A MONUMENT TO LA FOLLETTE
A Monument to La Follette PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC LEDGER: It is a dark and sorry business, and was so from its beginning, more than five years ago, when in April, 1922, the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills...
...SHEBOYGAN PRESS: As we look back over a period of years we find repeated oil scandals, and they have been traced to the doors of the greatest law-making body in the land...
...There is written a record of dishonor and faithlessness that can never be erased...
...That investigation rocked the very foundation of our government...
...WAUPACA COUNTY POST: Students of Shakespeare will read in Julius Caesar the words of Mark Antony, "The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones, so let it be with Caesar...
...For it was Wisconsin's Senator La Follette who introduced the resolution in the U. S. Senate calling for an investigation of Teapot Dome leases which have been declared by the U. S. Supreme court to be fraudulent and therefore null and void...
...CAPITAL TIMES: It was Senator La Follette who started the investigation, dug up the information and made the powerful speeches in the United States Senate which eventually led to the expose of the conspiracy to loot the people of the United States of oil reserves valued at millions of dollars...
...The Government has handled a difficult business well, and while the mills of justice have ground slowly, their grist for the most part is good...
...Whatever may happen in the cases yet to be tried, history will go to the findings of the Supreme Court for its final verdict...
...NEW YORK TELEGRAM: After a dramatic speech, full of facts, he introduced a resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior to furnish the Senate with all information pertaining to the leases of all oil reserves in the States of California and Wyoming, and directing the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys to investigate the entire subject...
...The recent decision of U. S. Supreme Court will fortify the admirers of the late Senator Robert M. La Follette to reverse the first portion of the above quotation to read, "The good that men do lives after them...
...The La Follette resolution of inquiry resulted in a great public service, destroyed many reputations and led to many unfortunate displays of rank partisanship...
...His son, Robert M., Jr., is still carrying on his father's work...
...La Follette rendered a great and patriotic service to his country in exposing this bunch of crooks in high public office and among our so-called captains of industry who were willing to rob the people of the United States of millions of dollars in naval reserves set aside for the protection of the country in an emergency...
...Then Republican leaders sought to stifle the probe...
...The Sinclair decision by the Supreme Court yesterday is another example of the value to the people of the United States of having a group of Progressives in the halls of Congress who are keeping guard over the interests of the people...
...He would not permit reactionary Senators to shelve the investigation...
...It showed that oil interests had attempted to barter with this government through certain offi-cials, and that they had in a great measure succeeded...
...His traducers will be forgotten—most of them have been—but the Supreme Court, confirming his public service, has decreed that "thou shalt not steal" is as much a law now, for all peoples, as it was when emblazoned on Mount Sinai on tablets of stone as one of the Ten Commandments...
...Progressives are still needed in the halls of Congress to prevent powerful selfish groups from appropriating Muscle Shoals, Boulder Dam and other great natural resources for their own private interest...
...Wisconsin's former United, States senator, Robert M. La Follette, who died in the harness, and in the cause of representative government, set the wheels in motion for an investigation...
...An unwilling Senate passed the resolution without amendment...
...La Follette persisted...
...A Monument to La Follette PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC LEDGER: It is a dark and sorry business, and was so from its beginning, more than five years ago, when in April, 1922, the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills leases were made...
Vol. 19 • November 1927 • No. 11
