THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM—A Full Page of Letters from Progressive Readers GIVE ME THE LIBERTY TO KNOW, TO UTTER, A!SD TO ARGUE FREELY ACCORDING TO CONSCIENCE, ABOVE ALL LIBERTIES.-MILTON. From Sen....
...I. ANDERSON...
...An appreciative reader offers to send me "The Truth About Russia," also "The American Guardian," free for a year, for my having written my letter captioned "Shocking" in The Progressive...
...I am not certain that he is available, but like Phil himself, perhaps, not overly anxious to tool his own horn...
...can be so easily misled when it comes to things political, or the important end of their own business, the marketing and processing end...
...Tariff Cancer (Zumbrota...
...After that Is accomplished we can take time to iron out the other minor problems which require attention, but let's settle the big one of distribution through the retirement pension plan first.—R...
...In spite of the fact that I don't follow your foreign policy, I think it'a definitely the best of the liberal or Socialist papers...
...We would be negligent in our duty to the party if we do net urge them along...
...Daniel J. Tobin of the Intl...
...The letter from E. A. Hurlburt is interesting at a time when the world is in a state of chaos and bewilderment...
...Last Saturday the Merced county Farm Bureau directors met, and as has become their monthly custom, parsed resolutions on a variety of subjects...
...Just saw a copy of The Progressive...
...Therefore the world of today sees no solution to problems but organized murder and destruction of property...
...Anti-War Action (To Walter Weideman...
...But, since the beginning of the late war, I have become disgusted with The Progressive's red baiting policy...
...Phil and Bob (Denmark, Wis...
...and by the people speak...
...Johnson vBoulder...
...State sovereignty has broken down, and become hopelessly inefficient, leaving no competent sovereignty anywhere...
...It contains news of the war...
...In the case of prices, the government could undersell the market with the surplus goods which it had bought at cost price, when prices got too high...
...The worst counselors to Europe to America today are inconsiderate comfort on one hand and brutal power on the other...
...Money rules in a price system...
...Enclosed please find check for $2 for which extend my subscription for another year on the splendid paper...
...6 was that no money be diverted from the $170,-000,000 Central Valley power and water bond issue to develop or help power distribution...
...Put out the big men who are deceiving you, for they want to keep their hold on Uncle Sam's finances—J...
...The wisest of counselors can lead Europeans to that union which their descendants have found in America...
...La Follette's column Is especially fine, showing such an understanding of things people in general are interested In and commenting on them with aptness and tolerance...
...It ought to be done now...
...of Teamsters Chauffeurs Stablemen and Helpers (AFL) in a signed editorial in the union's official periodical...
...That is by taxing the big corporations a just tax...
...This is encouraging...
...Herman Dekker Is wrong when he says that a transaction tax collected by the government, paid to those citizens who would come under the retirement pension act with forced spending of the pension, would not put more of our medium of exchange into circulation, and that It would pyramid commodities to the consumer...
...Fascism will not work in North America...
...I find very few of our businessmen understand the situation, because all over they want to know what Is the matter as the men are again back to work, but instead of helping business, it got worse...
...LOUIS ADAMIC The New Leader, without question, is the most honest newspaper of the left, or perhaps I should say the newspaper of the honest left...
...Colo.l—A letter from a "Colorado Reader" which otherwise w;is not signed has a mis-statement which should not go unchallenged...
...and also the fact that this $45 amendment is not based upon need, but merely upon reaching a certain age, and that the old age assistance is being paid to so many who are not at all needy—STATE SEN...
...The credit of the larger part of our population was ruined, and individual initiative destroyed...
...8 called for posting monthly the names of all people on relief...
...In case an individual concern should want to close down for repairs, or could not obtain raw materials, or for any other reason they were justified in closing down, or in case the planning board's estimate of the amount of goods that the industry as a whole should supp';- was not r-ff--'— 'o warrant all of the concerns in keeping their places of business c.j..i...
