PLEDGES PROGRESSIVE SENATE RECORD
Blaine, John J.
Pledges Progressive Senate Record Opposes World Court, League of Nations and Newberryism; Will Fight For Great Lakes Waterways, Inheritance and Income Taxes By JOHN J. BLAINE (Progressive...
...Enacted amendments to the Anti-Discrimina-tion Law...
...The combined expenditures of all boards, commissions and departments of the State government are no higher now than when I became Governor...
...When these achievements are considered in connection with the work of the public health service, we are all Wisconsin program and of service not only to its unfortunates, but to all of its citizens...
...Economic and Social Legislation SO, ALSO in fields of economic and social legislation the record is straight...
...Strengthen the child labor law by prohibition of standardization of labor of permit children and raising the educational requirements for child labor permits...
...Authorized and organized the Soldiers' Rehabilitation Board and provided over $1,400,000 for the treatment of ex-service men of this State suffering from any physical or any mental diseases traceable to military service, at hospitals to be selected by the Rehabilitation Board...
...Improve the workmen's compensation law by increasing the maximum weekly compensation, by requiring every employer to maintain a panel of physicians from whom an injured workman may select an attendant, giving greater power to the Industrial Commission to start proceedings upon its own initiative, increase in death benefits for major injuries, and of benefits in serious permanent disability, legalizing lower insurance rates to employees who have good safety records...
...Reduce the maximum work day for women employees in factories and stores from ten to nine hours per day and maximum week from fifty-five to fifty hours...
...I shall vote to repeal the Esch-Cummins law and for legislation to restore the control of intrastate railroad rates to the State Railroad Commissions...
...Levitan, Mr...
...The total disbursements of the State Treasury for all purposes last year were only 9 per cent higher than in 1920, although the wealth of the State increased 14 per cent in that time...
...Labor Legislation AFTER each of the three legislative sessions held during my administration, the Wisconsin Federation of Labor and the Railroad Brotherhoods published reports approving the support given to and action taken upon labor legislation...
...Dammann, Mr...
...A review of that record shows among other things the following specific accomplishments in the interests of these masses: A law to secure a jury trial in contempt cases growing out of injunctions in labor disputes...
...With a background of accomplishment such as this, Wisconsin voters are justified to repose their confidence in the Progressive Republican State ticket, headed by Honorable Herman L. Ekern...
...Providing for the bonding of warehouses that store farm products under the regulations of the Department of Markets...
...To" break this power I favor amendment of our constitution to provide for the direct nomination and election of President and Vice-President by popular vote and to require the new Congress to meet immediately after election...
...Optional Military Training AGREAT extension of local self-government was achieved in the passage of the amendment granting Home rule to cities...
...I am in favor of the State retaining control of its educational independence and shall opposa any legislation the effect of which would be to surrender any control of Wisconsin schools, their curriculums or their activities to a Federal bureau...
...Within the limitations of an article of this character, it is only possible to sketch the record...
...Complete revision of the co-operative law, including legislation of exclusive contracts of sale between a marketing association and its members...
...Extension of Democracy IN THE SIX YEARS of my administration now drawing to a close the problems of government for the most part have been economic and social...
...Make the private employment agency law uniform...
...Reynolds, and myself...
...Will Fight For Great Lakes Waterways, Inheritance and Income Taxes By JOHN J. BLAINE (Progressive Republican Candidate for U. S. Senator) O N SEPTEMBER 7, voters of Wiscousin must determine what kind of a government this State is to have for the next two years and what kind of representation the State is to have in the United States Senate for six years, beginning March 4, 1927...
...The right of the individual to determine whether he desires military training was asserted by making such training optional at the State University...
...Allowed disabled ex-service men, who receive disability allowance from the Federal Government while attending vocational school in this State, to collect the vocational educational bonus from the State at the same time...
...In 1926 there is no State tax on property in Wisconsin for any State purpose...
...New minimum wage act for women and minor employees...
