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the party in power, also delivered a
speech in the senate in reply to those
keynote speeches which our Republi-
can friends would do well to ponder
over
From his speech we make the fol-
lowing somewhat lengthy but inter-
esting extract:
Mr.. President, I hold in my hand a
little poem which is entitled I'VE
wanted a change" Mr.. Pesident, if
the millions of men and women who
went up to the ballot box shouting
.sHurrah for Harding" and 'Hurrah
for normalcy!" could withdraw those
little ballots, the Republicans would
have to run them all down with a
search warrant and take them by
force in order to ever get them back
again. You never could again mar
shall them for the present regime.
They wanted a chan~e. They were
deceived by this camoufiage stuff that
you carried on, discrediting the great
est administration since the govern
ment was established. | except none.
There never was a time in the his
tory of this Republic when labor was
so fully employed, when industry was
running so regularly, when the mass
of the people had so much money in
their pockets, and when prosperity
was so general Why, the average
man and woman had little bank ac-
count under the Democratic admins
tration.
Nobody has a bank account now of
any consequence except the big bank
ers of Wall street. They have aecu-
mulated the money supply of the coun-
try; they have drawn it in; and they
let it out, little by little, as they wish
to do through the Federal Reserve
Boards policy. That is what is go
ing on. Let me remind you again
that an old farmer out in Kansas the
other day, when he was asked how
he liked this Republican crowd, said,
ITO thunder with your Republican
normally; | want to get back to
Democratic prosperity"
Oh, Mr.. President, you know there
are people in this country who be-
lieve that the mass of the people con-
stitute legitimate prey for their greed
and ayarice, just as a hawk views
chickens and thinks that he has got
right to swoop down and pluck them
and pick them and eat them when
ever he chooses. These heartless and
arrogant interests feel that they have
right to have the use of the govern
ment for that purpose They get in
with the controlling power; they say
Institute this policy" and down they
swoop upon the people and take their
substance. That is what is being
done under the reign of the Republi-
can party today.
But let me read the poem:
He Wanted a Change
We were getting a dollar six bits for
our corn,
We could sell every hide from the
hOof to the horn
We wanted a change and we got it.
Now we're getting quarter for corn.
It's so cheap
That we burn it for fuel, our toes
warm to keep
We can't sell the hides So we bury
them deep
But we wanted a change and we
got it.
The skilled workman pulled down
eight bucks a day,
Now he's darned glad to work for any
old pay
But he wanted a change and he
got it.
There was work and plenty for every
mans son,
And warm food and shelter when that
work was done:
Now millions are idle, heretofore there
was none
But we wanted a change and we
got it.
Mr.. Wilson spent quite a long time
lover there"
For peace he was fighting, but what
did we care
We wanted change and we got it.
Now all that we read is of golf and
vacations
Gay week ends at summer resorts and
plantations;
Not what we expect from the head of
4 Nation
But We wanted change and we
got it.
We were prosperous and happy, well
fed, and gay.
Now millions of children go hungry
each day
We wanted a change and we got it.
Meanwhile we hear this: 1T was GER
tain to come
Reaction frnU xxror nd
three years done.
If we wanted lemon we sure did
pick one
But we wanted change and we
got it.
Omaha World Herald.)
THE INTERIOR HAS BEEN ASLEEP
WILL 1T NEVER AWAKEN?