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...hope of the Republicans to keep some sort of a working majority in the Senate, was obliged by the rigors of the campaign to attack the Fordney-McCumber tariff and to keep silence about the Administration. Nevertheless, he was defeated by the discontent of the Minnesota farmers and workingmen of the Iron Range district, and by the vigorous campaigning of a capable politician...
...Socialist Call, on the other hand, uses the scandal as revolutionary propaganda. Speaking of the District Attorney's attempt to keep " Marshall's" identity a secret, it says: " This servility and crawling before a millionaire justifies the hot anger of workingmen, who always find the ' majesty of the law' flaunted in their faces...
...which a football man ought to be proficient. Several men are coaching basketball teams, others are teaching drumming, telegraphy, boxing, and wrestling, and still others Sunday School classes. Several men are reading to a blind student in the University and two men are reading to groups of blind workingmen in Cambridge. Men who can entertain are sent out in troupes to settlement houses and hospitals. Several of these entertainment's have been given this year, among them two for wounded soldiers. The fall collection of clothing and books netted 944 articles of clothing, over 200 books...
Then he went on to describe vividly the conditions resulting from Bolshevism. While wages have been raised to ridiculous heights, the workingmen are doing from one-eighth to one-thirtieth the amount of work they did before the revolution. The only thing in which Bolshevism has been really successful is in printing money; they are now printing 15 billion rubles a day. The chief difficulty now in printing money, said Count Tolstoy, is the short-ago of paper. Russia is also suffering from a large decrease in birth-rate and increase in death-rate...
...believing that porcelain coins are better, solely for the purpose of establishing a new market for German goods, a market which will never be satiated. For as long as the coins are constantly being destroyed by break-age, there will be a demand for more, thus keeping the German workingmen occupied, and increasing the prosperity of the Fatherland...