The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-10-22
FRED B0ALT PUTS IN
NIGHT WITH HANSON;
A STRENUOUS TIME
n good country behind IT,"

We have In our cities parks.
lighted streets, cement side
walks. bouIeysrds These things
are good. but they declare no
dividends. They cost money.
But you can't eat . cement side
walk.
you have furnished the par
ior." said Hanson, but you
have neglected the kitchen"
We have furnished the office
with mahogany desks and brass
rsilinos, but the workshop 10
shy on machinery.
Whit. thsn. 10 wrono With the
stAtef Hansen told them, and
they BELIEVED.
Idle mon and idle acrss-that's
what's wrong.
Twenty million acres IN this state
alone. outside the forest reserve.
and not one OF them has ever pro
duccd so much as q pint OF beans.
Put the Idle men on the idle
acres 10 that they may be no longer
idle. but. rather. that they may
work and produce TO the end that
there may be moro food. cheaper
food--for them and for US who MI,
In the ''parlor"
How shall we get access TO the
land,
Hanson has tho answer.
We have postal savings banks.
They are q frost. The bankers.
who dom, want us TO put our money
In the postal savings banks. saw
10 that. The bankers want the
postal savings bank scheme to fail.
Tho postal savings banks are
hedgcd about with absurd res,ric.
tons You can't deposit more than
800 a month. You cant have
moro than $500 In one OF them a,
ono time. You can't deposit In
two OF them. You can't start an
account for your minor son or
daughter. Companies. corporations
and partners can't deposit.
And they only pay 2 per cent
Increase the rate OF interest TO
. per cent" said Hanson. Yet the
government lend II to the farmers
at per cent. Put . clause In the
contract providing that the farmer
must clear. each year for five years.
\ certain proportion OF the land he
gets. and let him use the money
10 get rid Of the stumps."
That viii get rid OF the real
estate Spectator. The man who
IL willing TO pull stumps out OF his
land isn't a speculator. you can
bank on that. Such . man wants
land TO FARM.
And the real estate speculstor,"
said Hanson. never raised any
thing but prices-
That, briefly. 70 Hanson's plan.
He told II much more convfncingly
than ! can Tho thing II not an
experiment. II has been done and
Is being done IN most Of the coun.
tries OF Europe and In Australia
and New Zealand.
II seems to me that Hanson II
getting right down to brass tacks.
The big Issue In, shall We keep on
eatingy And. doesn't II seem
strange that we who have so much
land. good land. idle land. more
land than We need. should have to
eat butter from New Zealand. eggs
from China and meat from the Ar
gentine7
Hanson had no hard words for
his opponents. He spoke but brief
ly OF himself and his ambition.
"All ] have and all I am | owe
to Washington. ] want 10 pay
something In service on that debt.
When he left the hall the demo
crat was gnawlng his mustache.
The republican. who had stood
staunch In his party fanaticism
since Benjamin Harrison's time.
was scratching his head.
The chauffeur OF Hanson's car
was haggard-eyed. Hanson's cam.
paign helpers we're hoarse. leg
weary and sleepy.
We flew to the University dis
trict. Hanson told about his plan.
He has no set speech. He tells
the story different way every
time. We went to Mays hall, and
again Hanson talked.
II was midnight when the sena-
torial candidate started for home.
He was up Mt 8 this morning and
on his way TO Snohomish county.
II you send him TO Washing
ton he Will work for you with
the same tlreless zeal. don't
know how he does Il. u must
BE- "sllk."