The labor world., 1922-03-18
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''They have stifled free speech,
throttled free press and denied the
sacred right of assembly.
"They have sanctioned wholesale
corruption of the electorate by seat
ing in the senate of the United States
Newberry, its most notorious bene-
ficiary:
"They have used the Federal Re-
serve system, controlling the life
blood of the nations credit, as an
instrument to deflate and crush
farmers and Independent business
men and cause nationwide unem-
ployment. -:
"They have obstructed every hon
est effort to relieve the distress of
agriculture thus caused, and have
used every influence to secure be-
trayal Of the farmers interests
They have conscripted four mill
ion men and boys while they per-
mitted corporations and individuals
to extort unconscionable profits and
have sacrificed the soldiers just de-
mands for equitable compensation to
the dictates Of Mellonism and the
selfish interests of tax-dodging cap
italists and war profiteers. ,
"They have abolished the taxes
upon excess profits of corporations
and have reduced the taxes upon the
incomes Of millionaires.
"They have squandered the re-
sources Of the nation in wasteful and
fraudulent contracts and subsidies.
They have permitted the rail-
roads, the arteries of the nation, to
be operated not for service, but for
speculative gain and, after subsi-
diz1ng them heavily and guarantee
ing their income. have allowed them
to be looted by financial manipulas-
tion and by contracts to corporations
controlled by favored railroad direc-
tors.
They have engaged In a campaign
OF ruthless imperialism in Haiti and
San Domingo and have permitted
the arms and resources of the Unit
ed States to be used to crush nations
and peoples struggling for freedom
and self-government. -.
'They have through the courts
nullified the righteous laws of state
and nation for the protection of
human rights and exalted judge
made law above the statutes. =
They have permitted organized
crimes and conspiracies Of trusts to
go unhampered and have turned the
sword OF the antitrust law only
against organizations of farmers and
industrial organizations.
'They have held in prison men
| convinced of no crimes and have
pardoned without warrant notorious
profiteers and monopolists.
They have used the army and
the troops and police force Of states
and cities to crush labor in it's strug-
giles to secure rights guaranteed by
the constitution.
'They have prostituted the high
est offices of of/government as cham
nels Of pernicious propaganda.
They have surrendered Ameri-
canism to Garyism, creating new
privileges immunities for capital and
tramping under foot the rights of
men,"
litical system is moderate, well-tem-
pered, shooting under the mark,
rather than over it. It is an indict-
ment that challenges the earnest at
tention of Americans and is the rail-
lying cry around which progressives
Of all shades of political belief can
rally for the redemption of the ma
tion from the hands of the betrayers
That the politicians are alarmed
there can be no doubt. That they
have reason for alarm is' equally ap-
parent. They have tried the patience
Of the people beyond endurance, and
they are now to feel the wrath of an
outraged citizenship that has long
endured every indignity that could
be devised by ingenious and un-
scrupulous men. v