Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-08-24
LIPPERT TALKS
AT COURT HOUSE.
URGES VOTERS TO HELP
LA TOILETTE IN
PRIMARY

| George w. Lippert, candidate for
district attorney, spoke at the court
house square last Saturday night urg-
ling his audience to support Robert
M. LaFollette for United States sem
ator in the primary and referring to
his own record when district attor-
ney. asking support in the present
campaign.
There is, no doubt, but what the
wealth of the nation is fast becom-
ing centralized into the hands of
few" said Mr.. Lippert. "In prac-
tically every industry in the nation
we have a trust. We have the beef
trust, the steel trust, the oil trust,
the coal trust, and many others. These
trusts are combinations of corpora
lions, which are thoroughly organized
for the purpose of eliminating compe-
tition and they are placed in posi-
ton whereby they can dictate to the
farmer and to the laborer-the pro-
ducers of wealth-what they will pay
him; and they likewise indirectly die
tate to the consumer at what price
he shall buy the finished product.
We have peculiar conditions in Am
erica-consumerS are paying in the
hC1ShOOl hOOo VI lOII pei pOuDu
for pork that the beef trust bought
at seven and one-half cents. And
then, when we examine the income
tax reports submitted to the govern
ment by this trust, we find~that they
made profit of 100 per cent on,
their investment in one year alone
"And it is this organized, predatory
wealth that is fighting Robert M. La
Toilette. 1t is fighting him because
he dares to stand up in the U. S. Sen
ate alone, fighting for the interests of
the common people,"
Touching the liquor question, Lip
pert stated that he was for light wine
and beer, and he states his position
in this way: 81 am for light wine and
beer, and 1 honestly believe that if
our people had light wine and beer,
they would drink less moonshine if
they drank it at all"
In bringing to the attention of the
audience the magnitude of a billion
dollars, doing so by multiplying the
nineteen hundred and twenty-five
years of the Christian era by the num-
Der of days, hours, minutes, and sec
onds that have elapsed since the birth
Of Christ, Lippert showed that if a
man were to count a dollar every sec
ond of that time, without sleeping or
eating, he could count IN the neigh
borhood of $60,000,000, 900.
THAT sum is what the war cost
us and more. Those who made mon
ey out of the last war are now talk
ing about the next war. l thought
this was to be the last war-at least
that is what they told us. Now, they
are talking about chemical war; a
war that will be fought by gasses.
They have perfected gas that is so
powerful that if dropped from an air
ship into a city the size of Wausau,
it you'd kill off not only every human
being, every man, woman and child,
old and young, but it would kill off
every tree, every bush, every blade
of grass. This, the next war, is what
the plutocrats are talking about, this,
after we were told that this was to be
the last war, and after we spent bill
lions Of dollars and gave our boys.
And, what was the crime of Robert
M. LaFollette on that question? He
wanted those who profited by this
war to pay the costs of the war That
is why they do not like him, and that
is why they are spending much money
in the state to defeat him."