THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM—A Full Pase of Letters from Progressive Readers GIVE ME THE LIBERTY TO KNOW, TO UTTER, AND TO ARGUE FREELY ACCORDING TO CONSCIENCE, ABOVE ALE LIERTIES.-MILTON. Bob...
...You are still for the New Deal's Communistic wrecking philosophy which is against all moral, social and economical tradition of God-fearing democratic people...
...Why so much fighting about these Wisconsin codes...
...WRIGHT...
...W. H. EAST CHICAGO, Ind.—Provisions to combat silicosis are included in a contract, signed by Local 12120, United Mine Workers iCIO...
...I am unable to understand why you open your columns to detractors of Rev...
...That is the reason why the great land barons and favored class generally fight every effort at a change and brand it Communism and enlist a large part of the world to fight it...
...This man was unemployed, had no "savings" with which to purchase meats, and was a family man...
...Are they more unreliable than England's promises to India during the World war, to the Jews for financial aid given during that war, to the Germans to induce them to lay down their arms, to us in order to get us to help her "make the world safe for Democracy...
...If we then have sense enough to abolish in total our present helter-skelter form of taxation and replace it with an universal production tax at j the source of manufacture (in other words extend taxation to all industrial industry to the manner in which we now collect the taxes on cigarets and tobacco) we will have established equalization without impairing our individualism, our personal liberty or safety of democracy...
...Surely do I agree with the editor in all the good things he said in his article about Russia until he comes to the Soviet's acts last year when they had to act to save themselves from the greedy rulers of other nations...
...In regard to the prices we are forced to charge, charging it and getting it is not the same thing...
...Lord and Lady Duff-Cooper for England...
...Study records, listen to all sides, and do your best...
...Before the war Germany with her barter system and cheap labor had taken a great portion of our foreign markets away from us...
...If peace is declared...
...I also am very much opposed to war as I have a fine young son just 17 that I dotrt want to see killed on the battlefields of a foreign country...
...2. Since William Henry Harrison in 1840, presidents elected in the years divisible by 20 have not lived out their term of office...
...Personally, I am not "sold" on game laws, trying to save the wild life for the well-to-do sportsmen, the city chaps who have leisure and money, and the poor people with families, ofte;i with wholly inadequate meats food, and unable to secure a license, must be denied the food which nature has provided.—REV...
...Each cauyht a rather large fish...
...The governments of Europe are in a state of flux...
...We could well afford to appropriate three billion or more for such incentive payments and we could still balance the federal budget because we could dispense with some of the appropriations now being made and greatly reduce others...
...My 46 years experience in the barber business taught me this: You must give your customers satisfaction in the shortest time possible if you want them to come back...
...En c losed find money order for $2 for which extend my subscription for one year...
...Change Must Come (Berkeley, Cal...
...Can't people see this paper is trying to build up a liberal movement...
...Well, we all know that was said as a Joke at the time...
...A general demand for abolishing the present systems of government will prevail...
...The agreement ended a 3-month strike at the Harbison Walker refractories plant, which manufactures oven brick;- lor steel mills...
...And I, for one, sec no reason for blaming Russia, in a situation into which she is driven by the capitalist governments of the world, for taking every step to strengthen her position...
...inadequately housed and clothed of our population, he was in the right and deserved the support of every American...
...Both have by war and preparation for war reduced their people to a condition of rationing on some foods already...
...I knew of a case—a double case, as it were—two boys about 10 or 12, from two poor families, fathers out of work...
...But now it is a greater problem to solve...
...I used to read your paper years ago and lo'.iowed the editoriaLs and found your sentiment far from being good progrcs-sivencss as you were for the New Deal through thick and thin...
...What system will make men perfect...
...Roswell P. Flower, when interviewed on how to solve the trust question, said the only way to settle the trust question was to get in the trust and let the price go up to the consumer...
...The present ruling class consider human beings only as material for war purposes and to be held under strict military rule that they may maintain their overlordship...
...Gives Us Up (Canton, S. Dak...
...I. like some of the sucker barbers, sent in the $7.50...
...Correct, Mr...
...A conservation officer —or warden—arrested this poor man for killing a rabbit without a license, and the well-meaning father was fined $16...
