EDITORIALS
To the Voters of Wisconsin: SEPTEMBER 6 is primary election day in Wisconsin. On that day the voters of "the pioneer progressive state" will give expression to their political convictions. They...
...Place...
...The friends of conservation will be comforted by thinking of what the tide did to the old lady...
...IEvans' article, "Has Cannonism Been Destroyed...
...Evans' article, show it to your neighbor...
...Both are characterized as popular revolts against Privilege...
...A great responsibility rests upon you, Mr...
...The oH order of the Morganheims and the Ballingers and the Eills is giving way to the new order of equal opportunity for all...
...The nature of the struggle now under way for control of this Congress is told by Ray Stannasd Baker on another page of this magazine...
...in legislation...
...Wisconsin his long been in the front rank of the progressive movement...
...The issue is plain...
...California—boss-ridden California—broke the Southern Pacific shackles and joined the progressives...
...Democracy is winning out...
...The trusts and the money power are the special interests of today...
...And this money has been used with a lavish hand to cloud the issue, to confuse your mind...
...The Insurgents are the true Republicans of to-day, for they represent the principles and ideals of the Republican party which the regulars have repudiated...
...Let your answer ring out so clear and strong that it will be heard all over the nation on September 6. * * * fReal democracy has no fear of the common man, because it is made up of the lives and hopes of common men.—Farm, Stock and Home...
...Read his article...
...We think not...
...Will they vote for true representative government or for the money power in politics...
...It is up to the Voter N THIS NUMBER appears the final installment of Mr...
...Will they repudiate the domination of state politics by Big Business and the control of national politics by Wall Street, or turn government over to the Bosses...
...This is the only way it can be done...
...Will the Hills and Morgans and Gug-Genheims and the lesser fees of conservation, by political strategy (if nothing worse) be able to pack the meeting in their own interest...
...Will they accept the thraldom of Cannonism or vote to be free...
...The people of Kansas voted to be free...
...The old lady with the broom tried to sweep back the incoming tide...
...They will name their choice for United States Senator...
...The President is quoted as saying: "Extortionate and unreasonable profits are to be tolerated no longer...
...It has been used in the interest of candidates who have appeared before you in the guise of progressives (no man dare run for office in Wisconsin on a reactionary platform) but who really owe their allegiance to the bosses...
...Will she stay there...
...but its days are surely numbered...
...Will they name candidates pledged to Public Welfare or candidates subservient to Special Privilege...
...Evans described the machinery of the House of Representatives and told how Cannon built up his strong machine for the uses of Special Privilege...
...William Howard Taft: "The Payne tariff bill is the best tariff bill the Republican party ever passed...
...Now, the passage of the Payne-Aldrich law, intimately affecting the daily lives of the people and in direct opposition to the demand of the whole country for a substantial cut in duties, has convinced us that the will of the people is not paramount in either the legislative or the executive branch of the government, and has stimulated an insurgency which is fighting to bring back popular sovereignty...
...Pinchot, the president of the National Conservation Association, and his associates have the backing of the people, and public opinion is a force that even the interests dare not trifle with too openly...
...And keep this in mind: You must put the right man in the legislature and the right man in Congress if you want your will to nrevai...
...Paul next week...
...Voter, is for you to say...
...Iowa stuck to her progressive colors...
...Time...
...The campaign is practically done...
...Otherwise you will be betrayed into the hands of those whose chief interest in law-making is to exploit you...
...Pinchot: "In the fifties, the repeal of the Missouri Compromise by the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill made the people realize the political domination of the slave and cotton oligarchy, aroused a tremendous popular protest against the reactionary Whig party, and brought into existence the insurgent Republican party...
...Barrels of money—some of it from Wall Street-have been spent in this campaign to bring about the defeat of your cause...
...In most cases you will have no difficulty in distinguishing between the Progressive and the Standpatter—between the man who will represent YOU and the man who will do the bidding of the bosses...
...William Howard Taft: "The present customs law is the best customs law that has ever been passed...
...Insurgents are the True Republicans1 IN THE September McClure's appears an excellent article, "Two Revolts Against Oligarchy," by Amos Pinchot, brother of Gifford Pinchot...
...Since that time, the special interests have secured control of the party and through it control of the government...
...The slave and the cotton power were the great special interests that controlled politics just before the Civil War...
...If you don't think so, just keep your eyes on the Conservation Congress at St...
...Have you thought your way to a clear understanding of all that is involved in YOUR choice of candidates at this election...
...and there resulted a loss of confidence in the Whig party as startling to its members as the general suspicion and indignation against standpattism is to the regular Republicans of to-day...
...It is this: Shall the People or Money rule in Wisconsin...
...Do not let such men mislead you...
...Place: Beverly...
...The whole country is awaiting the answer...
...Taft and the Tariff Time...
...What will happen...
...They will choose candidates for state and local offices, for the legislature, and for members of Congress...
...It may help him to see more clearly how to vote in the primaries in his own interest...
...February 12, 1910...
...And remember this: whatever the outcome cf the battle at St...
...It shows the Special Interests at work in their desperate attempt to kill the conservation movement...
...Special Privilege dies hard...
...Not so very long ago Republicans were "read out ef the party" for daring to suggest that very thing...
...lf Aldrich must go, asks the Detroit Times, why do not the best interests of the country demand that the "me-too" senators go with him...
...The people must do it themselves...
...In the fifties, the Whig leaders were unable to see the great issue of government by the people against government by money, just as this same issue is invisible to the Republican leaders now...
...It is certain that the land grabbers and water power barons will attempt to secure control of the meeting...
...In the two preceding issues of La Follette's, Mr...
...They must do it by sending the right kind of men to represent them at Washington...
...Winona, Minn...
...Special Privilege, with Dollars and Machine Politics, is trying to check the conservation movement...
...It falls to YOU to answer these momentous questions...
...Watch This Battle SPECIAL PRIVILEGE dies hard...
...That, Mr...
...Already they have laid plans to this end...
...Its guiding principle was defined by Lincoln as ''government of the people, by the people, and for the people...
...And it is equally certain that the true conservationists, led by Giffobd Pinchot, will fight any such attempt...
...Place: New York City...
...It is necessary that you make your decision with great care...
...Paul, the war will go on...
...The new tariff policy announced by the Administration, after the sweeping insurgent victories in western states, contemplates further revision of individual schedules...
...William Howard Taft: "The tariff bill has been criticized * * * "The truth is * * * "The evil of excessive tariff rates * * * "The Payne tariff bill is * * * "On the whole * * * "It must also be remembered * * * "The charge that the present tariff is responsible * * * "I expect to bring the matter to the attention of Congress * * * "Of course this will be impracticable * * * "It will thus be possible * * * "One great virtue in the new tariff law * * * "Generally speaking...
...Will they succeed...
...It is now up to you to deoide...
...After you have read the conclusion of Mr...
...Do you realize this...
...Time: Present...
...Why not...
...And just as the slave and the cotton interests were driven from politics in the Sixties, so the great industrial interests now dominating politics are finding their supremacy threatened by Insurgency...
...For this reason the Insurgents are the true Republicans...
...He now shows what must be done t* destroy Cannonism...
...Insurgency against the rule of Special Privilege called the Republican party into being...
...Will the people of Wisconsin vote for progress or for standpattism...
...The article draws a parallel between the insurgent movement of the Fifties and the insurgent movement of Today...
...Says Mr...
...It is to free the party from this control that the present-day insurgents are fighting...
...And, thanks to the blindness of its greed, it is even hastening its own demise...
...September 17, 1909...
Vol. 2 • September 1910 • No. 35
