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Robert !,;• toilette has been ;
member of the I'nited States Sen
ate lor many years. lie has beet
the original insurgent, the tirst re
publican progressive. He has beet
a consistent fighter of special prt
vilege and the general work tha
has been accomplished in olippint
the wings of that privilege wheth
or very extensive or not has beet
bis work in a great measure. Tha
Roosevelt and many others stub
bis politices is no matter. The fig\
has been l.afollette's even if. tin
victory has been another's.
Now Rafollette is what may hi
called a bourgeois reformer. Hi
aims are essentially middle rlas;
aims and although h“ is credittei
with the work of getting througl
the seamen's act. none the less hi
work has been for the little bust
ness man.
The charge now made agains
him is due to the policies which It
has pursued all along It is absun
to say tha* Rafollette is pro-Ger
ticcause he is against the war. riiat
his arts may he distinctly pro-Ger
nian in their consequences would
be safe to urge, but that he has
such purpose as distressing the ope
rations of his country is ridiculous.
It may he taken for granted
that rtiere tire few men in polities
reflect their economic environment
anti its political fore • so directly and
obviously as does Lal’ollettt. unless
it lie certain men like Penrose who
are reflecting the force and inter
ests of big business all the time.
Lafollette cannot see wherein the
war will benefit that class for whom
lie speaks. While great interests
in industry and finance and com
merce may ultimately or presently
hope to benefit exceedingly from
it. tlie small fry will in Uafollc tte's
mind be ultimately the loser.
I.afollctte's vision does not see
that those whom he represents have
been injured to such an extent by
the German policies as to warrant
the entry of the United States in*'
litis war. and whether because lit
is the representative of at inland
state or no. lie litis not been able
to don the fears of a CJermat at
tack quite freely entertained on
coastal sections.
Naturally then, assuming that ho
has been elected to represent the
views of certain constituents I.a
lollette insists upon the right as
Senator to give expression thereto,
even when that expression brings
him in direct opposition to the Ad
ministration.
Quite freely it is evident that
Kafollette has not been able to
grasp tlie fact enunciated by Presi
dent Wilson that this war is to
make the world safe for democracy.
Rafollette's observations have, we
judge, led him to believe that the
interests which arc profitting most
hv tiie war are as great a menace to
democracy as the Kaiser. The long
fight which he has carrried on
against the money truts, against
the “malefactors of great wealth”,
to use Roosevelt's pithy phrase, has
induced the belief that the designs,
of such as they are ran be viewed
with suspicion.
In considering this rather dough
tv senator it is only fair to under
stand that he is the creature men
tally of an env'ronm'mt in which
ho has wrapped himself these many
years. That is an essentially j
middle class reformist environment j
with many devices considered lot I
bettering the condition of little j
business, but none at all to relieve
the masses permanently of the re
sults of exploitation.
It is only a very short time ago
when Lafollette was spoken of as
a presidential possibility and be- j
lore Roosevelt seized the honors of
Hull Moosedom to which the Sen-1
atur felt himself entitled. At that
time tho Chicago Socialist intimated
that many of tin- greatest captains
of industry worn rallying to life
standard. Of course that was non
sense. Tiny could not possibly be
so mistaken as to whesre their in
terest lay: not for one minute and
they knew what many do not, that
Senator Bafollette was nothing i:
not absolutely sincere.
Narrow are Lafotlette's views:
narrow with the narrowness always
charactei istic of little business, just
as little business finds its viewpoint
circumscribed on all sides by the
! mountainous borderland of Big
j Business. hut they arc without
doubt able and sincere.
! His financial views as pronounced
in the Senrte have, in reality been
i responsible for much recent denun
, ciation. They were as consistent
, and as sincere its his other views
and naturally enough this heightens
th” resentment against the man.
[ Lafollettc held to the view that
. now during the war. those making
, a profit from it should pay for it
while the war was on. He did not
intimate that that they should pay
for all the current expanses, hut 3
that tiie proportion collected tii jj
taxes and th* proportion to he ac- S
quired hv loans of the current ex- j
penser should always show that the I
forme r wa ■ to the latter at least in
the ratio ot :i to 1.
The most obtuse would realize
I that those making big money from
■ ;h war would object strongly to
| this and tin t they would object
| just : s strongly to even an equal
ratio.
