Evening star., 1924-10-22
SEES NEW ALIGNMENT.
Alliance of Producers Coming, La
Toilette Asserts.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. October 22.-
Senator Robert NJ. La Toilette de-
cIared in an address here last night
that a new political alignment is at
hand-"an alignment of primary pro-
ducers, of men who produce wealth,
of the men who feed US, clothe US,
haul US, house us
Il frequently hear the suggestion
that the farmers and the wage earn
ers Will not work together" he as
serted. 1T IS said that their inter
estS are antagonistic, that this is an
unnatural and therefore an impossible
alliance. But the reverse is true.
The farmers and the wage workers
have a common economic interest.
They are natural political allies.
they suffer from the same things.
They want the same things, and the
things they want are good things.
"On the one hand are the unprivil-
eyed millions who want only a square
deal On the other are the privileged
few who have obtained an unlawful
If not a crimal strangle, hold on the
people"
Assaiis Injunction Use.
Declaring that the economic oil
garChy of today seeks to hold human
beings in bondage by perverting the
did the Slave-owning oligarchy of
1862 Senator La Toilette said that
this was being done by various means
among them injunctions in labor dis
putes-
1T has used subservient courts" he
continued TO nullify the Clayton act.
which sought to protect the worker
in his right to organize and to bar
gain collectively for his own protection.
haS a I
ticket in open hostility to organized
labor
ut created the Railroad Labor
Board and packed it with men bit
terty hostile TO labor. This board has
done more to breed discord between
employers and employees and promote
strikes than any piece of legislative
folly ever conceived.
Not content with making war on
men, 1t makes war on little children
1t would destroy the on-comtug gem
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
chlidren's battle in Congress. Privi-
Ie5e defeated the WI. of the people
In the courts by the decision of one
man. BY a vote of ) to 4, the Su-
preme Court of the United States, as
IN the Dred Scott decision, Identified
itself with human slaNery-this time
the slavery of little children.
Says Privilege Arrogant.
Privilege has become arrogant
since the war, far more arrogant
than il was after the Civil War.
Asserting that the Republican party,
which awakened his idealism as a
youth. has become "a private thing.
owned and controlled by Morgan,
Rockefeller, Mellon and Gary" Mr..
La Toilette continued:
1T no longer reflects the idealism
OF Lincoln. It no longer serves the
people. 1t has become so exclusively
private that for score of years a
JHere handful of men sitting in n
private room in a hotel and acting
Under orders from Wall street have
selected its candidates for the presi-
tiency and vice presidency as they
would select an employe on their
Fa;lrUadS or in their counting rooms
This small group of men operating
out OF Wall street have used this
power which they have obtained oveI
> our Government not for service, but
sQrbriyate profit. They want monopu-
sy. They want special privileges They
seek to avoid their share of the taxes
fFhey do not belong to the party OF
l4incoln. Their interests are as widely
Ean4rated from the interests of the
9soISle eas arc the two poles"