The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-09-17
Farner-LabOr
BY A. /. Harris

United States Senator Elmer A.
Benson, Farmer-Labor candidate
for governor, will deliver his key
note address in the armory OF his
home town, Appleton at 8 p. m,
Monday, September 81.
The address will be broadcast
over radio stations KSTP, st. Paul
Minneapolis; WTCN, st. Paul-Min-
neapolis; WEBC, Duluth-Superior;
WMFG, Hibbing; VIRGO, Roches-
ter; WNAX Yangton, S. D., and
WDAY, Fargo, N. D. The talk will
go on the air at p. m.
A special train will carry Twin
Cities persons to Appleton, stop
ping at virtually every town en-
route to pick up passengers. More
than 300 reservations already have
been received for the special train
which will travel over the Milwau-
kee road carrying 16 coaches.
The train is scheduled to leave
the st. Paul union station at 10:45
a. M, of the keynote day, reaching
Appleton at GAS p. m. Before pro-
ceeding to Appleton it will stop at
Minneapolis.
Virtually all Farmer-Labor can
didates in the November election
will be among the special trains
passengers for the occasion.
Following the keynote, Senator
Benson will begin an intensive
statewide speaking tour which will
occupy him for the remainder OF
the campaign.
Home town arrangements for the
event are being made by the Ben
son-for-Governor Volunteer Club of
Appleton headed by F. E. Wright,
and Mrs. Alice Arntzen.
The armory, largest public speak
ing building in Appleton, has a seat
ing capacity of $500.
The Younger Republicans are
making a bid for the support of
young people in this state, but
some of the older ones are speak
ing out of turn. Just after a Re-
publican organizer had been
through Nicollet County telling
what his party was to do for the
young, Judge Frank c. Barnes, of
Fergus Falls spoke down there at
a meeting attacking not only the
Benson-Amlie Youth Bill but the
younger generation itself by i'm
plication. Are We" he asked, ito
pamper our youth by paying their
way through schools and making
them grow up a nation Of loafers?"
Unfortunately he had not read
the bill, which provides for a
means of allowing youth part-time
work so that it can go to school.
Young folks who have been having
a hard time of it lately trying to
find jobs on which they can earn
enough to go to school, do not take
kindly to the judges criticism.
They realize that the only youths
who are being pampered are the
sons and daughters Of the very
rich-and the Republicans are not
attacking them.
The conference of progressive
leaders called by Senator Robert
NJ. LaFollette, of Wisconsin, in Chi
cago over the weekend is Of ire
mendous Importance to the future
of the liberal movement of Ameri-
ca.
In addition to defining the pro-
per stand of progressives towards
the present presidential political
situation, the conference has a far
flung objective for the future to
bring together the progressives for
united action.
With fascism threatening this
country through the reactionary
channels, America is in danger of
a form of government foreign to
our soil. Fascism does violence to
the history and tradition of Amer
lea. It repudiates the Pilgrim faith
ers, Washington, Jefferson, Lin
coin. The history of Europe Of
very recent years already tells its
lesson, and that is that democracy
must be prepared to meet this men
ace. To rest content in the belief
that the Middle Ages are gone for
ever never to return may be fatal.
For that reason, the Chicago con-
ference might we'll become with
Lincoln's Nonpartisan League and
other groups the means Of sparing
America from the blight Of fasc-
ism.