THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM—A Full Page of Letters from Progressive Readers GIVE ME THE LIBERTY TO KNOW, TO UTTER, AND TO ARGUE FREELY ACCORDING TO CONSCIENCE, ABOVE ALL LIBERTIES.-MILTON. Old Time...
...We would pay with a government check...
...It must be done or our civilization will collapse...
...If the Wall st...
...Don't see how you do it...
...E. WRIGHT...
...I admit that the income distributed among millions would be a great benefit to the ones who receive it, but Mr...
...The ratio of the total amount of money in circulation to the annual national income has been found to be one to three...
...I assume that the proper functions of state is to promote the general welfare under conditions of equal opportunity...
...He might own a shack, but never a decent home The injustice is caused by private owxership or by giving the profits to individuals...
...former credit manager of the Federal Reserve bank of Atlanta, in the Feb...
...Is there any government up to date that has a holy ring of glamorous light around its history...
...The balance of the savings would equal the savings of the other 90 per cent and furnish an income of $1,000 for each of 11,000,000 which would have cured the depression...
...The terrible atrocities that this generation has witnessed, atrocities that we once fondly believed belonged to a closed dark past, have been committed by peoples of the same human material as ourselves, who have passed through sufferings, of which we can have little conception, war with its toll of children and depression with its toll of means of life...
...Next would come the small businessman...
...So reports Robert H. HemDhill...
...Unfortunately, there has been no sj-stematic or adequate effort made by any one person or group to determine whether the quality of goods purchased is really worth the price the consumer is asked to pay...
...So push the good work...
...When they run into a snag, they cry, "Our commerce is endangered...
...In every country over the world, one class works for wages and another class robs the workers of the fruits of their labor...
...Those who have been receiving the notices of judgment under the food and drug act which is issued by the United States department of agriculture and which lists many commodities which are daily being misrepresented by the manufacturers, are quite reasonably convinced that nothing short of a federal authority un-awed by pressure of political influence or a well organized consumer group can establish standards...
...England has, up todate, refereed Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Finland...
...100 wealthy Christians who are willing to discuss the soul-saving power of the pick and shovel while they are now largely regarded as the relief tools of WPA employes through necessity and not through choice on the part of job seekers...
...The time is short...
...Roosevelt shall be the Democratic nominee by pre-consent, or whether his nomination will be forced by his loyal constituents in the convenion, his voice and his council will continue to pursue and perfect the policies of the New Deal and no Democratic politician of whom he shall disapprove can secure that nomination...
...Land Of Plenty Is it too much to ask that your opinion of a preliminary prospects of the coming New America—land of plenty for everybody...
...Currency and coins in circulation are but a small part of the money used in the United States...
...Isn't the world in a heluva mess...
...1940, issue of Constituton-al Money Advoea'.e...
...F. FISCHER...
...THE PROGRESSIVE gladly devotes this full page of space to our readers in an effort to give all a chance to express their views on political, economic, and social issues of the day...
...Because of the stand your paper takes on the "poor little Finland" situation as against the only country that has tried to put your 10 planks in operation...
...Wanted, a few technological industrial improvements that will put greedy capitalists out of business and replace them with men who desire a higher standard of living among the workers by introducing shorter work-hours and higher wage...
...We don't borrow capital...
...H. G. Molton claimed that there was an outlet for less than $5,-000,000,000 in capital construction plus mortgages...
...Denunciation, born of self-satisfied righteousness, will only succeed in plunging these peoples back, but drag all other peoples with them into the abyss of despair...
...and that any public official acting to the contrary, falls In his duty...
...I certainly appreciate it...
...But there is yet time for this country to save Europe from a catastrophe, from which we will not come out unscathed, a catastrophe comparable to that which befell civilization in the fall of Rome into centuries of darkness by a bold independent appeal to the angels of Europe as well as our natures...
...Most Interesting (Fort Laramie, Wyo...
...What the government owes, its citizens own...
...The trouble that confronts us today Is caused by giving profits to the...
...They cannot elect their candidate whoever he may be.—PATRICK QU1NN TANGENT...
...The viewpoints expressed here are, of course, those of each contributor and not necessarily those of The Progressive Indeed...
...Will our lawmakers see the peril, and come to the rescue of our faltering democracy?—E...
...Generally, most products are purchased because of their attractively designed labels...
...Backs The Reds iBellingham...
...His natural lav.o in regard to taxation as well as some other social activities must be obeyed before peace and prosperity can be accomplished...
