THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM THE BACKS AGAINST THE WALL ;Marshfield, Wis., Aug. 30.;— It has always been a strong trick of the Stalwart machine to weaken Progressive organizations by seeing to it that a...
...Those who would turn our attention away from our financial and industrial distress by referring to the unemployed as "Reds" are to be compared to a shepherd who would try' to keep his flock fenced in on half rations and if they should occasionally crawl through the wires in search of food, he would call on his neighbors to help him beat and return them to his corral...
...I have no monopoly on honesty...
...Some of them, in spite of their vagaries, ale absolutely sincere...
...Some members of t-h< ! audience started to "boo" when the name of Senator Qoodiand was mentioned...
...as I do not want to miss an issue of th» Progressive, nor of the Kansas City Freemason, and I believe that if every' voter in the country would read these two good papers regularly, every week, it would only be a short time until we would have a better financial and Industrial system and would not be having such periods of unemployment and financial distress as we have had in the past year...
...He concede...
...Phil La Follette Is preeminently fatr...
...FINANCIAL SYSTEM AT FAULT [Tujunga, Cal., Sept...
...I wonder what this hypocritical press is going to say again this year...
...C. Stierle...
...gamblers who can inflate or deflate to suit their I own interests...
...He should by no means . be designated as a mere "chip off the , old block...
...But though I protest against their being 'booed' I am going to fight them tooth and nail...
...I have respect for men who differ with me...
...30.;— It has always been a strong trick of the Stalwart machine to weaken Progressive organizations by seeing to it that a two-faced Stalwart is elected to one of its offices...
...8.—Please change the address of my paper from Hawthorne, Calif., to Tujunga, Calif...
...for I believe if silver j had been restored to its former place of free coinage, at that time, it would have gone a long way toward preventing these disastrous deflations...
...minded...
...When the primary is over it will be seen that money was used more than ever by them...
...E. Hunt...
...Phil La Follette showed courage by saying that...
...I think those neighbors should beat and corral that shepherd instead of the sheep for starving his flock.—K...
...Nature, In forming . him, hit upon a happy combination ol 1 R. M. La Follette, Sr., and Abraham ; Lincoln...
...He says frankly that he has ; no monopoly on honesty...
...I will enclose a blank petition for a government controlled banking system that I have been circulating, and to which I have secured hundreds of signatures...
...Yet there are people who have the nerve to say that money spent in the interests of the millionaires is not debauching the people.—J...
...Sept, 5\—I have never listened to a political speech more fair, more honest, more sincere, more fervid, more logical and more convincing than 1 the speech delivered in Racine Thursday night by Philip La Follette, the Progressive candidate for governor...
...that other men who materially differ with him may be just as honest as he Is hiniseli...
...Phil La Follette has an individuality all his own...
...Not so vindictive as his illustrious father, he is just as eloquent, just ns fervid, and if possible, even . more convincing...
...I am going to vote for Phil La Follette not merely because I admire his fairness, but because I believe in his principles;—Hugo A. Rickeman...
...I have often wondered why the late j Senator La Follette and many other i Progressives did not support W. J. j Bryan in 1890...
...I believe the trouble with our present financial system is that it is controlled by a few Wall St...
...I believe too, that if silver had never been demonetized and none of our greenbacks had been destroyed, our Civil war debt could have all been paid off 40 years ago, instead of now still having a debt of over $440,000,000 on account of that war alone...
...The difference between an enthusiastic Progressive and a Stalwart is that the Progressive talks because of principle and the Stalwart because he is in some form paid for talking...
...Phil quickly raised his hand, silenced the "booers" and uttered the following words or words to their effect: "I wLsh to 'boo' no man...
...The Stalwarts have their backs against the wall, as everybody knows...
...i An incident happened during his > speech Thursday night that illustrate I his fairness...
...PHIL IS FAIR AND HONEST [Racine, Wis...
...Two years ago the paid press stated that Kohler was a new man and that it was necessary to spend large sums of money to give him publicity...
...He constitutes a block in • himself Rnd a very substantial block , at that...
Vol. 1 • September 1930 • No. 42
