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

in politics.
I'm answer to this call the new mova-
ment was brot into being-a great dem.
ocratic movement whose nurnoso :, ~
destroy class government and bring tho
administration of public affairs back in
to the hand Of the people.
Parties Are Expensive
occasionally we are told by tha Or.
cans of the privileged class thai the
farmer-Labor party is a. class move
ment. Nothing could be farther from
the truth. I repeat, the third nar+v
was born for the express purpose ~
Kidding the country Of class govern
ment.
The. producers, the workers of the
field 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
pah' the broom and the baby carriage
the great common people-have uni
tea into one political party financed
by themselves, and therefore freed en-
tlrely from the influence that absolu-
tely controls the two old parties.
II 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
millions of dollars to conduct the cam.
paign of either of the old parties; and
| &c
special privilege.
| rake for example, the house of J
L. Morgan and company One of its
members is an active Republican, an6
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 te
finance the Democratic party Which
ever one OF the two wins, you lose.
Paying the Fiddler
1T is an old saying, but a true one
He who pays the fiddler calls the tune
and special privilege in this countr,
for years has been calling the tune
And If 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 better ea
for music than I have.
1T is a wond of the age how tn,
workers have been kept divided polit
ically so long, and each year makes
the task more difficult
lone Of the keenest financiers in Am
erica, Roger w. Babson, recently said
addressing a confidential circular to tn
bankers and brokers':
. Wa said the emD1OViOg lass
was immensely more powerful than
in 1911. 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
great degree in independence of
each other. Then came the federal
reserve act and gave us the mach
inepy of consolidation, and the en-
Urgency Of five years war furnish
ed the hammer blows that welded
the structure into one.
Use of Propaganda
&c 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 gri
of monopoly and reaction on our gov
eminent and institutions, involve tire
mendous task. We must literally chang
the psychology of the common man
make him see that his opinions are car
ned. That he gets them from the ru
ing interests, by whom each year he
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, j
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 Scott
and all other provinces are in line
Quebec alone remains in the grip of re
action Long ago Australia and Ne0
Zealand saw the light, and victory
about to perch upon the great Births
labor partys banner. Even down in Yu
catan, the common people are assertin
themselves, and the progressive farm
ers of Scandinavia, who have set tn
example for the world in temperatures
i, have at last discovered that to attai
the purposes they have set out to at
tain, they must also employ politica
+ action.
Il wish I had time to discuss wit
you fully what Roger Babson include
in his statement to his friends, tn