...Appropriated $50,000 for the purchase and equipment of a restoration camp for tubercular ex-service men, to be maintained by the American Legion at Tomahawk Lake, Oneida County...
...Those records are guide posts to the future...
...We passed to the people and they have taken to themselves one more instrument of democracy, namely the constitutional amendment to permit the recall of elected public officials...
...It would give new opportunities to all of the States of the great Northwest and would in an especial manner promote the interests of Wisconsin...
...Created the Service Memorial Institutes in connection with the State Hospital and the University of Wisconsin...
...I shall, by voice and vote oppose the use of the army and navy to oppress weaker nations and shall do all in my power to assert the right of Congress to an authoritative voice in foreign affairs, to defeat all forms of imperialism, to promote friendly relations with all nations, to outlaw war, to provide for a referendum on questions of peace and war and to abolish conscription...
...Soldier Relief Measures FOR the benefit of soldiers of the late war, we widened the scope of the soldiers' educational bonus act by providing for more classes of soldiers to be eligible to the benefits of that act...
...Raise the compulsory age and vocational schools to half time up to sixteen years of age and to eight hours per week up to eighteen years of age, and also declared the vocational schools a matter of state wide concern so that these agencies and the schools would not be disturbed by municipalities notwithstanding the home rule amendment Accept the provisions of the Federal Act for industrial rehabilitation and training and where necessary making provisions for maintenance during training at state expense of industrial and other cripples...
...Required that all processed cheese be labeled...
...My administration endeavored and succeeded not only in making the government of the State of Wisconsin sustain the legislative achievements and administrative policies of the late Robert M. La Follette, but also, true to the aims and purposes of the movement he established, the administration of the State's affairs during the past six years has made of this State a better place for the common people, the merchants, the small business man, the manufacturers, the men and women of the farms and the factories...
...Require all engines weighing 182,000 pounds or over to be equipped with mechanical stokers...
...Wisconsin is the only state having a wide psychiatric field service covering mental and physical examinations of all penal and correctional institutions...
...I shall vote against appropriations for building wasteful and obsolete implements of war, against extravagant expenditures for the army and navy, and against all legislation designed to establish a militaristic system in this nation...
...The progressive achievements of the past twenty-five years are at stake in the State election...
...We repealed the personal property offset of the income tax law, increased the exemptions of husband and wife from $1200 to $1600 and for each child under 18 years of age from $200 to $300...
...I shall vote for legislation to maintain the high reputation of our cheese and butter industry and protect this industry against unfair and dishonest competition...
...Increased appropriations for medical care and educational purposes were provided...
...We passed a law to: Require all private detective agencies and their operators to be licensed...
...Wisconsin is the only state with such a program...
...and preventing the discharge of handicapped employees...
...I am opposed to Foreign debt settlements such as that made with Great Britain for which Senator Lenroot voted and I shall never by my vote sanction a similar settlement with the government of France...
...I am opposed to the Mellon tax bill and I favor the retention of the Federal and state inheritance and income taxes and the enactment of legislation to give complete publicity of all Federal tax returns...
...Prohibited use of oleomargarine in all public institutions...
...and Require railway police to be citizens and to register with the railroad commission...
...I shall vote to abolish the use of injunctions in labor disputes and for legislation to protect workers and farmers to organize and bargain collectively through their representatives...
...In the nomination of a United States Senator, the voters will match my record as a public servant against the record of my opponent...
...In 1925 we adopted the gasoline tax and the new highway finance program, which gives to state trunks, county trunks, town trunks, village and city streets the largest aid ever given, insures the development of a well co-ordinated and adequate road program to bring, without bonding and piling up a great interest paying debt, a good road to every farm in the state...
...Strengthen the sweat shop law by requiring compliance with child labor and minimum wage laws...
...These men and women instead of being a burden to the state, earned $158,000 in wages, and ninety per cent under guidance were rehabilitated and re-established in normal activities...
