SPEAKING OF "DEMAGOGUERY"
SPEAKING OF "DEMAGOGUERY" IX a recent front page editorial Paul Block, the Newark, New Jersey, owner of The Milwaukee Sentinel, in announcing his support of Governor Kohler, made this...
...BLOCK is the last person to be raising the charge of demagoguery...
...These figures refer to those "seeking work," and not ,to seasonal workers or those who have been laid off...
...are unemployed.'' I THE PRICK OF OFFICE ON this page today, The Progressive prints a fine editorial from Collier's Weekly which indicates that the press of the country is not entirely dead to the implications of the buying of public offices...
...Before launching their charges against others, those two journalistic demagogues, Mr...
...Block and Mr...
...He is not above adopting policies of those newspapers to fit local advertising and subscription situations in spite of the fact that the editorial position taken by one newspaper in his claim will be contradictory to that taken by another...
...Out of the 13 planks which were carried to the Republican National Convention in 1908 by Wisconsin Progressives eleven were later enacted into law and became good Republican doctrine...
...Who will deny now that this "demagoguery" of twenty years ago is not a reality today ? In the 1908 Republican National Convention at Chicago Senator Hophins of Illinois, Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, in discussing the minority report which had been presented by Wisconsin Progressives, said that the doctrines carried to the national convention by Wisconsin Progressives were demagogic and socialistic...
...Hungry babes may moan and defenseless woman may weep, but we are told that this destitution and misery could be worse...
...There were scores of lawyers, attorneys for chain banks in Wisconsin, who were in the Oshkosh convention as delegates...
...We are referring to the Lee syndicate, which operates the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison and the La Crosse Tribune...
...We are glad to note that a great, publication like Collier's discusses this question intelligently and courageously...
...They only smiled over 4he adoption of the chain plank...
...Everyone knows that these planks were adopted as vote catching devices and that they are simply pretense and sham...
...spending of vast sums of money he h«s not entitled himself for high office...
...who is a member of the board of directors of the bank which is now the parent of the Wisconsin chain, has never uttered a word against the chain bank system...
...Block's demagogic charges are quite like those of another newspaper syndicate opefating in Wisconsin...
...La Follette's appeal is demagogic...
...If the maximum unemployed even totaled 2,300,000, the dependents of these out-of-works increase the number several millions...
...America <. weli place among her cla ; i<:: the statement: 2,300,01...
...Instead, men are actually joyful breause they imagine higher unemployed estimates have been contradicted...
...La Follette with demagoguery while asking the people of Wisconsin to give support to the dishonest and insincere platform adopted at Oshkosh...
...One of the arguments which has been brought out by the barrel newspapers in defense of the spending of large sums of money is that the man who is not well known is at a disadvantage in comparison with a man who is in office and must therefore spend money to bring his candidacy to the people...
...Adler, should get out of glass houses...
...The platform contains planks ostensibly opposing chain banks and chain stores...
...And this from the head of the Lee syndicate, who owns two daily newspapers in Davenport...
...Only" 2,300,000 unemployed...
...Years ago the newspapers of Wisconsin and of the nation were charging that Robert M. La Fol-lette, Sr., was a demagogue...
...SPEAKING OF "DEMAGOGUERY" IX a recent front page editorial Paul Block, the Newark, New Jersey, owner of The Milwaukee Sentinel, in announcing his support of Governor Kohler, made this statement: "Mr...
...Seated in the Oshkosh convention were nearly a score of members of boards of directors of chain banks...
...The Progressive believes that the increased tendency to place United States scnatorships and governorships on the auction block is one of the greatest issues facing this country today...
...These papers, too, have charged the La Follettes, father and sons, with demagoguery...
...Block of Newark has the affrontery to charge Mr...
...And this in the richest country in the world, with its warehouses overstocked and its bounteous farms producing more than can be bought...
...Block is supporting Gov...
...Out of 18'propositions submitted to the 1912 Republican convention by Wisconsin Progressives fifteen were later enacted into law...
...Iowa, and operates one as a Republican newspaper and the other as a Democratic newspaper, in order to keep out competition...
...When trie elder La Follette stated, twenty years ago, that monopoly and the centralization of wealth comprised the greatest menace facing the United States, he was charged with demagoguery for making such a statement...
...Neither can hunger be satisfied by prosperity proclamations...
...This estimate is based on the Census Bureau's preliminary figures that are not all-inclusive...
...They know that the plank doesn't mean what it ostensibly says...
...Promise, predictions and hope is the program of men .'hose lack of vision and courage is equalled by their hardness \\ the face of country-widr> distress...
...And still Mr...
...j More than 2,000.000 idle workers and additional millions of women and children and dependent aged mean nothing to timid office holders whose only interest, is to retain power and place...
...The tragedies, poverty and want behind these figures should sting the conscience of every man and woman...
...Poverty_will not accept this answer...
...ONLY 2,300,000 ARE UNEMPLOYED"' WHAT can be said of men who jubilantly declare there are "only" 2,300,000 unemployed in this country...
...They knew that the plank held no menace for the chain system in Wisconsin...
...This question has been commissionizod, investigated and probed...
...Where can one find a greater surrender to demagoguery than the Oshkosh platform...
...TR...
...In discussing this point Collier's says: "If a man is so little known that his claims need to be advertised by the...
...The unemployed are considered a political football and means for self-seekers' publicity...
...Hungry babes and impotent aged should stir an elemental livalr.v that i pposed to be in all men, but i>><iphe(y and well i;hes is ! he ,< titute for work and bread...
...Kohler and the Oshkdsh Convention platform...
...THIS is the old charge which has been made against the La Follettes for forty years...
...Block operates a string of newspapers ranging from Duluth to Newark, New Jersey...
Vol. 1 • July 1930 • No. 32
