THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM—A Full Page of Letters from Progressive Readers -:-:- GIVE ME THE LIBERTY TO KNOW. TO LITTER. A!SO TO ARGUE FREELY ACCORDING TO CONSCIENCE, ABOVE ALL LIBERTIES.-MILTON....
...Partisan bigots, mean-spirited souls, reckless and fanatical partisans are largely responsible for the reaction against democracy...
...or If He had failed to create light life or any one of many natural forces and principles, all would have been a failure...
...Read the Congressional Record of Nov...
...As the price was $35, all countries started shipping gold to their "good neighbor," Uncle Sap...
...You are no doubt familiar with the history of that campaign.—EDWARD SEARS...
...While we all deplore the slaughter of peace loving Finns, do not think for a minute that those who pushed the war over there did it in the interest of the farmers and workers...
...Nearly everyone wants to avoid dictatorship, but if they were confronted with economic democracy, they would be so sorry for the "upper crust" they would want to return to servitude...
...They should have known after the fall of Poland they didn't have a chance...
...The only thins Mr...
...Having passed through the sordid days of our first World war, I still have some vivid recollections of those days and the methods used to drag us into it to "make the world safe for democracy...
...In the issue of Mar...
...To understand why the world is in such a chaotic condition and how that condition can be alleviated, one must comprehend a few of the fundamentals that cause events to happen on this earth of ours, as follows: Productive work is absolutely necessary for anyone to live...
...The following year you do the same, but due to unfavorable weather, you get only 50 bushels per acre at a cost of 100 hours of labor...
...A rich and a poor man have committed the same wrong...
...The wars, the Insanity of anarchy, tariffs, etc., all spring from failing to read history and take a lesson therefrom...
...H. CAL-LINGHAM...
...Nearly everyone wants to scratch the surface in some particular to slightly better conditions, but like the old slave that refused his freedom lest the master might have to work, many fear economic democracy lest there be no opportunity left for someone to become a millionaire...
...M. THOMASON...
...If only a few of those could become instructors in our universities, a great change would occur and we would not have to wait long for the beginning of the solution...
...you will find plenty of house cleaning to do...
...Edgar Lee Masters, in his life of Abraham Lincoln, claims everyone who wanted to secure the privilege of exploiting the common people backed Lincoln and succeeded in electing him to the presidency...
...MORRIS LYC'HENHEIM...
...I'll give you the reasons why he should bo a candidate for a third term, the kid from New York to the contrary and notwithstanding.—GUST E. MOE...
...They always .see to it that the parasites stay on the backs of the workers...
...The truth is what the people are looking for, which they don't always get through the American press—FRANK O. REED...
...I have always been interested in the magazine itself...
...U. HIESTER...
...England searches our ships when ever it suits her pleasure, and laughs inour faces about her enormous debt and also her citizens have investments here amounting to billions...
...For years, my father took the La Follette's* magazine...
...Then, may we be able to trade with her and not in loans nor war materials either—II...
...What is the remedy proposed by the Progressive party to destroy landlordism in America...
...Above all else, there is the theory that by some legerdermain, the people will secure relief from government in the way of made work...
...A world round-up of golden calves started to the green pastures of Republican America...
...The rich one gives the poor one the lowdown about it...
...Nearly 75 per cent of the gold stock of the world is here now, and as other nations have learned of the hypocrisy of gold manipulation by a few,-for the greed of a few "insiders," they now may refuse to ever again bow down to these golden calves...
...and that dollar buying power was low...
...1, 1939...
...Their argument has ever been that money is too mysterious for the common herd to understand...
...Dewey, professes that Wisconsin milk was 43 cents per hundred lower during the period (1933-1940) than it was during the period...
...You are aware that the gold-standard has been the ruin of the states which have adopted it, for it has not been able to satisfy the demand for money, the more so that we have removed gold from circulation...
...Dollar Value (Lonsdale...
...I was very much interested in the editorial...
...Of course, a debt economy is era...
...In 1932 the "insiders" here in the United States of America shipped gold out of this country, and there under the sham of an emergency congress passed an act and the president changed the price that gave them the profit of $14.33 an ounce and they started shipping it Into the U.S.A...
