THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM A NEW PROGRESSIVE PARTY [San Antonio, Texas'. Aug. 16.]—As a subscriber of the La Follette's Mag-azine almost from its inception, I can truthfully say that the weekly arrival of...
...A government that will not protect its citizens from every kind of foreign in...
...by putting all business on a truly, fair basis.—Vaughn Bacnman Brokaw...
...There is no doubt that corruption has one of its fountain heads in rum-running and bootlegging, and this makes its difficult to dislodge undesirable officials both high and low, and were this liquor question once settled and real temperance take its , place, other issues more important and more necessary could be brought before the public and taken notice of by the people, and legislation necessary to their welfare enacted, and vicious legislation repealed...
...In the Independent Progressive movement having La Follette and Wheeler as its candidates, was mainly manned by people who still considered themselves as Republicans...
...Pecple must come to think of it as a possibility that nations can be maintained without war machinery before they will act in such a way as to prevent anyone leading them into wars...
...I read with pleasure your editorial on The Campaign Against War...
...the last two"' for the poor man only...
...And while we are about it all foreign and domestic religious fanatics should be barred...
...The American people must better themselves and in some way" take the nomination machinery into their cwn hands and if passible nominate nd elect a real American for president and vice president...
...The unions did not support this movement, which includes both the A. F. of L. and the Railway Brotherhood...
...If we could adopt some strictly sane American policy, perhaps all the corruption that is boiling to the top of the old "melting pot" will evaporate and pass away...
...John J. Blaine, and Geo...
...military warfare, and hence, from time to time, they find themsejyes involved in some war that they do not understand, but which they are told they must support because their particular nation is in it...
...However, I believe that as long as they are lead by political disturbers, their only hope for success would be in the formation of a real Peoples Progressive Party to be broad enough to embrace all honest 'Orward looking people in all walks of 'ife...
...namely Borah, Brookhart, Frazier, Nye, and others of#that stripe...
...16.]—As a subscriber of the La Follette's Mag-azine almost from its inception, I can truthfully say that the weekly arrival of The Progressive keeps the issues of the day and for the future more constantly before the public, and is therefore more potent with the message of Progressivism...
...While both enslaver and slave take for granted the method of fixing prices that automatically puts a price on what is not human work, there may be many cases where neither realized the true significance of the transaction...
...In tlie Republican party the Progressives have made no gains.—J...
...While a price is put on what is not human work, so long will some be able to get others to work for them longer than they work in return...
...Those who two years ago made the excuse that they were fighting for the Eighteenth Amendment as their main and probably only issue, for besides that, if conditions and issues are as today, they will have no other leg to stand on, two years hence...
...EDUCATION AGAINST WAR ;Del Rosa...
...The present period of unemployment has brought the fact home more than ever that the country is filled to the saturation point with foreign labor...
...A few American Negroes are sometimes employed, but no white labor is ever employed by the president of the United States, except a.s foremen...
...No new party will have a chance with a big or long platform...
...M. La Follette...
...Bill of Rights (The first ten article to the federal constitution) mean absolutely nothing, to osteneibly speak to save the one and only one article held sacred, but not revered or complied with, the Eighteenth amendment, and boost the former employer of coolies to the presidential chair...
...HOOVERS FOREIGN LABOR TLos Angeles,, Ca...
...It must be for all the people which means at least 90 per cent of them, and here in the south would have to be4 aided financially and morally...
...In 1924 I helped bring into being the short-lived Independent Progressive party, in Texas, and was one of the members of the campaign committee, both for the rtate committee and for the Bexar County Campaign committee, ana feel certain, that I was personally instrumental in inducing a few thousand voters to vote for La Follette and Wheeler...
...The existence of interests which profit financially from warfare is primarily due to the same false economic price-fixing custom that makes it possible for people to' take wars as inevitable phe-nomina...
...May the list of readers constantly grow...
...And the pecple will have to be presented with the proposal that all prices be fixed on the hour-for-hour of adult human work basis (a basis that would automatically prevent the economic enslavement of workers), again and again until they lose their faith in fixing prices by such methods as supply and demand...
...There is no more free government land for them to homestead, and so every alien who comes to the country now is crowding some citizen or some other alien' out of a job or a business position...
...Now in contrast to the political disturbers in the Republican party, we have the example of such men like Senators Robt...
...But the advocacy of adopting the correct arrangement is one of the best ways, I believe, of so changing human psychology on the subject a^ to in course of time bring about the adoption of correct in place of the incorrect arrangements...
...It seems to me, that if the Farm-Labor party in Minnesota can make the G. O. P. elephant dance to its music, why could not the so-called Progressives in North Dakota and Iowa and other states, shed their Hooverism and at least be Progressive and select Progressive candidates...
...Now taek the state of Minnesota, and what do you find there...
...Those affiliating would have to shed their Republican...
...You find the Republicans of all stripes condemning and ignoring Hoover, and aping an almost non-existant Farm-Labor Party in that state...
...It is natural that when conditions have gone very far in an injurious direction, that a proposal that people should adopt a correct arrangement should seem extreme and not fitted to the very harmful existing conditions...
...vasion is deserving of contempt.—H...
...the Saturday Evening Post gives the number illegaJte entering the United States since 1921 as 2,000.000...