...The Constitution (Findlay, O.)—It is deplorable that in order to keep more of our people employed and many of them saved from abject starvation, it should become necessary for the federal administration to devote general revenues, or strain the national credit, to make local public improvements which the constitution contemplated should be made by the states in the exercise of the powers reserved to the states and denied to the federal compact by the constitution...
...Because they were receiving their $16 weekly compensation checks which they could spend in full to live...
...Why fear the future trends of business when they can be confclled through a planned economy.—WILLIAM OWEN...
...thousands of dollars on lobbying activities...
...The whole object of our government and of the manipulation of money is to purposely keep the people down, humble, deprived, and enslaved...
...No proper interpretation of the general welfare, or any other feature of the constitution, conferred upon the government any such a power, notwithstanding the vital necessity of its exercise...
...E. GAUTHIER...
...I fled in it news not available elsewhere, especially as to European conditions...
...He is a progressive Democrat with the nerve to fight back at the interests who are farming the farmers and the little people generally...
...I fully realize what it means to dismantle the Federal Reserve system with its powerfully entrenched forces, but the money question Is the real paramount issue before the people.— W. O. NELSON...
...Claude McKay...
...Calif...
...i, any concern, at the discretion of the planning board, and with his own consent, should be allowed to have the whole or part of his quota absorbed by other concerns in the same business...
...That is the miserable "price" of this rotten old busted price system...
...Ten million are out of work and 40 per cent living on government dole...
...And this has been going on for years...
...A one tier cent transactions tax, after it had been proved that it would not pyramid prices to the consumer, would have been adopted if the automobile manufacturers with their huge cash reserves hadn't organized their own financing companies and started business going again through easy credit to every Tom, Dick and Harry who could raise the few dol-.ars to meet the first installments...
...Such a private institution as the Federal Reserve system should be separated from the United States treasury, and dismantled, and the 12 Reserve banks reduced to the same status and functions of national banks, that the lending of_ money should be restored to the local banks, and the local bankers again be made the sole judges of loans to their customers, as it was before the advent of the Federal Reserve system...
...To Sen...
...A history class at one of our colleges was told the other day that the Underwood tariff was the first tariff law in more than half a century that gave consideration to the interests of the American people...
...The idea behind that resolution is that, due to repeated waterfront troubles in San Francisco, Gov...
...One wonders how good farmers, men who are Intelligent about growing their own crops...
...You either don't know anything about the money game, only that you get enough for your own convenience, or you never read the California Life Payment plan...
...Since the editor of The Progressive sees so much democracy among the lords and dukes...
...Just now they are shouting to the house tops, "Balance the budget...
...As soon as they got back to work the moratorium on debts ceased, and as a large part of this debt payment money finds its way down to the big New York banks, it is taken out of circulation here, resulting in a large decrease in business...
...The worst of counselors has led Europe to its present tragic situation...
...Until that objective is openly espoused, there is no objective of any combatant that justifies the sacrifice of one American life in a war, the only result of which can be either a return of Europe to the chaos from which "Communazism'' sprung, or a domination of Europe by it...
...It t» a stimulating and lively paper...
...I went to the trouble to investigate Technocracy...
...It is a pancr to my liking.—O...
...of another Inflation, this time stocks and bonds, whereby industries showing interest returns were bought, reorganized and recapitalized at many times their values and the stocks and bonds sold to the public...
...Proscrastination Is a thief of time...
...During this period of inflating stocks and bonds, metropolitan newspapers were used extensively to further their sale...
...I shall miss Mrs...
...The average received in September and October of 1936 was $27.68 per pensioner...
...When vital legislation concerning the farming problems comes before the legislature, it behooves the farmer to be interested and to do something about it...
...His presumption should not blind lis to the fact that it is a problem that German people have in common with most peoples of western Europe, a problem to which neither his aggressions nor his opponents' indifference affords any hope of solution...