...A careful study of the wars from the World war to the present will show that they were all started by the rul-ing class, apparently for commercial domination, but primarily to keep in power the parasitical system that now permits our capitalists to live off the workers without doing productive work...
...The recent "discovery" by some inflated columnists and press correspondents that there is very little unemployment today, and that the government deliberately suppresses that fact because it wishes to waste additional billions of taxpayers' money in order to retain office and spoils, is a painful illustration of intellectual dishonesty and political stupidity...
...Your pro-British attitude is beyond my comprehension, but it is not any worse than your red-baiting even to quoting Col...
...Yet, they should know that the value of any goods varies according to cost of production and human work is that cost which, when expressed in a monetary unit becomes the price...
...Mesaba ore mines, cartels, international combinations in diamonds, copper ,etc...
...I am for a third term for our great president...
...So long as the government is obliged to provide employment for several millions of people, why not put them at useful and profitable employment...
...Equal Rights (Chicago, 111...
...Our present system of society is almost wholly organized to see how large a portion of our people can live as parasites, as a large portion of our politicians, professional, industrial and commercial classes and those living from huge fortunes are parasites to the extent that they live without doing productive work...
...The recent attacks on the census questions were not honest...
...Phil would ' run for president...
...AGNES F. VOEGTTE...
...The enclosed money order will «over the subscription price to The Progressive for the 10th year...
...Bakunin, Proudhon, Karl Marx, Krapotkin, Wil-i liam Morris, Henry George...
...Under present conditions the stronger industries are always trying to freeze out the weaker ones and gain a monopoly in their own line of industry...
...In 1918 the people held elections and tried to start a democratic government, but the monarchists and reactionaries started a civil war to prevent such a move, and that is where General Mannerheim got in his good work which is portrayed by Stuart Chase, noted writer and economist in the June 25, 1919...
...Those who stoop to indulge in such sweeping and false charges are poor citizens and poor friends of the democratic system...
...Unjust Attacks i Winter Park, Fla...
...Thomson blames this on our present government's policy of foreign imports...
...Minn...
...We were compelled by law to turn in gold and gold certificates at the price of $20.67 an ounce and when "covered in" to the treasury by the banks, credits or gold certificates were issued for it to the system, a private corporation...
...Enclosed you will find subscription to The Progressive...
...and water it with the interest 0:1 farms, homes, life insurance, mortgages and the tears of 20 million dispossessed wandering 100 per cent Americans...
...After the battle she will come back to her senses...
...The only difference in the first is merely a pension ( a gratuity), while the second is a dividend on past, uncollected earnings...
...I am more of a Catholic today than I ever was...
...The way to stay out is to keep out...
...One who lives without, doing a share of the productive work is living off the work of someone else and is to that extent a parasite...
...Kans...
...All other basis of exchange are contrary to natural laws...
...Thomson's great eulogy of Mr...
...In 1914 spring elections In Germany the Socialists madx...
...And assistant secretary of state...
...The demonetization of gold and silver has made the United States the greatest money changer in the world...
...I wish Sen...
...voter and now deceased) I am renewing his subscription to The Progressive...
...In last week's paper he recites a long register of England's wrong doings, many times worse than those of Germany...
...The grants of land to the soldiers in the Revolutionary war in the 18th century did not help the survivors very much, as many of the veterans were in such desperate need they sold their land grants for a song...
...For some several years past I have been a regular subscriber to your paper and am only renewing now in hopes that your recent return to at least semi-sanity, will be permanent, as it is beginning to be evident in your last few issues...
...T. BEALS...
...For Coughlin (Kalamazoo, Mich...
...Your stand on the neutrality was particularly firm, especially in view of dissenting opinions of your close associates...
...The practice of special privileges is a canker eating our very vitals...
...If you do not believe that, get hold of any reliable book on technocracy and you will readily see there is no exaggeration in that statement...
...Ever since then there has been a world wide, concerted movement to kill off socialist organizations, independent labor unions and any organization that leans toward getting the parasites off the backs of the workers...
