The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-10-09

the page ads In the magazines are
doing IL and the street car ads are
doing IL.
It's the "full dinner pail campaign
over again. but masqueraded I'm new
suit OF clothes.
This hard times bogy scared you.
Mr.. Voter. In 1896 and again in 1900
and again In 1904 and again In 1908.
Can he do the trick again?
Haven't you played the role OF
sucker long enough while the plumb
erbund has waxed fat over your guilt
bility and stupidity?
Isn't Il about time for an.
o h r OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
events" declaration of independence
stunt?
Ii we permit ourselves to be bogy-
lied again isn't there danger. as Gov
ernor Wilson recently suggested in
Detroit, that II Will be too late for
an effective emancipation proclama-
tion for ourselves?
Is il safe 10 take another chance?
Are we going to be bluffed still
again?
And yet it is. perhaps. not alto
gether blum, either.
caused the hard times that have been
referred 10. there are a few men In
THE country who have power enough
In the financial world TO precipitate a
panic or cause hard times any time
they have the notion.
| am satisfied that any time the
money power thinks 1t is politically
and financially expedient TO have
hard times in this country, we will
have hard times,
When the money power thought
that President Roosevelt was getting
too gay as reforner. We had the
panic OF 1907. and the man with the
big stick was given TO understand
that We would have a real panic II
he did not consent TO the swallowing
OF the Tennessee Iron & Coal Co. by
the Steel Octopus. At least that is
the way | interpret the events in re-
cent history
| anticipate that in the event OF
Wilson's election and Democratic &C
ton that will make inroads on the
stealings of the money power, We
will have hard times.
I expect that in the event OF Roose-
velt's election, a genuine attempt TO
crystalize into law the splendidly pro-
gressive principles OF the Moose plat
form, would influence the money pow
er to cause hard times.
In other words, I'VE are up against
It."
But what are We going TO do? Are
We going TO concede that we are
licked and hoist the white flag.
Not II we have good red American
blood irrigating our veins. The thing
for we Progressives TO do at this
time is to stand pat" and fight until
We attain victory.
The money power will not dare do
very much In the object lesson line,
for after all, wealth with all of its
pomp, puff and potency must depend
upon labor and the farm for Its
Foundation.
Let's vote as we please and defy
our would-be masters.
There is a huge hook in that full
dinner pail"
| Beware OF the bait.
| It's time to take the money bull by
the horns and conquer the brute even
| II we do get hooked a bit.
| II we must choose between liberty
! with a period Of hard times and
slavery with a measure OF handed-out
prosperity, give US liberty and let us
pay the price.
But who, by the way, is getting the
benefit OF our much-boasted pros
perity?
Is il the two-dollars-and-a-half day
laboring man who is paying tribute
to a herd of trusts and must pay %
cents a pound for good beefsteak or
60 without?
Prosperity-where is 1t?
| Not with the masses who have a
plenty of mathematics in trying to
figure out a way TO make a non-ex'
panding salary cover an expanding
expense.
And so. my dear inexcusably un-
sophisticated voting friends, don't al
low yourselves for another time TO
shy at the sight OF that grey-headed
hard times scare crow.
We have had good times and bad
times under high protection and lower
tariff schedules and under Republican
supremacy and Democracy's reign
and the Tafty talk that the election
OF Wilson will cause adversely De
cause OF q curbing Of the policy OF
protection to American labor and
manufacture. is the rawest KIND OF
nauseating bunk"
However, II Is possible that we
may be given a taste of pain and
panic just to teach US a thing or two
But come what may, / am In favor
OF voting for the rule OF the people,
and IL Gin the course OF human
events" we have to adopt the soup
system or the occasional meal plan
or the fast idea, we may have the
double satisfaction of curing our dys-
pepsia and bringing King Pluto to
his knees.
In the meantime, hurrah for VIII
son!
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