OCTOBER, 1924
THE UNITED AMERICAN
Independent-Progressive movement headed on the
road to the White House and Capitol Hill at Washing
ton, D. C.
Let us quote the following from a recent article
by the well-known writer Samuel G. Blythe in a con
tribution to the Saturday Evening Post in which he
discusses LaFollette, his platform and this third
party movement:
His platform is no amateurish jumbling of fly-by-night
reforms and ultraradicalisms. It is an exposition of the bed
rock essentials of his programme, to be followed, no doubt,
by endeavors to secure the ultraradicalisms in case he is
successful at the polls. Senator LaFollette is variously held
to be a radical, a progressive, an idealist and a socialist.
Whatever he may be, there can be no dispute that he is a
politician. At that, any radical except the extreme com
munist can come in under his tent and find a seat that will
warm him. And no pseudo progressive need stay outside
for fear the seat he will find will burn him. Indeed, for
LaFollette’s purposes it is a model platform. It is concise,
it stresses essentials. It dodges expertly. It need not disgust
a red nor frighten a pink, but it should cause every citizen
who has a stake in the United States to think twice before
voting for its author. It is not necessary to quote the plat
form entire, nor to summarize it by planks, because various
sections of it are so palpably political and demagogic. For
example, the opening implication that our government fosters
monopoly, with no proof to support the statement, and the
demand for free speech, free press and free assemblage
when the harking back to 1917 will recall to all that our
leniency in the matter of free speech, say, was most con
spicuously illustrated in the case of Mr. LaFollette himself.
If it were true that the foreign born citizens,
and even the German born, were all for LaFollette
in this campaign, the predictions of Mr. Viereck
would have had a margin for consideration, but the
facts are to the contrary.
Of the German born Americans the great
majority of the best elements are true-blue Ameri
cans who long since crossed the borderline from the
foreign colony into that sphere where every man
¿peaks, thinks and acts as an American. These
citizens repudiate Mr. Viereck and his leadership.
They protest against his continued efforts to create
strife and add insult to injury, rendering it difficult
to heal the wounds of the war that ended six years
ago.
Ask some of the prominent citizens of German
birth in Portland how they stand in this election
and see if they reflect the opinion of Mr. Viereck,
Mr. Ernest Kroner, the Oregon State campaign
manager for LaFollette, Mr. A. E. Kern, publisher
of the local German newspaper, the “Nachrichten”
and other celebreties of the German leaders here
and in other parts of the country.
Let us refer those who are in doubt to one of
Portland’s most respected citizens of German birth,
Mr. John P. Miller, of the East Side Lumber Mill,
a pioneer sawmill man on the Willamette river. No
one can truthfully accuse Mr. Miller for having a
biased partisan opinion. He believes, with the
majority of good Americans, that an administration
that has created the confidence that is necessary
for the general prosperity enjoyed at thé present
time throughout the country, should be retained.
And there are American citizens of German birth
among the’ trades and working people, fundamentally
sound, who share the views of Mr. Miller.
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The standard -bearer of the Democratic party,
John W. Davis, is the type of an American whom
citizens of demoratic party affiliation can be proud
to support. His doctrines are sound. They are in
all fundamental respects distinctly American.
The standard bearer of the Republican party is
President Calvin Coolidge. His election on November
fourth seems now to hold no doubt. The life of our
President is an open book. His administrative acts
since he assumed the presidency, after Harding’s
death, are a guaranty for a successful administration
of our government for the next four years.
The new citizen should weigh carefully the
practical side of the election question. He should
discard all the political., rubbish he has heard and
read before he goes to the polls on election day.
America’s prosperity and safety for the next four
years are his concern and of utmost importance, for
in this thought is wrapped up all the Happiness,-
Good Will and Fellowship that makes life worth
living.
Idleness, turmoil and strife always disrupt our
relations in industry and commerce and results
usually become disastrous to millions of innocent
Americans.
America, Safe, Sane, Secure and Prosperous, with
one hundred and ten millions of happy contented
people, is all that matters with the individual citizen.
Let us keep President Coolidge for four years
more and help to steer America on a safe. course
which will mean the realization of our fondest hopes
— Prosperity and Happiness to all our People!
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