...Also the American consumer is the sucker who foots all the bills...
...Fortune magazine says in effect that the problem is to transform the potential consuming power into actual consuming power...
...From what I see in the papers...
...As a further aid to establishing economic balance and balancing the federal budget, we should adopt a system of managed currency with the government issuing enough real rnonev lo maintain a balanced economy.— A. I. ANDERSON...
...Epic Democrats (Oakland, Calif...
...A finance committee of Ernest Weir, Joe Pew, and Joe Grundy makes it still more unlikely...
...This "cure all medicine" usually cures nothing...
...A. MAY...
...We can safely keep our machinery and make use of whatever technical development there may be...
...A few of these are Eva Curie for France...
...You have quoted with approval what our president said about dictators—Stalin...
...Why is it that you do not warn your readers against being influenced by the little army of charming and skillful propagandists sent here by the Allies to scatter their too-often false propaganda from ocean to ocean...
...Either pay $7.50 or go out of business...
...It wants to destroy everything it can because we have overproduction...
...Whenever an old person is found living in some attic or other secluded place, ill-fed, ill-clothed, and ill-housed, and yet a hoard of gold is discovered among his possessions, we feel like exclaiming: "What a fool...
...Those political workers who worked so hard (I don't mean with pick and shovel) want to eat and the only thing left for them to pick on were the four trades, barbers, beauty parlors, shoe repairs, and dry cleaners...
...If we had bought the trusts 40 years ago, there would be no trust problem today...
...The editorial policy of your paper seems to be to support, our president, right or wrong...
...Restrict one man to only one economic activity and limit its scope...
...Is that not similar to the action of our Uncle Sam with one-third of his people ill-fed, ill-clothed, and ill-housed, while about $18,000,000,000 in gold lies buried and idle doing nobody any good...
...H. G. Wells, the great historian and writer, speaking of Soviet Russia, says: "There is much to be said for the preventive security measures being taken by the Soviet government...
...It must be this principal of equality that creates the demand, then the new party will follow...
...But that will not settle the trust problem...
...Should the bankers control our monetary system when congress has the sole power to coin money and regulate the value thereof...
...How long will it be before the department of justice at Washington intervenes to stop these cruel and unusual punishments by a state whose Judiciary Is without mercy?—E...
...That's why we are in this predicament...
...Consequently, the Progressives are only waiting for a chance to defeat them in the open in the fall election...
...Let's suppose peace is declared now...
...It seems to me wrong to raise millions for foreign relief when this money is needed desperately for our underprivileged here at home...
...The tariff system is a costly and idiotic method of assisting arid encouraging industry...
...Surely the publishers of The Progressive know that America can keep out of the European war if our legislators will carry out the will of the people, that the Allies are not waging this wsfr for "us too" or to keep Democracy alive, but to keep England supreme in world domination and to protect French and British finances...
...History needs only to point to the conquest of South Africa and India to prove that no country on the face of the earth has been so ruthless in aggression, so merciless in exploitation as England...
...Often your columns have mentioned the unreliability of Hitler's promises...
...I am sure every barber in the state would be glad to pay $25 for it...
...Our president has no excuse for his deflation poiicy as congress voted him the power several years ago to issue $3,000,000,000 in currency, but he has failed to exercise that power...
...There are chain stores in nearly every state in the union...
...It seems the they not only own 90 per cent of the agricultural land in California, but boss the state legislature and direct its every move...
...Former President Hoover remembers quite well the part he played in giving the food sent to Russia for the millions who were starving to those who were fighting to destroy the Soviet Union...
...What he says then I think very wrong and as I see it he owes an apology to the rank and file of the world, for Soviet Russia is about their only hope for a change for their betterment...
...Russia knows that...
...Taft, kindly give us more information on this subject...
...For that they tell us we must charge the public 50 cents for haircuts...
...Hoover should soft-pedal their opposition to a third term for President Roosevelt...
...And why keep on paying interest to the bankers on bonds issued...
...What if all needy groups made their claims in proportion to the Townsend plan...
...We are so used to the Communist scare, it does not frighten us at all any more...
...It's like the seven year itch...
...When blind leads blind, all fail in ditch...