...The Progressive (Bull Moose) Party was a movement to punsh the Republican party...
...Tn other words these senators had no hope in Hoover, but realized the blind prejudice of the majority of the people, and now we have Hoover with all his works, .etc...
...To start a new party in the south by building on the present Republican party would be like trying to erect a building without building material...
...My party died in 1896 when Bill Bryan captured the Peoples Party at St...
...Ideas rule the human affairs cf the world, so that we must change the people's ideas when we wish to change their actions...
...In Idaho, the one and only one known to be progressive or so-called progressive, is its big noise maker...
...I say almost non-existing party, for such was the case as far as the national part of it was concerned...
...The tactics pursued by Bill Bryan were recently adopted by those political disturbers and acrobats known as Progressives...
...The work thus appropriated by the person thus worked for is real profit...
...These so-called Progressives—every two or four years—help build up and strengthen during election time this political Frankenstein, and then the rest of the time, apparently try to make every one believe they are for the "dear peepul...
...Since the People's Party time, there has been no real third party with a membership evenly distributed over the entire country, appealing to all the people...
...they are one-sided as I see them...
...The Saturday Evening Post is a pro-Hoover publication, and I am wondering if the publishers are aware that it is a matter of common knowledge here in California that Pres...
...Of course there were many individuals who did help both personally and financially, but as a whole, after a thorough analysis, only six and one-fourth per cent of the vote received in Texas was cast by members of the various unions...
...Borah...
...I believe a crisis is- drawing near and we are soon to have a showdown...
...it is tribute exacted by an enslaver from a slave...
...with 10 large counties unreported...
...Louis, and then sold it for a mess of pottage when he was not big snough to split with his party when Judge Alton B. Parker won it back to Big Business in 1904...
...Add to this number those who enter legally and we have the answer to our unemployment and to a certain extent our prison problem...
...Some think machinery is responsible for the trouble, but I think such people are about as narrow as the harvest hands who burned the first self-binding reapers used by the farmers years ago...
...The result of these tactics is apparent to those who will see...
...They were far-seeing enough to know that from Hoover's past acts and performances that nothing could be expected from him in a Progressive way...
...That is why I favor the proposed constitutional amendment against war which your editorial describes...
...vigorous party...
...Until that time art'ives, the Democratic Party extends more hope than any other...
...W. Norris, who either did not vote at all for president or voted for Albert E. Smith, and who did not speak for Hcnver or work for him or the Republican party platform of two years ago...
...In the Democratic party more and more Progressives are being nohiinated and elected, like Senator Gore of Oklahoma...
...for until they lose faith In the enslaving method they will not be able to adopt the method which will make all sane adults economically free and forever end the possibility of both profits and wars...
...Sept, 7.]—Unemployment seems to be one of the chief topics of the day...
...A large bulk of the voters in both old parties were ready to abandon them at that time, especially in the south...
...The Republican party in the south is only a party to distribute spoils of office and in times of dissatisfaction, for the disgruntled Democrats to vent their spleen by voting same...
...A writer for...
...Of course, the American negroes are entitled to a chance to'earn a living as well as the white citizens, but there is no reason why we should welcome the surplus and undesirable peoples of other nations...
...The first two are for big business only...
...This vote exceeded the vote of any other southern state...
...The state of Iowa, endorsed Hoover through its Republican primary and nominated a Stand-patter, Dickenson, for senator...
...The article dated June 9. '?rit-ten by W. S. H. Engle of Lima, Ohio, as to a new party, squarely hits the nail on the head, when he said: "I have no time for the Democratic, Republican, Socialist, or Labor parties...
...Hoover hires little else but Filipinos and Mexicans on his large California ranch...
...The masses are used to taking it for granted that nations must be ever ready to wag...
...and often a proposal that they change their actions may do much to chanee their ideas by getting them to think of doing differently from what they are used to...
...In the north, the name "Republican" seems much to cenjure with, the people there seem to be reluctant to abandon the name and that alone as long as that notion is held will be a deterrent to the formation of a new...
...Democratic, etc., shells and leaye them behind them, then, and only then will there be hope of a new party...
...Our state was visited by Borah who came here at the solicitation of those to whom the...
...Whenever a new third party is formed, it will have to be one that has no north, south, east or west, but be for the whole country, be forward-looking, but not too all fired fast Progressive—gradual Progressivism is more desirable, than shuttling bark and forth...
...During the year 1920 .conditions were very auspicious...
...F. StorU...
...Down here in Texas, sometimes, issues are . dominant, and arn sorry to say that many more times, slogans take their fancy to the exclusion of everything else...
...J. Dilbue...
...North Dakota the last six »years has seen the Progressives within the Republican party lose ground, and this year, instead of gaining ground and progressing, hardly hold its own...
...Prom time to time, I notice articles urging the formation of a new party...
...On the other hand, Senator Norris knew between the two, Hoover or Smith, that Smith was for conservation of our natural resources, and was at least considered forward-looking, and knew that Hoover would veto and Smith would approve the Muscle Shoals legislation introduced by Senator Norris...
...The vote polled in Texas was over 42,000...
...The plain people will not take up or notice more than three main issues at a time...
...Sept...
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