Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-03-04

MEN BOOST FOR
CONSTABULARY
Misleading Statements In
!. fluence Farmers In Fa-
sor of Cossacks
lRv John q. Walker. }

(Ry John H. Walkerl
Al a recent meeting of the so-ealled
Farm Institute. which Is private per-
sonal organization of Dean naven.
ports. they endorsed the Military fo
lice bill. This has also been done Ia
the different county Institutes which
are offered and controlled BY men.
hand-picked by Dean Davenport
II is well known that In this matter.
Dean Davenport In acting for the bank
ing interests who own the farm lands
of the state OF Illinois and who got
their revenue ont of the rents thcy
compel the man TO pay who actually
works on the farm.
This same kind Of manipulation Is
responsible for the Illinois farmer
having tos pay taxss on his farm Inn
plements and other equipment that he
uses TO make living with. rather
than on land values. II the taxes
were placed on land values OF course
the bankers would have to pay them.
and because the man who works on
the farm in Illinois IL largely an un-
organized tenant, usually has y large
family to keep, and finds II difficult TO
get another farm II the landlords
uuH0n ttAO uAHAGi hAViCf A&t4A&& -
association blacklist and victimixe
him, he is compelled to do the things
they want him to do.
As a result OF this sort of thing the
tenant farmers sons are all leaving
the farms. s.--the tenant farmers them
selves are leaving them also and 20
ing to the city. and the people gener.
ally are having to suffer In many ways
because of this.
Dean Davenport's activities In the
interest Of the corporations that are
exploiting the people In the state and
their use of him to serve their ends
In almost every way through which
his influence In the State University
and otherwise can be exercised, n
hurting the University as an ednca-
tional Institution. II Ia obvious now
why the University stool pigeons
wanted an Illinois Mining Institute,
maintained by the state. CONTROLLED by
them and in which the 100. .000 miners
OF Illinois whose very lives were In
volved, had no voice or influonce, -
also where the hills came from, and
why, proposing TINT no one could ~
= librarian In any hamlet. v1l1a&et
feHr o. s<3tx a I1I1nsla 1anlosn fhe<
gnt permit ffom the Universally ALA
the one proposing that no one could
act as a county farm adviser except
they got permit from Dean naveA-
ports department OF agriculture In the
University, and numerous similar
measures that would almost put the
whole state politically in the hands OF
this gang.
The voters In Senator Dunlap's own
home istrict,-Champaign, Piatt, and
Moultrie- counties--on referendum
vote conducted by the Champaign
News Gazette. repudiated his Military
Police bill by vote of five TO one. ?
! The farmers in Senator Jewellas dis
trict-=Knox and Fulton counties
who have been misled In the same
manner as other county organizations
through Dean Davenport's influences.
voted unanimously In favor of the mil
itary Police Bill. Then when Senator
Jewell got an opportunity to speak TO
those men and explain what that bill
really meant. they, by unanimous vote.
voted in opposition to 1t.
Their change In attitude can be val
ued best when we know that they
took the later action after they had
heard both sides of the case, 80 that
1t was in the light OF the actual facts
that they repudiated the Military Po-
lice bill.
The farmers everywhere who have
been deceived by Davenport's sophis-
try (the men who are actually work
ing on the farm producing farm prod
|ucts) when they are made acquainted
with the real intent and purpose OF
this bill and the actual Language of
It and its meaning, Immediately
change from favoring IL. to opposing
1t.
They know that If they organize
Milk Producers Cooperative societies
and were forced to go on strike Ito
refuse to sell their milk which they
have a right to do) to force the big
corporations TO pay them decent
price for their milk. that this police
will be used against them. or when
ever they take collective action OF
any other kind. to compel the big cor
porations to give them decent con-
sideration.