Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-09-15

in politics.
In answer to this call the new Nova
ment was brot into being prea+ dan,
ocratic movement whose nurnosa :. IN
destroy class government and bring tho
administration of public affairs bach in
to the hand of the people. "
Parties Are Expensive
occasionally we are told by the or.
gans of the privileged class that tho
t'armer-Labor party is a class mova0
ment. Nothing could be farther from
the truth. repeat, the third parry
was born for the express purpose NJ
Kidding the country of class govern.
ment.
me producers, the workers of the
Held and of the factories, the great SAL
aired class, small business men, the
great army. of educators, the profess
slonal men, and that large group in
politics, whose tools are the frying
pan' the broom and the baby carriage
the great common people-have uni
TED into one political party. financed
oy themselves, and therefore freed en-
tlrely from the influence that absolu-
tely controls the two old. parties.
IF anyone asks you to Join a politi-
cal party that costs you nothing, call
cop and have him pinched, for he
is handing you gold brick Political
| parties are expensive. AT least, that
| is what Governor Cox claims. It costs
| mllllons OF dollars to conduct the cam
| pa1gn of either of the old parties; and
l
special privilege.
rake for example, the house of J.
+. Morgan and company. One of its
members is an active Republican, and
is assisting in financing that party
Another recently bought one of the
great New York dailies and is support
Ing Governor Cox, and also helping tc
finance the Democratic party. Which.
ever one of the two wins, you lose.
| Paying the Fiddler
1T is an old saying, but true one
He who pays the fiddler calls the tune
! and special privilege in this country
for years has been calling the tune
| And II you can tell any difference be.
tween the tune played by the Republi.
can party and that played by the Dem.
ocratic party, you have got a better ca,
for music than have.
1T is wonder Of the age how the
workers have been kept divided polit.
ically so long, and each year makes
the task more difficult.
Zone of the keenest financiers in Am.
erica, Roger w. Babson, recently said
| addressing confidential circular to the
bankers and brokers':
| ho
was immensely more powerful than
in 1914. There is more money at
it's command. Eighteen thousand
new millionaires is the wars lega-.
cy. This money capacity is more
thoroly united than ever. In 1914
we had 10000 banks functioning in
a great degree in independence of
each other. Then came the federal
reserve act and gave usI the mach
ine,y Of consolidation, and the en-
Urgency of five years war furnish
ed the hammer blows that welded
the structure into one.
Use of Propaganda
" The war taught the employing
class the secret and power of wide
spread propaganda. Imperial Eu-
rope had been aware Of this, but it
was new to the United States. We
have learned. We have the schools.
We have the pulpits. The employ
ing class owns the press. There is
practically no important power in
the United States but is theirs
"Obviously from the foregoing all at
tempts to better the conditions of tn
American masses, and loosen the gril
Of monopoly and reaction on our gov
eminent and institutions, involve ire
mendous task. We must literally chang
the psychology of the common man
make him see that his opinions are can
ned. That he gets them from the rul
ing interests, by whom each year he i
being voted.
1--WE must arouse him, whether h
be farmer or wage worker. salarie
worker or housewife, to the fact tina
his economic interests can only be safe
guarded by his vote.
Up in Ontario
This new vision that has come to tn
American farmer and wage worker, il
not peculiar alone to us here in Ameri
ca. It has set in strongly in Canada
Ontario already has a farmer-labor ad
ministration. Manitoba, Nova Scots
and all other provinces are in line
Quebec alone remains in the grip of re
action, Long ago Australia and New
Zealand saw the light, and victory il
about to perch upon the great British
labor party's banner. Even down in Yu
catan, the common people are assertin.
themselves, and the progressive farm
ers of Scandinavia, who have set thu
example for the world in temperatures,
i have at last discovered that to attain
the purposes they have set out to at
tain, they must also employ politica
. action.
Il wish I had time to discuss Will
you fully what Roger Babson included
in his statement to his friends, tn,