...Less a share by the beneficiaries, the amount less taxes paid by the unprivileged amounts to $13,000,000,000 a year, enough to pay all expenses of government without taxes on industry...
...Wc dearly love to move slowly through musty tombs and do homage to the "heroes" of long ago...
...To do otherwise meant the downfall of Nazi-ism and Communism and by joinine hands, they are in a position today to win the war...
...Washington was one of the greatest beneficiaries...
...will bring about application to the soil, including the water...
...Such a course does not necessarily mean that government enterprise would compete unfairly with private enterprise...
...Democracy presupposes not merely willingness to abide by the decisions rendered at the ballot box...
...In order to do so, it would be necessary to engage in a wide variety of business and industrial enterprises, including agriculture, mining and manufacturing...
...America First (Millersburg, O.)—Have just read your paper and it seems that the mention of one name has a mortal fear hidden in it...
...I will pay for the expenses of government where I have put no personal effort into making an income...
...Over-capitalization, speculation, special privileges, monopolies of every sort in addition carry on today...
...He likened our petitioners for old age pensions to a hog eating apples under an apple tree and never looking up to see where the apples were coming from...
...Says the poor man, "But you did the same thing...
...P. H. MeBRIDE...
...Cassel does...
...Useful Work (Ottawa, 111,) — Our Socialist friends want to take over all present industries and put them under the management of men appointed by the federal government...
...Knocking and pan.iing the government for partisan purposes, smearing executives, slandering congresses, exciting hatred and prejudice as a means of getting into power— these things undermine democracy and poison the minds of the shallow and ignorant...
...Assuming you would determine—by-some process unknown to me—a dollar per bushel as the proper price for the first year's crop, would you be satisfied to get the same price for the second crop...
...You regularly publish Villard's blurbs about "dear old England," apparently forgetting 1776...
...Let me assure you that He also provided for governments, and if you get an understanding of this great beneficient provision as revealed by science, you will have a greater regard for Him than ever before...
...Production for Use (Salinas...
...It implies fair play in politics, co-operation regardless of party lines wherever possible and not inconsistent with principles of social and political ethics...
...or is it a dictatorship...
...Ethics and religion became merely lip service...
...I appreciate the, People's Forum page—RAE STEWART LOIIRRERG...
...Theaters, business centers, libraries, super highways, bridges, etc., all enhance the value of locations...
...If I live long enough, that will be my next vote for president...
...I have taken the paper for a long time and like it very much...
...Grab Canada (Kansas City...
...Let us practice democracy as well as preach it and urge others to espouse it—VICTOR S. YARROS...
...It most certainly is none of our affair how Europe aligns herself...
...Hitler was put into power by munitions magnates and industrialists and his first step was to kill off great numbers of Socialites and labor union leaders and start government controlled unions...
...but have been unable to find out how I could get it for myself but through a conversation with my good friend France- Wendt, was able to find out...
...I am sure I will find many interesting things in it.—CARL BITNER...
...Is this a dream...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...Has Hopes Wasco...
...WASHINGTON, D. C—Wire-tapping for any purpose is out from now on, so far as the FBI is concerned...
...No, the lack of it is a dream...
...Necessarily, something had to bo done or that same condition might spread to other countries, and so the World war was started to check the rising power of the workers...
...The Hoover moratorium and the great deb.s of all nations, including our own, smashed the "gold standard" hypocrisy in all nations...
...The enormous costs of government are reflect in enhanced rentals, and the payment for these expenses of government, less a part share by the beneficiaries of the people's activities, are paid for in taxes by the common people...
...The writer has studied every theory of economics proposed in the last 50 years...
...One man with a sustaining fund could do more than all other forces combined if he knows the truth and knows that he knows it.—R...
...Is not this the real cause of this phony war...
...The owners and keepers are getting greatly worried about this, especially since Germany and Russia have discovered that naiions credit does not need the gold standard manipulation...
...Brinkley, the sage from Mexico make...
...Turning my radio dial to La Crosse, Wis., I listened in on an amateur poli-tion discussing national issues...
...While away my neighbors collected my mail and read The Progressive, so you can see it was doing someone else good...
...On the Rocks (Ava...
...I never belonged to any church...
