The Washington times., 1920-07-10
BOTH OLD PARTIES
ASSA|LED BY THIRD
Allen McCurdy, in Keynete
Speech, Flags Rule Of Wall
Street and Privilege.
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livered to the interests; indorses the
Infamous ch-Cummins bill over
the protests of farmers, workers. and
informed citizens; and consistently
crowns it's work by nominating as
candidate for the Presidency a
proven, steady, wheel-horse poll
tician, guaranteed to stand without
hitching. who learned all the politics
he ever learned In the thorough
school of Marcus A. Hanna and Jo-
seph B. Foraker, back in the Golden
Age marked by the Standard Oil
scandals. Thus stands the party OF
Abraham Lincoln in the last days OF
its decadent faithlessness. naked and
unashamed in it's servile service Of a
greedy plutocracy. ,,.,
''The Democratic bid Ii more than
bOldy II is brnzen. With mild res
ervations it not only claims a par
tisan credit, which belongs to the
whole nation, for fighting and win
ming the war. but it declares that it
administered the conduct of that war
without the taint of scandal! And
the ghosts Of Hog Island. the air
craft, shipbuildng, and cantonment
construction, and the nitrate plant
appropriations are still stalking
through the land. 1t is no scandal
that In 1917 the year of supreme sac
riice. when our boys were fighting
and dying for $50 a month. and our
people were economizng and sacri-
ficing to buy Liberty bonds, the
United States Steel Corporation made
net earnings of SSSS.931.51I or SEQ
100000 more than the total capital
stock? What cnn we call that whole
orgy OF war pronteerinE by a set Of
the most inscriptions scOundrels
who ever fattened out OF the necessi-
ties and the miseries Of a great mn
tiOn at warf
PALMER IS SCORED.
THE Republican party would lead
Hanna. Not to be outbid, the Demo-
cratic party, through it's indorse-
ment of the administration OF A.
Mitchell Palmer, would lead ns back
to the days OF Philip ii OF Spain. To
such depths hns the party Of Thomas
Jefferson descended.
THE platform which is submitted
as the basis of the deliberations of
this convention has most serious
claim to our consideration. Not only
is it a short platform, but it is sin
gle-minded in it's devotion to one
determination. 1t declares that the
principal cause. of the distress Of
this people is economic in it's nature
anu can be removed only by economic
action. Every word in it says the
same thing. Abolish economic priv
ilege.
1--WE have been and are an exploited
people. We have not enjoyed, and
under existing conditions, can not en-
Joy, the fruits of our own industry.
The fears of our fathers have become
the experience of their defendants.
Our country has become a plutocracy.
NEED IS MORE LIBERTY.
"The time has come when 1t is not
merely desirable, but indispensable to
the public safety, that our government
and our other institutions should be
restored to the people. The whole
system of production and distribution,
administered not for the public good,
but for private profit, has broken
down. We need everything from shoes
on our feet to houses over our heads.
Many necessities we can not get at
all: and those available are beyond
the reach of every family in this
country whose income is less than
S2.533.9T.
"Throughout all our deliberations
We must maintain our conviction that
what America needs today is not more
laws but more liberty; and that given
freedom, the American men and women
may be safely trusted to work out
their salvation. That freedom can
only he given to the American people
hy the abolition Of economic privilege