WISCONSIN'S "FORWARD"
Wisconsin's "Forward" IT PON the top of the great white dome of Wisconsin's new Capitol building was placed, the other day, a statue symbolic of the state's motto "Forward." It is a most...
...when railroads and other corporations wrote their own laws...
...when the rich and powerful were permitted to evade their taxes...
...when a boss sat behind the scenes and pulled the strings upon his puppets in the capitol...
...when the people got nothing but heavier burdens and the special interests got everything...
...If these interests, behind candidate Philipp, get into control, "Forward" will be out of place...
...Forward" calls upon every progressive voter to save her...
...There it will stand for years to come, reminiscent of the advances made in the past and prophetic of the advances still to be made, in the movement to achieve complete and wonder-working self-government, to "make the will of the people the law of the land," and to perfect government into the unfettered instrument for promoting the health, happiness, growth and prosperity of ALL the people of this commonwealth...
...It is a most appropriate figure...
...The people will have to fight all over again their struggle for freedom...
...The slogan then will be Backward...
...Yet, today, from her lofty pedestal, "Forward" looks down upon a gathering of the clans of Reaction, clamoring for a return to "the good old days"—the days when corruption and graft, boodling and time-serving were rampant...
...when there were fat pickings for those politicians and lawyers who trailed after the system...
Vol. 6 • August 1914 • No. 31
