New Ulm review., 1922-11-01
WHO SHALL CONTROL THE
- GOVERNMENT?

The real issue before the people OF
Minnesota in the election on Nov. z
should be clear even to the least in
telligent voter. Henrik Shipstead,
progressive candidate for United
States senator on the Farmer-Labor
ticket, in a recent address reduced
this issue to its simplest. terms. He
said: "The issue in this election is
who shall control the government"
1t is vital issue The people at
the polls are either going to give the
stamp of approval to the plunderbund
OF war profteers and financial robbers
who have had the reins of government
in their hands since the Harding ad-
ministration came into power and are
fast reducing the farmers and workers
Of the country to state bordering
on serfdom, or they are going to take
the machinery of government over
themselves and put men into office
who serve the people and not the
powerful interests.
Again, vicious campaign Of slander
and villification is being undertaken
to camouflage the issue and blind and
confuse the voter. Reactionary Re-
publican speakers, including the lead
ing reactionary candidates., Senator
Kellogg and Governor Preus, backed
up by q powerful reactionary press
are shouting: "The issue is Americ.
ar1ism versus radicalism." Some day
probably a book will be written en-
titled, "Americanism, What Sins Have
Been Committed In Thy Namer'
1t does not require student Of
public affairs to discern that tho
rankest kind OF hypocrisy, chicaners
and demagogism are contained in this
appeal, directed not to the intelligence
but to the basest passions of the voter.
It is the rankest kind of un-American-
ism. But it has worked before. Will
it work again? .. :.
The kind of Americanis1n which
these reactionary gentlemen represent IS
the fake Americanism which duringanC
Since the war has denied the people
the most fundamental guarantees con-
tanned in the constitution of the United
States, the guarantees Of free speech,
free press and the right OF peaceful.
public assemblage. 1t is the Ameri.,
clnism exemplifed by the war profteel
and his kindred, the Congressional
log roller, CRATER and faker. 1t is
not the Americanism Of the fathers,
the founders Of this great republic.
, Mr.. Shipstead thus describes thi
kind OF Americanism: "We have (:
fake Americarism put over on us i:
America, an Americarism which hold
that it is proper to sell the government
Of the United States on the auctio,
block to the highest bidder. Let
have return in this country to old
fashioned Americanism, the Amer
icanism of our constitution whici
guarantees free speech and the pro
lection of the people. Let us have
government operated by the people
for the protection of the people an,
the public welfare"
Those who believe that there is an
other fundamental issue in the cam
paign for United States senate.
governor and other Offices beside tn
issue Of who shall control the govern
nent, the big interests or the people
in other words, the issue of fax
Americanism of the professional fla;
waver and enemy of the people on tn.
one hand and real Americanism, tru,
constructive progress in the interes
OF the people who toll and produce
the other hand, are misguided. In TIL
majority Of cases, they are the victim
Of this subtle campaign of sophistrie
and lies which is one of the unfortunat,
relics OF the war. a.s
Senate; Kellogg, one Of the staunci
hackers of the Harding administration,
the normally administration" mus
be comical in the anomalous pose an
garb of tie friend and protector oi
the. farmer" This representative
the steel trust and big business i:
general, the supporters of the EscL
Cummins law, swi1ich reduced tn.
farmer to toVerty5and crushed labo
while smakiag the railroads richer, thi
supporter Of tie Fordney- Nc cCumbe
emergency tariff law, probably eve:
more iniquitous and vicious than til
Esch-Cuirmins law, passed unques
tionably for no other purpose than t
enrich certain interests at the expens
of the people, asks for the vote Of tn
farmer "as his friend"
On what grounds? That he sup.
ported the only real riece Of legisla
ton introduced which would give tn.
farmer reasonable price for is pro
ducts? No, he voted against such
bill supported by La Toilette and others
as RADICAL He asks support for .'iia
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