...As a special Introductory offer readers of The Progressive can subscribe to the New Leader at one dollar for one year and receive FREE of any rhsrire a ropy of Charles Yale Harrison's delightfully witty satire, "Meet Mc On the Barricades...
...Technocrat (Oceano, Calif...
...it ought to be done in the future...
...Prior to the $45 a month pension law...
...The ability and integrity of Sen...
...but the commercial corruption and the political chaos as we see it today in our land of the free...
...But, what can these men accomplish against a field of demagogues such as we have had for the past 150 years...
...Honest News Cre.'t, Sask...
...For this simple but potentially powerful action, Walter Karow and your township deserve the commendation of every man who values our form of government, not only because you have condemned the present imperialistic war of which, like all wars, several nations are now barbarously guilty, but because you have revived the real democratic principle of popular government and projected it beyond the immediate local problems...
...The influence that the New England township had upon the federal government was pronounced, and its form and principles carried westward determined in no little way the functional structure of our state...
...The township government is the greatest example of a real democratic form of government ever devised by man, and its influence ought to be preserved...
...Provided that the industry as a whole should manufacture the amount of goods estimated as necessary by its planning board...
...incidentally...
...I request you to discontinue sending the paper to me...
...They never tell you how they deflated us in 1929...
...or even the fact that the state places itself in position to go into competition with the private power company monopoly of northern California . . . will tend to decrease the cost of water to farmers...
...The unemployment problem, the farm problem, and many other problems are merely symptoms of the disease we are suffering from, and it is time that we attack the tariff cancer that is corroding our economic and political system...
...I read with interest the account of your meeting and . congratulate you for the stand you have taken.— CLARENCE REZEK...
...I'm no politician and perhaps a darn poor Judge, but my belief is that the NPA has the one chance right now to find out exactly what the future has In store for them...
...Leave out the high pressured merchants and professional men of Merced, Atwater, Livingstone, Los Banos...
...a European union, in which all peoples of Europe will find the peace that their descendants have found in the American union.—FRANK D. SLO-CUM...
...The plan here suggested would give congress the power to appoint production planning boards over key industries...
...It is a common fr.ct that farmers have inadequate influence at the capltol, wheeras large and organized business fpetv...
...Even the Student's Union had to be cloaked in red...
...RUDOLPH JOHNSON...
...I am grown exceedingly weary of the new liberalism that demnnds a regimentation of thought...
...Among the resolutions adopted was that harbor control be left under the control of the individual cities where the harbor is located...
...have a proper accounting of the expenditure of their membership dues, that they do not" control its policies, and in fact that It Is governed from the top...
...Insatiable merchants and bankers are absorbing the vital resources of our nation...
...The prepared excuse to the farm bureau for this resolution was that such diversion would retard water development...
...The only wise counselors are a love of peace that does not neglect the well-being of any people and a desire for power limited to defense of each people's right to Lebensraum against the attacks of any government, presuming to declare that it is only a right of the mightiest...
...For several years I have criticized the Farm Bureau, pointing out that it is not a farmers' organization, but a government bureau, that its members do not...
...To Sen...
...I would like to get the view of others in this district but without a start it is impossible to get anywhere—WILLIAM CHAMPEON...
...Clerk, Township of Oshkosh 1—On Apr...
...Certainly, Franklin D. Roosevelt is a weli meaning man...
...If industry would manufacture more goods' and give labor, through wages, the buying power to absorb Increased production, there would be no necessity for relief...
...I wonder if he has read much English history...
...Resolution No...
...And speaking of names, this paper challenges the Merced county Farm Bureau to publish a list of names of its members...
...Resolution No...
...Anyone with a grain of common sense knows that this is not getting us anywhere, but in view of the fact that it seems impossible to get any action from any president or congress to rectify this thing, then the next thing best way to stop our piratical money controllers is through a federal pension to all citizens who, reaching the twilight of life, are willing to step out of all gainful pursuits and spend the money in order to keep it in constant circulation...