...The great landed estates inherited from the days of feudalism and held away from the masses of the people will be given to the people for food production...
...Whipping Post (Des Moine.s, la...
...I am not advocating war on Germany or Japan for the barter system or to make them change, but in fighting the reciprocal trade agreements, it seems to me that Germany and Japan's victory must be considered in our trade agreements...
...Hitler, Mussolini—but you do not mention the fact that our president is constantly seeking dictatorial powers and that a weak-willed congress Is too often giving over to him powers which our constitution has entrusted to that body only...
...ill-clad, and ill-sheltered, we would do well to raise the question: Why is this the case...
...Time forbids going into detail about the many destructive actions and misery caused by this so-called progressive alphabetical soup such as the NRA, WPA, social security, and all the rest...
...Therefore the next great contest between the two old parties will be public or private ownership of industries...
...One grows weary of the Communistic scare...
...As a high authority public accountant said in his book: "Before I began to study the plan, I, like many others, thought it was only a pension scheme but by thorough study, I found it's the best thing that could come to this or any other country and highly recommend it as well as other influential thinking men...
...Germany and Japan need raw materials but have no money to buy with so they barter machinery for raw material...
...I hope it will come out stronger in favor of our needed banking reform and unemployment, our most vital needs...
...More power to them, but I'm afraid in this world full of people that make mistakes that is too much wishful thinking...
...This, in my opinion, will be a great help to him in defeating the efforts of the coalition crowd in Wisconsin...
...Best wishes for your continued success—(Mrs...
...the other, including that most excellent page, the People's Forum, and the articles often relegated to the rear page, still hold true to the spirit expressed by the motto of the paper...
...New Deal laws and agencies are of no avail unless the executive branch of government administers them properly...
...whom I esteem as the foremost Christian statesman of his generation...
...The former Epic Democrats in the state assembly are as reactionary as any reactionary dreamed of being...
...Hewlett Johnson, dean of Canterbury who lately said: "It would have been wisdom and kindness on our part if we had urged Finland to meet Russia's desire to remove the possibility of guns placed only 20 miles away from the heart of the area which possesses a quarter of her industrial activities...
...Prince Otto for the Hapsburg throne, and a hundred others...
...Where does that leave Uncle Sam...
...We are sure that these two assemblymen will be forced to answer to a lot of people in the county who before this claimed that it did not make any difference who was elected to the assembly...
...The tariff method reduces the buying and consuming power of the people, restricts and reduces the production of real wealth, and makes it impossible to make full use of our productive facilities...
...In the present animated political discussions two hitherto unbroken traditions seem important enough to consider: 1. There has never been more than one ex-president alive at a time—so Republicans believing in the continued usefulness of Mr...
...LAURA E. CUMMINGS...
...I received an answer to a few questions and a lot of literature not worth the paper it's printed on...
...Your progres-sivism is only in name...
...When this war of extermination ends, the means of production will be badly disrupted and general hunger will prevail in Europe...
...boys, go to It...
...La Follette Invested the Associated Farmers of California, but I believe it has made them more reactionary than ever before, if it were possible...
...Politicians glibly talk about the farmer being entitled to the home market...
...LAY-LAND...
...That was the way for the money men to settle that great question...
...Why don't our congressmen provide for the use of this hoarded gold instead of issuing interest bearing bonds to provide work for the unemployed, pay for all the needed public improvements and other expenses of government...
...I have been a constant reader of The Progressive and former La Follette's magazine for years, and I agree with its political views...
...Giving protection to the child, opportunity to youth, and security to the aged and disabled—the true religion...
...Big business has frozen out small industries little by little and large ownership has invaded every small industry...
...If we keep the American mechanic busy, his buying power is several limes greater than foreign buying power and does not this help the farmer...
...We are supposed to be a neutral country...
...Divisible by 20 (Peacehaven, W. Va...
...I hope that Phil La Follette will take his old stand on Progressive legislation for Wisconsin and that no reactionary clique of Republicans and Democrats can put over such legisla-tioh'as they put on the statute books last year...
...How many of these advocates would continue to print literature and work in behalf of these schemes if there were no profit in it...