...Some blame the present condition on our national administration claiming that owners of money are afraid to invest it in new business...
...The sales tax is inexorable, no evasion...
...This system would abolish poverty, riches, and taxation...
...Is the individual expected to have enougn tears to last for all the mournful tunes that are yet to be played on his heartstrings...
...I assume that the only way to bring about an efficient management of public affairs and avoid the rocks and shoals and treacherous whirlpools of bureaucratic or dictator tyranny Is by the adoption of a strictly democratic manager system of administration...
...At present, the control of the supply of money to the nation is not held by congress, as the constitution provides, but instead, it is held by a private money monopoly...
...Then to top it off, 11 states have disfranchised paupers...
...You Write This Page...
...The Townsend plan would, no doubt, hasten the downfall of our crazy system of private ownership...
...A sound money system would not solve all problems...
...Calif.i—As my time is up this month, herewith the money for another year...
...Which means that man-made laws will eventually control all private business to give work to all job seekers whether they are poor or not.—JAS...
...Wanted, 1,000 politicians who are sincere in proclaiming that more jobs cannot be created by talk and discussions alone...
...Spain, for instance, voted itself into a democracy...
...Still Time (New York City)—Most moral denunciation is cheap, but it requires .ieep sympathy to gain a full understanding, the understanding that Sophocles had when he wrote the immortal line, "My actions are rather the things I suffer than the things I do...
...I am sickened to my very soul when I know these judgments rise not from ignorance, but utter lack of generosity...
...The destitute are dumped as a public charge...
...Poor Judges (Wisconsin Rapids, Wis...
...Readers are respectfully requested to limit their communications if possible to a maximum of about 300 words This Is YOUR page—make it as interesting and informative as possible...
...These governmental business dissenters are ever ready to dump the sort of business committed by crooks, swindlers, or murderers on the lap of the public...
...Borrowing money to prime the pump gives temporary relief, but alter it has gone around the business cycle a few times, the big fellows have it all back plus interest...
...No true patriot considering this review would consider abandonment of these humanitarian policies, which must impress the politicians controlling the destinies of their party in the ensuhig battle of ballots...
...The worker will do this until dooms day...
...Kuenzi, we want to abolish all taxation...
...That is also true, but why not go farther and explain how our own country contributed to this injustice...
...I assume that it is possible to set up an efficient democratic agency of the civil stale to function to bring into fruition a condition of plenty for everybody, within the purview of the constitution, of course, breaking decisively with the two old political party machines...
...Individual...
...If we cannot make our big citizens behave and take care of our own affairs at home with the abundance of resources we have at our command, we stand on very soft ground to judge other forms of government no matter what thtir name or policy...
...O.)—Permit me to thank and commend you on the publication of Rep...
...There is too much sob sister stuff for the poor Finns and none at all for Spain, Albania, etc., to say nothing of our millions of people who are worse off by far than the poor little Finns ever were...
...B. WILSON...
...Many will ask: "Where arc you going to get your capital...
...If the proper amount of money were continually supplied, there would be no financial panics or depressions...
...must pay close to $7,500,000 in back wages and reinstate 5,000 workers involved in the 1937 Little Steel strike, because of the U. S. supreme court's refusal to consider Girdler's appeal from a circuit court order...
...Wanted, more New Yorkers to ap-pre-iatc the fact that it is sct:ing more possible to convict racketeers and crooked judges under the district attorneyship of Thomas Dewey...
...The struggle to make a living would then depend upon the elements of nature, the ability of man to prepare raw products for human corruption, and upon a just distribution of the profits to the producers and distributors, and to all persons engaged in human welfare...
...more and better publicity.—ANTHONY J. KING...
...Yours for good government.—WM, BRADLEY...
...When England finally made up her mind not to give in to Hitler any longer, we shook this bit of legislation like a bird after a bath...
...Their ability to influence congress made it possible for unscru-pu'ous manufacturers to operate as heretofore, gypping the public with impunity...
...Your cartoon in this week's paper is a corker—W...
...A dollar bill wouldn't look so bad if it were enlarged to suit the purpose.—FRANK PREISSLER...
...Its tells of the new feudalism that is an increasing menace to our democracy...
...I have always hoped you would some time really believe in the 10 planks printed in every issue of your paper...
...Whenever necessary, the government could easily put more money into circulation by issuing new money to pay its vast expenses, such as salaries, old age pensions, etc...
