WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT
What's It All About -By The Man On The StreetFree speech is guaranteed by the Constitution of the Cnited States and by the Constitution of the states. •Congress shall make no law abridging the...
...A party of jobless men who have found shelter in a grove of pine trees on the city limits of Iron Mountain, Mich., have christened their temporary home "Hoover Park...
...But they will not bind themselves not y> accept lucrative commissions from anybody else in any part of the world for deals that will depress the price of the wheat raised by the impoverished farmers...
...The Russian scare gave the gamblers an opportunity to make a gesture of friendship for the farmer and a move to head, off congressional investigation that ought to put an end to the world's greatest grain-gambling pit...
...After a tremendous hue and cry—and tearful entreaties from Washington—the 1.600 grain gamblers who constitute the Chicago board of trade have promised not to accept any more orders from the terrible Bolsheviks to sell wheat short...
...The Detroit News pokes fun at, Herbert's fondness for commissions by pointing out that the world series of baseball games could not be held In Washington because there are only 80,000 »eat« in the park and more than that many commissioners...
...Paui Block's Milwaukee Sentinel 'Newark Chain) labored mightily and blew a bolt-the-primary bubble that exploded as soon as the sun rose the same morning it appeared...
...Unemployment for the people is spelling unemployment for many public officials in this year of elections...
...Congress shall make no law abridging the freedorr of speech, or of the press," solemnly declares the federal Constitution...
...The people who bought Wisconsin chain-banking «(<x k around $12 a share and saw it drop the other day to $6.87!j are not sure now that they invested their money in a gold mine...
...Chairman Fesa of the G. O. P. ought to try to think up some scheme to stop the unmerciful kidding of Herbert about the failure to arrive of his promised prosperity...
...How about holding Mr...
...Backward...
...The motto of Wisconsin is, "Forward...
...Many of the 25 to 50 wanderers who gather there nightly declare that they have ridden on freight trains all over the United States in a vain search of work...
...Many salesmen complain that they cannot sell their goods...
...Fine words, in speeches or in resolutions, will not help them...
...What the farmers need is tangible relief...
...Paul is developing since he horned into the Milwaukee newspaper field—as a humorist...
...And every few days the opposition press reminds people that the new chairman of the G. O. P., Sen...
...A circuit court judge in Milwaukee deplores It...
...Charlie Curtis Is to take the stump for the G. O. P. Now that he is nee president we're wondering If he will repeat, in the agricultural districts, that highly educational phrase he used two years ago: "You are too damb dumb...
...Chicago Journal of Commerce (Rabid Stalwart G. O. P...
...The house of representatives for years has been in the grip of a few standpatters...
...Ever since the board of trade opened its doors many years ago its members have been making huge profits by selling wheat short and by accepting orders to sell wheat short...
...Representative Crail of Los Angeles says that every senator knows more of what is going on than members of <he house...
...trumpets the politically bereaved Brayton of the Madison, Wis., Journal (Davenport Chain...
...At first the G. O. P. plot to defeat Sen...
...The Rhinelander, Wis., News hands this bouquet of thirties to many anti-Progressive newspapers in Wisconsin: "In their editorial columns there was little else but SMALL-BORE PARTISANSHIP...
...th»t new members do not have any "say...
...Few, told a whopper of a falsehood to the reporters at the time he was trying to "draft" Cold Storage Coolidge for a third term...
...La Follette to his promises...
...Norris of Nebraska by running a grocer of the same name against hirr in the noble hope of befuddling the voters gave forth the aroma of peanut politics...
...No farmer with an ounce of brains will be deceived by it...
...That means—if it means anything—that every citizen and every newspaper is GUARANTEED the right tc criticise the action of every public official, from th< including judges of the courts...
...Hoover to his glowing promises of prosperity...
...n the trial of a case under the Wisconsin corrupt practices law complaining that his rulings were criticised n the recent state primary campaign which resulted in s landslide for the Progressive cause...
...The highest judicial officer in the land upholds criticism of the courts...
...At a time when both the tenant farmer and the landlord farmer are groaning under the burden of high taxes it is encouraging to hear that the county officials at Mar-tlnsburg, W. Va., have decided to lower the taxes and are considering the exemption of the unproductive farms...
...With equal solemnity, the Constitution of Wlsconsir declares: "Every person may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments ON ALL SUBJECTS, being responsible for the abuse of that right, and no laws shall be passed to restrain or abridge the LIBERTY OF SPEECH OB OF THE PRESS...
...When they fail to do that its motto automatically will become...
...With wheat selling at the lowest price in a quarter of a century the G. O. P. will find it impossible to dodge the responsibility for Its failure to extend relief to the sorely distressed farmers...
...T shall hold Mr...
...w«s a wholesome influence...
...The results in the home communities of...
...Later developments have uncovered things that have the rank smell of petroleum of the Teapot Dome brand...
...The awful odor was so overpowering that it caused the hasty resignation of Victor Seymour, only recently appointed by the Party of Great Moral Ideas as vice chairman of the senatorial campaign committee in the West...
...If a mountain felt upon Wowser Winter of the Madison Journal of Jaundice his first words upon being dragged out would be: "The Progressives are having trouble...
...Now there's no life trying to entire a chicken lilt...
...Their plight contrasts strongly with the gamblers in grain and securities who are selling right and left In increasing quantities and filling their pockets with profits at a time when more than 3.000,000 men and women are unable to find work and the farm depression 1m worse than ever...
...Hard times now prevail everywhere...
...Yet...
...Its people live up to it by salutary criticism of the courts when it is needed...
...in the face of this plain, clear and unmistakable mandate in the organic law of the republic and the state, we witness the spectacle of the judge who officiate...
...The exit of Seymour, following so closely upon the forced resignation of Chairman Huston of Muscle Shoals and stock-speculation notoriety, adds one more to the long list of blunders made by the administration since Herbert moved into the Whit* House...
...The gamblers have been steadily growing richer through their pernicious manipulation of the prices of the people's food while the farmers have been steadily growing poorer...
...practically •very one of them TESTIFY TO THE INCREDULITY WITH WHICH THEIR EDITORIAL COMMENT WAS RECEIVED...
...that if the house ww smaller every member would know what ft'trwnp to...
...It has never been necessary to hold a La Follette to a promise...
...Isn't it about time that it was returned to the contrcl of the people through the representative* they elect...
...At the convention of the American Bar association helc not Jong ago in Chicago the chief justice of the Unitet States...
...Charles Evans Hughes, who is anything but a Progressive, declared that public criticism of court decision...
...a pot...
...Th« West Virginia plan should receive earnest consideration by public officials everywhere...
Vol. 1 • October 1930 • No. 44
