Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1922-09-27
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Hon. o. J. Kvale Sounds His Key.
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/ Hon, @. Kvale, the progressive
candidate for Congress in this district,
opened his campaign il his home: city
Eof Benson :Monday light before an au-
Edience of admiring friends and neigh
bors that Completely filled the great
.Armory:: building in that city. It was
first intended to hold the meeting in
the Courthouse but it was soon: dis
Powered that this building would not
|: furnish even. standing room for the
vast crowd that was assembling WHICH
INCLUDED delegations from Kandiyohi,
Chippewa, Yellow Medicine and nearly
,evel ~ ct: other e county-in the district.
f. Lawyer c.. L. Kane presided and
introduced the speakers which includ-
ed Alfred Larson candidate for the
House in7swift County, and R. C. slet-
ten, Senatorial candidate Of the Far
mer7Labor forces.
For more than two hours, Mr.. Kvale
held that great audience so quiet that
you; could almost hear a pin drop,
while he outlined the issues.
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prohibition was not an issue he said
land the reactionaries would be exceed
Eingly glad, if they were permitted, to
Fuse; this socalled Volstead: Dry Law
*as the main issue. He said they great
~ desired to use this as smoke
screen to hide the real issues which
We're economic in their nature. After
quoting from various parties, includ.
ling VIM. Jennings Bryan, on the one
side and the President Of the National
Wet Organization On the other to show
that prohibition was not an issue be
tween him and Volstead, Mr.. Kvale
took up first, the Cummins-Esch Rail
fr0ad Act: This law, which does not
Fix the salaries of the higher officials
fnor limit extravagant and reckless ex
| agement, he severely criticised. HI
declared among other things that ii
was drafted at least in its main fea
lures by .skillful railroad attorneys an(
designed to give the big railway mag
mates a. free~hand to loot the public
i He said that about twelve hundred
different lines Of railways have beer
concentrated into six great systems
and that eight 1nen in Wall Street
New York, domiHated. these systems
and were holding up in transportation
charges all the people of this country
He quoted the Chicago Tribune, It
great conservative organ, as sayins
after the passage of the Cummins
Esch act that the effect of the Law
when in full operation would be tt
add on the average. one dollar pei
day to the cost of Lying. Of every fam
lily in the United States:
And Volstead voted for this law ani
now expects to be returned to Con
gress by those whose Interests he hae
betrayed. +
He said he stood for the repeal o.
this infamous measure, one very i'm
portant matter on which he differed
with Volstead
-, The Soldiers Bonus
He said the soldier boys deserved (;
if elected he would do all in his power
to- secure the passage of a law tina
would provide funds for this purpose
from the profits of the class who made
big fortunes out of the World War.
'|:>:~ He said the farmers dollar would
fonly buy $3.50 of what it would *
years ago: that while the products o.
| the farm were only bringing about
the same prices they did before the
: war that which the farmers had te
4 buy were quoted at inflated figures.
The New Tariff
Mr.. Kvale. paid his respects to the
1neW Tariff bill recently passed by Con
gress which he DECLARED was made
largely for the benefit of big million
alre manufacturers of the East. He
=. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.