...If the work can be done in three or foir hours, it would be the standard of wnaes and the amount of hours all over the United States...
...It informs how, through the decisions of the supreme court, those huge corporations have been given the status of a person...
...This information Is then submitted to the subscribers to "The Consumer Reporter," the union's official publication...
...All who deny this simple fact are either lacking in intelligence or honesty.—J...
...Whether or not Mr...
...There are three uneconomic undemocratic elements in our social compact...
...The dominant element in the Republican party has no sympathy for these policies and neither are they competent to pursue them...
...Z. SMITH...
...I* v -tNatural Law (Boise, Ida...
...Wanted, all newspaper editors to be told by subscribers that advertisements should not be accepted when advertisers demand to dictate the editorial policy of the paper...
...and "our flag...
...The big fellows would not have suffered and the common people would have had the necessities that they needed...
...He can never own any property...
...In the outcome, the trusts would get richer and be able to buy more property...
...It is claimed that the expense of crime and crime control together with the cost of providing facilities for housing, upkeep, court procedure, fees, etc., amounts to approximately $15,000,000,000 annually in the United States...
...Deceiving advertisements cleverly appealing for our patronage have caused us collectively to part with a vast sum of money for shoddy inferior goods...
...Wanted, intelligent Americans to ponder why the pick and shovel can be used for providing wages for WPA workers under relief laws if all laws as well as all factories, mines, railroads and various business exist and and function for the benefit of the American people...
...you no doubt know that the owners of the trusts would benefit first...
...am weary of listening to those who presume to sit in judgment on this people or that, sentencing them from their easy chairs, to death, either by quick slaughter or slow starvation...
...All parties who deliver would be compensated for the same wages as the factory hands...
...As we are entering a very important political campaign, I want to keep informed of developments as well as general conditions...
...Praise For FDR (Findlay...
...Bad Advertising iMilwaukee...
...The answer to news editors who deplore the shedding of light upon the dark sinister operations of unscrupulous gypping manufacturers of consumer goods should be...
...The cost is in some cases a direct and in other cases an indirect tax upon those citizens whose aim it is to live a just and respectable life in accordance with the provisions and opportunities provided under our constitution...
...Therefore, the methods employed by manufacturers of the articles we consume warrant investigation...
...The price of wheat will therefore be low...
...If the people have the intelligence and courage to face facts, and backbone enough to use these facts for their own good and their fellowman, these principles can be restored for we have the resources and the manpower for enormous expansion of our domestic economy...
...The government must own all industries and must learn how many l>eople can do the work...
...The big fellows are getting more of the resources of the nation under their control...
...Who is responsible for the maladministration that has brought on our condition of dire poverty to 20 million Americans, disinherited, wrong-doers, underprivileged, eking out miserable existence on skimpy dole of charity garbage...
...If you really believe in the brotherhood of man and in democracy, you can't believe in privileges for some...
...The capitalists take about one-half the worker's wages...
...I assume that a problem to be solved must first be stated...
...A monetary board, subject to congress, which had the control of the issue of money could easily prevent any undue inflation of money...
...If $15,000,000,000 is the cost covering our criminal expenditures, how much would $10,000,000,000 do to prevent criminal acts by giving employment...
...The great unemployment problem is the result of man's refusal to observe and obey...
...Is it not a common occurrence to hear politicians and others ridicule government interference with business...
...Collusion, corruption, and gambling stimulates and...
...The Progressive has printed and will continue to print on this page letters that are sharply critical of this publication...
...There is an article in the January issue of The Journal of the National Education association that is both illuminating and frightful...
...S. CRATER...
...Cal.i—The unanimous support American plutocracy is giving "Gone With The Wind-' is due exclusively, I presume, for ought I see in the liberal press to the contrary, to its very high cultural and educational value...
...Stoppage of the circulation causes trouble...
...The Town.send organization is growing in strength and numbers faster than ever, for which we can thank heaven and the efforts of men like Dr...
...Wanted, a mayor for each of our cities who is deeply interested in clean politics and not trying to get rich by conniving with grafters...
...Lincoln claimed that, buying and selling slave goods would In time compel the slaveholders to own the U. S. without doing a stroke of work...
...Wash...
...Kuenzi...
...We hear much talk about injustice done to smaller and weaker nations in Europe and elsewhere...
...Everyone believes in natural law and surely most everyone believes that God is the author of it...
