The Washington times., 1924-10-16
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NEWS
Must Be curbed, With Other
MonopoIies, Progressive
Candidate Says
BY KENNETH CLARK.
international Ness Service.

ABOARD LA TOILETTE SPE-
CIAL EN- ROUTE TO MINNIE
APOLIS, Oct. is. Promising q
'.full measure Of relief for Ameri-
can farmers who have been
stricken down deliberately by .
conspiracy on the part of moneyed
interests controlling the Republic
can and Democratic parties" Sena-
tor Robert M. La Toilette today
opened a whirlwind invasion Of
the northwest wheat belt.
May Revisit New York.
The Progressive Presidential can
didate will speak in Minneapolis to-
night, and complete his tour Of the
Northwest with an address In Sioux
Falls. s. D., tomorrow. Then he
VIII head eastward again for a final
invasion in the Mississippi Valley.
II time permits, La Toilette may
make hurried tour Of New York
State, with probably one address in
New England. Unless there is an
eleventh.hour change in his SEIZED
ule, La Toilette will not go to the
Pacific coast.
La FolIette's flying trip through
the wheat belt was marked by a
new declaration of war upon the
agrarian policies Of the old parties.
UNLESS you want continued high
tariff duties, exorbitant, freight
rates, Wall street controlled farm
credit system and demoralized and
Inadequate Federal farm aid, you
VIII vote the Progressive ticket" La
Toilette said.
Banks for Producers.
TO his program Of agricultural
relief, La Toilette added a pledge
70 establish Federal cooperative
banks, which ''shall be producers
banks, not exploiters' banks"
Embittered by the action Of Of
4icials Of Station WHO, wned by the
Bankers Life Insurance Company,
in denying permission 70 broadcast
his Des Moines. speech last night,
La Toilette today launched an at
tack upon the radio industry, which
he charged was falling under con-
troll OF private monopoly. The
nes Moines station he said, pre-.
viously had broadcast meetings Of
both old parties.
The radio is rapidly becoming a
most important means Of communi-
cation and of the dissemination Of
news and intelligence, said La Fol-
lette. 1T is unthinkable that this
artery Of communication should be
controlled by private monopoly.
Radio Monopoly Menace.
1.-THE great private monopoly Eys-
tenn has sought to control the peo-
pies sources OF news Cor years. It
gained control first Of many big
newspapers and magazines and now
It has the radio.
1.-THE radio constitutes a menace
20 the life Of American institutions
Il it is to be controlled by private
monopoly. There is no question of
the power OF the Government to
exercise complete and drastic con.
troll IL 1t shall become necessary.
1.-THE present policy Of the radio
industry is creating situation
where drastic regulation and con-
troll will be forced upon Congress-.
II believe that American citizens
generally will join in supporting
measures designed to prevent this
great public utility from being con-
trolled by monopoly in the interest
of monopoly
Federal Reserve Played.
An his Des Moines speech La Fol.
lette charged the Federal Reserve
Board inspired and directed the
deflation policy Of 1920"
That policy, he said, cost tho
farmers $40 ,000, Zoo, 900 in shrinlage
of land values and $4,000, 600, 900 by
the loss Of the farm products
values.
La Toilette promised to divorce
the Federal Reserve Board from the
control Of Wall Street."