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Show PARLEY P. GETS ' FINE RECEPTION Several Hundred Peasons Hear Farmer Labor Party Aims Outlined Several hundred nxsembled in the i Alhambra theatre auditorium yesterday yester-day afternoon and heard I'arley P. Chrlstsnsen. Utah's own candidate for! president of the Cnited States, outline his philosophy for the working elaii. Krom the standpoint of the local r.irmrr-Libor party, it was declared ! a mighty successful political rally ; The lower floor of the theatre was filled with men and women. They Mined Interested in what was said and applauded frequently. I VSry few left before the rally was over and the scats so vacated were filled almost at once by others who, came in. Parley p made a fine campaign talk Parley always had plenty of a- suranee on the platform, but his swing around the circle seems to have made him ecn more at home In setting; forth his views. V'hen he got real warmed up yes- 1 terday. he took off his collar and tie, md unfastncd the top button o' his! shirt The meeting started off with a shOli I talk by George Crosby. Farmer-LsthOT party candidate for governor who Introduced to the audience the candl-. dates of the party in Weber county.' These candidates occupied seats upon tho stage , HMJ. is EEAIRM w Then Mr Crosby introduced as j chairman of the meeting Dr George' F. Hall, of Iowa, who has been lour- i ing the states with Christensen. Chairman Hall took hold at once. He made everybody feel very much j at home and then announced that j there would be an overture before he undertook the task of Introducing a man to an audience which no doubt knew more about the man than the chnirman did. The overture, he said, would not be played by an orchestra or band, hut by ! the sound of dollars dropping into :i dozen or so of milk pans. Campaign funds are necessary." he aid, "to put the Parmer-Labor party's par-ty's aim before the people. "We can't go into Wall street like tpe Republicans Repub-licans and Democrats can. We must I make each meeting pay for itself Half of what Is contributed here goes to the local committee, the other half to the national committee. Come on now. Dent the pans with your dollars " .l TOROUS RESPON81 There was a generous response The pan carriers passed up he aisles and the dollars and smaller change clinked Into the containers After the 6 erture, Parley P was introduced. He was greeted by a rising ris-ing demonstration, which he xaid pleased him very much. Then he launched into his talk. "We stand for an Increasing share In the responsibilities and management manage-ment of Industry." he said, and lie emphasised this statement repeating It later In his speech. "That Is ft far as the party Is going now We may stand for more later, but we In-t In-t ml to proceed only as rapidly as the people are educated in the things for which we stand "We are accused of being a class , organisation, and 1 admit the accusa-l tlon is correct, but the class fur which j we stand represents ,92 per cent of the people of the country. We are accused of fomenting class antagonism, antagon-ism, und I admit that charge also. I admit that I am doing all In my power to show one class how ,ts iisrh:i are trampled upon by the other "Political democracy is a farce so, '.ong as Industrial autocracy prevails.' i in WORK! US' siimii "The boss tells yon that he is the j one who put up the plant and provided pro-vided the tools and therefore he should have control of the Industry. Hut the workers are being educated j to reply that they are giving their i lives to the industry and therefore! I are entitled to have something to nay about how the industry shall he con-I con-I ducted i ' The average boss Is a real man J with humanitarian principles but he I is a victim of the present industrial j system " BTOId N l ROM LABOR Assuming the attitude of a professor giving a lecture to his class, the candidate can-didate began to drive home some economics. econ-omics. He defined capital as w.alth at work Capital in unexpended surplus, sur-plus, he declared, and then he asked: 'Then Isn't capital, stolen labor?" Somebody In the back of the house boomed that It was. "But stolen is rather too harsh a word to describe. the situation," Christensen Chris-tensen went on. 'It really Isn't stolen. It's taken away while you are sleeping sleep-ing Sou let them take It. But. it' Is really not your fault. That Is, it ' hasn't been your fault, because you didn't know how the system was operated oper-ated to handicap yo. Bul, from now on, i. is up to you " Christensen then declared the "system" "sys-tem" worked much like a gambler who owns a roulette wheel. "The roulette wheel represents the tools of Industry; capital. Th- men who gather around the wheel are the suckers and you must play the game according to the rules of the owner. You may win from one another, but I the system doesn't let vou win from him " The candidate deelare.d the Karmer-Lahor Karmer-Lahor party campaign would not be halted with election day He ald he ws going to launch a nation-wide organisation or-ganisation movement early this month. He said the party was remarkably strong in some sections and would be powerful four years from now. The p oplc flock to hoar the Farmer-Labor party alms st forth, the candidate can-didate said. In many places, he said, the Farmer-Labor rallies drew larger rowds than did William G. MTcAdoo He said there was a "conspiracy of Silence'' on the part of the newspapers. "Although thousand. flocked to hear no- speak, the papers n xt rnornlns carry only a few lines." he said. "They print only those parts of my speech which they believe will hurt the party with the readers." |