The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-03-07

Another thing the government will
do is to have school houses built. We
want to have thousand new smod-
ern schools built. Then there are
other things On July /, this country
is going dry. i for one am perfectly
willing to give up my glass of beer
to see the damnable saloons go out.
Schools are coming in and will be
[civic centers, they will be used to
teach better citizenship, and to raise
|fhe standards of life. For full partic-
mlars as to the school building pro-
gram write to the Building Constfue-
ton Committee, 16 jackson Place,
Washington, ID. c.
Get Busy On Roads.
1--WE want you fellows to get busy
on the good roads proposition. The
government has passed a law ap-
propriating hundreds of millions of
dollars for good roads, and offers to
go fifty fifty on any road built in the
country. The government has got the
money to help you with good roads
and with vocational training.l
''An order has been issued that
every man who had a government
job may come. home and take this job
as his right. at additional pay. In
this way a million men have been
taken care of.
Last year we deported 5000 un-
Idesirables, and this year we will
send back that many more. The
fellows we send to the concentra
ton camps are going, be sure of
that. Nearly one million aliens
,, are going. Application has al
ready been made for nearly
million passports, and when all
these are out of the country our
men will have that many more
chances to find employment. 1t
I is for our benefit that these peo >
pie are being sent back and are
going back.
Don't think that from now on
we are gonig to be "a dumping
ground for the off scourings of
Europe. Strict laws are being
passed, and the man who comes
now must be "a strictly desirable
| citizen.
Shortage of Labor Later.
'sWithin the next six months there
will be a shortage of labor, although
there is surplus now. This is just
the critical time, the time of read
justment. Remember the wheat bill.
The government has set the price of
wheat at 1925. The government
knows that wheat is worth about
20, but will repay the farm
ers for their loyal support in
raising the crop. This means that
the west will have one billion extra
dollars to spend this year. We know
the price of wheat in the countries
where it is raised, but it was fine Of
you to raise the wheat and win the
war, an dyou must be paid for it. We
are now in better position to pro-
|tect our country than we ever were.
The Big Guns.
I'VE have guns bigger and more
far reaching than any the Germans
lever had We have thirty four guns
that will shoot over thirty five miles
each. We have gas, completed
just. before the war closed gas
that Is so powerful it would annihi-
late the whole Hun nation If We ever
let it loose. We have thousands of
were shot into Mankato they would
kill everyone here. If the Germans
don't behave We win use it on the
Rhine The w6r viii cost Germany
about home hundred and twenty BIZ
lions Of dollars. which she must pay
within the next fifty or sixty years,
and she will be compelled to payyit-
and I hope to God she has belly
ache, all the time she is paying it."
Laughter and applause
eff necessary we can put thous-
arlds of airships in the air today. We
have twenty thousands of boys train
ed for the service and can place our,
hands on them at any time. Prospect
ty is going our way. But what are
we going to do within the critical
period, the next two or three months,
to supply jobs for the remaining
men? Mankato and the county can
do its part We want to build nearly
enc million homes in this country in
the next few years. !, No man who
owns his home will be an anacharist.
"And we cannot keep the vote from
the women forever. I'VE must edu
cate our men, and educate our wo-
men in citizenship and how to vote.
You men all know that your wives
are better men than you are. The
women want a safe country, good
schools for their children and good
homes. They will vote right. The
government is putting up hundreds
of houses for government employees.
We have worked it out SO d good
house may be put up in sixteen hours
time. We want to help you in the
west to get two billion dollars to
put into homes.
Vast Riches of Country.
"You do rot realize the vast riches
of the United States. There are
twenty Billions OF dollars in the
banks OF Uncle Sans domains at this
time. Think OF it: No other country
ever had it or will have it, Much of
this money is lying idle. Ninety per
cent of the laboring men have bank
accounts. They want homes. We
must help them get them" Mr.. Pol
lay paid a glowing tribute to the
west, which has responded so SPLEEN
didly to all calls of the government,
and said he felt assured that 1t
would respond just as Loyalty in the
present labor crisis.
The program opened shortly before
four o'clock; with large attendance
Of nlrinc