THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM STRONG FOR PHIL [Sherwood. Wis., Oet. 29.] — Please permit me to express my opinion in regard to the outcome of Sept. lfith primaries where again Wisconsin has done a thorough...
...Glasgow, an old school teacher of mine who advanced Progressive principles at that, time, has decided to take an active hand in the Progressive movement here in the South...
...16th...
...although very few are bold enough to express it openly...
...It seems to us as though thers would be hardly no one left to ever vote such Inequality upon ourselves...
...I. Johnson...
...A chicken in every Pot...
...B. A. Becker...
...27]—With pleasure indeed am I enclosing $1.50 for Mr...
...One brother on his way to the governorship and the other as U. S. senator will constitute a spectacle of family dominance, not now or probably never duplicated...
...Whichever way they turn, farmers will have to face competition in the world market and can not get any redress by law-enactments that, do not go to the root of social maladjustments.— Gunnar Naumann...
...able to pay the high taxes...
...How can you vote for an organization that refunds to the millionaires millions upon millions of dollars in taxes, when the property owners ' and land owners are losing their homes every day because they are not...
...20 i — In my letter printed in The Progressive Oct...
...Isn't it great thai we have men who work for the common cause for the masses, if it could be done he would be bought and controlled by the money powers tomorrow...
...How can you vote for a man for president that does the bidding of the millionaires on every measure that came up in the Inst, congress and vetoed every measure that was put forth for the masses by the Progressives in the last session...
...Do you want to deny the constitutional rights upheld by-President Abraham Lincoln in his famous siieech at Gettysburg when he said, "A government for the jjeople, by the people and with the people," and even in the acceptance speech of our president today, he stated that the business of our country should not be monopolized by big enterprises...
...brc';: • (last week and or;.»c-c..' . iroun...
...1 tba corner,—d...
...but no, never...
...How can you vote for an organization that is controlled by , monopoly, greed, and graft...
...AnJBa close reading of all the letters the farmers shOT§d that mos^^^^^i bUma the bintariffs and^^^^BviUls lower tariffs and lower taxation may be the best that is possible to get for some time to come, I believe the tendency among farmers and laborers is toward free trade...
...Hats off to Robert M. La Follette Jr...
...We must act, and act collectively so we will have a chance to vote for the Progressive movement in Texas...
...It also will come exactly 30 years after his famous father was elected to the same office and began such a dominance of the politics of a state as our country has rarely, if ever seen before...
...He can hardly understand why the American people can tolerate Kohlerism, Grundyism, and a handful of exploiters who have the people in the palm of their hands...
...PROGRESSIVES IN THE SOUTH [Waka, Tex., Oct...
...La Follette, and though we all can, if we work together, help him a lot, that's only a. drop in the bucket compared to the honorable fight he is putting before the people today...
...Let's boost for him, let's work together...
...Ask yourself how you can vote for a man for president that will go about the, country telling the people that times are good and that the people are not hard up and that they are hoarding their money...
...SHOULD SUPPORT PROGRESSIVE [Denver...
...Not yet...
...Here in Colorado it is endeavoring to send its chosen emissary to the United States senate in the person of George H. Shaw...
...Bees would not tolerate it...
...Well, the present administration ought, to teach old party regulars a lesson...
...24,—Ask yourself how a stand-pat Republican can afford to spend $250,000 to a million dollars to get himself or herself elected to the senate when the job only pays $10,000 per year or $60,000 for a full term...
...lfith primaries where again Wisconsin has done a thorough job of it...
...Glasgow was reviewing the many good deeds that Sen...
...A CORRECTION [Nucla, Col., Oct...
...Glasgow from Amarillo, whose ability, honesty, and integrity we hold dear as a real Progressive...
...The time has arrived when the people of Wisconsin, as well as all the other states of this great, union of the rank and file, should sit up and think, and it isn't too late but great things can still be done...
...and in conclusion I wish to say that Philip F. La Follette is worthy of our loyal support in every town, city, and farm wherever we may happen to live, because the power and strength of our state and nation is the final sum total of neighborly spirit, developed through friendly contact and cooperation in our community...
...Through them Wisconsin has grown and has kept way ahead and in van of modern progress, until every state in the nation looks forward to Wisconsin as their leadership...
...Here, by the way, it may be appropriately remarked that, according to the great number of answers received by said paper, more than 80 ner cent of them w?r: opposed to the proposition made and advocated by Legge and Hyde...
...Phil, 33 years of age, with round face, serious direct eyes and his father's famous unruly head of hair, honest and sincere, outside of his great victory...
...It is covering with its slimy tentacles every site and opportunity for the generation of electric light and power that it can lay its unholy hands upon, or that its corrupting dollars can purchase...
...Let's realize the truth, which Viust be credited to Mr...
...Subscribers all over the country should support The Progressive.—H...
...M. McMa...
...Col...
...GO TO THE TOLLS [Crest-on, la., Oct...
...The United States, I am informed, at the great Muscle Shoales plant which is the property of the PEOPLE, is generating electricity and selling it for TWO MILLS a kilowatt to a private company, which company is charging its consumers 80 mills (8 cents), FORTY TIMES ITS COST...