...The Progressive has come to our home regularly since it was first published and before that La Follette's magazine was a welcome visitor for many years...
...Yet The Progressive found nothing to condemn even when French agents crashed in American planes on test flights, when a succession of diplo-mates from England and France led by Anthony Eden beat a pathway to the White House door for a secret conference, when the president whipped his party into line to defeat two pro-American measures, the war referendum and the retention of our arms embargo...
...One factory, one store, one activity of any kind...
...between two gangs in a feeble-minde, institution such as the Democratic and Republican parties now are The leading issue in the coming presidential campaign is likely to develop into something like this: Is the moon made of green cheess of butter: or has Uncle Sam got measles or mumps?—H...
...I am eager to read The Progressive during the coming political struggle just to see how you report the figlv...
...I'm afraid they can't see the human side of it...
...Their primary purpose is to create sympathy...
...A friend of mine called some time ago...
...Private ownership costs us over $25,000,000,000 every year and this injustice is caused by giving the profits to the individuals...
...Who is profiting by it...
...If every member of our population would give me one cent, some would pay two cents, and larger families five or six cents, the total would amount to $100,000 or $1,000,000 and over in one payment...
...There should be a larger volume of money placed in circulation in order to keep up with increased production instead of destroying produce because of lack of buying power to meet the increase...
...JAS...
...He went out with his old shot gun an* killed the rabbit from which to make the sick child some broth...
...Our much boasted prosperity of the past, our initiative, our individualism, our opportunity, our joy of living have all "Gone With the Wind" the same as the old aristocracy of the South after the rebellion...
...Evidently to avoid the charge of race prejudice, the authorities caused an equal- number of both white and black males to be thus scourged...
...Esteems Coughlin (Findlay...
...Marengo...
...Our Game Laws (Frazee, Minn...
...As such, we should not grant privileges to one faction that we do not grant to their opponents...
...SOME QUESTIONS (Solomon, Alaska)—Herewith find enclosed $2 for my renewal subscription for 1940...
...Your one-sided presentation of the Russian-Finnish situation has made me doubt your objective in this case...
...I also heard from advocates of "Production for Use...
...Sir Stafford Cripps, member of Parliament, speaking of the acts of the Soviets, says: "In the long run, I am convinced, it Is of supreme importance to the workers all over the world that a strong and powerful Russia should survive...
...C. DEKKER...
...I take my hat off to The Progressive for not aiding these plans...
...I am still a firm believer that this state will go back and elect an entire slate of Progressive legislators, ousting the gang who are endeavoring to take away from us what the Progressives j have accomplished in the last 30 years...
...4)—After your paper became reactionary, I did not renew my subscription, and shall not nbw.—GLADYS ESTES...
...I believe if the producing class of the world loses Russia and her great Influence for justice in government, none living today will ever see as much hope for their betterment...
...of the state treasury so the governor iigned the code...
...First, let me explain that I do not believe we will have to fight Hitler or Stalin here at home...
...Everybody has friends and if a fellow is a good sport and wants to show good fellowship, he must return favor for favor...
...GOP Wrecking (Znmbrola, Minn...
...Ve were glad Sen...
...He is fighting your battles for monetary' reform much more effectively than you ever can...
...Bob Endorsed...
...A READER...
...The Sour Trib (Chicago, 111...
...It is causing great discontent and a spirit of rebellion against a system of government that maintains such conditions...
...A. LINGENFELTER...
...But there are some very fundamental questions to be considered...
...I think every intelligent lawyer knows that we have a lot of laws, federa: and state, which lack a sound basis in social and moral principles...
...D. C. and endorsed Senator Bob La Follette...
...What with the pres-ident a "friend of the Soviets," the sessions of congress a menace of "free America...
...Would the warden throw them into the garbage can...
...The barber has no control of the puckering strings on the people's money bags no more than Mr...
...One part, including most of the editorials and columns, Is but another little Sir Echo for the administration...
...Inform yourself properly and give your readers the benefit.—L...
...There is no comparison to Bob La Follette, Sr., whom I admired and voted for as president...
...They all claim to be able to solve all our problems...
...CORNELIUS E. WALKER...
...Raymond Buell in an address to the American Farm bureau convention on "balanced abundance" said the American farmer has been the victim of the high tariff policies...
