Judge — June 30, 1928 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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VIG Campaign Speech Made by Judge, Jr., at School for Back- ward Children, Brooklyn, N.Y. Fellow Citizens! I will speak to you tonight on Farm Relief! (Cheers.) 1 don't. know just what it is, but I'll speak on it anyway! My political opponents make a great fuss over what they are going to do for the farmer if they are elected! Pish, tush and a couple of pooshes, Fellow Citi zens! Campaign bunk! Do you know what I'll do for the farmer, re Fellow C itize ns, if Tam electes (Cries of “No! We'll bite 1 will tell you! NOTHING! (Cheers.) Fellow C for the past month I have made a personal in vestigation of the farmer and his les! And what have I found, Fellow Citizens? I have found that they are a lazy, shiftless lot! Why, one night I stopped at a farmhouse and the farmer told me that there wasn’t any room and that I'd have to sleep with pardon me, Fellow Citizens, that’s the wrong story! (Cheers.) In my investigation I discovered that the farmers have no accommoda- tions wha ons er for tra cling sales men! Think of it, Fellow Citi- zens! How can there be pros- XZ PEPLBNS SZE = LZ <—_YE JUDGE JudceuR AMMAN perity in this country if the farmers will not co-operate with the traveling salesmen! As Lind bergh said, “A Nation divided will fall! 1 discovered that the farmer makes no attempt what- ever to keep his chickens off the in highways! In fact, I found out that many of them scatter corn in the road so that the poor. innocent chickens feed there and are thus run over by tourists! In my travels through the rural districts, I interviewed personally over two hundred cows and out of a two hundred cows, Fellow nns, ONLY FIVE WERE CON TENTED! The pl rest com- ained bitterly of ill treatment the farmers! ‘They were forced to work long hours, their beer had been taken away from them and they were given the cheapest of Cut Plug to chew! Is that the milk of human kindness, Fellow Citizens? o! A thou- sand times, no! [cud ery! is a just cows, It is they t the farmer! Theirs Fellow Citizens! d relief and not (Cheers.) He gets And what does he pay these poor cows, Fellow Citi all the cream! zens? Nothing! I ask you, how ean a cow live on nothing? ‘They have families to support! Ne wonder so many cows go wron No wonder they look so sad! The cow must be given a living wage! And it is up to the farmer to give it to them! (Cheers.) Let. the farmer relieve the cow and we will relieve the farmer! Take living conditions among the pigs! Deplorable! They are penned up in filthy quarters with no fresh air and sometimes cight and ten pigs sleep in one sty! Think of it, Fi ellow Citizens! And I found that eighty per cent of the stys were without fire pes! Can this go on, Fellow Citizens? No! A times, ! There must be tenement laws pigs! And the farmer must. be forced to give them a fresh air fund! You city folks don’t realize the conditions on the farm! And yet, the Republicans and the Demo crats want to help the farmer! All they are after, Fellow Citi- zens, is the farmer's vote! ese thousand r comicbooks.com