...Ants cooperatively consume what they together have provided...
...The word "palliatives" had reference to tariffs and subsidies and to the voluntary restriction of production by farmers for the purpose of raising prices of wheat, and other farm produce, as proposed by Chairman Legge of the farm board...
...The printed questions, a clipping from the said paper, attached to the letter, should have been printed at the head of it...
...I know what we are talking about, and during all this time we were considering both sides of the argument...
...21!—Having been a reader of your patriotic paper for more than six months, I want to offer my congratualtions and thanks for the splendid manner in which your paper is conducted...
...Bui that is not all: other countries will, and do, retaliate by putting up tariff walls against imports from this country...
...In this day and age of speed there have been no greater or more vital problems at stake than there is right now, not since prohibition or the World war were we looking forward to greater constructive leadership, and the issues of today should not be handled carelessly, but let's bring back the original document signed by Thomas Jefferson and again make us feel proud of this great signature...
...had accomplished and how he almost alone fought during those heart-aching times before our entrance into the war...
...The whole article or letter would have been more intelligible IT you had aflixed a note tas I proposed) explaining that the letter was originally written for the Weekly Kansas Oity Star in answer to the questions to farmers, as published in that, paper, for the purpose of getting their views, or opinions' of the proposition made by the secretary of the U. S. department of agriculture, A. M. Hyde, and Chairman Legge of the farm board...
...Did you ever hear of a farmer getting a refund on taxes of over $2 000 000...
...Robert M. La Follette Sr...
...So let's briefly consider some of his views on today's campaign issues and take for example, chain or group banks and stores...
...It has peculiar advantages in the fact that, not attempting the tremenduos volume of the present day newspaper, and in not having your pages covered with uninteresting advertisements, your readers have the time and the appetite to read and enjoy the "MEAT" that is found in your columns...
...For years I have seen the insidious, creeping advance of the Power Trust over our country...
...and John J. Blaine, who always has and always will help you, and have the interest of the rank and file at heart.—John H. Stumiif...
...He believes in freedom and free speech and not let Uie money powers monopolize business and politics,—against vast amounts of money spent in advertising, newspapers, billboards, etc., he was made cur choice on Sept...
...Is of really historic interest...
...God intended electricity (man's most useful slave) to be as free and as cheap as water...
...Do you believe in four or five chain or group gangs controlling the banks and business of our country...
...Not even soup in every pot...
...My letter was returned to me by the afore-named paper, being refused publication on account, of "lack of space...
...In fart, many of the farmers' letters point that way...
...Do you want to deny our children equal rights in the industrial and business world, and the principals our forefathers fought for, and even.our boys in the late World war...
...It should have been WITH such palliatives instead of OF...
...Don't stay away from th...
...We human beings have filled the granaries' with plenty for all...
...Are we going to bo traitors to our great American Legion, to our fraternal organizations, to our home banks and merchants and let this business be monopolized by-great wealth and money powers of Chicago or Wall street...
...This is not his battle, it's yours, mine, and everybody's...
...Also at Washington the La Follettes have represented accurately the proper interests of the people of the state, in every field, political, social, educational, and business...
...Such methods can not fail to ultimately cut off all export and to reduce wheat and other products to be depending on only the home market and bring prices down to the lowest level...
...You should have thousands of subscribers in every state, of this union...
...The nomination of Philip F. La Follette by a majority of over 127.000 votes to be governor of Wisconsin, if followed by his election in November as it will be, should be of interest to every voter in the state, because the La Follettes have always given Wisconsin honest and enlightened government...
...The wrong preposition disrupted the grammatical construction and marred the sense of the sentence...
...pells on election day: go out on election day and vote against the organisation that j has been robbing ; :;r *.:.- yea: Only five, banks tr --it...
...We all ought to be able to see the handwriting on the wall...
...It is also plain to most farmers that the high import duty on wheat, while seemingly protecting them from competition with low-priced wheat from other countries, in fact has a tendency to stffl more lower the price of wheat in the world market, and thus also of wheat for export from this country...
...4 under the heading "Applying Economic Laws," there was a typographical error in the sentence reading as follows: "It is therefore a great mistake to try to remedy deep-rooted social evils OF such 'palliatives' as proposed...
...that's just what, we have done and our statements are not premature, our conclusions were not made over night...
...The absence of advertisements not only renders it free from noxious influences, but is a silent, strong appeal to every red-blooded free man who sees it, that he should lend at least his support as a subscriber to such a brave and valiant defender of the sacred rights of our people...
...Let's be fair and not make it a onesided affair, but I want you all to analyze it carefully before we go into it...
...On this, as well as all other issues, I stand by Philip F. La Follette and say he is one of the most fearless, most courageous American statesmen the world ever knew, and he is fighting a battle for you...
...We Progressives here would gladly see that day when W. F. Glasgow would take the stump and throw his hat tn the ring and run for senator to work together with that moet highly respected Progressive group...
...Now they are, going to eat soup this winter...
Vol. 1 • November 1930 • No. 48