...Julius P. Hell spoke in Wisconsin Rapids, I heard him say that if he Ls elected, the people will have to feed him...
...You may again ;;',-icc my name on your subscription for another year...
...The Progressive and Mr...
...It does not mean that we have to go back to the pre-machinery days...
...He wanted me to try your paper again for a few weeks...
...The failure to use these facilities has resulted in a loss of 200 billions since 1929...
...How does he know how much time that customer has to spend in the chair or how much money he might spend for the length of time...
...Is he crazy...
...A house divided against itself cannot long endure...
...But since his 1938 Chicago speech in which he declared if war came to Europe the U. S. could not keep out, he has shewn himself to be pro-British, more concerned with foreign than domestic affairs, and has been very frequently in the wrong...
...If this code is supposed to be the state law, that includes the whole state with partiality to none, so why should Marshfield, Beaver Dam, and Portage be exempt...
...The bill is growing larger every year...
...How do they account for the endorsement of Republicans whose record on pensions everyone know* or should know by now...
...N. NY-LEN...
...Check for $2 iosed herewith...
...The only solution for the people is to own industries collectively and the quicker they do, as Mark Hanna told the people to do must be done right now...
...I see that the 21 standard railroad organizations held a meeting in Washington...
...The advocates of these schemes even go so far as to claim that if put into use it would rid us of crime, war and poverty...
...Frank's Republican planning committee worked for two years trying to write a report that would attract voters and at the same time satisfy the big bosses of the Republican party...
...If the war continues another year, rank starvation will be the condition of millions all over Europe...
...I take my hat off to The Progressive, a paper worth its weight in gold.— ARNO SCHULZ...
...Not having any money he was sent to Jail for 10 days...
...Great Britain, to hold its own former conquests, must stop the growing strength of Germany...
...Co-operation in place of competition—production for use, and the good of all A system as visioned by Edward Bellamy in his book...
...Trust Rule (New York City)—When the Democrats nominated trie late W. J. Bryan for president in 1900 on a trust busting platform, the late Mark Hanna said: "The only hope for the Democratic party is public ownership...
...It would look bad to feed them out...
...Republicans are past masters in wrecking the usefulness of agencies established by progressive legislation.— A. I. ANDERSON...
...It reminds one of the story of the tramp who was found eating green persimmons and upon being told that the fruit was not fit for food, said he was not eating them for food, but to draw up his stomach to suit his rations...
...G. S. + + + The Slate Codes (Wisconsin Rapids, Wis...
...I consented w'ith the hope your staff by this time had learned what bad company you had been keeping...
...Never before in the history of America has it been so necessary for a newspaper to bring to the people the truth about the issues in order that they may free themselves from the pernicious influence of foreign propaganda, party domination, party patronage, capitalistic greed and class self-interest as today...
...They like a country where a few live in comfort on the labor of the many who have to struggle year in and year out with the wolf of dire want...
...so the shorter the better, the average government employe a "tax hog," and business going to the dogs because of the "vicious New Deal," the question is how does the Chicago Tribune manage to get enough spirit to continue existing in these God-forsaken United States.—CARL PETERSON...
...We through many years desired Germany to be the spearhead of that attack...
...That solution is decentralization of industry and commerce...
...I sincerely hope that everybody now gets into the game to see if we can't run a wrecking crew about as fast as the Heil crowd ran one—and I am of the opinion that we Can.—W...
...After 40 years of trust dominations we find that Mark Hanna was right and the rank and file of our population are still looking for a Moses to lead us out of the wilderness...
...It is a disgrace that anyone with at least a small portion of brain in his head and some conception of what is right and wrong can fall for such a folly perpetuated by the New Deal and its supporters...
...All the other nations of Europe are under a forced depression though in a less degree in preparation for war in self defense...
...Why did he not make use of his hoarded gold instead of just existing in such a miserable way as he has...
...I tried to find out what was n. that code to be the state law at the time the governor signed it...
...When the rugged individuals make their liberal donations, they will no doubt stipulate that the Republicans get rid of the New Deal brats since they are not the parents of the children...
...After all the abuse the New Deal has had from Republicans it is difficult to believe this...