...Paul Porter, Stephen Naft...
...There is nothing that people generally are so much afraid of as the truth...
...They have spoken in the past...
...What a farce our government is...
...Bob La Follette and Poindexter voted for the bill while two Democrat senators from Louisiana voted against it...
...Why keep on giving the few something for nothing and deny security and a decent living to the oldsters who, after all...
...Thus it becomes essential from a humanitarian standpoint to right that wrong first through a federal retirement pension with forced spending by the annuitants...
...I am a farmer and 78 years of age and am hoping to live long enough to see Adolf and Joe completely flatten out the international banker, than whom there is no more ruthless a dictator...
...We are not over the results of that deflation...
...This enslavement is the price we pay for our failure to inform ourselves...
...That stares me in the face when I step into a polling booth...
...Cash for Olflsters (Saginaw, Mich...
...Dekker and others who think that money is our only problem had better study our machine production problem, also...
...I voted for Robert M. La Follette for president...
...C. MACY...
...This 1936 law was in effect some six months before the $45 amendment was pas~,ed and it continued in effect until September...
...Draw your own conclusions—I did.—A...
...I am interested in honest news what is going on.—HERMAN J. PUFAHL...
...Were that done the names of many farm bureau members, especially the big farmer members, would have to be posted, for called by any other name a rose is a rose and relief is relief...
...In 1920 our rate of production had so vastly increased above our purchasing power that the business collapse followed...
...It is not pleasant to antagonize neighbors and others who do not see these facts, but times are approaching a crisis when we should know who are for us and who are against, us...
...After they went back to work, there were over 4.000 garnishees served against them...
...Gives the Info (Minneapolis, Minn.l—I look forward to receiving The Progressive each week because I get so much material our local papers prefer not to print...
...Elmer Davis, Charles Yale Harrison, and Charles Edward Russell...
...What the Merced county Farm Bureau directors did not know, apparently, is that every harbor in California Is under control of the local cities except San Francisco, and the true voice of agriculture in this state is that never shall San Francisco city be given control over the state owned harbor of San Francisco...
...In other industries where demand was governed by-changing popular tastes and where novelty was frequently required, estimates could be made for much shorter periods of time, so that production would be barely kept ahead of consumption...
...BENJAMIN STOl.BERt...
...That's why your democracy is so worthless...
...In labor disturbance emergencies, the state can step in and keep the port of San Francisco open...
...Minn...
...It was mentioned incidentally that Sens...
...Canada)—Find enclosed subscription to your Progressive paper...
...I would like to ask the opponents of this idea why the big banker is so violently opposed to a transactions tax used for this purpose...
...We have had this for 60 years or more...
...Under this plan there would be no direct control over either prices or wages...
...With restoration of the banking business, we will have no future need for the Reconstruction Finance corporation, and this institution should be abolished...
...To His Liking (Thief River Falls...
...Upon their shoulders rest the responsibility of the outcome...
...Prior to that the pension payments were smaller, but the paying of $8 per month per pensioner was the case only for a few years after 1931 when old age pension payments were first made in Colorado...
...It should have been done in the past...
...They surely would be the most disappointed in failure, so why not the glory to them if successful, which I believe they would be...
...In that time he witnessed the disintegration of the social order in all the capitals...
...If France and Great Britain are willing to sacrifice those objectives with which America has no concern, the United States should be no less willing to sacrifice its isolation objective to the only objective that can protect the new world from the war-endangering divisions of the old...
...I am 65 years old, and have lived through it all, ana experienced the same losses as millions of others...
...Everyone should know there is only one way of doing this...
...Let us discard all of this propaganda...
...The pension law was being gradually perfected from 1931 on, and the 193S law provided $30 a month to 80 per cent or more for those listed for old age pensions in Colorado...
...B. GUNDERSON...
...SCHWEIGART...
