The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-11
After so Years of Failure
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seentatives. 1SS5-1S91; and his entry
into the United State Senate in 1906
to date.
We brand the widely touted prog
ressivism of Senator LaFollette as
more noise than substance. We will
. prove that such fraudulent progressiv-
ism does not hold out any hope to
the workers and exploited farmers.
We will marshal conclusive evil
dence to show that LaFollette's op-
position to Special Privilege" not
only has not hurt or shocked the prof
its of the biggest interests but that it
has even helped them. More than that,
We will call upon LaFollette to tell
us how proud he is of this beneficial
effect of his policies on big business.
The facts indicate that in the last
fifteen years most of LaFollette's
progressive planks have been either
enacted into law by or incorporated
into the programs OF the republican
and democratic parties.
AS to LaFollette's warm friendship
for the workingmen and poor farmers
we will let the Wisconsin Senator's
actual record of positive achieve
ments speak for itself. The repeated
bitter protests by the organized
workers against the peculiar anti-la-
Dor slant of the Wisconsin courts
will be recounted from official docu-
ments. Besides, we will look into
the pages of the close dealings be-
tween LaFollette and such labor
haters as Mckinley and Penrose and
the unfailing support rendered by
Battling Bob" to such enemies of the
workingman as Senator Walsh of
Montana who was just denounced by
the Montana State Federation Of La
bor
We will call the roll Of LaFollette's
leading angels"
Mr.. LaFollette will be called to the
witness stand to tell us by word of
his own mouth and by the record of
his own activities how he voted for
fifty-five out of the sixty war meas
ures while the American workers and
farmers were being slaughtered on
the battlefields of France and Bel
GUM.
Nor will we overlook the proud war
record and the strong National Guard
Of LaFollette's own peace-loving Wis
consin.
In turning the searchlight on La
Follette's opposition to militarism and
imperialism we will narrate the story
of the Senator's support of McKin-
leys annexation of the Philippines.
the Unsuitable interest of the foremost
progressive" leader in having the
country he prepared at all times for
wars of defense" and the non-resis-
tant attitude of the progressive group
in the Senate and House towards the
last one hundred and fifty million
dollar Butler naval grab.
The class which Mr.. LaFollette
really serves, the.strength of the open
shop movement, the weakness of the
trade union movement, the poor child
labor, industrial accidents and wage
records of. Wisconsin will be offered
as the shining examples Of the help
fulness of LaFolletism to the working
masses.
And proof that LaFollette's pro-
gram is useless, out-of-date, and in
adequate will be the final evidence
submitted by us to show that the
Wisconsin Senator is not deserving
Of. the political support OF the work
ing class and the disposed farmers
His "Progressivism.v
Let us examine the outstanding ar
guments that are most often advanced
to show that LaFollette is a genuine
progressive worthy OF support by and
political leadership Of the working
and farming masses. Briefly stated
these are:
l. Senator LaFollette is opposed to
special privilege" and has fought it
all his life. In campaign pamph-
let entitled where LaFollette Stands
on Fifty Living Issues" we are told
to look at the state made famous by
LaFollette, Wisconsin, as the model
Commonwealth" The adherents Of
LaFollette propose to extend this
Wisconsin Idea" the regulation of
big business and its restoration to
honesty. turnout the country.
2. LaFollette insists he is a tried
and true friend of the workers and
poor farmers as against the employ
ing class.
3. The LaFollette boosters are con.
tinually asserting that their candi.
date was anti-war and steadfastly OBJ
posed the last imperialist world con-
nict.
4. Considerable stress IS laid on La.
Folottes attitude towards and rocorc