The Republican., 1924-10-02
WIFE ON STUMP TO BACK
CAUSE OF LA TOILETTE
Sunday Meeting At Mountain
Lake Park Attracted About
Five Hundred People.

Mrs. Robert M. LaFollette's
political meeting held in the am
phitheatre at Mt. Lake Park last
Sabbath afternoon, was attend
ed by probably five hundred peo-
pie, the most of whom, it is said,
were attracted through curios-
ity and not because they were in
sympathy with what the La Fol-
lette forces represent.
Another reason given by at
least half a dozen residents of
the Park for their presence un-
der the tabernacle roof was to
experience the sensation of lis
tening to Socialistic speech on
the Sabbath day delivered from
a platform until recently held
sacred for the worship of Deity
only.
Mountain Lake Park primarily was
established as a religious mountain
resort and its freedom from all infu-
ences that would give the impression
that it did not maintain this standard
was kept inviolate until very recently.
Sundays fiasco took away from it
every claim it ever held as being a
center devoted wholly to religion and
the cause represented by the churches
of the nation. What the outcome will
be remains to be seen. This is the
expressed opinion Of one who has al
ways and under all conditions support
ed the Park and has a financial inter-
est n it as a property owner.
1t is said that the tabernacle was
rented from Superintendent Baker,
and that on Saturday evening one in
authority at the Park received a tel
egram from the head office of the AS
sociation directing him to cancel the
contract for the use of the building.
The Park and its buildings are
under control of the Board of Mis-
sions of the NJ. E. church, which or
| ganlzatiOn assumed control of it a
few years ago it being presented to
that body by the stockholders free of
debt. the Indebtedness of $4,000 be-
ing provided for by the citizens of
Oakland and the Park by private sub
scriptions and with the understanding
that certain things to carry forward
the original plan of the place were to
be inaugurated and carried out sue
cessfully.
Whether any or all of these pro-
Jects were feasible no one seems to
be in position to answer, but the fact
remains that none of them were put
into operation.
! Sunday afternoons meeting open
ed with the singing of hymns, accom-
panied by the Oakland band. Mr.. R.
Z. Haste, executive secretary to SEN
ator Burton X. Wheeler, made the op-
ening address. He was followed bv
Mrs. La Toilette, Senator Edwin F.
Ladd, of North Dakota, also spoke.
Mrs. La Toilette, in her address,
pointed out to the women the close
relation between their household ex-
penses and railroad freight rate, the
tariff and monopoly of foodstuffs and
other necessities-a characteristic So
cialistic harangue.
1T is women who must save and
sacrifice to make the deprecated dol
lar cover the increased cost of living"
said Mrs. La Toilette.
Monopoly of transportation, mo-
nopoly of food, monopoly of oil, mo-
nopoly of steel, monopoly of money,
of credit-these great accumulations
of wealth in the hands of the few
who, in violation of law, are exploit
ing the many-this is the octopus Mr..
La Toilette is fighting.
ga Government policy of taxation
which relieves multimillionaires of
their proportionate share of the taxes
and puts that much more burden on
other taxpayers, to whom it is a hard
ship, deprives the plain people of their
share of hard-earned comfort. For
that reason the Progressive platform
is opposed to the Mellon plan of tax
alton and favors reduction of taxes on
moderate incomes and increased tax
es on large estates and on excess
profits.
"a Government which allows our
natural resources to pass into the
hands of private monopolies, to
charge extortionate prices and build
up, in defiance of law, excessive for
tunes like the Standard Oil, is not a
Government of common sense or of
common honesty. 1t is Govern
ment of special interests. Progress
sive Government would develop and
also conserve the nations natural re-
sources for the public welfare. 1t
would employ experts to work out the
problems scientifically and build grad
ually on lasting foundation"
"The great financiers are not con-
| font u,;+b cop+rolIipO the railroads