...Nearly all the signers of the Declaration of independence, educated men, bought these grants at a tremendous sacrifice...
...What a price they have paid...
...Hitler and Stalin got wise and then came the greatest piece of diplomatic strategy that shook the world like an earthquake...
...To make a credit economy effective we would need to estimate our national productive capacity, measure it by a 100 cent dollar, and put in circulation enough money to move the goods from seller to buyer...
...Thomson contends that Mr...
...for when did England ever care how the natives worshipped or if they ever worshipped just so England ruled them and got their gold...
...Its contents were similar to mine...
...That would be "regulating" the value of money, as made mandatory by the constitution...
...Instead, it prepares to kill the poor people's young sons for greed, gold and power.—HILDA ALTO...
...It is based on debt...
...I certainly eppose sending any of our boys from this country to Europe to fight England's battles again...
...You had a splendid article in last week's paper entitled "British Kings...
...It saved Germany and Russia...
...Villard often seems lacking in fairness and logic...
...In the name of my father (John T. Stewart, who was a G.A.R...
...I have given the paper to a number of people so do not have it on hand to look up the writer...
...Legitimate private enterprise does not have as much to fear from government enterprise as from the competitive strife in its own ranks...
...This is a republic, not a democracy...
...Another the undemocratic scheme of giving a few the special privilege of conducting our public utilities for private gain...
...A paper like The Progressive and its contributors cannot write to suit everybody's taste or whims, but as a whole The Progressive Ls hardly paralleled by any other publication in our country...
...It is fortunate that Senator Glass (and this goes for all who want to balance the budget...
...It is steadily continuing at the cost of millions of U.S.A...
...Hoover's organization contributed a vast sum of money and got senator's and congressmen's wives to knitting and making garments for the Finns...
...It prevents abuse and forces the correction of mistakes...
...Replies the rich man haughtily: "Eh...
...Friends of Democracy, Inc...
...No, what we need to do is to quit looking back—to quit looking with one eye through a microsoope at one tiny speck under our nose—and to survey the panorama of the future with a telescope...
...True, we could have a credit economy, which would be sensible...
...Just now I am wondering how much political bunk will roll off the radio and the press during the next eight months...
...In spite of all precautions a majority of Socialists were elected but General Mannerheim . . . allowed not one of them to be seated...
...they bury it in a hole in the ground near De.wcr or Ft...
...It is not who or how God is worshipped...
...This letter was prompted by a few-chance political remarks that I heard Dr...
...a clean sweep and had a large majority in the Reichstag and refused to vote Kaiser Wllhelm any money for his army and navy...
...Hence, the monetary unit—the dollar—must represent a definite portion of that cost of work of production...
...Turn to page 1947-8...
...Golden Idols (Corona Del Mar...
...It is hard to understand why otherwise fine and learned people like Mr...
...The Spanish had formed a democratic government and were gradually adopting progressive laws that would permit the farmers and w:orkers to manage and control their own industries without supporting a horde of parasites...
...Most of the complaint against government competition comes from those who are seeking a monopoly in their own line.—B...
...If they did it would be at zero—we would all be at zero...
...If the God of the universe had failed to insert adhesion, cohesion, light rays, heat rays, dust, or the water first as it freezes or had He failed to fill the universe with ether that occupies all space, whether it is occupied by solid matter or not...
...It is evident that a dollar that would always buy the same basket of goods would be the most unsatisfactory'- Such a dollar would have to be a representative of a basket of goods and then everything would have to be sold by the basket, grain, hay, live stock, machines, etc...
...I have always wanted one of Battling Bob's booklets on how to keep out of war for I sure do want U. S. to stay out...
...One Vernon Thompson of the Wisconsin assembly was campaigning for delegates for Thomas Dewey...
...The insurance companies, the banks and all those who live off usury spent millions in that gubernatorial campaign to defeat Sinclair...
...when he, Teddy, was out to grab a third term...
...Just the same, he is for England and against Germany...
...As I have seen copies of it...
...For the past 20 years a large group of scientists, engineers, and technicians have made an exhaustive study of the technological advances during that time and report that with our improved machinery our workers can produce from $4,000 to $10,000 yearly per family by each worker working from two to four hours per day...