...Was a personal friend of Robert La Follette, senator in early days...
...Embree said, is providing the nation's surplus population, and he added: "If New York, Pittsburgh and Chicago want to educate their future citizens, they will have to come down South to do it...
...We need good, honest straight, free news...
...If townships and villages in this state and in similarly dlvlsioned states would do that, it would well be worth their while...
...recently referred to The New Leader, America's leading labor news magazine Here's a veteran, leu-wing weekly with a new streamlined style of telling the stories behind the news, if you're Interested In the crisis in Europe, f-.-.im problems In the Dakota*, vlgllantlsm on the West Coast, and racial democracy In Scandinavia and New Zealand, you'll find It all completely covered each week in an exciting, pungent, analytical style by the New Leader's corps of international and domestic correspondents...
...Roosevelt was urged by Pres...
...You're whipped after you have finished...
...It Is evident that our congressmen and senators have not the courage to even attempt to unhorse these' pirates...
...He saw not the exhilarating culture and unsurpassable art...
...If 50 per cent of them are farmers we will publicly acknowledge our error of belief...
...r."..i certe.:n!y its importance far overshadows the expense, for township people during their regular or specially called meetings to discuss state and national legislation and to petition senators, representatives, and assemblymen...
...H. KNAPP...
...We have a "democratic political national government working under the influence of a Fascist money control...
...It is a relatively simple mnttrr...
...The duties of these boards would be to plan ahead the quantity of goods that should be produced by the industry as a whole, and to assign to each concern a quota...
...Wheeler (Northfield, Minn...
...They have it, and they want to help get more...
...Kresky cannot be questioned, and with the problems of the smaller businessman, farmer, and the worker uppermost in mind, he would be an ideal representative who would handle that which affects us intelligently...
...A year ago, conditions were much better in Saginaw when men were not working...
...The unfulfilled promises will be remembered, but the kick will linger long in the memories of those that wcrp stung and are eagerly waiting for the opportunity of squaring accounts...
...These quotas would be based on Inventories of the concerns' machinery and would be subject to check by government Inspectors...
...JOHN DOS PASSOS I read your paper with the greatest interest: it's about the only left paper that has Information in It...
...Always interested in La Follette progresses.—A...
...L. MORRIS...
...D. C.)—To evolve a system that will make relief unnecessary is the biggest problem confronting this country...
...One million voters can't be wrong...
...The climax came in October, 1929 when the Federal Reserve banks called for additional security from member banks, who in turn called the brokers, and they called their customers for heavy margins...
...Burton K. Wheeler)—The history of the Federal Reserve system is an amazing revelation of the revolutionary change in banking dating from the latter part of 1919 up to the present time...
...The objections are that this amendment trapped 85 per cent of nearly all state revenue into old age pensions exclusively, so that other destitute people and other state services cannot be taken care of...
...Minn...
...The real Issue before the American people today is the monetary system, some call it money, some call it the medium of exchange...
...They Say...
...All that time most of those listed for old age assistance were getting $30 a month...
...4 I read the resolution against war adopted by your township...
...and though America has enough machinery, enough r?w materials and enough man power to provide plenty for all, It will take a better organized system than we now have to bring these three together...
...Don't be afraid to vote Republican, don't be afraid to vote Democratic, don't be afraid to vote Progressive, or Socialist, or Communist, or Prohibitionist or any other brand of political setup...
...But, do they want this...
...The fact of the matter is that public distribution of power from Shasta dam...
...To loan funds to "poor little Finland" or any others of the warring nations is simply to impede the good work...
...Unite under one banner and turn the smooth boys out...
...A sovereignty must possess the power to protect all the parts of Which it is composed" and now we have no such a sovereignty.—PAT-RICK-QUINN-TANGENT...
...So is George Noms...
...With Senator Bob up for re-election and with prospects bright for Phil to dislodge Heil, why not shoot the works...
...1937, when the $45 amendment became effective...