...The nation is not going bankrupt...
...Many people flatter themselves when they contend that they know what they are buying...
...Members of the board would be subject to recall if ever the board failed in its function to keep the nation supplied with the proper amount of money...
...Put this idle money to work and it will put idle men and machinery to work...
...The people who are in need have no money to purchase necessities because money has been concentrated in the hands of comparatively few people who do not know where to invest it or how to use it...
...This would speed up industry and give employment to the idle...
...Only that true understanding, born of deep sympathy can lead their steps back to and keep our feet in paths of peace and good will...
...I assume that the key to the solution of this most important problem is the execution of planned-plenty-for-everybody national economy...
...Nearly all of the $11,-000.000,000 would have been put into circulation and would put the unemployed back to work...
...consequently, must not be oppressed as that would create depression...
...The writer feels that the assault recently launched against consumer groups in general has as its motive a desire to discredit and stigmatize such organizations and thus alienate the sympathy and support the general public has manifested toward them in the commendable work they are doing by disclosing what all honest students of the situation must conclude is a gigantic swindle, which if not vigorously combatted will yet some day be successful in repealing the already emasculated food and drug act...
...Every issue of the department of agriculture's notices of judgment under the food and drug act reveals that a large number of containers are mis-branded, the contents are adulterated and unfit for consumption, or short in weight...
...Since we have plenty of raw material, plenty of factories to prepare the products for use...
...Because of the fraud perpetrated upon the consumer he mast of necessity organize to curb the practice...
...Instead of voting to make slaves of themselves by voting the Republican and Democratic ticket, they must vote the Progressive ticket...
...This should be done without borrowing and without additional burdens of Interest and taxes...
...Wanted, more district attorneys who are willing to expose all crooked lawyers whenever they can do so for the benefit of the public...
...We may yet bring to our kinsmen across the sea Lincoln's message which has brought unity in liberty to us, a message, with charity for all and malice toward none...
...Wanted, 20.000 school teachers who are willing to learn the difference in the general welfare that would accrue to the majority if privately owned industry became publicly operated (socialized) industry...
...If we can't help democracies of the Spanish Loyalists variety or at least keep from helping their enemies, what matters the kind of government of the European countries have...
...There would still be plenty of graft and greed to contend with...
...P. PORTER...
...5,000,000 voters who will pass the word around that our democracy cannot insure liberty for society unless we can throw out grafters who occupy high places in government and private life...
...Wanted, 1,000 politicians who will refuse all bribes that may be offered them by lobbyists, faslcsts and others...
...Just why God caused social values to attach to land is hard to say, but that he has done so is readily discernible to anyone who dismisses his prejudices and tries to learn the truth...
...It is claimed that there is more idle money in the banks today than ever before in the history of the nation...
...This is so because consumers as a group are not organized to effectively combat those who arc adequately organized to Induce the consumer to purchase goods dishonestly represented...
...wholly guilty, they at least are under suspicion and not fit to be trusted with any further authority.—H...
...Is democracy sliding in the U. S...
...You will find presented here each week facts and opinions that other papers will not and dare not print...
...Schwelle/ibach's inventory and summary of the "New Deal Achievements...
...Perhaps newspapers were intimidated against reporting the entire shameful state of affairs...
...The landlord takes one week of his wages...
...The government now has more than enough gold in store upon which to issue all the money needed...
...The future is sure to unfold interesting and important results and I want information from every source...
...H. BARRETT...
...Wanted, more Americans to talk only when sober and to read more while public libraries are still at their disposal...
...wolves and ethers who are yelling their heads off abcut the efforts of the Communists to ever turn the government by force know what they are whining about, why don't they turn in the names of the offenders so they can be prosecuted for treason...
...We hear much preaching of peace and how nice it could be if everybody loved the other as much as himself...
...A God that should have overlooked the principle of cohesion and adhesion, that failed to make ice less Mense than water, that forgot the ex-^^nsion of steam, or the principle of ^^Lllary attraction that burst stones ^^^tremendous pressure, that should ^^^^rgotten electricity that travels M^^TOe speed of light, that filled Woe universe with ether, that enables us to see the North Star though the rays of light from it have been on the way 8,000 years, ether waves that penetrate the solidest matter—had he forgot to add the principle of matter and many more unthought of principles and undiscovered powers, had he failed in any one of these, the whole of creation would have been a failure...
...Wanted, six honest politicians to broadcast the whole truth about political corruption In this country, particularly in New York iCty...