...Millions of dollars went over for war material and food...
...Evjue's answer was great and from the bottom of his heart, but he did not go far enough...
...Many of these people are skilled mechanics and artisans and most of them are intelligent and able-bodied laborers...
...Chaotic World (Conconully, Wash...
...Villard so often have so little sense of Justness and fairness...
...But I must in all truth say that the Progressive party platform, like the platforms of the major parties, ignores the fundamental question, the great wrong that lies at the bottom of all our economic and social Ills, the land question...
...If I demanded a pound by which a bushel of wheat would have the same weight at all times, all would laugh at me, because everyone knows that wheat is sometimes heavier per volume 'than at other times...
...The golden cattle or mavericks came here to the cost of 18 billion dollars worth to be branded by Uncle Sam's dollar sign: and outside the brand $1,100,000,000 worth of "car-marked" go'd came to their credits not covered, into the treasury, another "good neighbor'' policy, until now there are more than 22,756 tons or the enormous hoard of 45,513 golden calves each weighing 1,000 pounds: and still they come...
...If He had forgotten electricity that transfers power with the velocity of light...
...for which they exchange it...
...Even the manual training classes in our schools should be able to produce toys and many useful articles that could be sold, and the proceeds go to the members of the classes as a stimulant to higher achievements and perhaps a stepping-stone to some future business...
...It is not Communism that has placed this country in its present position but "capitalism...
...It is wrong to make gold and silver the only legal tender...
...The Finns were ill advised...
...I have been away from home...
...Your tirades against Fr...
...It is too horrible to think of the propaganda that was put out to build up and aid the brave Finns...
...The greatest round-up of "golden calves" in the history of the world is going 0:1, and has teen going on ever .since 1933...
...This is characteristic o£ a debt economy, such as ours...
...Petersburg, Fla., mentions "production for use as the only solution for our economic troubles...
...Out-great humanitarian, Mr...
...Our national government should be able to give useful employment to every person who needed it without costing the taxpayer one cent...
...Until that is accomplished, all else is futile...
...or how she operated in India, or the diamond mines of Africa, or in Palestine, or how the many Irish got to America, and what has been the lot of those still on the British isles, or how we got our wonderful gold standard...
...The more we get into debt the more money we have in circulation...
...You had better investigate...
...Gold and Silver (South Bend, Ind...
...In our day the power which has replaced that of the rulers who were liberal is the power of gold...
...B. WILSON...
...Here it is shown that "France received a premium of more than one billion dollars, and the British empire also took advantage of the president's offer, and the treasury made them a magnificent present of around two billion dollars as a premium for the gold sold to America...
...California in 1934 had Upton Sinclair propose just that...
...Some foolish folks have never treated him fair or tried to help him get us out of this awful predicament...
...because congress delegated the power to change the price of gold to the president and he increased it $14.33 an ounce...
...9. E. E. Cassel of S...
...Is the farmer who carves a farm out of wilderness any less deserving than the soldier who marches off to war—and maybe never gets there...
...They say they would pay the present owners for them, but don't say how it would be done...
...It's too bad we don't have about 100 million people who think and believe as Mr...
...that we have had lower commodity prices and greater dollar buying power during these last seven Roosevelt years...
...control and hoard these 45.413 gold calves...
...Calif...
...If you busybodies will quit poking your nose around Europe long enough to "See America First...
...Some day soon...
...Wait and see...
...I can remember the time when our state penitentiary here in Illinois was self-supporting, but that was many years ago...
...To get on with Mr...
...The Japs are fighting to keep down China's progressive factions and her own progressive workers as to acquire new territory...
...Dewey a second Theodore Roosevelt, which isn't saying much after the way Teddy double-crossed Bob La Follette Sr...
...Kid From N. Y. (Rush ford, Minn...
...In other words, you would take a dollar per hour the first year and only 50 cents the second and call it equitable when the wages of all other classes of people woul "• not be affected by your unfavorable weather conditions...
...H. NETH-ERO...
...The right to criticize the government is important and beneficial in democratic countries...