...Mrs...
...are responsible for the production progress the "few" are getting the benefit of today...
...Hurlburt's quotation of Lincoln's prophecy is worthy of reflection...
...Granting our representatives all the good intentions, it Is still necessary to influence, guide and to push...
...These leaders are doing everything they can for their own selfish interest...
...you can't find In the New York Times...
...In it the people have a direct voice in political affairs...
...From its Washington lobbyist down to the crumb picker of the farm bureau political machine in the precincts, the farmer Is being betrayed by an organization that claims to be his 'protector...
...Then came the crash, and panic, with another wholesale closing of banks, this time banks principally in the larger cities, and industrial centers, (agriculture and livestock industry were already broke...
...It Is also an excellent made-up paper...
...James Rorty, Eugene Lyons...
...Smooth Boys (Oakland, Calif...
...As a result, government income fell to such an alarming extent that ways and means were threshed out in congress to meet the deficiency...
...The New Leade;- Is no doubt an excellent paper and...
...Southern Schools Show Betterment KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—The South had reason to throw out its chest last week...
...It can a sert a tremendous power in state affairs...
...Chronicle: " 'TLs a pity that the farm bureau, this county included, goes on month after month and year after year playing the stacked cards of those utilities, corporations, and others whose only use for the farmers is what they can expect out of them...
...Well, then, what must we do about a change for the shining new order...
...To vote for any of the above political groups is a vote for things as they are...
...Ben Stolberg...
...But one of the things I like about The New Leader Is that the authors often don't agree with each other...
...This will restore individual initiative and individual credit, and in due time do away with mass unemployment, soup houses and relief agencies, except old age pension which latter must become a unified national law with substantial benefits paid so that the millions of our citizens who were ruthles;ly dispossessed of their life's earnings and savings (through no participation of their own) by this vicious banking system, may be decently cared for the remainder of their lives...
...From a long range view of outside appearances (only the writer is not familiar with the inner circles) it will take the warrior Phil himself to unseat that owner of the overflowing heart for the common people that favors cohorts only...
...INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—A third term for Pres...
...they can do it again...
...Therefore industry should manufacture more goods, pay more wages and hire more men...
...Germany's side and Britain's side...
...La Follette's column and the "People's Forum" page.—WILLIAM H. CAMPBELL...
...They scare you with the cry of Inflation...
...We don't want it as it is there only for the bankers to draw on...
...Your article and copied editorials prove to many of us that you have departed from the Progressive class, especially in dealing with the California Life Payment association, or "Ham and Eggs...
...Either industry pays wages or the government taxes industry and pays relief...
...Following are portions of an editorial published in the Livingstone, Merced county...
...They would be making even greater strides if the S:uth had the money...
...You're whipped before you start...
...They will find that it is absolutely impossible to employ the machines to capacity without a large group of unemployables...
...Just ask the first 10 men you meet: "What caused the depression...
...They receive a consideration of $10,000 a year of our money, plus traveling expenses and some get other pay we very seldom hear anything about: That last is where Americanism suffers...
...Gustine and Dos Palos, and how many members has the Farm Bureau got...
...It is a heinous offense.—ROBERT ALEXANDER...
...Through this act...
...Do your own thinking and vote accordingly...
...In the case of wages, the government would have the power to regulate working hours, which in turn would regulate the demand of industry for labor, which in turn would regulate wages...
...Restoring the banks of the country to normal functioning will put the wheels of commerce in action, and then all of our people who desire to create and make, and save for a future competence of comfort and happiness will again have the opportunity, and our country of boasted plenty will become a reality, and not fiction as it exists at present...
...we will do Justice for the oldsters and create jobs and new opportunities for the youngsters...
...I like your Inclusion of sources for most, of the information you give us...
...Again the Federal Reserve banks were the agencies for financing operations: particularly to member banks in New York City, who in turn loaned to New York stock brokerage firms, putting up these stocks and bonds as collateral, brokers customers being required to furnish a certain amount in cash margins...