...Wanted...
...Wanted, all Americans to understand that wars create more profiteers and grafters but never fewer...
...There is so much want and misery in the midst of plenty for all because of the maldistribution of the income of the nation...
...In 1928-1929, H. G. Molton claimed that the savings of the nation were $15,000,000,000 and that 10 per cent of the people at the top had $13,000,-000,000 of the savings, and that left only $2,000,000,000 for the other 90 per cent of the people...
...This would abolish both property and riches...
...Also, there is very little condemnation for the past mis-rulers...
...Come out from behind the mask, all you deceivers, and show us this ill-gotten private gain that Is hid so effectively behind the flag of a country...
...Everybody would receive a home to live in which could not be sold...
...Till I learn the why of these things, I'll drop my subscription to this paper.—F...
...In 1930 16 big corporations control-Jed over 21 billions of dollars of wealth...
...The amount of money required increases with the increase of population and industry...
...The writer has teen following editorial articles appearing frequently in the daily press and other publications which deplore the activities of an organization known as Consumers Union of the United States, Inc...
...I back you all I can...
...The greatest bulk of money consists of bank checks, in reality bank credit, for the amount of bank checks far exceeds the total amount of money in existence...
...Idle men, money and machinery coupled with blind greed is the cause of want and misery in the midst of plenty...
...Townsend—W...
...I have been a subscriber to your paper for a long time...
...The public has trusted the gang until it stripped millions out of their savings...
...Townsendites claim they have found a solution by taxing all who have an income 2 per cent...
...feed their slaves...
...I know that I can have enough of these requirements satisfied through the columns of The Progressive...
...Likes Peri (New York City)—I want to thank you for the beautiful and distinctively life-time fountain pen duly received some time back...
...Am glad to see Ernest L. Meyer back on the job but greatly regret to lose Heywood Broun...
...Its policy of liberalism, its program of social up-building is a masterpiece.— J. I. GREEN...
...People are thinking more than ever...
...Inasmuch as the manufacturer sets the standards of his products, it quite naturally follows that he contrives to set them to his advantage...
...D. C—Tom Girdler's Republic Steel corp...
...An examination of clothing materials in many instances has disclosed that they were below the standard claimed for them by the advertiser...
...WASHINGTON...
...Aren't their successors doing the same thing by owning what the masses must have and are compelled to buy such as oil and coal...
...The more income, the more you pay...
...Their motto is: Do as we please in any way to get the dollar...
...The Consumers Union has a stafl of trained technicians who conduct tests and investigations on which ratings are based...
...speculators...
...Was it these who were on the job when the crime was committed...
...The Communists are getting more attention than they deserve in my opinion...
...The trouble is that a few control nearly everything (our medium of exchange...
...The Progressive movement was defeated last fall by wilfull misrepresentation.—FRANK P. SCHWALM...
...If prices of products became too high and bank clearing reports revealed too much money, the volume of money could be decreased by retiring from circulation the money that the government collects through taxes...
...The total amount of money In circulation has a direct bearing upon all prices which are not fixed by mo-noDolies...
...The next step in economic progress is not to borrow or tax anybody...
...In the spirit of the Christ to whom there were no privileged individuals or peoples but only a common humanity, let him who has passed through these terrible ordeals and come out sane and human, be the first to cast a stone at these peoples for surrendering liberties, from which hopelessness had robbed of all meaning, to the man on horseback who promised to lead them to a land flowing with milk and honey...
...plentv of man power, and plenty of need for the firished product by a great majority of the people, all that is lackine is a sufficient amount of medium of exchange...
...What transpired during their visit was not recorded in its entirety by the daily press...
...who is not afraid to offend influential lobbyists as suspected bribe carriers for rich Wall st...
...There w.ould then also be sufficient for the support of the unfortunate and the infirm...
...In 1929, there were 27 billions of dollars in circulation, and the national income was 81 billions, just three times as much...
...I assume that America's most important unsolved (solveable) problem is decent living conditions for everybody...
...Money Reform (Savage, Mont...
...Some would tell you that not enough taxes could be raised to cure this economic condition...
...They seem to forget that this condition started and developed fully when these financiers and their political henchmen had full control of our government...
...But Franco gets all the things he wants through Italy and Germany from the United States...
...What the worker must do is abolish our crazy capitalistic system...
...A sound money system is the greatest present need to prepare the way for making the necessary adjustments to give every ambitious man the opportunity to work for the comfortable support of his family...