...Propagandists should be labeled as such and their audiences should l>e warned that they present only their own viewpoint of the issues they discuss...
...Think it over—ALFRED KRAAN...
...President Roosevelt has told us we can either raise our standard of living to consume all that the U. S. produces or we can lower our standard of living to where we can compete with foreign nations...
...I don't think that Mr, Fred M. Wylie knows much if anything about beauty parlors nor barbering when he says an operator must hold a customer two hours and a half for a set price...
...We have the machinery, the money and we don't need raw material to feed the machine...
...We will also call the attention of these men to the fact that they supported legislation for $40 per month for old age pensions and then sat there seemingly so dumb that they could not see that appropriations were not being made to raise the necessary funds—in other words, they were helping to write blank checks...
...She Leaves Us (Commerce, Tex., Mar...
...What I have quoted Is my sentiments exactly about Soviet Russia, and I am sure nothing I could write would better express them...
...If he has the department of agriculture sell us the right to charge 50 cents for haircuts, why not sell us the secret how to get it...
...It is an effort on the part of Germany to subjugate Europe and it says it must have a free hand to do so...
...Sometimes I think it might be well to pass a legislative resolution to burn our legal tomes, call a special election, and try to secure an intelligent law-making body, limited, to draft a new body of really sensible laws—.aws that might stand the test of human experience and show a bit of mercy for certain cases, cases Involved in the realm of mercy where i mercy appears needed, and really with good sense in many spheres, i In a land of over 130 million population, one-third of whom are iU-fed...
...If they were unable to understand procedure of the legislature such sis this, it would be too expensive to send them back again...
...If civilization is to be maintained, a change in systems must come...
...They could not run a small peanut stand properly because the stand would not prosper if soaked with booze., tobacco, and immorality...
...The brainy and able men of Dr...
...Can't they see that they are trying to educate the people to what is really going on by telling the truth that newspapers won't tell us...
...I deplore the situation which might have been wholly avoided, together with the war itself, had we not spurned Russian friendship and thwarted her efforts to make the League of Nations a success...
...But during the past few years The Progressive has become a "house divided against itself...
...but after that campaign, the trusts bought both old parties...
...CHARLES MARUITZ...
...This, of course, was done at the in- stigation of the powers that were in control of this country and it was in perfect accord with the rulers of Eng-land, France, Germany, Italy and Jap-an...
...Russia feared with reason a united Western attack...
...As far as foreign trade is concerned, we should under trade agreements buy at least enough foreign products so that we are paid for the products that we need to export...
...To create buying power and establish economic balance we should abolish the tariff system and replace it with a system of incentive payments to industry for producing more of the things the people need...
...Germany...
...Hoarded Gold (Tujunga, Cal...
...The game warden captured the boys and the fish...
...I am talking from personal experience and could show you a lot of what they did to our shop as well as hundreds, yes, thousands, of other small businesses throughout the nation...
...A report from California stated that a man about 60 years of age was apprehended for killing a pheasant...
...I am enclosing my subscription rather unwillingly, I must confess...
...However, there is more than one way of skinning a statute...
...Decentralisation (Egg Harbor City...
...Then we both would make money...
...When Roosevelt remembered the forgotten man and tried to use all the powers of his office to assist millions of unemployed, the under-fed...
...I see a few people are still quitting your paper and some of the reasons they offer seem most childish to me...
...To continue this crazy capitalist system will be Impossible for oncoming generations to carry...
...New System (To The Editor)—I am in favor of a change in our economic system...
...South America needs machinery...
...La Follette, Sr., the greatest statesman of his day.—N...
...FRANK P. SCHWALM...
...Our political 'humpty-dumpty" has fallen off our economic wall and stopped to function...
...There Is little doubt on his record that President Roosevelt would willingly give his life to ensure the success of the reforms he has begun, but it becomes important that a thoroughly strong, experienced and intelligently adequate candidate for vice president be chosen as his running-mate—MARY C. M. BARCLAY...
...Defends Reds (Henderson, N. C.)—Replying to the editor of The Capital Times, concern-ing his answer to a letter to him about Soviet Russia as published in The Progressive of Mar...
