New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1920-05-19

5. To provide plan of workmef's
compensation, administered by the state,
THAT will bring injured Wofkmen, their
families and dependents certain and full
lsrel ief without recourse to the courts. Il
/ 6. To recognize the right Of workers
| to organize and deal collectively with
their employers, through representatives
of their own choice.
z. To protect and encourage co
operative enterprises 81
IS. To secure full equality under The
Jlaw for men and women.
9. To take all other immediate steps
possible under the constitution to put
into effect the complete Minnesota pro
grams of the National Nonpartiscan
league and the Working Peoples Mon
partisan Political league.
Shipstead Issues Statement.
DR. Shipstead issued the following
statement, supplementary to the plat
form:
The farmers and workers Of Mime
sofa, and by workers / mean all people
who work with brain and hand, have
made me their candidate for governor
in their fight to restore to the people Of
Minnesota and the United States their
sacred inheritance the Declaration OF
independence and Blil of Rights. Actual
toilers have found something placing
iteslf between them and the products
of their toll to such a degree that they
can bear it no longer, so, they began
two years ago, in q peaceful manner,
to meet and take counsel together and
to act along the lines laid down in
those documents which are the pain
fully evolved life principles of the
Northern races; in peace, if possible, to
change the burdens SO that they might
be borne,
Exercising our stime-honored right
of freedom OF speech, we were stopped;
our freedom of assembly hindered; our
freedom of the press partly denied, and
our freedom of movement, and the
ballot, at times denied or made nuga-
tory. Like the old colonists, we find
ourselves governed by public officials
who have arrogated ito themselves UNI
limited powers of autocracy, incon-
sistent with the law and the constitu-
ton We havei seen our fellows driven
from their homes tarred and feathered
by mobs because of their opinions and
their speech and their efforts to organize
into perfectly organizations to consult
together about how to help each other
toremove ortcarry their burdens.
s.And now again we are seeking the
same things; employing the same lawful
methods; placing our case before the
people Of Minnesota, Arm in our faith
that if given a fair hearing, the truth
and justice of our cause will compel a
favorable verdict at the var of public
opinion. We hope that we shall win.
If we do we shall not use the power of
the government to Cypress others. We
shall restore the Minnesota that we
knew the Americanism that we love.
We shall not return evil for evil. We
shall return good for evil, in this: that
we shall deprive of their powers these
people who have been heaping their own
proper burdens upon others. We shall
deprive the few Of the power they pos
sess, in special privilege, to profteer
upon the many. We shall show them
that ones own burdens are sufficient
and when properly borne are blessed.
In defeat we have been patient. In vic
tory we shall be just. This is a spirit
worthy Of American traditions. This is
America as we have dreamed it. This
is America as we hone to make it,