...Is Against Newberryism 1 AM opposed to the World Court with or without reservations and shall vote and work to secure the adoption of a resolution withdrawing the adherence of the United States to the court for which Senator Lenroot voted...
...Gave farmers and to farm co-operatives preference in loans made from the teachers' retirement funds and reduced the interest rate to 5 per cent...
...There has been no deviation from the principle that our state government is to serve the best interests of the governed...
...Completed the Soldiers' Memorial Hospital at Farwell's Point, so that now it is capable of taking care of 275 mentally disabled soldiers...
...The medical care of the inmates of all the institutions has been increased and improved so that in some of these fields Wisconsin leads the counrty, and it is rapidly forging ahead in all departments having jurisdiction of the unfortunates...
...Protecting co-operatives by prohibiting corporations or associations using the word "cooperatives" unless they be bona fide co-operatives...
...It wisely and effectively takes out of the referendum class the guarantee of the constitution with respect to religious liberty, so when adopted Wisconsin can never be rent by a religious bigotry that would deny to parents their right to educate their children in the schools of their choice...
...This saving is due to the changes in the income tax law, to the levying of a gasoline tax to take care of the highway expenditures and to the effective measures used to keep down expenditures...
...In proportion to population Wisconsin is making as great expenditure as any state for mothers' pensions, we are taking adequate care of the blind, the new old age pension will solve humanely our indigent problem, while there is no state which has as humane a System for the care of its chronic cases...
...Limit the hours of labor for women in hotels...
...Senator Lenroot voted to seat Newberry...
...We have the indeterminate sentence law, which is functioning to give a better control of those who have made a first misstep...
...I favor maximum appropriations to carry on the work of care for and rehabilitation of our veterans, continuance of the insurance for soldier and sailors and adequate pensions...
...My vote as well as my voice shall register Wisconsin's opposition to Newberryism...
...I shall align myself with those Progressive members of Congress who maintain their legislative independence, really represent the interests of the people and have refused to accept personal or party rewards at the cost of a surrender of their own and their people's interests to the sinister powers of Wall Street now in control of the national government...
...Another extension of democracy was the legislation granting to the women of Wisconsin equal rights with the men of this state, the only law of this character ever enacted by an American commonwealth...
...I shall vote to unseat any Senator shown to have purchased his seat by expenditures of large sums of money in violation of the letter and spirit of the law, without regard to party affiliations...
...No Patronage Bargain Counter Vote 1SHALL never surrender the rights and interests of the people of this state or this country by placing my vote On a patronage bargain counter to be at the disposal of a corrupt and servile administration...
...This recital of achievements along the lines of what may be termed purely political rights is sufficient to demonstrate that in dealing with fundamentals we have kept faith with the people of Wisconsin...
...Our Highway Program THE GENERAL STATE TAX for highway purposes levied in 1920 was not levied in 1921...
...Care of Unfortunates T HE standards of service to the unfortunates sent to state institutions, have been raised to the highest plane in the history of the state...
...While it is true that practically all of the institutions are crowded and there is demand for more housing, a program to supply this demand has been put into effect...
...It is a matter of great personal gratification that I could have some part in securing changes In the laws of this state to better the working and living conditions of those who toil...
...In 1923 the state aid to counties for the maintenance of highways was increased and the Federal aid to highways was matched only dollar for dollar instead of two dollars of state for one of Federal money as had theretofore prevailed...
...Appropriated all sums received from the Federal Government for treatment of ex-service men suffering from mental diseases, to institutions where these men are treated...
...This program if adopted would not only restore our national government to the people, but would bring prosperity to the people of the en- tire country...
...Require all locomotives after January 1, 1928, to be equipped with electrical classification lights and rear of tenders with electrical marker lights...
...Among these measures are: An act to prohibit the manufacture and sale of filled milk...
...This amendment must pass another session and will then be voted upon by the people...
...The new hospital facilities now under way will make possible longer terms of treatment for the acute cases...
