WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT
What's It All About By The Man On The Street It is announced from the White House that Herbert. Trill make four speeches in different part* of the United States in October. We respectfully suggest...
...G. O. P. fairy story for 1930: "The voters must understand t*at the hard times of which they complain so bitterly is something for which the Republican party is in no way responsible...
...Like the triumph of Senator Norris of Nebraska over the Power Trust it will hearten Progressives everywhere throughout the United States in their determination to give unceasing battle to Monopoly...
...but as an almost lifelong Republican we are proud to say that Republicans do not stoop to that sort of thing...
...Today millions of men and women, eager to work, walk the streets in a vain search for employment...
...It is amusing therefore to listen to the wail sent up by one set of Big Business men against another coterie of Big Business men...
...9, 1930...
...The letter added, "Mr...
...The people of Michigan, however, firmly refused to take orders from the Pittsburgh multi-millionaire who heads the aluminum trust and other trusts too numerous to mention...
...They have enough votes to overwhelm monopoly and Its minions...
...The Michigan primary put a painful crick in the neck of Andy Mellon, press-agented for years as "the greatest secretary of the treasurer since Alexander Hamilton...
...Even after Senator Robinson of Indiana had gone so far as to call the terrible financial depression "the recon-s'i-'ictioi...
...But there are persons who do not forget everything that has happened in our political history, and they chuckle as they remind the gullible reactionaries that Maine went Republican In the memorable year when Charles Evan Hughes was defeated for president...
...He planned the McKinley campaign on that basis', raised the greatest slush fund in the history of American politics, and put his man in the White House and himself into the senate...
...The corner must be an awful long one, for the figures show that the total earnings of 851 companies have declined more than 22 per cent in the first six months of this year...
...G. O. P. Public Ledger of Philadelphia: "The Republicans cannot afford to lose many senate Iseats this Jail...
...Oh...
...Fiction circulated by the G. O. P. in 1928: "For your own welfare and prorperity vote for Hoover and Curtis—Republican victory means steady jobs...
...If they don't know enough to use that most effective weapon—the ballot—they can blame only themselves for their plight...
...We'll say It is to laugh...
...The victory of Cou2ens by a majority of about a quarter of a million votes Is an encouraging sign of the times...
...Only Democrats do that...
...If Ruth Hanna McCormicks can prevail through their millions, and not on account of what ability they may possess, It Is going to be a sad day for the American republic...
...show truth of the assertion of the progressives that the prship of the industries of the United States is pa...
...She also looks upon the senate as if It were spelled, "Senate...
...Hoover...
...period," and had warmly praised Herbert, the o;g<in ol the Chicago grain gamblers jumped on him and tailed him a Socialist because he voted for government operation of Muscle Shoals...
...A new book...
...List to a wall from the...
...Sept...
...It comes from the singers of the monopoly crowd and it has this baleful title: "The Necessity for the Liquidation of Labor...
...m » ' Two years ago the working man was told by the G. O. P. orators and newspapers that if he voted for Herbert, the superman and great engineer, he would be assured of steady work—in fact, the inspired politicians worked their propaganda up to the enthusiastic point where it promised a chicken for every pot...
...The organs of the speculators and the forestalled, in plain English, the gamblers, are weeping loudly becaut'J, as they figure it out...
...When it was reported that George K. Morrow, an outstanding financial magnate, who is the dictator of the United Cigar Stores of America and the Gold Dust Corporation, was working to swallow the Ward .Baking Corporation, one of the greatest in all America, mhe management of the baking concern bwucd a lour R-arning to its stockholders...
...Andy hates Senator Couzens because he has manhood enough not to wear the party yoke and has supported Progressive measures: Andy hoped to defeat Couzens by running Chase Os-born...
...Signfieant admission by a G. O. P. newspaper: "In point of fact, this country's prosperity depends very little on the administration at Washington...
...She already has spent a sum variously estimated from more than $350,000 to within hailing distance of $1,000,000 just to get the nomination In the state that gave Lincoln to the nation...
...Wisdom culled from a "fact-finding newspaper": "Gin with tomato juice cocktail is okay...
...We respectfully suggest that he endeavor to enlighten his fellow citizens by discussing the following absorbing topics: 1. Hoover Prosperity...
...2. The Abolition of Poverty...
...Some Standpatters are trying to kid themselves into believing that all is well with the G. O. P. because it carried Maine, although by a greatly reduced plurality...
...Raskob...
...Of course, the thing to do in politics is to make the ttj^ttsifton candidate look bad...
...In' ent Trusts Gone Wrong...
...They hear a much different song these sad September days...
...Every time a reactionary editor thinks he has succeeded in keeping the truth from his readers it reaches them "with striking force through the radio...
...One of the stock charges of the Con-servatives is that the pesky Progressives are forever stirring up dissension and strife in this best of possible worlds...
...1 the Standpat soothsayers have been telling us that "Prosperity is just around the corner...
...Morrow stated that he does not Intend to invest ANY OF HI6 ' MONEY in our stock...
...G. O. P. chieftains are sadly lacking in a sense of humor...
...Everybody knows how the Republican leaders frowned on the scandalous talk about Mr...
...believed that money was the supreme thing in this world...
...the farm board has lost some of the people's money In an effort to get a decent price for the products of the farmers, who comprise one-third of our population...
...4. How the Jobless Man Can Catch a Chicken and Borrow a Pot...
...3. Monopoly's Proposal for the Liquidation of Labor...
...by John T Flynn...
...What a tremendous difference two years make in the songs that echo and re-echo throughout our broad land: • * » Here's a little prosperity note from Herbert's own state, Sunny California: "Vineyardists will dump 300,000 tons of their 2,000.000-ton grape crop in an attempt to keep up the price of raw grapes and raisins...
...But they never utter a word about the hundreds of millions of dollars the public loses through the brazen extortion of the Power Trust...
...Instead of stewing chickens they are hunting jobs...
...g Into the hands of immense "holding" companies, just as the community banks are . feeing gobbled up by monopolistic "holding," companies...
...Ras-kob's candidate for president in 1928...
...Raskob is in a plot to slander Mr...
...Jay E. House, the satirist of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, says: "Republican leaders say Mr...
...The late Mark Hanna...
...If it is true, we think it very unkind of Mr...
...Unwavering devotion to the Power Trust is the first requisite fo "regularity" in the G. O. P. ¦> • • « Ever since Jan...
...Eau Claire, Wis., Telegram...
...Are the Con-servatives skeered...
...In the days of Mark Hanna senate was spelled with a dollar mark, thus—"Senate.'' The daughter of Mark Hanna, Ruth, is now out to buy a seat in the senate from Illinois...
...the worst boss the G. O. P. ever had...
...Madison, Wis., Journal, editorial page...
...They were cautioned "against any scheme that has as its appeal DISSENSION AND STRIFE, and which may have as its object STOCK MANIPULATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FEW...
...The farm board approves the measure, as it would be impossible to get anything but red ink for the remainder of the crop if the entire production were thrown on the market...
...If money is going to rule America the common people have only themselves to blame...
Vol. 1 • September 1930 • No. 42
