Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-22
DEMOCRATS PLAN MAXIMUM
FUND OF $4,000 IN CAMPAIGN
TELLS
! ILLINOIS PEOPLE OF
/ new ALIGNMENT

Rock Island, Ills. Oct. Ex-senator
Robert LaFollette declared in an adj
dress here tonight that new po!iti-
cal alignment is at hand-"an align
n.ent of primary producers. of men
who produce wealth, of the men who
s"I frequently hear the suggestion
that the farmers and the wage earn
efs will not work together" he as
serted. But the reverse is true. The
a common economic interest. They
are natural political allies. They suf-
fer from the same things. They want
the same things. And the things they
want are good things.
THE issues which should divide
men and women politically are being
expressed in this campaign for the
| first time in a generation. 1t is be-
those who exploit wealth. 1t is this
issues that makes the farmer. the
wage worker. the merchant, the clerk,
| the teacher and all those employees in
the production and distribution of
wealth natural allies. Their econom-
+ interests are the same. They suf-
| Ter the same evils. They have COM
hon interest.
| "On the one hand are the unpriv-
legged millions who want only a
$quare deal. On the other are the
| privileged few who have ATTAINED an
| Unlawful, if not criminal strange
| bold on the people"
! | Declaring that "the economic oil
garchy of today seeks to hold human
| beings in bondage by perverting the
| law through crooked courts" Sena-
! tor LaFollette said that this was be-
| ing done by various means. among
| them injunctions in labor disputes.
| 1T has used subservient courts"
| he continued, ito nullify the Clayton
bet which sought to protect the work
er in his right to organize and to
| liars gain collectively.
1T has nominated presidential
ticket in open hostility to organized
labor. 1t used all the power of the
government to destroy the trade I'M
ION organizations of the two million
Railway workers of the country.
1T created the railroad labor board
Eand packed it with men bitterly hos
| tile to labor. This board has done
more to breed discord and promote
strikes than any piece Of legislative
folly ever conceived.
Not content with making war on
| men, it makes war on little children
1t would destroy the on-coming gen
! Grafton by dwarfing the children in
mind and body in the mills, in the
| factories and in the mines. 1t took
the people of America the greater
| part of a generation to win this chill
| dren's battle in congress. Privilege
defeated the will of the people in the
I courts by the decision of one man. BY
| vote of five to four the supreme
| court of the United States. as in the
bred Scott decision, identified itself
with human slavery-this time the
slavery of little children.
Privilege has become arrogant
since the war. 1t haunts it's power
a power which serves it from the
| White House. in Congress and in al
of the agencies of the government
In 1920. this privileged power deter
| mined upon an aggressive wal
! against labor. This war was known
a. the open shop drive. 1t was de-
| signed to take from organized labor
the small gains it had made during
the war. 1t was aimed chiefly at the
/ railroad employees and miners"
This small group Of men operating
| out of Wall street have used this
power which thew have obtained over
| your government not for service but
for private profit. They want monop-
| oily. They want special privileges
! They seek TO avoid their share of the
taxes. They do not belong to the
| party of Lincoln. Their interests are
as widely separated from the inter-
ests of the people as are the two
! pOleS "