The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-06-09

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loan act. and in 1923, passed q
second act pretending to save the
farmers. Think OF it.! Congress gave
the big bankers a direct path Of the
United States Treasury to help
themselves. The farmers by the two
acts cited, were simply given the
chance to beg big bankers for help.
That Is what 1t amounts to. Do we
see the difference? The farmers
and wage workers were fleeced,
while the profiteers rolled In wealth
and extravaganza. That is why the
big interests will use every effort
to defeat me in this election.
"The balance of power between
the progressive and reactionary
forces of America is at stake in
this battle. Already the reaction
aries have misquoted me and ad-
roitly Unanswered to create con-
fusion. My case rests with the
people themselves, to make their
own fight for their own rights.
l stand for the Farmer-Labor arty
unreservedly. l appoint every citi-
zen who believes in what stand
for, to work for me in this cam
paign, and when 1 say the Farmer
Labor is my party, I am not adj
vocating special favor. The term
Farmer" includes the agriculturist
alone; the term Labor" includes
farmer and everybody else who
serves in any useful trade or in
dustry, whether professional or
otherwise. 1t includes all the use
full, and excludes all the parasites. !"
Mr.: Magnus Johnson, who made
such gallant race for governor
last fall, has followed Mr.. Lind
bergh's example by filing for the
farmer-labor nomination for. the u.
S. senate. Some, through lack of
facts in the case and others through
righteousness, have charged Mr..
Lindbergh with belittling Mr. John
sons candidacy. Such report is
false. Under date of May "a, Mr..
Lindbergh issued an open letter
concerning Mr.. Johnson's cause, as
follows, viz:
Il campaigned all last summer
and up to election to elect Mr..
Johnson for Governor. In my as
sociations with Mr.. johnson. I have
learned that he is an honest man
and believes in the peoples rights
and surely would do his best for
us in any position that he might
be elected to serve. In last years.
campaign my friends, who were also
Joh f,in m
promise that l would let them run
me for the U. S. Senate on the
first opportunity. Immediately when
there was a vacancy, letters poured
in requesting me to file. My friends
all knew that I was in Congress
from 1907 to 1917, and that l
then defined what I believed to
be the rights of the people, and
explained how they had been flout-
ed. / had a plan, introduced bills
and worked for the things that the
people needed then and are demand
ing now. AS 1 state in my platform,
the progressive forces among the
people were then not strong enOugl
to command either the fear or
respect of Congress and very little
progressive legislation was poss 'e.
Partly because OF the work l did,
with other progressives co-operat-
ing, and because the people have
the progressives have found that
congress betrayed them, the pro-
gressives have grown strong enough
to command both the fear and
respect of the present and future
Congresses. That was the reason
my friends urged that 1 should let
them run me for the Senate.
1T is said that Mr.. Johnson will
file as a candidate for the U. s.
Senate. l shall make no campaign
against Mr.. Johnson. We had all
hoped, and really expected that he
would become our candidate for
Governor and be elected in 1924.
My campaign will simply be to
present the peoples right to be
relieved of the economic and finan-
cial pinch that big business has
forced upOn nsO