CHICAGO FOUNDS LA FOLLETTE PARK

...The extension of the existing eight-hour law to all Government employees...

...In several of our wards the ballot box is rap-idly losing its sanctity...

...dishonesty was the rule rather than the exception...

...He has been called the "Peoples Tribune" and very properly so...

...Furtherfore, the West Park Board will want to co-operate with the friends of this undertaking in desoguing and agreeing upon the required improvements so that your appearance here tonight is but the beginning of your work, and I invite you to hold yourself in readiness to assist us in whatever way may be necessary so that when the task is completed we will all have just reason to be proud of the part we played...

...It, therefore, seems to me that in calling this new park "La Follette Park" we are not honoring this great man but we are honoring ourselves by preserving for posterity the accomplishments of one of the greatest patriots and statesmen in our generation...

...Two criticisms of this comment come immediately to mind...

...The manner in which La Follette challenged and defeated these despoiling forces is a matter of record available to all, particularly the struggle he had to break their grip on the state of Wisconsin...

...The creation of a Department of Labor...

...HARDEST ANIMAL TO SHOOT THE HARDEST of the big animals to puncture with a rifle bullet is the rhinoceros, He sees poorly, and is an awful dumbbell generally, but he can scent a human being two miles off and he has sense enough to know what that means...

...Henry S. Pritchett, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, makes the following sweeping observation: The segregation of any national group by itself has seldom failed to develop a type of personality...

...Natural resources worth untold billions were bartered with total disregard of the rights of future generations...

...As I said to you some weeks ago the West Park Board will have to obtain enabling legistation from the coming session of the legislature in order that we may submit to the people a proposed bond issue so that money will be available to improve this park, because as you know it is now a vacant and unimproved piece of ground...

...it throws its sinisttr shadow over our entire city and stalks our streets unafraid and unashamed...

...While ome may feel that the direct primary has de-ects that must yet be remedied, nevertheless, assert that it is right in principle and is the best method yet devised to select candidates for public office...

...Tomaz Deuther, secretary Northwest Business Men's association...

...person of the size of the house tabby and looking so much like Tabby that you feel like stepping right up and stroking her flossy fur...

...and national character that, was aggressive, egotistic and without ca--pacity for co-oneration with the rest of the world...

...with that thought in mind, I want to set forth my reasons for lending my support to thisproposal so that the permanent records of this Board will contain any protection that may be required to safeguard our action during the days to come...

...To provide for the physical valuation of the railroad property of the country...

...Destiny, ever a cruel jester, played him many pranks, sometimes lifting him high and as quickly throwing him down, but through all the storms of forty years La Follette 'never wavered in his determination to follow unflinchingly the course he had charted for himself...

...Addresses in favor of the memorial were made by Charles J. MacGowan, chairman of the Board of Directors, La Follette Memorial Legion...

...I BELIEVE the Board will agree with me that you have demonstrated to the satisfaction of all concerned that the proposal to create a "La Follette Park" in the City of Chicago meets with the sincere approval of a substantial number of our taxpayers and inasmuch as they furnish the money which makes our beautiful park systems possible it seems to me that there now remains no good reason why the Board should not grant this request...

...In a cage at the National Zoo, Washington, is a handsome younf...

...Eugene F. O'Riordan, active leader Ancient Order of Hibernians...

...A petition of upwards of 200,000 names of friends of the project was presented...

...The first, that if it is true, the mingling of Jews and Arabs in Palestine is to be desired rather than condemned...

...It is noteworthy that among those proposals are such universally accepted principles as: The election of Senators by direct vote of the people...

...The principle of "ability to pay" in taxation has been supplanted by the rule of "ability to fix"—so much so that our whole taxing program is so unbalanced and unfair that it cries aloud for adjustment Crime of every known form operates under the protecting wing of public officials...

...However, the thing we do today is not done for today alone but must last for all time...

...Daniel G. Ramsey, former president Order of Railroad Telegraphers, and several others...

...it is becoming more important to 'Carry the precinct for the state" than it is to observe the oath of office...

...John Fitzpatrick, president Chicago Federation of Labor...

...His contribution to the seamen's cause, if properly understood, was in itself sufficient to immortalize him, but you representatives of organized labor understand that better than I do...

...The" regulation of telephone and telegraph ratesr The prohibition of issuance of injunctions in cases arising out of labor disputes when such injunctions would not apply when no labor dispute existed...

...The Egyptian kitty, on the other hand, is said to be the species from which our house cat came...

