Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-07-03
SENATOR WILCOX IN
HURLEY WEDNESDAY EVENING
Candidate for Governor Addresses
Large Open Air Gathering on
Main Street Corner.

uiSt ol w iSConSln SuDeInato1lal
candidates to actively campaign in
Northern Wisconsin, spoke to over
three hundred in an open air meet
ing in Hurley Wednesday night.
we want no black or red flag
beside the red, white, and blue, .
he said, amid storm of applause.
Another wave of appreciation
swept the men crowded about him
when he followed this with:
I'VE neither ask nor desire any
foreign bomb finger to remedy the
present social and industrial I'M
rest"
Judge Griff Thomas introduced
the speaker.
Senator Wilcox is a man who
stands for a square deal for all, :"
he declared. Capital and labor
both have their rights, and the next
governor of Wisconsin-the next
governor, l say-will present this
solution" ="
Senator Wilcox climbed up into
an open automobile, surrounded by
sea of faces.
The four factors to industrial
problems are capital, labor manage
ment. and the public" he stated.
If each insists upon holding out for
its own best interests, upon getting
just as much and giving just as
little as possible, we can get no
where, There must be cooperation.
"A political upheaval, class con-
sciousness, direct democracy, is not
the way out of the present unrest.
1--WE no longer believe in any of
those patent medicines which claim
to be cure alIs for the ills of the
body.
"Yet, my friends, radical leaders
everywhere are peddling political
peruna as a cure all for our social
ills, and the price is no longer one
dollar, but one vote.
The true way out is the way the
founders of this republic intended,
Unconstitutional legislation. There
is plenty of room for reform, but it
must come through legislation.
! Freedom from strikes and labor
disputes SO common elsewhere was
the sincere compliment paid by
Senator Wilcox to the Hurley mine
workers and their employers. He
said that the employees here have
already been granted many of the
things for which brothers in other
places are still struggling bitterly.
The senator paid a glowing trib-
ute to Hurley for its reception of
him two years ago, when, after he
spoke to an enthusiastic group of
service men aud their friends at the
Homecoming celebration, the entire
audience, left their banquet unfn-
ished to escort him en- masse to the
station upon his departure.
A living wage-a living family
wage-tor every adult individual
worker was another straight from
the shoulder punch. Basing his
arguments upon sound economic
principles, be pledged himself if e
lected to do all il his power to
make this reform a reality in Wis
consiu. A measure covering the
matter, introduced by himself at
the last session of the legislature
was defeated after reconsideration
by scant two votes.
Good roads was another keynote
of his talk. Stating that Wisconsin
was already one of the foremost ia
the good road movement. he pledg-
ed himself to still greater efforts.
He favored bond issue of not more
than one per cent on the assessed
value of the state for the use of road
building. rather than a burdensome
indirect tax. A. constitutional
amendment ou this matter is a part
] of his program.
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