Evening star., 1923-07-30
BROOKHART URGES
''BL0CS' TO UNITE
Farmer, Labor, Soldier and
Mother Groups Can Con-
+ troll Nation, He Says.
ny The Associated Press.


MINNEAPOLIS. July 30.-Inequali-
ties of our economic system have
forced the different groups like the
farm bloc, labor bloc, fhe soldiers bloc
and mothers bloc to consider their own
interests collectively, and these groups
now are figuring their own problems
!, as the business man figures his busi-
ness, Senator Smith w. Brookhart of
Iowa declared in an address here yes
terday.
Senator Brookhart spoke at the an
nual picnic of the trades and labor
assembly.
mon conclusions that their interests
are identical. Mr.. Brookhart said. They
now assert that they have been kept
binations of wealth, which have
thrived in profits and ruled in politics
by keeping these groups of common
: people at each others throats," he
spirit. the practice and the progress of
cooperation. and under this banner
they are united today. he said.
World Mt Turning Point.
The question of unrest is the most
engroSsing in the state. national and
international fields" said Mr. Brook
hart. 1T is said more often than any
thing else that we are in a great state
of unrest. This is the thing most
often said by the orator. the writer
and the common man on the street
Civilization has reached a turning
point. 1t is a universal prediction that
great changes are impending.
While this is true in general
terms, there are few who point out
any specific causes or suggest any
he fn,
think there is no advantage in criti-
: cizing an old system or method until
a better new one is suggested. There
is no progress and no advancement
in tearing down the old building un-
less the material and workmen are
at hand for the construction of a
better one.
Tries to Find Cause
Based upon these ideas, have
attempted to reason out the causes
of this unrest and to suggest a remedy
that would displace It, The old
generality of the politicians that he
represents all the people is fiction
and delusion and settles nothing.
This unrest Is caused by the In
equalities of our economic system.
These inequalities have forced the
different groups like the farm bloc
labor bloc. the soldiers bloc and the
mothers bloc to consider their own
edcn
Its own standpoint. ''s
The laboring man has ceased to
denounce the farmer as profiteer
On the other hand" the
farmer is no longer willing 60 fight
the laboring man Each has
definitely concluded that the middle
man. with his profits, waste and ex-
tfavagancc. is the common economic
and political enemy of both. Upon
TINS basis. these great blocs have
united for economic and political
action
II have just been in the eastern
states. and | want to bring you tie
news that this condition Is not local
to the west. 1t is exactly the same
In New HamlIshire. Massachusetts
groups have not united together cor
any radical or destructive purpose
They have united upon a common
remedy. 1t is not a wild and untried
theory. 1t is the oldest. soundest.
most enterprising- and most success
full business principle that has ever
been promulgated in this world 1t
is as aggressive as the spirit of the
crusader and tits as gentle as the
sermon on the mount, 1t is known
as economic. cooperation, and was
invented by twentythree flannel
weavers, the equitable pioneers of
Rochdale.
= The prophets of the combination
the spoils system in politics denounce
this alliance of the farmers and
1aboring people as unholy. ill-advised ID
and vicious. They fail to point out
where the farmer would go for help
when they break their alliance with
labor. And they fail to point out
where labor would go when it breaks
its alliance with the farmers They
know that neither constitutes a ma
jority. hut united, are sure to sue
these two great elements of the COM
mon people of our country. together
with their soldier members and
mother members. can unite upon a
common program every dictate of
common sense demands that they
shall do so.
They all believe in the spirit, the
practice and the progress of coop
Grafton, and under this banner they
are united today. This is the spirit
Of Lincoln and of Jefferson rolled
into one"