The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 4, 1917, Page 18

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But about the only place your boy gets a chance to find out anything is at a Lieague convention, And I submit that those gentlemen would find out something too, if they would come here today. that they don’'t learn in Harvard and Yale. Now, the patriotism of the farmer is I know it is a better kind, because the farm- ers’ patriotism and the workers' pa- triotism enables them to go on pro- ducing at less than cost, to feed the world in its time of need. And I want to say to you right here—in support of your patriotism, that even though we must pay five, or six, or eight billions of dollars of tribute every year to these pirates in order to get them to produce guns and munitions and things we have got to have to win the war—even though we must pay that tremendous tribute, there is still hope for liberty and democracy. Because the farm- ers of this nation and the workers of this nation have got enough patriotism in THEIR hearts to make up for the patriotism and manhood that the prof- iteers lack. And if necessary, we will go on producing wheat to feed the world and its armies of freedom—even with those profit vultures clutching at our throats. We will go on and make ALL the world safe for liberty and democracy. And then we will settle with those gentlemen after the war is over. PATRIOTISM UNDER NEW GRADING SYSTEM Now, I think if you can lower the prices that these gentlemen get for the coal and iron and steel that they have to sell—compél them—by sup- porting the government in its pro- gram to lower prices; compel them to sell their products on the same basis— on the same basis as the farmer now is compelled to sell his wheat—WHEN YOU DO THAT, the patriotism of, the coal trust and the gentlemen who sell iron and steel, the patriotism they have left then will be of very much better quality than what they have got now. It won’t be as good as the farmer has now, but it will be better than theirs is now. I think it would grade about No. 4. (Laughter). It won't be “Feed D” or “rejected” like the kind they have got now. We can make something out of it, and if you can get some of that kind of patriotism into those gen- tlemen, by enabling the govern- ment to continue its program to re- duce prices, and put that patriot-. ism together with the kind the farmers and workers have got now, this country, this nation will be able to bring this war to a very successful conclusion, in a short time. This war for liberty and democ- racy will be a TREMENDOUS success, because we shall not only have secured liberty and democ- racy to all the world, but we shall have INCREASED OUR HOME SUPPLY. And I believe —I am foolish enough to believe—that it is just as much our duty to make sure of -liberty and democracy for our own children as it is to carry liberty and democracy to foreign people. It is only the patriotism of the prof- iteers that would have us give up our liberty. For when we have given up our liberties they can get everything else we bave gof. Organize, raise your voice, lay off a day or two once in a while, as the farmer says: “Knock off hoeing corn,” get together, announce your patriotism oftener, support your government in its program to lower prices, and this war will corne to a very successful con- clusion. NO ONE WILL WANT UNNECESSARY WAR This nation will be able to bring this war to an end a good deal quicker than it will if you don't do that. For two reasons: First, when you have mani- fested the will of the majority, and brought to. bear a greater influence upon this national congress and the profiteers than they feel now, and you have so far supported those who would represent you, if they could, that they have compelled the owners of steel, iron and coal and bread and butter and bacon to sell them on the same basis as the farmer sells his wheat, take as much profit out of their business as has been taken out of the business of wheat raising in the Northwest, and you take nearly all the profits out of all busi- ness. : Now, as soon as you do that, nobody will want to continue war any longer than 1s necessary to secure liberty and democracy. We will all be so deter- mined in our purpose to win this war for liberty and democracy that thes German autocracy can not stand against us. The only place when you have done PAGE EIGHTEEN Something . to do with them what they are doing . test against the government’'s purpose house. that where you will find any slackers will be among that bunch of plutocrats that is robbing you blind. 4 AUTOCRACY IS HATED f‘ BY PEOPLE EVERYWHERE h Why, good God, ladies and gentles .’ i men, THESE PEOPLE, OUR PEOPLE, are all for liberty and democracy. THAT IS WHAT WE PAY OUR SIX- 2 TEEN DOLLARS FOR! . | Ninety-five per cent of the people of | this country want to win for liberty (4 and democracy, ninety-five per cent of all the people of all the allied coun- i\ tries, want to win for Iliberty and democracy. Ninety-five per cent—yes —ninety-five per cent of the GERMAN people want to win for liberty and democracy. (Applause and cheers). We are all against autocracy WHEREVER we may find it! ‘And the only reason we are not able to bring this war to a success- ful conclusion and win liberty and democracy for all the world, and do it quick, is because you have neg- lected to make known your de- mands, and sufficiently impress the will of the majority upon your national congress. Oh, you American people, you hold the means of liberty and de- mocracy for all the world, and if the liberty and democracy for ail the world does not come out of this world conflict, it will be your fault, you leaders of the world. And if you fail, it will be because you do not express, fully express, your will in this democracy that you have now, and give every man a square deal. For when you do that, when you support the president of the United States when he says that PROFITS AND PATRIOTISM DO NOT GO TO- GETHER, when you back him up, and those with him, so that they can make that phrase a LIVE phrase, and a fact, 80 that instead of industrial despotism in this country, where we have PO- LITICAL liberty, we have also INDUS- TRIAL LIBERTY—when you do ‘i ;{t —the German government will not easily be able to lead the German peo- ple to believe that the profiteers want to us. ‘When you do that you will show the German people what can be done in a democracy and they want that; and when you show the German people what can be done in a democracy, where the people have the right to make their own government, THEY WILL TURN AGAINST THE GER- MAN AUTOCRACY, and the German autocracy CANNOT STAND AGAINST THE GERMAN PEOPLE AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! (Cheers and applause). So I repeat our purpose here today is as far removed from being a pro- to lower prices, as is the mid-day light of the sun from the darkest hell. . ‘We have been grossly misrepresent- ed. If there are any patriots in this world, they are here today in this SOLDIERS NEED THE STAFF OF LIFE Let me try to make plainer still to you the reason for the injustice in our industrial life. This war will cost America maybe thirty, forty BILLIONS of dollars. It is very difficult to raise that many billions of dollars. It en- tails tremendous sacrifices upon us allL A sacrifice that WE SHALL NOT SHIRK. Those billions will be spent by this government to win the war for liberty and democracy. Part of it will be spent for guns, part-for ships, part of it for coal, clothing, shoes, leather. A part of it will be paid to those who are making millions of profit out of the war today. But a soldier boy can not carry a gun unless there is bread in his stom- ach. A soldier boy can not dig a trench unless he has a strong body made by bread. And some of these billions of dollars have got to be spent to pay the farm- ers for the wheat to make the bread. Now, we have been calling for govern- ment control of prices. And we got them all right. But in our clamor for government control we overlooked a thing or two. We forgot or neglected to see, that the representatives of the profiteers 3 were too LARGE a part of our govern- ment, and so we got the government control too largely in behalf of the profiteers. They are today influencing & this government in too large a measure. Else they would not fix a price on coal twice what it was before the war; and else they would not be so. long reducing the price of bread after they have reduced the price of wheat. They have too large an influence. An influence so large that they can say to themselves: 3 ‘We are going to have forty billion dollars spent here to prosecute thig war, - E "“Now, how much have we got to pay 5