Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-06-06
To Americans
Ready For a
Neu Party

v GU are invited to attend the
= National Convention of the Com
mittee of Forty-Eight at Chicago, July
10th, 18th and 18th, to form a new
political party.
1t will be national party repre-
senting the needs and hopes of aver
age American men and women. 1t will
conduct an aggressive campaign
against both the reactonary old
parties and in support of constitute
tive program of economic, social and
political progress. Such a party must
be put in the field in the coming
election.
For we are witnessing a silent and
ominous revolution nj our national
life. We have seen the tillers of ou.
soil so discouraged by tenancy, spec
ulation and the increasing exactions
of a swarm of middlemen that hun
dreds of thousands of them are leav-
ing the farms or curtailing production
to degree that menaceS our nations
supply of food,
Prices are mounting while millions
of pounds of food are held in storage
or cast into the sea in order that still
higher prices may be exacted.
We have seen our railroads wrecked by
miSma ma and irrpsDonSihla financierS
and then, after the government had stepped in
to repair their injuries and decay, returned to
the private management that had despoiled
and ruined them, and on terms which arbi-
trarily guaranteed fixed dividends on watered
stocks and bonds, making inevitable still
higher tax on consumption.
We are witnessing the effort to fix legal
status for labor, denying it the right to strike
for higher wages, at the same time that profits
are legally guaranteed to capital.
This is the underlying cause of the strikes
that have increased until all industry is bat
tlefeld of hatred and destruction, and the
country is literally going to pieces with fac
tional strife. This system has turned the New
Freedom" into an "Od Slavery" that has
changed nothing but its color and its name
Our money-lenders are seeking to drag us
into countless international mbroglios of con-
cessions and investment, the effect of which
hazardous agreements entirely alien to our ma
tional traditions and desires. This system has
so corrupted large sections of our press that
the ability to read is fast becoming an mpedi-
ment to the acquisition of truth. And to crown
all, it has desecrated the flag by using it to
cover a multitude of sins; and in the name of
patriotism has attempted to fasten upon us
degrading economic and political slavery
Autocracy is thing abhorrent to us, to
any man who has known even the memories
of American freedom. We fought it overseas
and helped to whip it, We will not yield to
it here on our own soil and in our own homes.
Who will lend us in recognizing and re-
asserting the American will to independence?
1t has become clearer with every sun that the
old parties cannot do it; that they are but
rival lackeys to great monopolies that they
are bankrupt of democratic purpose and have
made their peace with a reasonable reaction.
No matter which of these two parties wins, the
people lose; no matter which of them captures
office, it will be to do the bidding of the inter-
ests that filled its campaign Golfers and paid
for its publicity.
The time has come for lovers of the real
America to organize themselves anew, to
inaugurate another such period of resolute
construction as four generations ago raised
Jefferson and the once American Democratic
party to power, and two generations since
raised to power Lincoln and the once Ameri
can Republican party. Once again constitution
al liberties and representative government are
threatened and the call goes out for new
political party to restore to America constitu-
tional rights through which the government
shall be made responsive to the will of the
people.
Are you ready to act? If so, fill in or copy
this blank and mail promptly.