...You have written two editorials upon the American Student union deploring as to why they did not vote Russia as an aggressor...
...Sumner Wells...
...Ore )—I am enclosing herewith renewal of my subscription to The Progressive...
...in fact you seem to go into hysterics about it and are absolutely helpless to rationally discuss it —the word "COMMUNISM...
...The third and most important of all Is allowing some to collect the social income of (land) rent...
...You will probably find the same bunch of "money changers" who always sell as down the river.—JOHN E. QUARRY...
...The tariff, the banking system, the patent grants allowing ingenious evasions, the allowing of natural resources to Mellon and company in bauxite to manufacture aluminum...
...After relating th$ horrors England committed in East India, he gives the people there the low down, calling it a stab in the back because they are seeking their freedom while England is at war...
...Why was Myron C. Taylor sent to the Vatican as the president's special ambassador...
...If the government can not put them at useful and profitable work and make them self-supporting, then how could It take over all our big industries and run them successfully...
...Is the past sen-ice of a soldier in war of less value than that of jan ex-soldier of industry...
...But when J.W.G...
...All exchanges would then be on the basis of hour for hour of sen-ice...
...Could it be that Italy can be bought with the promise of loans to build a "Roman empire...
...In going carefully over the platform of the Progressive party, find myself in complete harmony with It and endorse it...
...They were the principal cause of his martyrdom.—LOUIS SHOLU + + + The Truth (Lysite, Wyo.l—I have been a constant subscriber of The Progressive ever since it started, and don't want to be without it...
...Is the supreme court court justice who retires, maybe, with ample to keep him the rest of his life, any more entitled to a pension than the man who struggles all his life to build up a country, raise a family and maybe furnish a boy for war...
...can'„ do it...
...issue of the New Republic as follows: "The present government of Finland on coming to power executed in cold blood within a few days time, 16,700 members of the old Socialist republic, and imprisoned in starvation camps 70.000 more . . . after killing and imprisoning nearly 90,000 Socialists and driving some 50,000 more over the border into Russia . . . the White Guard movement deemed it sufficiently safe to hold elections...
...The same can be said of Mussolini in Italy...
...Republican politicians have ever been great for discussing comparative prices, but rarely does one ever consider the real value of dollars of different periods...
...Who is putting, up all the money to fight Father Coughlin...
...1812, 1863, and how we saved her pelt in 1918...
...my good fellow, if I do it, that's entirely a different thing...
...And the assembly stood and cheered...
...What chance have they at other times...
...We Hope So, Too (Racine...
...A Letter to the Editor and a Reply...
...No taxes, access to land not u>ed...
...It is hard to understand why sometimes or other a reader objects to some article...
...Social Income (Boise, Ida...
...All that the government should do is to decide how much exchange value —work—should be taken as a unit in order to make a uniform monetary system...
...Too Much Talk (To the Editor)—It is about time that our servants in Washington do something about the situation in a land where there is more than plenty for all and more can be produced...
...So it would not represent any definite value and hence would be a rubber dollar to be manipulated by monopolists...
...We are great backlookers, back-irackers...
...God save the King...
...Isn't it the logical time for a suppressed people to gain their point while their oppressor is otherwise engaged...
...You have lived in a world where everything was measured as to its quantity by the basket, and you cannot make one step ahead into the unknown and discover that what is lacking—a measure of exchange value...
...That is the surest and best way to get peace and prosperity and also get rid of all the parasites.—W...
...England's case always reminds me of two men in an old farce...
...There is no valid reason why anyone should live as a parasite as we now daily produce artificial energy sufficient to give each worker in our nation the equivalent of 30 horsepower of energy, thus making it possible for man to produce an abundance for all and giving an equivalent yearly of $4,000 to $10,000 per family with from two to four hours work per day...
...And by no means was the least of it, our war-mongering press...
...Seven of them are governors of the Federal Reserve bank system, secretary of the treasury...
...There are a few who know the real science...
...Frank Knox and his reactionary, fossilized viewpoint...
...Talk doesn't feed the hungry, clad the naked, or build houses for people...
...is promising us a dollar that would always buy the same basket of goods, thousands applaud him...