...There is enough for all...
...We in Brown county have the finest material obtainable for a candidate to congress in the person of State Senator M. F. Kresky to replace Congressman Joshua Johns...
...What is today the trouble with our economic system that greatly differs from the story of Aristotle's philosophy as he records it in Athens, 338 years before Christ...
...The objections in Colorado are not to the amount of payment, whether S45 or any other sum...
...Constant pre-surc is brought to bear upon our representatives, but too often it is a pressure that does the farmer and laborer no good...
...Calif...
...Then followed the era from 1925 to 1929...
...They are throwing us into factions, labor against labor...
...Always that well meaning minority get the good will of the people, but the big shots always get the "dough...
...Both these panics resulted in mass unemployment that continues to the present...
...JOHN DEWEY I read The New Leader regularly...
...He Leaves Us (Bakersfield...
...They issue bonds so they can clip the coupons...
...Along with this working hours should be limited to such an extent that all available workers would be required on the job...
...Prior to the 1936 law, the law passed in 1935 was in effect which paid an average of about S20 or $22 a month...
...price system interference, congressional bally-hoo, state rights, interstate commercialism, big business profiteering...
...They are always plotting to deceive you...
...Where demand was steady and did not fluctuate, as in the case of staple articles, estimates couid be made for a year in advance...
...Economy Plan (Washington...
...NEW LEADER 7 EAST 15TH ST.—NEW YORK...
...That is not true...
...Attacks Farm Bureau (Modesto...
...Max Nomad...
...Heinous Truth (Pacific, Mo...
...Let the people under this government of...
...If it isn't because he knows that to a large extent his interest racket on the people's medium of exchange is doomed, I am open for proof...
...But industry is composed of big and little concerns who are unable to arrive at any concerted plan to keep production at a high level...
...They talk of individualism...
...Olson has suggested to the legislature that the state be given more authority over the harbor than it now has so that...
...I wish you could publish the paper in similar form to the Nation and New Republic so that It would be easier to keep a complete file, but I suppose if you did that, the subscription price would have to go up and that might keep many of us from getting the paper we value.—JEAN W. WITTICH...
...MORRIE RYSK1ND I find myself in general sympathetic with the tone of the New Leader...
...That should admonish us of the necessity of so amending the specifications of the constitution as to effect a sovereignty competent to do the things which existing conditions, Unforeseen by the founding fathers, forced the administration to do from imperative necessity...
...Money, in the hands of Fascists, is used to sell the voters double-crossing politicians who lie away self respect for a price...
...Nor has denial, dictated by love of comfort, of the existence of the problem, much more to be said for it than aggressions dictated by love of power...
...Failing that, there is still In our midst the power to instruct, in no uncertain ; terms, the men wc send to Madkon and V.'.-"hin3ton...
...which by the way is paying on the average of less than $30 a month), the Colorado law which was enacted in 1936 was actually paying $30 a month to 27.000 old age pensioners, and in addition was paying a lesser amount to people who had some source of income but needed some additional aid...
...The status quo...
...I have been a reader of The Progressive for years...
...PROF...
...Incompetent politicians and clever orators are making misleading statements and disastrous plots that are congealing into castes instead of a strong united nation...
...We witnessed In the latter part of 1919, and the first six months of 1920 a large volume of notes being redts-counted by the Federal Reserve banks for its member banks, creating large scale inflation...
...The only forces in Europe that can be called peace forces are those working for that union...
...We need more letters like the one by Mr...
...Hence, we have a price system under Fascist control, which forces American politicians to sell themselves for a few- lousy price system dollars in order to get election support, for which they agree to double-cross their mother, brother, countrymen, and flag...