...Industry, labor, agriculture and government could cooperate in such a program with benefit to all...
...The Progressive, which started out on such a high plane of political endeavor, is permitting itself to be the mouthpiece of un-American and un-Demo-cratic interests...
...That's all that's expected of anyone...
...Hanna...
...therefore, to get in the trusts was no solution...
...I am sorry to see you have not changed for the better...
...These bo>;: wore fined (or their fathers were) $5 each...
...Looking Backward" published 50 years ago...
...From the very beginning of the Soviet Union every capitalist nation has been her enemy, and they have left no stone unturned to destroy her...
...La Crosse...
...When Gov...
...It matters not how many platforms we build, or new parties we start, if the basic principle of equality is denied or evaded, we will get nowhere...
...Sales Taxes (Zumbrota, Minn...
...The tramp may have had a good reason for his contraction or deflation policy on account of no opportunity to work...
...No excuse was given for not subjecting an equal number of females, who might have been convicted of the same offense, to the same brutality...
...Concerning the very things the editor dislikes, I quote the words of a leading English minister, the Very Rev...
...Measles, Mumps (Portland...
...All those who try to cure it don't know a thing about it nor the business...
...Punch Lost...
...We have overproduction only because of one thing and that is ignorance among those who want to be dictators and leaders...
...He Has Doubts (Milwaukee, Wis...
...To buy the trusts now and pay for them Is impossible...
...Important segments of the people are not benefitted, but the lowering of prices made possible by removing tariff taxes would benefit all the people...
...It was for the destruction of the principle of good government, so I was disappointed and dropped the paper...
...It is my belief, : not mere wishful thinking I hope, I that The Progressive will once more i be dominated by a single purpose— I to bring the truth concerning current j issues, not prejudiced viewpoints, to 'its readers: that it will once again fight for causes, not for men: and that it will return to the ideals and standards which make Sen...
...Democracy can only exists if we are economic equals...
...Democracy is not the issue in the war...
...A. G. Lincoln in '60, Garfield in '80, McKin-ley in 1900, Harding in '20...
...All our wiseacres these past 10 years have not been able to stick him together again, because he is busted beyond repair...
...The wealth of both is being rapidly destroyed...
...How -does this situation "set" in your mind, reader...
...The Wisconsin department of agriculture is threatening the barbers...
...Neither Germany nor England can produce enough food for their people...
...But it seems the great number of extreme poor have no money to get into the trusts...
...They show no sense whatever...
...A system that will make the machine the friend of man, instead of something to be feared and will also protect the tiller of the soil by rermoving the land from speculation and greed, and make the conditions as pictured in the book, "Grapes of Wrath," a nightmare of the past by bringing back the joy of living to all, but privileges to none...
...Ye have two assemblymen in La isse county that we feel are due for . . nick ride when the Progressives call ui\ them to answer for their votes on important laws taking the money out of the pockets of the poor people and releasing the man most able to pay taxes...
...Let's be reasonable...
...Could not some one invent a new kind of scare...
...Russia and Japan will be left with their machinery intact...
...Wylie has...
...They do not want to see any nation succeed that has no millionaires...
...The warden took the two fish that these poor families needed, and what do you suppose was d"ii" wit': iW«:..' fish...
...I understand that the interest on our national debt amounts to over $1,000,000,000 per year while the debt is still increasing...
...They claim, as Senator Taft said, that it would settle our unemployment problem...
...The protective tariff is a glorified sales tax that lessens demand for goods at home, lessens employment for labor and makes it impossible to establish economic balance...
...Their secondary one to raise funds...
...The eighth amendment to the constitution of these United States provides : "No cruel and unusual punishments inflicted...
...The trusts claim right now they should be free from all taxation and they should be free to invest the money they pay for income tax in more industries...
...I do not believe you are doing justice to the cause of progress in carrying this poison in your columns.— PATRICK QUINN TANGENT...
...Ohio...
...But how can we transform this power into actual consuming power, as long as consumers are compelled to pay hidden sales taxes that run into billions of dollars...
...The Evening Tribune carried the following head line, dated at Wilmington, Delaware: "Eight Prisoners Given 10 Lashes Apiece, Cat O Nine Tails on Bare Flesh While Strapped Helpless to Whipping Posts...