...Let them try to run the ship of state just a little while and they would land us on the rocks—MRS...
...It is also wrong to demonetize gold and silver.—ANDREW N. HILDEBRAND...
...But few people believe that science has solved the problem of the just distribution of wealth...
...Most of them think it can't be solved so all they are looking for is an amelioration of the present troubles...
...Two Wrongs (Topeka...
...Bob or Gov...
...All "money," (except for the three or four billion dollars of pocket-change currency), is born at a bank window, sired by a fountain-pen and dammed by a need for money...
...Democracies ought to set an example of genuine, spontaneous unity, without, of course, surrendering the right to criticize, .to point out errors, to propose alternative policies...
...They buy and sell the privilege as though It were theirs and not ours...
...Then the complex division of labor in industry flowing from God's earth, and until the end of time .securing a livelihood provided, no taxes or special privileges allowed...
...So Do We Hate War (San Luis Obispo, Calif...
...You have been disgusted with the political economists of our schools, but they have to teach falsehood to hold their jobs...
...We feed these golden cattle the interest on stocks, bonds, e,c...
...Dewey, the smart kid lawyer from New York City...
...But do not forget that the capitalist class will call off any of their commercial wars and combine their forces to put down any attempt by the workers to get the parasites off the workers' backs...
...Bow down, O! ye slaves and worship these 45,513 golden calves and obey their keepers, or else!—EUGENE O. BRIGGS...
...Why not have the King of England appoint our president and save election expense...
...Thomson thinks Mr...
...It's going on under the direct guidance of Frank D. Roosevelt and Henry W. Morgenthau Jr...
...to boot— from selfish and ignoble motives...
...Please bear with me a little and think...
...They were told to keep on fighting and news was barred from the public...
...Let us reflect on this issue...
...The reasons T. R. was licked for a third term will be a good answer to those Republicans who are now so inclined against the idea right now...
...The United States was just as much in the mud a.s the other countries were in the mire...
...That may be democracy, but not in the interest of farmers and workers of the United States...
...Zero Budget (Willernie, Minn...
...Let us try and solve capitalism and communism will solve itself or rather dissolve...
...They have no reason to be grateful to England...
...Should not the dollar represent a definite value instead of a definite quantity of goods...
...Then the special privilege of making the common man pay for schools, fire protection, police protection, libraries, garbage collections, highways, bridges, museums, and all the infinite activities of government for which the man without a pull pays double...
...It is my recollection, too...
...Did not the Germans, the Italians, and Japan form a pact to crush Communism...
...The beneficiaries, if approached by the government or the people generally would answer, if genuinely just: "Why, of course, I do no...
...Knox, and guard it so "little thieves" cannot get it...
...1925-1932...
...There arc but three things fundamentally wrong and science points them out very cleariy...
...But you do not say what value it would represent...
...Accept my congratulations upon your splendid editorial work during the last several years...
...It is immoral and outrageous to accuse the federal government of wilful ¦waste on a colossal scale and of withholding the truth—truth that would reflect great credit on it...
...Hoover can do to help the Poles, the Jews, and the Finns is to get the United States to take over Canada and bring them over here and say goodbye to Europe and make North and South America safe for America, first, last, and always.— E. E. EVANS...
...I refer of course to your recent excursion Into the field of journalism largely taken over by our numerous pro-war and propaganda sheets...
...do.lars every week...
...The other day Carter Glass stood in the Virginia legislature and gave thanks that he had never been away from Virginia (in spirit 1 though he had been to Washington 40 years...
...The churches of Christendom celebrate the birth of Christ, the son of man and labor as well as the Son of God who taught the blessedness of labor on one hand and the Godly blessing of justice on the other, to teach man to hunger and thirst for truth and justice, to teach that men must labor for the good of the soul and health of the body, and that it is a most monstrous crime that cries to heaven to deprive men and women able to work and willing to work of the opportunity to work, or when having worked to deprive them of the just hire of their labor.—WM...
...Should you decide to return to them and their methods, then, in the name of common decency, first take down the name and flag of honest Old Bob La Follette from your mast head...
...Accounting of our exchanges will do the rest...
