The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-10-22
VIM. BOuck and
Mrs. VentZke Hold
Big Rallies

Vastly different are the crowds
and the enthusiasm expressed at
meetings which are addressed by
Farmer-Labor candidates and those
addressed by the old line politicians.
William Bouck, candidate for con
l.gressman from the second district,
and Mrs. Alta Salmon Ventzke, can
didate for superintendent of public
instruction, addressed large and
enthusiastic meeting of farmers and
workers in Marysville and Airing
ton Saturday afternoon and evening,
and in Monroe and Everett Sunday
afternoon and evening.
E. r. Manley was chairman OF
the Arlington meeting which was
held in Workmen's hall with a ca
nacitv house. One of the most
notable features of the Arlington
| meeting was the number of women
who were present.
William Bouck was the first speak
er. both at Arlington and Everett.
| "Ten thousand farmers in Eastern
washington have begged for seed
and reclamation that they might
be able to make living on their
farms and congress and the senate
has turned them down hard, saying
that there is no money. The next
day they vote $40,000,OO0 credit to
France to make war on Poland.
They have no money to help the
farmers but they vote billions OF
dollars, of 94 per cent of our ma
tional budget to build up the army
and navy. They are paying 10000
officers in peace time, officers who
have nothing to do but plan war.
| If | ever vote for one dollar for
war machinery, want you to recall
me. Let no one misunderstand me
| will vote against militarism in any
form, when | go to Washington city"
So said William Bouck. "Just con-
ditions for the toilers will establish
| industrial freedom and you won't
need war machinery to keep peace.
The greatest hope is that now the
farmers are getting together which
means that the people are going to
| abolish war for all time. We are
going to establish a real democracy
| in this state and nation" he con-
| tinued.
Mr.. Bouck then touched on the
market, transportation and banking
question, taking up the fact that the
| farmer gets only 80 per cent of his
crop, that millions of women and chill
dren are starving in this Christian
| nation; that the food spectators,
! the railroads and the sugar trusts
are robbing the American people
of their birthright and went on to
say that he would use all his influ-
| to ! 1tCo dc a
public utilities into the hands of the
people through government owner
ship and democratic control; that he
will do all in his power to establish
municipal, state and national markets
where the difference between what
the farmer gets for his crop and
what the worker pays for it will be
reduced. He touched on the mer-
chant marine bill that was intro
duced by Wesley l.. Jones, candidate
for United States Senate, which pro
vides that, through its shipping
board, the government shall sell to
private shipping interests our pres
ent merchant ships for 70 per cent
of their actual cost; that this gov
ernment shall establish trade routes
and if they prove profitable shall
sell them to private interests and if
they do not pay we shall keep them
ourselves.
He told that the resolutions passed
by the state grange are the same as
the platform of the Farmer-Labor
party and advised voting it straight,
from France down to the county
ticket. In closing, Bouck said, "All
that l am going to promise you is
that, if / am elected to congress,
shall do all that l am capable of
doing for the benefit of all the peo-
| pie, and second, | am coming back
here two years from now and look
everyone of you straight in the eye.
Neil Breslin was introduced and
made short talk, telling his aud
ience that the Farmer-Labor party
has good organization, and has
candidates of whom they might be
| proud, candidates drafted by the
| farmers, workers from the factories
and railroads and farms and schools.
He then read from the American
Legion page of the Tribune how
Hadley's secretary said that Hadley,
| if elected, would get war trophies
for the citizens of Everett, and also
quoted from Jones' speech where he