HUBER ASSAILS EPHITETS USED BY GOV. KOHLER
HUBER ASSAILS EPHITETS USED BY GOV. KOHLER Says If lo Protect Masses is Ignorance, as Charged, Then He Accepts Label SCANDINAVIA. Wis. — Lieut. Gov. Henry A. Huber told an audience here today...
...The caucus system, dominated by the Stalwarts of wealth was destroyed by the Progressives when the primary law was enacted...
...Railroads were compelled to submit to just taxation by Progressive legislation which Stalwarts opposed...
...If a man be 'ignorant' because he lever suffers from lapse of memory ;hen I am 'ignorant' because I believe in full disclosures of all the facts on ;he witness stand...
...If a man be 'ignorant' because he believes that the chain banks of this state are crushing community development, then I am 'ignorant' because I believe in legislation that will check the devastation of the chain bank monster...
...to secure the rights of the farmer and to protect the rights of the laborer, but has been met with the bitter hostility of the Stalwart leaders, like the governor, who now charges us with being 'ignorant' and 'demagogues.' The man who is caught in a hole is apt to use epithets instead of argument...
...Much of the legislation to protect women and children was enacted by Progressives while Stalwart...
...and I would not lend my name to the directorship of a scheme which will so blight the development of small communities...
...If a man be 'ignorant' because he believes that the poor boys of Wisconsin should have the same opportunities to hold office as those who are rich...
...Henry A. Huber told an audience here today that, if a man had to bear the odium of the charge of "ignorant,'' made by Got...
...If a man be 'ignorant' because he is opposed to selling office to the highest bidder, even though $100,000 is bid for the job, then I am 'ignorant' because I believe that no man or group of men should be permitted to spend twenty-five times the amount allowed by law to secure a public office...
...If to stand by the farmers, the laboring men and the plain people of this state and oppose the withering effect of wenlth, immorally spent in elections...
...The Wisconsin compensation law was enacted under Progressive auspices and Stalwarts generally opposed it...
...The income tax law, which would Compel wealth to bear a more just burden, was enacted by the Progressives while the Stalwarts opposed the legislation...
...Opponents Ignorant" "Gov...
...cannot charge us, as we do him, of double crossing the people of the state in his platform pledges to reduce taxes, curtail expenses, bring Industries to the state, strengthen the corrupt practices act and lift the income tax burden from the small earners, which he made little or no effort to redeem...
...Kohler in an address at Milwaukee Monday evening, Aug...
...content to suffer in adversity and bear the scorn of 'being ignorant," for I am never so happy as when fighting with the men and women, the farmers and laboring men of Wisconsin, who in their reputed 'ignorance' have made Wisconsin, by Progressive legislation, the best state in the Union in which to live...
...then the governor's charge of 'ignorance' is justified, because I believe In equal opportunities for all...
...then I want to be known as ignorant...
...Founded six years ago, Bat-bar City, Calif., with a population of mote than...
...never has had a death-either natural or accidental...
...that money shall not be the qualification...
...The Corrupt Practices Act was enacted by Progressives and Stalwarts opposed it...
...Not a single advance has been made in Wisconsin to secure forward-looking legislation...
...The regulation of water powers...
...The governor may brand us as being 'ignorant' but In...
...The path of the Progressive movement in Wisconsin is marked by the milestones of achievement...
...If a man be 'ignorant' because he Is opposed to having the farmers plundered with the highest real estate tax in five years: because he is opposed to spending $4,000,000 more than the last state administration, then I accept the dunce cap proferred by the governor because I believe it is high time that this bleeding the farmers of this state with more taxes must end," said Mr...
...If to oppose the efforts of millionaires to shift taxes to the poor, be such an offense that one must be classed as 'Ignorant,' then I shall fx...
...Huber, "is quoted by the press as saying that, his opponents: " 'were too ignorant to understand the workings of the business administration at Madison.' As a citizen of Wisconsin I resent these cowardly charges...
...Kohler at Milwaukee, "because he was opposed to saddling the farmers with higher taxes, while the rich escape...
...legislation to compel the 'tax dodger' to pay up were all passed by Progressives with the Stalwarts fighting in opposition every inch of the way...
...These are some of the achievements of the men whom the governor of ttils state calls as 'ignorant.' "If 'ignorant' men, — these farmers and laborers who have been the backbone of the Progressive movement,— have made these great accomplishments against the Stalwart phmderbund, then it is a high compliment to have the Stalwart chieftain proffer the cap of 'ignorance' to us...
...bonuses for soldiers who fought In the World war...
...Since the days of my majority I have been enlisted under the banner of the Progressive movement of this state...
...I would rather be an 'Ignorant' man any day and stand for something worth while in life than lie an 'educated autocrat' who would feudalize the state service...
...If a man be 'ignorant' because he fights in the legislature as Progressives did in the last legislature, to compel wealth to pay a just share of taxes, then I am willing to be called an 'ignorant man.' "If it be 'ignorance' to believe in the oath on the witness stand, then I am an ignorant man' because I fear God and believe in the Sanctity of the oath and the righteousness of truth no matter who it hits...
...opposed it...
...con-tinned Mv...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 38