...If all th -wealth of the country was sold a auction it would not bring more the 200 billions...
...I never get tired reading the really progressive weekly, which is always a welcome visitor to my abode...
...That is why our system has failed and cannot be made to function again.—MARTIN G. VIKLA...
...Calif...
...Totalitarian tyrannies impose unity by terror...
...I believe in fair play...
...And then through the years we managed to survive all the special privileges granted down to our present era...
...My recollection is that the Coolidge-Hoover prosperity inflated prices in the 20s...
...Nine men in the U.S.A...
...Coughlin are unjust...
...The owner may be insane, no mind or talent, may be illiterate, yet the accidental holding of a choice location gives him an income without effort...
...But all the capitalist powers shut their eyes and deliberately let Mussolini and Hitler back Franco and again let parasites get back onto the backs of the workers...
...You do not say what value your dollar would represent because you would have to invent a measure of values to do so and for that your mind has not advanced high enough...
...If we will return to good common sense business methods, we could make our penal institutions and insane asylums self-supporting or nearly so and it would be far better for the inmates of such institutions as well as the taxpayers...
...Howard 1 Scott, the Rochdale plan of co-opera...
...It seems to me The Progressive has changed a lot in principle since succeeding that magazine...
...I defy anyone to review history and find at any time that man tired except by application of labor to land...
...But the intellectual excitedly interjects this question: "How're we gonna get the money in circulation without work—without jobs for the people we pay it to...
...Beyond that it need not meddle...
...That would be funny were it not so silly...
...In answer to my article J. W. Gilbert says: "We want a dollar that will buy the same basket of goods today, tomorrow, or 10 years hence" Supposing as a raiser of potatoes, you prepare the soil, plant the seed, cultivate the plants properly and get 100 bushels of potatoes per acre at a cost of 100 hours of labor...
...England declared war on Germany so why not give us two editorials on that...
...Landlordism (Camden, N. J.)—I have received two copies of The Progressive, and want to extend my thanks for two fine editions...
...One of these is the money question...
...He congratulated the assembly on its economy (in struggling to balance its budget), and declined to help l.-.zm on the grounds that he had all he could do to balance the national budget...
...Henry W. Morgenthau and the president of the United States of America...
...tion...
...Then there are the childlike utterances by the administration such as securing a national income of a hundred billion so taxes will balance the budget, that taxes are not such a burden because they are paid by one part of the people to another part...
...The present public and private debts today is around 300 billion dollars...
...A far better plan would be to let present industries continue as they are and let the government build up its own enterprises...
...If they know what is good for them, they will let the capitalists fight their own battles and devote their energies to making this a better country in which to live...
...But criticism should be intelligent and honest...
...Who are the "Friends of Democracy, Inc...
...Take the World war...
...Now conies Finland...
...Didn't Germany have a vast army ready when the time was ripe to start war on Russia with Italy and Japan ready to aid knowing that England and France would be only too willing to give aid...
...I am not renewing my subscription to The Progressive...
...You will find if you look very far where the trouble is...
...We do not believe it would work...
...We pay pensions to ex-soldiers for past sen ices...
...We must come out of our caves and march—march forward, not back into the caves—O...
...Any desire for an advantage can be organized, but no one seems to be able to get any following that desires the scientific solution of the whole problem, even though it would mean peace on earth...
...want any special privilege...
...Without being an alarmist, I cannot see how we can carry through if wc do not take the bull by the horns and declare for "equal rights for all and special privileges to none...
...Every voter should give The Progressive a trial, especially in this somewhat turbulent presidential election year—OTTO E. SIETZ...
...For Ten Years (Seattle, Wash...
...But you say your dollar would be a "representative of value in the wealth of the whole nation...
...FDR is wonderful and great and a good president...
...And what do our rulers do with this gold...
...In that case congress would recapture is constitutional job ( a job every member takes an oath to carry out), of "regulating" the value of money and that value, just like any-other value, is determined by quantity in cireulaaon in relation to consumer goods available...
...He was ranting about how high the taxes are...
...but since we insist on having it a must work it for all its worth or fir • ish the job of starring ourselves in the midst of plenty...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 15
