Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-10-20
MRS. HOOPER
ON THE ISSUES
Shows Democratic Training On
Tariff and League.-ScOres
La Toilette
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
WAR PREVENTATIVE
Only Beneficiaries OF Robber Republi
can Tariff Are Big Corporations
and Manufacturers

An audience which nearly filed the
court room gathered Monday evening
to hear the address of Mrs. Jessie
Hooper, of Oshkosh, Democratic can
didate for United States senator.
Quite naturally, the audience was
made up largely of women, though
there was a fair sprinkling of male
voters present.
Mrs. Hooper was introduced by Rev.
Grant Clark after he had devoted con-
siderable time to his own political
pedigree" as he called it, and in which
ly anti-LaFollette.
Mrs. Hooper is woman of pleasing
appearance and dignified bearing, past
middle age-if we are allowed to make
mention of the subject of age-and
her speech showed that she has a
knowledge of politics and politicians,
having been, as she admitted, engaged
in political work more or less the past
fourteen years. She has a good voice
for public speaking.
OIlHtS AAuuOE 1SSuc
She touched upon quite number
of political issues, but the prohibition
issue-the wet and dry question
which was made so much of during
the primary campaign, she entirely
omitted to mention in this address,
albeit she is reputed to be 'dry."
Like all northwestern people, the
speaker is in favor of the Great Lakes
st Lawrence waterway. S b he de-
nOunced the recently-passed Republi-
can tariff bill as an iniquitous meas
ure conceived and pushed though by
the big trusts and industrial combin-
atiOns of the country who will be the
only beneficiaries of the law. She did
not cOncede that the American cotton
grower or the American wool raiser,
or the American factory labOrer, will
share in any benefits from the new tar
iff law. She is for a tariff for reve-
nue. only, which is good Democratic
doctrine, advanced from the old Demo
cratic principle of free trade.
Strikes New Note
Mrs. Hooper devoted probably half
her speech to the alleged ShOrt-cOm-
ings of her Republican opponent, Rob
ert La Toilette. She said he had not
accomplished any good in the senate
during the past six years and that
his position on the league of nations
is absolutely wrong. Mrs. Hooper is
strong for the league as the only means
of preventing wars.
Mrs. Hooper struck a new note in
this Ladysmith speech. While the
senior senator has been accused of be-
ing pro-German and of catering to the
Wisconsin German vote, by his politi-
cal enemies in his own party. Mrs.
Hooper declared he has been going up
and down the state insulting Wiscon-
sin Germans by saying they were dis
loyal
These people," she continued ''suf-
fered as no one knew. | think we
should have the tenderest consideration
for the people who have been insulted
by Senator La Toilette this fall. He
has caused more heartaches among the
mothers of Wisconsin because he said
their boys were sent over to France
to get killed for money" This state
ment was in reference to a statement
that she ascribed to La Toilette when
she quoted him as having said that
I'VE fought the late World war for
Wall street"
I'VE fought that war to end wars
for all time, and our boys did their
duty Yes, they did it, and then
some" she said.
There was not much doubt in my
mind as to who l was going to run
against. / have been among those
men for fourteen years in Washing
ton and Madison and l believe / know
a little about them. Now, | want to
say here that 1 am not afraid of SEN
ator La Toilette or anybody else.
La Toilette is against entangling
alliances. So long as we are connect
ed with the rest of the world and war
starts, we're in it, and LaFollette or
anybody else cannot stop it. We must
stop it before it gets started.
mine out of every ten men here to-
night would cry for war if Turkey
should blow up one of our battleships,
The battleship Maine was blown up in
the harbor of Havana in 1898, and we
Immediately went to war with Spain
Yet, today, we don't know whether or
not it was blown up by them or an
accident happened. on board"
Mrs. Hooper said she wants to &c
to Washington to work not only for
a fair tariff, but to work for perman.
ent world peace There could be nc
doubt that she meant just what she
said.