...My record as Governor has been one of advancement of the principles and policies of the Progressive Republicans...
...That record is also submitted as your warrant for faith in the promises I have made in this campaign and as your assurance that if elected to the United States Senate, my services in that body shall be to there carry on and force into our national government the same rule of conduct that has given to Wisconsin not only clean, wholesome state and municipal government, but has brought to our people a degree of prosperity and contentment greater than that enjoyed by the people of any other state...
...Appropriations totalling more than $1,000,000 for buildings were made and released in the past year exceeding in one year the total expenditures for this purpose during the six years preceding this administration...
...so as to strengthen it to make illegal, discriminations in price between persons as well as between localities...
...I am opposed to the League of Nations with or without reservations for which Senator Lenroot voted...
...Pledges Service in Senate I N the achievement of that purpose, I pledge you that as a Senator I shall work to give effect to the principles and policies enumerated in the Progressive platform signed by Mr...
...Huber, Mr...
...Lawrence river to the Sea and to put an end of the theft of water by Chicago which is injuring not only Wisconsin harbors, but all the harbors of the Great Lakes...
...The school and housing facilities for the children at Sparta, the educational facilities at the Industrial Schools and the reformatories have been improved...
...In the year 1920 here was collected as State taxes on general property in Wisconsin, $7,737,208...
...We have held the ship true to the compass of Democracy given us by the Fathers of our country and have followed straight the course charted for this state by the Immortal La Follette...
...This was the first law of its kind passed in the United States and has since been copied by the United States and twenty other states...
...I shall vote for drastic reductions in the exorbitant duties on manufactures and to reduce the rates of the McCumber-Fordney tariff so as to equalize the difference in the cost of production at home and abroad, insuring American producers and labor protection without imposing exorbitant monopoly prices...
...We also put in final form and passed through the last legislative session the amendment to give the people power to initiate and to vote directly upon legislation...
...Changed the law to require at least forty-eight hours notice before an injunction may be issued in a labor dispute...
...The Child Caring and Child Placement Agencies are doing better work than ever in the care of dependent children...
...Before discussing other matters I desire to call attention to State taxes...
...This saving in general property taxes is a direct benefit to every property owner of this State...
...The issue in the United States Senatorial election is made not only by their platforms, but by the records of the candidates...
...And counties also were accorded a right of self-determination in all matters involving a joint expenditure of county and state funds...
...The only way to keep government clean is to keep the debauchers out of government...
...Labor organizations who thus voice approval do so only because the record justifies their faith...
...Prohibited the use of all dairy terms in connection with sale of oleomargarine...
...Ekern, Mr...
...I shall vote for legislatfon to protect the farmers so as to secure a purchasing power of the farmers' service as measured by the dollar upon an equality with other industry and commerce...
...There is no state making better provision for its soldiers than is Wisconsin...
...I shall fight to secure the development of a deep waterway via the St...
...These and other enactments were the fulfillment of pledges made prior to election and are submitted as a guarantee of the future...
...Probation of first offenders has been put upon a better administrative basis and in the past year we relieved the penal institutions from caring for an average daily population of 298...
...Performance Justifies Faith in Future The foregoing partly enumerates the acts of the past six years which have improved the conditions of life and have brought the government of Wisconsin closer to its people...
...Adopted a six-year program for the eradication of bovine tuberculosis, making adequate appropriations for this purpose...
...Measures Adopted to Aid Farmers THE record of legislation to aid the dairy and agricultural interests of the State so strengthened the laws as to give to Wisconsin farmers the widest measures of proection ever enacted by any state to safeguard this fundamental industry...
...Strengthened the law creating the Department of Markets to help farmers in their marketing problems and to encourage co-operatives and to curb unfair competition...
...We not only successfully frustrated all attempts to undermine and destroy that great instrument of democracy, the primary election, one of our heritages from La Follette's administration, but in a purely political way we have advanced...
Vol. 18 • September 1926 • No. 9