...The haze and smoke of battle that frequently obscured our vision during his lifetime has now cleared away so that we can calmly examine the record made by this man...

...if you do, you'll miss seme fingers and perhaps your whole hand because this Egyptian cat is a hummer...

...Henry R. Rathbone, Congressman at Large, state of Illinois...

...Wisconsin nder his leadership was the first state to per-ect the direct primary which has since been dopted by all but a few of our states...

...Managing Editor...

...The extension of the postal service to include a parcel post...

...Robertson has furnished upon request to LA FOLLETTE'S Magazine a copy of his address for publication...

...nevertheless, time has established the wisdom of his proposals and eleven of them have since been enacted into law...

...John Dill Robertson, president of the West Park Board, in which he declared in favor of the project, characterizing Senator La Follette as "the most constructive statesman of our generation...

...Doctrines Are Sound WE NOW regard the foregoing as sound, conservative doctrines so that to me the lesson gained from La Follette's work is not to question whether the few regard you as radical or not but will your program stand the acid test of analysis and time...

...his rare talents were ever at the disposal of the lowly and oppressed...

...It is our hope that in so naming this park we are familiarizing a set of principles and creating a moral force which will give courage and inspiration to those who glory in the real spirit of America, and by the same token we are setting in motion an influence before which dishonesty, corruption and special privilege will cringe and disappear...

...He first came on" the political stage at a time when decency in public office was about at its lowest ebb in our country's history...

...With conditions as they are in the principal city of the state which claims the immortal Lincoln as its own, I repeat it is particularly fitting that we should consecrate the name of the man whose guilding star was "The restoration of the government to the people...

...The Seamen's act...

...We also find that in the Republican National Convention of 1908 La Follette submitted thirteen proposed planks but his efforts were hissed and booed by the delegates...

...Samuel Levin, Manager Amalgamated Clothing Workers' Joint Board...

...In the Convention of 1912 he came back with eighteen proposals and received the same treatment, yet fifteen of the eighteen have since become, a part of the federal statutes...

...Privilege and monopoly were threatening to strangle the nation's idealism...

...Asks for Co-operation IN THIS spirit and with La Follette's slogan, "The will of the people shall be the law of the land," nailod to our masthead we enter into this undertaking with an abiding conviction that we arc rendering a real patriotic service Let me again point out that there is still a lot of work to bo done...

...She is always trying to take a piece out of the keepers and they've been obliged to put up a screen to keep the public a safe distance from the bars of the cage...

...The second, that Americans, who are about as far from being a segregated national group as can be imagined, are not infrequently accused of possessing these unlovely characteristics in spite of cosmopolitan lineage.—Baltimore Sun...

...La Follette Doctrines Live HIS great heart is now stilled in the hush of eternity...

...Public office is no longer regarded as a public trust but merely as so much more patronage with which to strengthen the successful political machine or combination...

...Donald R. Richberg, attorney for the sixteen standard railroad labor organizations...

...Our people of German origin, who were almost without exception regarded with suspicion and made to feel most uncomfortable during the trying days of the war, owe La Follette a debt of everlasting gratitude for the vigorous manner in which he demanded that they be accorded a square deal even though he risked his own welfare by so doing...

...But look out...

...WEAK LOGIC IN A report on the Zionist movement in Palestine, highly sVentieal of the desirability of the venture, Dr...

...I doubt very much if there has been a public than during the last hundred years in our national life around which the mingled love and passion of his fellows surged with greater force arid frequency than it did during the lifetime of the late Robert Mlarion La Follette...

...The response was made by Dr...

...The extension of suffrage to women...

...Need of Inspiration TT ALSO seems to be particularly fitting that there should be a "La Follette Park" in the City of Chicago because in this city we are sorely in need of inspiration from some source in public affairs...

...Primary Principle Right ON THE constructive side of the ledger we find La Follette at his best...

...The voice of the mighty debater and champion of human rights will remain forever silent in our public forums but his sound doctrines are imperishable and will gain impetus with the years until they have reached their fulfillment...

...President Favors the Proposal By JOHN DILL ROBERTSON (Presidest West Park Board, Chicago) On October 11, 1926, a delegation of notable leaders from various groups and organizations called upon the West Park Board, Chicago, and presented reasons why that tract of ground known as Lloyd Center, bounded by Hirsch Avenue on the North, Potomac Avenue on the South, La Vergne Avenue on the East, and Laramie on the West, should be improved and named "La Follette Park...

...The publicity of campaign contributions and expenditures...