...Send men that have proved themselves into responsible positions...
...With millions on millions of people deprived of self support and more being added all the time, it means eventually destruction of civil government.—E...
...But for the German Nazi influence in Finland and the anti-Soviet feeling stirred up, it Is probable that the exchange of territory would have been accepted and everyone would have commented on how sensible it was...
...Wishful Thinkers (Random Lake, Wis...
...But all arc mum and all dodge the questions...
...Another case: A man living near Coldwater, Mich., was told by the family doctor that his sick child should have rabbit broth...
...These are questions that need be remedied and answered.—A...
...It is apparent now that the average man on the street is thinking about taxes he will have to pay under the r.ngements of the Heil crowd of reionary senators and assemblymen Madison...
...But the trusts have told Bob, Jr., that they have too many facories now...
...Charles E. Coughlin...
...That Is why the report is full of half truths, juggled figures and stacked cards...
...Many influential persons still desire and work for it...
...The family needing something added to its very slim diet...
...So you see if we pay every trust, say $20 a year, it amounts to untold millions...
...I am sure it's not the average barber, beauty parlor, nor the public...
...What do you think of that, gentle reader...
...Chaos may prevail for a time before a stable form of governments establish that will provide for the general welfare with no favored class to live in luxury on the profits of the labor of others...
...I think he is very wrong in his dislike of the Soviets because of their recent war activities...
...Let's use the ballot...
...I'm sure no one knows because "it Just isn't in the books...
...But it turned out to be the real thing for his friends now.—BARBER...
...For several years we have made I sincere efforts to establish economic I balance by raising hourly wages and by futile attempts to raise farm prices, but we cannot right the wrongs inflicted on agriculture from tariff barriers by attempting to create other artificial and inflated values, j Such methods will not contribute to the buying power of the masses be-cause the benefits are not passed onto all the people...
...Now, naturally, all of Russia's enemies talk about the sacredness of Finnish democracy, not because they love democracy but because they hate Russia...
...Some time ago I had an article in the Forum containing several questions about the Townsend plan...
...but we will spread the work as almost equals in opportunity...
...I understand you are against the Dies committee for uncovering so much of the un-American activities of Communism and other isms...
...In my opinion no other publications have had so strong an Influence toward good government and good citizenship or have fought so tirelessly for the people as those two have done over a long period of years...
...Is there no possible opportunity or chance to improve upon our legislation...
...If we mention these facts to th' parties who arc in the trusts, the;, will make remarks like this: "I can pay the price...
...Not a government in Europe is or feels safe...
...N. J.)—There is practically only ONE solution for the chaotic condition under which we live in this land of plenty if we want to preserve, or rather re-establish democracy...
...E. HUNT...
...Do you see, my friends, to pay the price as we are now doing will finally land us in the ditch...
...You are under the same bewilderment as the whole New Deal...
...He was fined, the report said, $50...
...and again brought back to life by the advocates of "Technocracy.'' A system that will do away with speculation and competition in our business life, and will remove crime, graft and the fear of war from the hearts of man, permitting freedom for development of individual personality—the highest goal of civilization...
...The committee admits that the New Deal children have some good qualities and says the Republican party will keep them and not cast them adrift...
...Count Potocki for Poland: Countess Sperre and Parva Nurmi for Finland...
...The battling spirit of the La Foilettes which once animated every page seems to have lost its punch...
...Your attitude is against the best and most logical plan for a real progressiveness that would restore all the ill-managed affaire of our nation to a marvelous state of prosperity and happiness for old and young alike namely, the Townsend recovery act...
...The late Gov...
...We all know that American mechanics get about three or four times what foreign mechanics get...
...We need a new system based upon the brotherhood of man in harmony with the golden rule, instead of individual effort by the many for the benefit of the few...
...B. + + + Childish Quitters (Wciser, Ida...
...The code must be seif supporting...
...They don't have to fight us in a war...
...With no money to pay the assessed fine, he was sent to jail...
...To me it would seem very disheartening as it must to you to have people quit and for some of the very shallow and foolish excuses offered...
...Evjue are just as much against war as any of their critics...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 13
