GOOD READS FOR WISCONSIN FARMERS
Follette, Senator Robert M. La
Good Reads for Wisconsin Farmers "State Trunk Lines Based on Sound Economic Principles" By SENATOR ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE A campaign t* vnder way to strengthen the present highway law in Wisconsin,...
...IT IS A WISE MAN who knows who his real friends are and it's a wise voter who can distinguish between the sincere and the false friends of good government and a square deal...
...This not only benefits the farmer, but it also will benefit the residents of our cities...
...Hearings will be conducted to develop constructive programs for settling the American land question...
...It will build into the life of the state, highways of a lasting character and tend constantly to maintain better and higher standards of integrity in all public work...
...The Marketing section of the conference will take practical and immediate steps to rectify certain abuses in marketing, and to tighten up the loose methods now prevailing in the handling of the chief crops of the nation...
...As stated in the first bulletin of this organization, "We want better roads...
...It will be followed by a greater incentive for the intensive cultivation of our land...
...In the thickest of the fight of years for cleaner, better and fairer state government was Wm...
...Its dominant ideal was the square deal for all and out of this came the railroad rate law and the regulation and control of not only the railroads but of all public utilities...
...We want to oind the state of Wisconsin together by the roads in a closer union, making for commercial, social and moral progress...
...and many other measures in the interest of the people as a whole and of their well being and happiness...
...Wisconsin roads should be constructed scientifically and economically...
...Witnesses and speakers from foreign lands have been invited to participate...
...we want more roads...
...Wisconsin voters will have to decide at the primaries September 5, whq their REAL FRIENDS are...
...It cleaned Madison of its barnacles and grafters, drove out the evil influence of the railroad and other corporate domination of the legislature, made efficiency and public service the motto of all state activities and gave to the people of Wisconsin the best and most efficient state government of any state in the union...
...Hearings will be held to develop the movement of these crops and the conditions surrounding their handling...
...Editorial in the "Racine Times Call By W. 5. COODLAND...
...Jeffris and the Stalwart organization of the state...
...Economists, government officials and leaders of industries dependent on farming will co-operate with the farmer-delegates...
...the workman's compensation act that insures justice to injured workmen and their families instead of treating them worse than horses and cattle were treated...
...It is expected that the crops considered will be livestock, cotton, grain, hay and whole milk and its products...
...It will be many years before Wisconsin has a complete and reasonably perfect system of highways...
...The Good Roads Association of Wisconsin in promoting a better under-standing of the value of scientifically constructed and co-related highways can supplement and aid the splendid work of the Wisconsin Highway Commission...
...Twenty years ago Wisconsin was, ruled by a rotten and corrupt political machine and state government was a stench in the nostrils of good citizens...
...How to handle the immigrant will be an important feature of the work of this section, and the farm labor problem will also be discussed...
...This decision will not be made at the election in November but at the primaries on September 5th...
...However, I believe that plans for highway construction should be so perfected as to secure to the people who pay the taxes a dollar's worth of road value for every dollar expended upon highways...
...The campaign is oeing directed by the "Good " Roads Association of Wisconsin...
...The beautiful lakes of the state would be made more accessible to the centers of population...
...I hope the good roads problem of our state will be worked out scientifically so as to secure the maximum of benefits to the state, to distribute these benefits equitably over the state and so that the financial burden may not fall too heavily in any one year or upon any one community...
...There has been criticism of the highway taxes in Wisconsin...
...Such a service will be a real public service...
...Our roads should be built for all time and the work should be carried forward on plans satisfactory to the taxpayers and the people * * * Marketing and Farm Credits PLANS to check the annual billion-dollar waste in the marketing of farm products, and a comprehensive program in rural credits, beyond the present scope and powers of the Farm Loan Board, will be the chief work of the Fourth National Conference on Marketing and Farm Credit.s to meet in Chicago December 4-9...
...Are they the men who have fought the regulation and control of the railroads and public utilities, the income tax, the workmen's compensation act and every reform measure in the interest of justice and equality, or are they the men who have formulated, fought for and secured these reforms...
...Such improvements of our highways would bring thousands of tourists from other states, make better markets right at hand for the products of the dairy and farm...