...Then came the memorable secret meeting in Chicago on May 20, 1920 (Congressional Record) of the Federal Reserve banks inaugurating a deflation policy, calling In all rediscount loans from member banks, which resulted in the subsequent wholesale closing of banks, bringing destitution and poverty to millions of formerly well-to-do citizens, causing the most disastrous panic to agriculture, and livestock industry ever known, from which we are still suffering...
...Let us be wise and issue money coined by Uncle Sam and see that It Is not credit money but direct obligations of our government...
...Edwin R. Embree, president of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, declared tha;, "of all the schools in the nation, the Southern rural schools are improving most rapidly...
...The money derived from this tax would be more than enough to take care of the unemployed and should be used for that purpose...
...The Federal Reserve system still continues in absolute control of the credits of the country...
...We need not go without proper food...
...He said that prior to the $45 a month pension amendment, in Colorado, old age pensioners received only S8 a month...
...Now h the Time . . . "Democratic organ ot the democratic left'' l> the manner In which Eugene Lyons, author ol the Assignment in Utopia and editor of The American Mercuiy...
...Frequent contributors to the New Leader's columns include Ferdinand Lundbsrg...
...This objective is only one that gives any promise to solution of the Leben-siimm problem which Adolph Hitler presumes to proclaim peculiar to German people...
...including the government, until the inflated credit bubble burst in 1929 and had to be revived through high government loans from our private money controllers for WPA, PWA, CCC and what have you...
...What are the masses going to do...
...The world has arrived at a stage where it knows how to produce plenty, but because of the selfishness and greed of powerful interests, it has set up impediments and barriers to trade that prevent large numbers of people from having the good things of life...
...We are not interested in that $18,-000,000,000 in gold in those Kentucky vaults...
...So is Robert La Follette and Phil, and Jerry Voorhis, and many others...
...Hitler's proposed solution, that of domination of all other European people by the Germans is comparable to Napoleon's in the last century, and there is nothing to justify any hope that it will have a different conclusion...
...Germany, under Hitler, has openly repudiaetd that objective...
...The farm bureau leaders are against anything that Olson proposes...
...Daily we have evidence of increasing activities among the adherents of both major political parties which indicates preparedness for the struggle anticipated through the coming campaign that will be interesting and important to all concerned...
...In some of the issues the editorial page closely resembles Hearst's red scare sheet...
...Interested (Columbia City, Ore...
...European and Asiatic relief, bunk, and all that goes with a broken and caved-in price system...
...Where are we today...
...D:xie...
...I am a native of Wisconsin, also schooling, and my fatherland was in Germany...
...Lebensraum (New York Cityj—The only objective that the United States is justified in pursuing in its European foreign Policy is that of some form of a European federation...
...The government should guarantee to purchase, at cost price, production within that amount for which there was no market, and should impose a tax of 10 per cent of the cast price of the goods that concerns failed to make...
...In order for people to buy goods they must have money: in order for them to have money they must receive wages...
...Let them go out and earn a living instead of drawing down $10,000 a year living off the fat of the land...
...If it is in the interest of the general welfare for government to aid certain industries, it should do so by a method that will not reduce the buying power of the people and that will end the need for relief appropriations for other groups...
...We need the aggressiveness and fighting spirit that each possesses, and need it badly...
...Hurlburt.—A...
...All other manufacturers soon followed the lead of the auto industrialists and a good time was had by all...
...This malignant growth has spread to all parts of the world, and we are today witnessing its baneful effect on relations between nations...
...The Progressive...
...While Merced county Farm Bureau directors were at home fighting the battle for the power interests, real intelligent dirt farmers were at Sacramento fighting the power trust and its ailied interests to bring cheaper water and power to the farmers of California...
...Croix Falls, Wis., in 1889...
...I assert that it was first organized to control farm opinion, and it has acted to that end at all times...
...Probably in few if any instances, had these resolutions actually arisen in the farm centers, the units at the bottom...
...Why the Brown county NPA Is so reluctant to stir is not so easily understood...
...Taught school at St...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 16
