The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-10-28
URGES WOMEN
TO QUICK ACTION
Mrs. Laura Cornelius KEEL
logg, Noted Indian Ora
tor. Scores Socialism.
PLEADS INDIAN CAUSE

Kenosha's unit Of the Constitutional
Defense League has been organized,
with Miss Virginia Wulff as chairman,
as result of the stirring appeal made
to the women of the city by Mrs. Laura
Cornelius Kellogg, noted orator who is
lecturing for the league throughout
the state. Mrs. Kellogg addressed
small representative group Of Kenosha
women in the womens lounge at the
Elks Club Saturday evening. The re-
Spouse to the appeal for attendance,
made to various women's organizations
in Kenosha was disappointing to Mrs.
Kellogg.
"If the small gathering this evening
is representative of the spirit of the
women of Kenosha 4 fear greatly that
the Socialist program will win," Mrs.
Kellogg said. "The women on the
farms have organized, they are affili-
ated with one of the smaller parties.
Party workers are circulating among
them and when you realize the vote
that will be cast by the farm women
you can see the influence it will have.
The women of the state must awaken.
Make election day independence day;
give up your social activities; organ
ize; get into your limousines and work
among the women of the rural dis
tricts. Only by an awakening to the
consciousness of danger can Wisconsin
be saved.
Vote for McCoy.
What will happen if Blaine gets into
power? He has publicly announced to
the Non-Partisan leaguers, 4 stand
with both feet upon your platform
There are now forty men of Socialistic
tendencies in the lower house Of the
state assembly and only eleven more
are needed to control the legislation in
Wisconsin. The Socialist party, the
Non-Partisan league, the Equity party
and the Farmer-Labor party represent
tatives are cooperating. With Socialist
control legislation will be enacted for
income taxes, sur-taxes and excess
profits taxes on $50 of the profits of
industries which will force removal to
other states. This is not mere talk
Have you not seen how the capitalists
have been buying property in other
states to be prepared if the blow falls
The only thing possible to counteract
such control will be the proper man in
the governors seat and I plead with
you to vote, and to urge other women
to vote for Mccoy"
The dire effects of socialistic pro-
gram, not only as state but as a ma
tional realization were wildly depicted
in WORD pictures Of the conditions in
soviet Russia and definition of the So
cialist aims and purposes. She quoted
from Liebknecht, the German Socialist,
who, until his death, knew better than
any other man the spirit of modern
Socialism; she quoted from Morris
Hilquit, one time candidate for COVER
nor of New York on the Socialist tick
ct and admitted to be one of the half
dozen most we'll known Socialists in
the world; she read from the Socialist
platform to date; she quoted excerpts
of the Comerford-Ste debate. She
summed these as meaning the doing
away with private ownership and the
lnQlVIQudllSClc regime.
Socialism Is Bureaucracy"
"If communication of property takes
place, what will be the system of gov
eminent to carry out the idea?" Mrs.
Kellogg questioned. "First. it will be
necessary to amend the constitution to
death; it will be necessary to do away
with that clause which says No person
in the United States shall be deprived
of life, liberty or property without the
process of law, etc. When you destroy
the guarantee by the government to
the individual you substitute for it all
the arbitrary dictation of post-gradu-
ate political bosses. There are only
two kinds of governmen in the philo-
sophy of governm ent-self-go government
and bureaucracy. You may mix these
and have mongrel system more or
less inefficient, according to the degree
of mixture but under bureaucracy you
have commissioners and agents who
are appointed, not elected by the popu-
lar vote Under the collective system
bureaucracy will be the form of gov
eminent"
Mrs. Kellogg is representative of
the Oneida tribe, a granddaughter of
| Daniel Bread, who headed the immi-
grafton of the Oneidas from New York
state to the Oneida reservations west
of Green Bay. Incidentally with her
plea for the defense of the constitution
she sponsors the cause Of her people,
describing their plight and expressing
the conviction that conditions will be
changed when the wide-awake citizens
of the United States awake to the cry
ing need of the hour and the women
of the United States organize to change
the political corruption of the present
day.