Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1916-10-27

| great political parties now in existence
| in this country, the democratic and the
| republican. parties. When a. party was
put in power for fifty years as the re-
every interest in the country that want
| ed something to which they were not
| entitled, drifted to- that party, where
| they knew they could get it. Thus the
| special privileges got in and got con-
troll. Were all the people to get into
| one party, the nation would become a
monarchy instead of a republic. No pa
| triot will say Il will vote the democra-
tic or the republican ticket as long as
live" Parties must change the same
as one changes clothing, otherwise they
| would become unclean and this is just
what has happened to the republican
| party. We have heard the expression
| the Wilson policy, Mr. Hoidale said
but. he continued, II know Of only once
when I blushed and that was when
Teddy Roosevelt advertised the fact
that we were being governed by a lot
of demagogucs and scoundreis and that
the judges of this country were rotten
and the only thing to do was to get
laws whereby they could be recalled"
The charge that the panics which ex-
listed in this country we're brought about
by democrats is all poppycock, the
speaker said. These panicS were
brought about by Wall street, which
had control of the financial situation
and could bring about a panic at WILL
| ! However, the democrats said they would
prevent any more panics and so
J during the present administration they
passed the federal reserve bank act
| ! which any bank will agree is a good
law. The reason such Il law was not
passed during the so years the repub-
licans were in power is that the men
who were protiting by these situations
and who controlled the republican party
, did not want it as it would cut their
profits.
plishments of the present administra-
tion, including the child labor law, the
income tax law, and several others.
. Agitation for the child labor law was
begun twelve years ago but the reason
, the republicans did not pass it was thar
| they were the ones who employed child
labor and were profiting by it. The
reason the republicans did not pass an
income tax law, although it had been
in the party platforms for thirty years
and must have been heard OF by them.
was because most of those who would
be affected were in the republican party.
The democrats passed this law because
they were free. The republicans do
not dare to propose to repeal this law
and they do not say that it is not good,
but they want to get back into power
| because they were in power SO long that
they do not feel right and as arguments
to that end have taken things that are
far too deep to grasp, such as the for
eign diplomatic question, the S-hour law,
Mexico, and what will happen after the
| war is over
! The speaker severely criticised Gift
ford Pinchot, who in an article in a re-
| cent issue of Golfers Weekly support
ed Hughes for president and denounced
the administration. Mr.. Hoidale said
that Pinchot found fault with Wilson
not because he was pro-English or pro-
German, but because he was AMER1-
CAN. (Applause.)
AS to the invasion of Belgium by the
Germans. which Roosevelt said should
! have been opposed by this country, Mr..
IIoidale asked that the people glance
over the papers and see if there was
any speech on Wilson's action in this
matter at that time. He said that not
a word appeared against it at that time
I in any paper but that since the cam
paign started an effort has been made
to throw dust in the eyes of the people
to let that old gang back into power.
Kellogg, the republican candidate for
senator was the target for some sharp
remarks by the speaker. FIe said that
Kellogg declined to meet his opponent.
cause he was afraid to face an audience
and have the truth shot at him.
In urging the reelection of Woodrow
Wilson as president, Mr.. Hoidale said
that 1.-The man does not live who will
go before the public and say with con-
viction that Wilson Is not patriotic and
that he is not doing everything in his
.. power for his country. 1t may be that
Wilson has made mistakes, but what
guarantee have YOU that someone else
would not have made mistakes; that an
! untried man if put into power would
make no mistakes. He expressed the
, belief that most of his audience were
progressives, who want things to go
( forward in the new way, although there
; might be one or two standpatters.
Summing up what the present admin
istration has done, the speaker credited
some republicans with having helped &C.
! complish them and as an example men,
toned Senator Aat'ollette from Wiscon-
sin, whom, he said, voted for the eight
hour law and in his last issue devoted
an entire page explaining why he did
so. He said that eight Minnesota repub-
licans in congress voted for the bill and
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