...Or will they choose the men who have fought every effort to secure better conditions and better government but who now, with specious promises and false assertions pose an the friends and seek the suffrage of the people whose best interests they have bitterly fought and opposed in the past...
...Voter, and on your decision will rest the fate of good government, equal rights and the square deal here in Wisconsin...
...The men who made these laws possible and who gave to Wisconsin the best and most efficient state government in the ;ountry were and are bitterly and relentlessly opposed and attacked by Philipp, and Jeffris and their backers...
...At the primaries you choose your candidates and it is really more essential that yon vote then than at the election in November...
...As Governor of Wisconsin and as United States Senator, I have aided in the enactment of legislation to secure good highways...
...The conference will then go into the question of the next steps...
...Another more general and far-reaching lies in the better facilities thus afforded the farmer to reach all of his markets...
...Which will it be, your real friends or your false friends...
...Such roads would materially aid the farmers and many of the small towns of the state...
...we want continuous roads, good roads everywhere for everybody...
...They well know that if they posed in their true light the voters would make short work of them so they gloss over their actual sentiments and motives with a coating of subterfuge and deception, raise false issues, pose as the friends of the people and use indirect rather than direct attacks to undermine good latvs and good institutions...
...Philipp and Mr...
...From the very beginning, and continuing through the whole struggle, each and all of these measures in the interest of better and more efficient government and the welfare of the people as a whole, were opposed by Mr...
...pure food regulation that protects the public from deception and fraud...
...The original progressive and the great leader In the battle for better government was Senator Robert M. La Follette, now a candidate for re-election...
...H. Hatton, of New London, now Progressive Republican candidate for governor...
...Some of this criticism was also justified because of the law which permitted a few men of large wealth who contributed a portion of the cost, to force road taxes onto a community unable or unwilling to bear such taxation...
...It is up to you, Mr...
...It was designed to handle credit for the landed farmers only, and there are many classes of them who will not be able to come under the provisions of the act Reports will be made at the conference from each state by competent men, as to the handicaps and the advantages of farmers under this act...
...The more grain or produce the farmres can haul at a single load, the greater the return per load...
...The Rural Credits section will analyze the scope and limitations of the Farm Loan Act...
...E. T. Dithmar, of Baraboo, candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Merlin Hull, of Black Riven Falls, candidate for Secretary of State, Alvin B. Peterson, of Soldiers Grove, candidate for State Treasurer and Walter C. Owen, of Maiden Rock, candidate for Attorney General...
...Interest centers chiefly this year in the new board," said Secretary Charles Holman of Madison, Wisconsin, "and many people are under the impression that the rural credits problems has been solved...
...Good Reads for Wisconsin Farmers "State Trunk Lines Based on Sound Economic Principles" By SENATOR ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE A campaign t* vnder way to strengthen the present highway law in Wisconsin, especially with a view of securing state-wide trunk lines...
...Your program of state trunk roads north and south and east and west is based on sound, economic principles...
...But that is far from the case...
...The farm loan act barely scratches the surface of the problem...
...We want good highways not only in name but in fact...
...Will they choose those who have faithfully served them in the past, the fruits of whose labors they are now enjoying in cleaner, better and more efficient Btate government and more humane and just conditions, whose honesty and ability long years in the ranks of the progressive movement has proven...
...The voter should not forget that the enemies of the square deal and equitable government, to be successful, must deceive the common people...
...The legislature was lobby ridden and liberal and efficient state government as it has been known in Wisconsin for years, was unknown then...
...Which Will It Be...
...The Progressive movement gave birth to new ideals and a new deal all around...
...This is but one aspect of the economic value of good roa.ds to the farmer...
...The initial cost of a road is no guarantee of its value...
...Those steps will include facilities for personal credit and aid-machinery for turning the 2,600,000 tenant farmers into home owners, and moving landless men to the land...
...Now the question arises, and it is an important one that every voter should ask himself, who are my friends f Who are the men who are sincerely and truly trying to serve me and the common people of Wisconsin...
...Some of it was justified, because of the character of the roads built in some of the communities...
...1AM in hearty accord with all properly directed movements to provide good roads, not only to the people of Wisconsin, but to the people of the entire country...
...equalization of taxation and the income tax...
...The road, the first cost of which is the least, ma y ultimately prove most expensive to the taxpayer...
Vol. 8 • August 1916 • No. 8