...RACHETTE...
...Pensions would be paid the same way...
...Let the nation own the trusts and operate the trusts in the Interest of all...
...England still owes us $5,000,000,000...
...The Red Front (Glendale...
...Otherwise, government must not interfere, no matter how urgent it may be, or what benefit the masses may derive...
...In 1932, there were 16 billions of dollars in circulation, and the national income was 48 billions...
...We would work for government wages based on living expenses...
...There over 51 billions of non-taxable bonds held in this country...
...That group of lobbyists were successful in defeating a piece of remedial legislation worth millions to the consumer...
...Since the protection against crime, less commitments of illegality under our laws and constitution are under control of our local, state, and federal law enforcing officials and courts, such proceedings can rightfully be classed as a socialistic ccgency...
...Cur present national government administration has made an attempt to evaluate standards...
...Increasing the amount of monpy In circulation would supply the much needed purchasing power of the people...
...This makes the economic condition worse...
...I am more than weary...
...that is destroying confidence in business...
...A God that in making our world forgot no essentials must have forseen governments and provided natural law to apply to them...
...I feel that I am only getting a Jumble of words that endeavors to blame our misfortunes on the Communists or some other element that has never been in power or never had a thing to do with the miserable conditions the country finds itself in...
...We feel very deeply about China but we let our capitalists send Japan war supplies because there Is money in it for the big boys...
...The workers, the consumers, can not evade the taxes laid on food and the simple things necessary to life...
...But the commodity processors, vendors, wholesalers and retailers immed iately brought to Washington the most powerful and subtle group of lobbyists the capltol had ever witnessed...
...Lists Some Wants I To the Editor I—Shadows on the face of America: Wanted and needed at once 5.000,000 new homes with modern improvements to help to make our democracy real...
...There is as much money in this nation now as in 1928 and 1929 and we have greater capacity to produce than we had then...
...Uncle Sam passed a bit of neutrality legislation to make sure the Loyalists wouldn't have a chance...
...Wanted, all patriots to understand that dictatorship is the climax for any country that is burdened with systematized graft and idle mills Wanted, magazine publishers to know that people know that truth about our economic and political system is more important than printing fictitious love stories and photographing pictures of bathing girls...
...This is an organization which obtains and provides for consumers information regarding the constituents used in the processing of goods which we as consumers purchase daily at the market...
...The many letters and contributions to The Progressive make it one of the most interesting papers published...
...The issue and control of money is one of the prime functions of government...
...If they would use it for the good of the mass of the people, it would cause little damage, but they refuse to use It or let it be used without being assured of a good profit...
...One dollar will then buy more wheat...
...If the constitution were observed, a monetary board would be appointed which would be directly responsible to congress...
...That same class harps about taxes, being taxed to death, and destroying more of their confidence game...
...Surely lie foresaw Ihc need of government and provided a natural fund for its support...
...Excuse mc if I miss a few...
...Surely there is natural law in the social world...
...This monopoly is what keeps the otherwise "easily" mentioned corrections above from being enacted...
...G. CUrpLES...
...Our greatest economic need is a sound money systam...
...We may get this if we help her again...
...To rise to these Lincoln heights, we must as did he, rise above our animosities and greeds and be filled with his magnanimous spirit of understanding.—FRANK D. SLOCUM...
...Find enclosed my renewal to The Progressive, formerly La Follette's magazine, which I have read since the first issue for over thirty years and get more news to my liking than any paper I ever have read I get many articles from the People's Forum that, is enlightening, and am interested in all departments of your paper...
...Who denies this...
...Enclosed is my own subscription...
...But a sound money system would do much to alleviate present human suffering...
...By money, we mean that which is used as a medium of exchange...
...When there b a large supply of money, farm products will command a hi?h price...
...And if not...
...For instance, it would not prevent people from spending their money on self-destruction indulgences...
...I am now 84 years.old and cannot afford to take a paper that works against my interest, and I hope you will keep on progressing until we get ;i better form of government which we badly need...
...Gold is said to be the foundation for money...
...But after they have the ignorant fool's money, "the gambler's providence ends...
...The slaveholders claimed that If they could not buy and sell, they could not...
...How are you going to get the market if the common people have not and cannot get the money to buy the goods that they would be glad to produce...
...When there is a shortage of money, the value of money will be high in relation to other commodities...
