The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-18
HON. CHAS. A. LINDBERGH
OPENS STATE CAMPAIGN
Gov Bumquist's Opponent Makes Loyalty His Key
note-Comes Out Strongly Against Germany.
Sternly Condemns PrOfiteering.

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sofa will meet the emergency
with it's regularly constituted gov
eminent.
"Loyalty is cot in is~ue. There
are only isolated cases f disloy-
atty. They can be dealt with by
the courts and our military enc
my not be made to believe that
there is an issue on loyalty when,
in fact, it does not exist. To en-
courage our enemy with any
thought of our disloyalty would
prolong the war. The real issue
is democracy, and Judge MCGEE
has emphasized that by his evil
dence before the United States
senate committee.
"There are a few in our state
who divide the people, naming
those in one camp disloyal and
those in the other loyal. The 10y
atty of both to the purpose of
winning the war is certain. But
those who have named them
selves the exclusive loyalists, they
would destroy democracy to win
the war, while the rest of us
would win the war to establish
democracy.
First Duty Is to Produce.
"Our first duty is to produce
as much as possible and then to
make the best use Of the product.
That is where the buyer, the sell
er, the transporter, the financier
and all the others come in. Not
only once, but in most cases sew
eral times, and each time they
must have a prof y is the re-
peated profits that take place
in getting the product from t e
worker to the consumer which
have boosted the cost Of living
and made it impossible for all to
have plenty. Some middlemen rem
der actual service, others are
simply parasites. They first per-
form a useful service and "e
should see that they get a fair
profit, but the parasite We must
get rid of entirel. We. must re-
organize our system of dealing
with each other.
Must Take Over Monopoly.
"Any business which tends to
become monopoly, or already is
a monopoly, must be taken FER
and operated by the government.
We cannot allow any agency that
we are forced to continually pat
ronize, which has the power of
levying tribute, to be e clusively
controlled by few persons.
"The government must have
direct control of those resources
md agencies whic' ere in their
nature limited, and therefor" an
available to thu average indi-
vidual. That means government
ownership in those cases. The war
has demonst- led not orly that it
can be done, but tat it must be
done. It must be den without
lrofit and at actual cost.
Requires Organization.
cit requires organization to &C
complish this in the right way.
It is because those interests which
now control the monopolies fear
to lose that control that they
oppose the peoples organizing.
It is not because they fear that
the people when organized will
not support the war, but it is be-
cause they fear that when the peo-
pie become organized they will use
the organization to make the
Who'll business system of the coun-
try responsive to the actual needs
of the people. The. fear that the
people will take over all monopo-
lies instead IF the few necessary
to the war and cut out the prof.
teering game forever.
Will End Profiteering.
"The profiteers were organized
before the war began, and that
is why they were able to secure
many advantages, but the gov
eminent is gradually completing
it's control and will put an end
to profiteering. 1t can't be done
unless the people organize Id
are fully prepared when the war
ends to make use of all the agen-
cies for reconstruction.
Through farmers organiza-
tions and the unions the farmer
and the wage workers now shake
hands. Fair business men also
plead to join: The farmer says
to fair business, Welcome The
wage workers say, Yes, we want
vou. of course.'