Evening star., 1923-07-11

erudite orators, who explain the ele-
mentary principles Of the tariff, for
eign affairs, the world court, the Fed
eral Reserve Board and so on. Then
the ringmaster announces: And
now. ladies and gentlemen, we will
hear from our Magnus." Whereupon
our Magnus lumbers on the stage.
minus coat and galluses. He discards
collar and necktie.
IT stand by what those fellows say"
he begins. Il don't know much about
those things I wait until Brook
heart gets back to tell me about for
eign affairs. La Toilette. he will tell
me what to do about the railroads.
This Federal Reserve Board / don't
know, but / would turn every one
For that Supreme Court. ! believe in
law and order but ! don't think that
a majority of one should declare
law unconstitutionally."
Make Plutocrats Jump.
Then he goes on telling them how
he Is going to make those plutocrats
in the Senate stand around; how he
will bawl them out and tell them
where to get off. He declares him
self a fighter and says the Senate
will come to grief If it tries to put
anything over on him with its skull
duggery. In a recent interview he
was quoted as saying:
into dons f6in eel1Sns Tb in daEgins toe dsfp I
tngton, they say they know much.
but half of 1t is just to fool the other
fellow. l am for the common peo-
pie and l want to be common. |
things that are alive-not things that
have been dead thousands Of years.
l have read more histories than any
man, but l can't see thing in them,
only about Lincoln. l stand where
he stood. He was a great man. 1
quote him in my speeches"
Then he goes down from the plat
form, mingllng with the crowd. kiss
ing the babies and talking farm with
the women. He is a dirt farmer him
self.
Senate Shocked Before.
Now, the foregoing is not written
in an unkindly spirit. but just as a
picture of the man. Goodness knows.
he will be no type in the senate. We
have had our "Sockless Jerry" Simp-
sons, our bewhiskered PETERS, our
Pitchfork Tillmans and there may be
one or two there now who would not
hesitate to do a little demagoguery
on the side.
But now we come to the serious
point of the case-to realize he will
have a vote in the Senate, and in a
crisis when 1t may turn the scale
Of the legislation pending let US see
what he stands for and what are his
policies. Here is his officially de-
clared platform:
Unified government control of rail-
roads. with immediate reduction in
freight rates.
Government control of federal re-
serve banking system.
Government control of coal mines,
water power sites and other natural
resources.
Favors Soldiers' Bonus.
Graduated tax on incomes. inherit
ances and excess profits.
Cash bonus for ex-service men.
Restriction of courts in the use of
injunctions in labor controversies and
in nullifying acts of Congress.
Friendly relations with all nations
and entangling alliances with none.
Sterilization of prices Of farm prod
Legislation making the constitu-
tional rights of free speech, free
press and peaceable assembly effec-
tive.
In q recent dQQreSS, called mis- Key
note speech. he modified his utter
ances from a previous tone of radi-
calism. In explaining why Magnus
Johnson should be elected" he said:
Outlines His Views.
"If for no other reason, I believe
the people of Minnesota should elect
me to the senatorship as a protest
against this vicious defiation policy
and the equally vicious imitation poll
icy Of the previous democratic admin
istration. am for helping business
run on an even keel. 1 want the
debtors dollar to be as good as the
creditors dollar. I do not believe in
a dollar worth so cents in 1919 when
a farmer contracts loan and worth
to pay. The dancing dollars do no
one any good except the large finan-
ciers and spectators. We common
people need a money system and a
credit system that will keep business
running on an even keel.
Many of my good friends think of
the federal reserve system as too bad
to be remedied, but to my mind wrong
management Is more at fault that the
system itself. 1t was designed to ex-
tend help to borrowers at times when
preaching. It did provide more
elastic credit system than we had
prior to 1913. But power for good Is
also power for evil. The Federal Re-
serve Board, instead of helping us
with renewals when prices sagged a
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