The h st that could be conceded
would he as 25 to 75. 25 per cent i
being collected in taxes and 7 5 per
cent being collected by loans. The
reason for this is obvious. The (
money makers have mors money j
than ever to invest in loans and i
more money than ever to be pro- ]
tooted from a heavy taxation.
The arguments advanced by i
Lafollette in support of his position
also reveal with some degree ot
accuracy that position.
He urged that if the country
was staggering under a load of
bonded indebtedness after the wai.
tin little business man would face
bankruptcy and a general industri
al stagnation would follow: that if
money is collected to pay expenses
now the interest is saved: that if
loans are taken up the interest
which wil have to be paid there
upon will be even higher than the
original indebtedness. All of these
are very sound and very plausible
arguments for the small man in
business and were not without some
effect.
But because of the publicity given
these views, Big Business was mere
in anger than ever against La
follette. They knew that he was
sincere and they knew that his
views were calcuated to impress
not a few followers. Nor is his
financial position weakened by rea
son of the fact that he has unques
tionably taken uo the cudgels for
the majority of business men who
are little businessmen, rather than
for the minority who are the Big
Business men. There will be no j
mistake about the fart that failure j
to adopt the principals enunciated j
by Lafollette in his minority report
on the Revenue Bill, will react
somewhat harsley at a later period
upon the small banker, the small .
wholesaler and the small independ- |
ent manufacturer. The money j
trust, the industrial trust, the com |
menial trust of whatever kind,
will simply thrive at the expense of i
tin1 xm;i II t r v
I.alolktte's attitude upon the war
has not occasioned any such an out-j
■ ry. it will ho observed, as has hi: '
fiscal policy. Kvett while opposing ’
the President in the matter of a-nt j
ing American sltips, in the matter j
of declaring war in any and all ot !
these tilings, when one would irta-:
gir.e his views would excite con
siderable disapproval, beyond news
paper and other harmless denun
ciations. no action was taken. B it
when he takes his keen scalpel aril
begins to dissect the majority re
port of the Senate Finance Cone
mittee and lays bare with economic
and financial fact how clearly it
represents the interest of big bus
iness, the hue and cry assumes t li - - j
enormous dimensions of a call for
impeachment and he is surely in
bad.
This fai t. and it is not to be
questioned. should give pause i i
the way of approving any impeach
meat of the Senator from Wiscon
sin.
In any event the much broader
and more tolerant view is til- t P
would be highly undesirable to ’ti l
: niidate opposition within congress
If by any such an impeachment pro- '
ceedings, members are to be com
pelled to conceal their views or
those of their constituents, the re
sult would be to reducu the Con
gress of the United States to the
level of the purely formal debating
office of a German Reichstag
The United States is not sup
posed to be anything else but a gov
ernment of the people, by the peo
ple for the people. All the people
are entitled to an expression of
tlieir views and if inside Congress
is not the place for an airing of all
sorts and conditions of opinions,
where is there to be any freedom of
opinon and speech.
Unfortunately it appears to be
overlooked that where intolerance
gains sway, it is an evidence of
distrust in the security of opinions
held by those who are intolerant. «
And those people who think that -
the nation may be endangered by
an expression of opinion by I.afoll- ■
otte or the rest, think so because a
they have no absolute confidence ir IS
the rectitude and invulnerability S
of their own view.;.
in this way all such tire reflect 1
ing upon their own position. Thev j
an thus manifesting distrust in the |
right and truth and justice of their |
own beliefs and they are not able
to conceive anything which might
be urged against the attitude ot
Lafolette.
In this they would be well r.d
vised to turn to the policies of
cairn confidence and toleration ma
nifested not only in this, but as a
general line of policy by President
Wilson. And wher. these days be
come part of the recorded history
of the times, it will be said that. ]
not tHe least of the distinguished I
characteristics of Wilson has been |
his fine tolerance for opposition 1
and consistent attitude of confid
ence in the correctness of his atti
tude.
It is the noisy, tlie blatant and
generally the ignorant »lio are the
most intolerant . It is the nan who
is unable to show the justice of his
position that will not tolerate any
thing opposed to it.
You'll see it first in the Worker.
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