The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-07-23

port to the labor party and the labor partles OF
the United States are working hard to draw the
farmers to their support although their inter-
ests are Numerically opposed to each other. Inc
farmer is clamoring for lower freight rates and
the railroad union men are demanding hlgner
wages, which demand, if granted will necessarl-
ly result in higher freight rates The farmer
before Joining in with the railroad unions,
should study just little history and he may
quickly ascertain why freight rates are appar-
emily so high at the present time.
But returning to the reversal OF public opln-
ion the Monitor refers to the case of LaFollette.
1t says: Here Senator Robert Marion LaFollet-
tie of Wisconsin, who during the war was like
wise extremely unpopular on account of his OPP
position to the draft and American participa-
ton in the European contest, is now candidate
for the Presidency His support, moreover,
comes from exactly the same elements of dis
contented farmers and organized Labor.
Calling these new leaders bad names does
not explain their return to public favor. And
while it would indeed be easy to find flaws in
the personal records of some of them, will they
not in the impartial light of history compare
favorably with those of the men who have led
the world since the war closed? Future inter-
probation of this period is likely to differ quite
radically from that now current. And why is it
that nationalist, imperialists, militarists and
war profiteers are always able to drape them
selves in their country's flag and claim credit
for noble, patriotic sentiments when later his
tory so often proves them to have been their
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Another train the new men have in common
is opposition to the big industrial corporations
of their respective countries, of which, they say,
their opponents are the political puppets Per-
haps it is in this widespread rebellion against
economic domination by trusts "cartels' and
other forms of capitalstic combinations that
we shall find the most valid explanation of this
new political partnership between farmers and
organized labor
In our humble opinion the Monitor puts La
Follettes case altogether too strong as regard
ing his return to public favor. LaFollette is
not in public favor to any great extent except IN
his own radical state, Wisconsin. There he is
the whole thing and he knows his state.
Victor Berger, the rank socialist, Congress
man of Wisconsin again, after he was twice re-
fused seat in the lower house of the congress,
says chat LaFoette is eminently fitted to be the
candidate for president of the socialists. Mr..
Berger made this announcement at the social
lists convention in Cleveland: 'LaFolette is a
socialist in everything but name" declared Ber-
ger. He has been SO for twenty years. He.
hasn't voted the Republican ticket since 1904.
There is no reason why he can't be our candi-
date.
And yet Mr.. LaFoette has been running on
the Republican ticket for the numerous offices
he has held in the last quarter of acentury a.
ticket he was secretly not supporting. No Mr..
Lafollette is not back in public favor to any
great extent.
The easternpolitical dopesters have Monta-
ma down on the map Ia La Toilette map,) as be-
ing doubtful. When sizing up the Coolidge
states before the primary they also marked