New Ulm review., 1922-08-16
.FEDERATE FARMER
MERCHANT LABOR
HON. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH
SUGGESTS FEDERATION OF
USEFUL GROUPS.
LINDBERGH'S STATEMENT IN
LAST WEEKS REVIEW
CONTINUED.

In last week s issue of the Reuse7v,
Hon. Charles A. Lindbergh, campaign
manager for the farmer-labor candi-
dates for state Offices in Minnesota,
began discussion of a plan for
federating the three useful groups, the
farmers, the merchants, and the
laborers, for united political action.
Each group would work independently
to certain extent, and within their
own group, but the three groups will
unite for a program, through q joint
board of trustees acting as conference
committee, the trustees or conference
committee being elected from the
three groups with equal representation
for each of the three groups.
There is also fourth group, the
profteers, whose interests are directly
opposite to the interests of the three
useful groups. In last weeks Revie7c,
|eMr. Lindbergh was discussing the mode
of action of the fourth or profteer
group. He showed how they draft
tie bills that they want made into law
by congress. Continuing, Mr.. Lind
berg says:
Enemies Draft Laws.
"Not only do the fourth group draft
their own bills, but since the people,
when they make demand for a new
law, simply ask that law be passed,
or put it in a platform, the fourth
group even drafts the bills for that,
giving it title that promises what the
other groups want, but in the body OF
the bill takes from them what the
title promises, and actually makes
things worse than if nc new law was
passed.
Something practical must be done
to save the country from the situation
I have described. The conditions are
intolerable, and are headed for theve
worst by the very laws and practices
that. govern business and politics.
Action must be taken to make things
reasonable. S.. s .s. ..ss..
Pro fiteers Ape Nobility.
eve canlook back into the pages of
.history-to the kings in Europe, for
instance. The kings were not strong
enough to sforce the nobility to pay
theirsshare Of the taxes and bear their
part Of the burdens, 50 the taxes and
burdens were all levied against the |
peasants. That is what resulted m
revolutions, Our own Revolution was
an example.
tssIn our own dear country the profit |
eers, forming the fourth group, now
ape the old European nobility; but
have fortified themselves better, and
they also refuse to pay their share OF
taxes and bear their share Of burdens,
SO the taxes and burdens are nearly all
shifted onto the useful groups, who
bear them. It's time to beware Of the |
conditions, lest terrible things should |
oyertakes us. The opportunity is still
with US to make things right.
Useful Groups Must Join.
q In my previous letter, suggested
the need for forming a working plansI
on which farmers, wage workers and
business men can cooperate that al
of us may prosper.
s., .Ehesp ofteers are selfshly success
,ful, sbecausest they live by xploitihg gFthe
rest Of US, SO we are hard up.
No really useful occupational
group, acting separately, can make
progress against the profteers' exploita
5tions. The useful groups must. be
active in their several separate ways,
but they must have a common field in
which they can cooperate for their
common welfare. They cannot be
pulling in different directions, if they
are to get out Of the political and busi-
ness mess that now confronts the world.
How Trusts We're Formed.
Shortly after the Civil War, a
group Of men formed 9 selfish plan toll
rule the world by the manipulation Of
finances. Through financial control.
they organized trusts to control trans
.peItat ion and ~ the mean dis
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