...By keeping informed on the monthly or weekly reports of the bank clearing houses, any required increase or decrease could easily be determined...
...A certain amount of money is heeded to transact a given amount of business...
...That is their thanks after getting all you had...
...But do you know that our officials in Washington are now on our behalf borrowing bank credit money to pay for gold to be buried in the Kentucky hills and tsed for nothing?—OSCAR L. OLSRUD...
...The administrator of this act, while laboring under a great handicap j^be-cause judges before whom cases are tried, often seem indisposed to co-op-crate or manifest a disposition to be partial) is nevertheless prosecuting offenders with a remarkable degree of success under the circumstances...
...They will change them to suit their style if we can keep our own long nosed economic aristocrats from interfering...
...They shouldn't be allowed to use our flag in such pursuits...
...The Dies committee is taking little interest in turning up Fascists ar.d Nazis, although they outnumber the Communists and are far more dangerous—F...
...Certain proposed legislation known as the Tugwell bill, which would have given federal agencies broad powers with which to cope with manufacturers of substandard goods, was subsequently rendered impotent and finally shelved...
...Few recognize that their political beliefs are often contrary to natural law and therefore heathenish...
...One cure for this depression is to tax our lords of finance and industry and use this money to put the idle back to work and give the producers enough to buy what they can and would produce...
...There would have been enough left for all business expansion needed...
...The buyer usually has no means of knowing whether the quality of articles purchased conforms to its advertised standard or whether the selling price is exorbitant...
...The circulation of money in a civilized nation is just as necessary for economic health as the circulation of blood in man is necessary for man's health...
...I. ML'NSON...
...Why could not $11,000,000,000 of this $13,000,000,000 be taken in taxes...
...It looks to me that Communism is merely being used as a front to smear the New Deal and also union labor whenever there is an opportunity...
...The most astute thinker in his majesty's empire, George Bernard Shaw, has proclaimed that the greatest crime is poverty...
...If the people understood the utter idiocy of the government borrowing bank check money from the "Federal" Reserve banks, for the various relief agencies which are being used to put much needed money into circulation, instead of issuing that money itself, this greatest of all rackets would soon be stopped...
...The citizens of the nation own nearly all the government bonds...
...Kuenzi, Beaver Dam, Wis.: If our forefathers had known that private ownership was wrong, we would not have trouble, The unnecessary Civil war was caused by private ownership...
...It is the only way to settle this mixed mess...
...Wanted...
...I. for one...
...These are allowing banks to issue money, private ownership of public utilities, and private collection and claiming of the social values, cite, rent—R...
...Then they know how to use the words, "we...
...There are only about 70.000 Communists in this country, but to judge from the noise the capitalists and their dupes are making, we are expected to believe there are millions of them...
...When the tribal bosses saw Unit Ihc soil wouldn't produce articles for consumption, they claimed all the land...
...Let them make one of their own...
...This government is supposed to be founded on the principle of the greatest good to the greatest number of its citizens...
...The next three weeks the laborer works to pay the trust and small owner's profits and the fourth week, the landlord comes again...
...To Mr...
...Wanted, voters to elect and re-elect a president of the U.S.A...
...Old Time Booster (Sanuv, Cal...
...What's the use of talking of peace as long as our hogs run wild throughout the world...
...Judging by this principle it's about bankrupt...
...Corker Cartoon (Los Angeles...
...New Feudalism (Lansing, Mich...
...The constitution of the United States gives this ri<*ht to congress: "Congress shall have power to coin money and regulate the value thereof...
...Kuenzi (New York City)—To Mr...
...This new feudalism is like a mighty pestilence or a consuming fire...
...If the prices of prcducts are too low while people are still in need of food and other necessities of life, more money should be put into circulation...
...Charging Interest on money used as a medium of exchange Is quite a different thing from charging interest on money used for an investment...
...Up jumped powerful Franco with help from Mussolini and Hitler...
...Then they use a fraction of their profit in an alluring game offering prizes to delude the public and catch more suckers...
...Who Is running this country and, where to...
...When "bond promoters" selling questionable stocks and bonds "must secure the purchaser...
...This amount must be neither too large nor too small...
...So then, docs it not follow the directors of public affairs who foster conditions of poverty are 'the greatest...
...Men And Money (Rockford...
...Crime's Cost tCenturia, Wis...
...Furnish a market for goods and business will go into action at once...
...They like to sail the seven seas as long as there is a dollar in sight...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 17
