WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT
What's It All About -By The Man On The StreetWalter Kohler measures men by the money they have made. In his campaign for governor of Wisconsin he is making It clear that he doesn't think much of...
...This will prove of interest to persons who struggle to pay their policies...
...Kohler talks just like Baer did...
...It is a duty of the people to smash the chain-bank menace by supporting Phil La Foillette for governor and electing a legislature to back him up in putting on the statute books the Progressive measures he Is so sincerely and eloquently advocating in tills campaign...
...All the Chain newspapers, all the Chain bankers and all the Chain storekeepers are for Walter Kohler and against Phil La Follette...
...What Walter Cant-Remember Kohler needs is 'a permanent wave for his vagrant memory...
...yes, the country needs more Business Men—and Business Women—in high positions of public trust...
...This is reducing time In Wall Street...
...He believes none but the wealthy ought to be chosen for public office...
...Don't vote against your own interests...
...Nero fiddled while Rome burned...
...The list of casualties to pocketbooks is now big enough to drape the Woolnorth building from the flagstaff to the sub-basement...
...A few years ago Herbert Hoover wrote: "Real needs can be determined only by constructive leadership...
...If some of these amateur efficiency men and reformers would only try to find some way to reduce unemployment and BRING BACK PROSPERITY, instead of agitating for daylight saving, I am sure their efforts would be more sincerely appreciated...
...But the prosperity ballyhoo of the Trlb...
...O. O. P, leaders refer to this Jobless era as "just 4 natural depression...
...The enemies of the labor unions, the men who for years have tried to destroy them, the advocates of the so-called "open shop," all the employers who deny labor's inherent right to collective bargaining, all the worshippers of Wall Street are for the candidate who puts money above everything else and has used, ami is using, immense sums to gain public office...
...People love sincerity," slobbers the Madison, Wis., Journal (Chain...
...16 will do well a remember that the Wisconsin legislature passed a bill' . orbing chain stores, but Walter Kohler vetoed it...
...Three members of one family drew $162,701...
...Any leadership in that...
...Oangland's Greatest Newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, makes this naive admission: "It is more than doubtful if ballyhoo has done anything to alleviate the effects of depreeslon in the last ten months...
...Certain Big Business men have no occasion to complain of a lack of prosperity...
...In everything that she does she proves that she is first, last and all the time for Money Rule...
...Independent merchants and their friends when they ote in the Wisconsin primary on Sept...
...Then the Madison organ of the Davenport, la., syndicate goes on to declare that when Phil La Follette makes a statement he is insincere...
...In his campaign for governor of Wisconsin he is making It clear that he doesn't think much of the fellows who have not accumulated many dollars...
...And since he has been president he has dodged all important problems by appointing commissions to mull over them...
...in His infinite wisdom, has given control of the property interests of the country...
...Every day brings forth news of dividends being slashed or omitted...
...Here is one of Baer's gems: "The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected by the Christian men to whom God...
...It isn't difficult to find out who is the working man's candidate for governor of Wisconsin...
...Here is a little nut, (or t'.v Standpat editor...
...Organized labor is unitedly behind the candidacy of Phil La Follette...
...Soft words do not relieve hunger...
...It is easy to make a choice In the Wisconsin campaign...
...In an article called "The Insurance Racket" the American Mercury tells of the "milking'' of credulous America...
...This being true, does it require much brains for the average man to decide where his interests are when he votes in the Wisconsin primary...
...Relatives of officials were given huge salaries...
...Prosperity must be brought back...
...of Wisconsin ;.n crack: During this campaign vuii are shouting, day alti-r day that Waiter Kohler is a great and good friend of labor If this is 'rue...
...Control of the money of the people of Wisconsin means a mastery of the political situation of the state...
...The sincerity of the Madison Journal can be judged when it is known that while it advocates prohibition it has printed on its editorial page dozens of recipes for making whisky, gin and all other kinds of cocktails...
...If the Wisconsin Stalwarts are not using a slush fund in behalf of Kohler why have they sidetracked the effort of the Progressives to bring about an investigation of expenditures before the primary...
...With men out of work and thousands of others working only short hours, the majority of the people are getting all the sunlight that they need...
...The interests of the Chain newspapers, Chain bankers and Chain storekeepers are not the interests of all the poeple...
...They are the officials of the great life insurance companies...
...It says that eighty high officials of the ten larger insurance companies in 1928 were paid the immense amount of $3,492,627...
...Many Milwaukeeans are singing hosannas over their deliverance from what the go-getters and Smart Alecks cf the business world called "daylight saving.'' One man wrote a letter to the newspapers in which he expressed the feelings of a multitude of his fellow citizens: "The old alibi of giving everyone an additional hour of sunlight holds water like a sieve...
...Unmindful of the tremendous misery and suffering that has followed in the wake of the world's greatest gambling hell in New York, which crashed with a loss of billions of dollars last fall and brought on the long unemployment scourge, Big Business men of Milwaukee have decided to provide the people of Wisconsin's metropolis with a stock exchange...
...This -hows how much sincerity there is in the Stalwarts assertion that, they do something to check the encroachments of the chain-store octopus, * * « Every exploiter of labor is working for (he election of Kohler and abusing Phil La Follette...
...how is it that he has not been indorsed by the labor unions...
...Years ago there was a multimillionaire coal magnate who was called "Divine Right Baer," because he was always using the name of the Almighty in an effort to bolster up his arguments that the rich should be the rulers of the People...
...A Big Business woman, Dollar-Mark Hanna's daughter —Ruth Hanna McCormick...
...Kindly, answer before tie .primary election...
...What the people of Milwaukee really need Is FOOD, CLOTHING, FUEL, HIGH WAGES and, most of all, JOBS...
...And his administration will pass into history as one of long and widespread unemployment...
...who spent $300,000 to $1,-000,000 to get the G. O. P. nomination for senator in Illinois—hired spies to watch a senator who is doing his duty investigating charges of slush-funding...
...But business men, the kind that the Stalwarts insist should be chosen for governor and other public offices, wanted an extra hour to play golf—and they got it...
...Milwaukee millionaires and their satellites played golf during the Jobless crisis...
...In the same breath it asserts that Walter Kohler's words are filled with sincerity...
...On the other hand, all the exploiters of labor are backing Kohler...
...In 1923 Herbert said: "No waste is greater than unemployment, no- suffering Is keener or more fraught with despair than that due to inability by those who wish to work to get jobs...
...and the other Hoover shouters two years ago did rope in the poor, deluded voters...
...m Ruth Hanna McCormick, the multimillionaire G. O. P. candidate for senator in Illinois, says she is for majority rule...
...As the French would say, "It is the Hoover Prosperity...
...One president received $200,000 and another $126,600, while a vice president was given $175,000...
...He has been indorsed by William Oreen, president of the American Federation of Labor, and by the national and state officers of the great Railroad Brotherhoods...
Vol. 1 • September 1930 • No. 41
