Speech of Senator Robert M. La Follette (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Speech of Senator Robert M. La Follette The Committee on Privileges and Elections has before it the question of the petition of the Public Safety Commission of Minnesota for the expulsion of Senator Robert M. La Follette. It will be unnecessary to quote in this memorandum the entire speech of Senator La Follette. The whole speech should be read, because undoubtedly the tenor of the speech tends to throw light upon the intent with which certain statements, which are challenged, were uttered. Among other things the Senator, after stating that there was something wrong with our Government, said: There is something fundamentally wrong with it. [Cheers and applause.] Of course, of course, I know that the fellows who are waving the flags of to-day most frantically [laughter], the bloated representatives of wealth, who are shouting loudest for democracy to-day, are trying to invest this particular time with a new form of democracy [laughter, cheers, and applause.] A democracy that has attached to it as a cardinal principle not liberty, not equality, but profits. [Laughter, applause, and cheers.] And, my friends, you can not enlist the thinking, intellectual, conservative population found upon the farms of this section of the country, which was known when I was a boy as the old Northwest territory; you can not stir that population very deeply and very profoundly unless there is a profound reason for it. [Applause.] And that profound reason, if you will be a bit critical and a bit analytical, you will find is due to the fact that the very men who are shouting at the top of their voices about democracy to-day are the men who have been pillaging the hard-working sons of toil, not only upon the farms but in the factories of the country. [Cheers and applause.] Now, fellow citizens, we are in the midst of a war. For my own part, I was not in favor of beginning the war. [Cheers and applause.] I don´t mean to say that we hadn´t suffered grievances; we had [a voice: Yes] at the hands of Germany. Serious grievances [a voice: You bet.] We had cause for complaint. They had interfered with the right of American citizens to travel upon the high seas on ships loaded with munitions for Great Britain. [Laughter, cheers, and applause.] Let me have the time; I have got to catch a train - unless I am stopped by somebody [laughter], and I have never been stopped yet [laughter and applause.] Cut it out. Let me have the time. I would not be understood as saying that we didn´t have grievances. We did. And upon those grievances, which I regarded as insufficient, considering the amount involved and the rights involved, which was the right to ship munitions to Great Britain with American passengers on board to secure a safe transit. [Laughter and applause.] We had a right, a technical right, to ship the munitions, and the American citizens have a technical right to ride on those vessels. I was not in favor of the riding on them [laughter], because it seemed to me that the consequences resulting from any destruction of life that might occur would be so awful [A voice: Yellow.] What did you say? [A voice: Yellow.] Any man who says that in an audience where he can conceal his identity is yellow himself. [Many cries: Put him out! Put him out!] About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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