or child labor, or financial imperialism, nor that all men shall be equal and endowed with inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
...Indeed, it haaibaen repeatedly and openly affirmed by editors and millionaires In this campaign...
...Was be the leader la the effort to impeach a governer at the behest of a political boss net for that governor's views bat for his virtues...
...Yet, strange to ssy, every recent Thlrt Party movement that we have had, hat begun its career by appealing to this machine for liberal support...
...I does not matter how logical and convincing an appeal Is launched by any group unless they can effectively place this before the voters of the nation, their worl is in vein...
...A handful of perennially hopeful liberals is foina to make orer the party of Baakob and hh ¦rnartud nprnshspasH...
...Organizer...
...At present, most of his time is devoted to organisation work for the Socialist Party in the New England District...
...I am very hopeful for the future of my party, in spite of the distractions of racial and religious bigotry which have been so freely and injuriously injected Into this campaign...
Vol. 7 • October 1928 • No. 44
