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. FDR vs....
...The present Nazi government is not to be trusted...
...The First Step (Zion, 111...
...Indeed, the carnage now beginning or being feverishly prepared for everywhere is certain to provide quite the very best and greatest stimulus the capitalist system has enjoyed in its entire history...
...that he apparently does not realize old age security is a serious problem w:hich has not been met: and that he has adopted the Coolidge-Mellon-Hoover fallacy that the only way a government may properly raise funds, other than by taxes, is by borrowing from banks, Dased on the government's indebtedness, instead of s pplying an adequate circulating medium by issuing national currency b- -zd on national assets or on gold and s".ver...
...When the German army officers took cognizance of their amazed listeners, the American tourists were garbed as Germans—the officers apologized and departed...
...LOUIS ADAMIC The New Leader, without question, is the most honest newspaper cf the left, or perhaps I should say the newspaper of the honest left...
...Minn.]—I have just received the pen you promised and am delighted...
...Yet, it is a fact that it was not the banker who induced me to borrow but a physician who charged me $350 for two hours work when I could not earn that much in five months after I got well...
...According to a study published by the National Industrial Conference besrd, the private long-term debts in this country increased from 55 billion dollars to 84 billion dollars between 1923 and 1929, the Coolidge era: and short-term debts, in the form of loans and discounts of banks, increased from 30 billion to 41 billion, a total of $40,000,000,000 or far more than later increase in national debt—a substantial part of which was incurred under Hoover...
...That looks like locking the barn after the horses had been stolen...
...Congress Is false to the oath of office and subsidized to this international gambling piracy of both farmers and consumers.—A...
...Weir-Gannett press, the reorganized and renamed Liberty League, dominate the newspapers, movies, radio, and stumping club clique speakers...
...Brothers Keepers (Chicago...
...lessly invaded any small country and reduced its population to a slave and subject status...
...Keep your mind on your driving—A...
...Who was responsible for non-disarmament, when Germany was disarmed, and for the collapse of any moral standard in international affairs after the last World war...
...It seems to mo he is railing everybody a Communist who holds the views that Mrs...
...Readers arc respectfully requested to limit their communications if possible to a maximum of about 300 words...
...Under Coolidge...
...If We Keep On (Eureka, Mo...
...Praising the world' champion impcralist for taking a digestive nap after their last gargantuan meal...
...I hold that truth cannot grow among men j who do not learn how- to unlearn, and honestly put opinion beneath them," | said Isaac Newton Vail.—MARTIN G. VIKLA...
...The Progressive says it is fighting for the best interests of all of the people...
...Isabel La Follette expounds—views that I believe have always been held by the La Follettes, and also by himself, in less stirring times...
...Eugene Lyons, Claude McKay, Paul Porter, Stephen Naft...
...You will find presented here each week facts and opinions that other papers will not and dare not print...
...This is the third fountain pen I have used and so far it is the best...
...If we discard things which have become obsolete, we are advocating the continuance of practice which has been proved practical, many, many times...
...It is said that we have a "two-party" political system in this country...
...No country is ruled better in Europe than Germany or Russia...
...The Progressive is one of the real and truce free press...
...Those people who want to aid their brothers in Europe can only do it in one practical and efective way and that way is the overthrow of those enemies cf freedom and good will in Europe...
...I am enclosing check...
...A few diplomats hold the destiny of millions of people in their hands...
...If the Nazis triumph...
...Russia won't get caught on the wrong side this time...
...In fact he cites'the pure foods and drugs act, (in what pigeon-hole is that gathering dust today...
...Enclosed find check for renewal...
...Within our existing "economy" nobody will release a thing until he Is all but guaranteed profits...
...We Americans have no desire to become involved in Europe's wars, but we do intent to keep European power politics out of the Americas...
...Cleveland, and surpassed only under Hoover, with a continuation of the Coolidge-Mellon policies...
...During the Coolidge regime not a single national problem was solved or even clearly, fairly or intelligently stated...
...And if we should have to go to work to pre-vent a complete triumph for Hl.lcr— of which there is so far no indica-tion—it would behoove us to remain . cool even In wartime, yes—and hum-ble—in the knowledge that we, too, have found no solution for the world's deep troubles—PETER A. ORDE...
...For there are at least two factions in each of the major parties that differ from each other more fundamentally than do the parties themselves...
...Calif.I—My political science teacher has informed me in glowing terms of the splendid record for objectivity and truth which your newspaper has established...
...They are propagandized and stampeded by subsidized yell leaders and false alarmed by the subsidized free press...
...View on Money (Lonsdale...
...It advocated consumption and even destruction for the sake of making work, instead of as little work as Is necessary to produce w-hat we care for, and giving "everyone" enough money with which to buy what they care for, and no more, for the sake of a continuance of income...
...If you keep on in this manner this will be my last subscription.—W...
...It is a system which Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin would advocate if they were here today...
...Coolidge permitted the exploiting of our national wealth: forests, mines, hydro-electric power, and even the naval oil reserves...
...Dekker advocates...
...On the Head I Cincinnati, Ohio]—The Progressive hits the nail on the head...
...So he wants the government to issue the money which it now borrows...
...And here our hero is woefully silent...
...In Los Angeles not long ago Dewey told a waiting world Just what this country needs, and his voice booming from the loud-speaker and radio indicated that he really meant every word that he was saying...
...No finer or better people inhabit the earth, and if ever there was a time for serious thought as to our American future, that time is now.— DR...
...If you're Interested in the crisis in Europe, farm problems in the Dakota*, vlgtlanilsm on the West Coast, and social 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...
...Dewey Won't Do (Norwalk...
...That will ncce—ilr...
...I want to thank Mr...
...No barber is asking the state for any charity if they have a chance to make an honest living...
...The Roosevelt administration inaugurated the only systematic and scientific conservation attempted in this country, including reforestation of plundered, wasted and neglected woodlands, water conservation, flood control, cheap rural electric light and power, and restoring millions of acres of soil permitted to become depleted by floods and storms...
...MORRIE RYSKIND I find myself In general sympathetic with the tone of the New Leader...
...The Creator did not place us here to "own" but to use it...
...This causes them to believe and vote against they know not what...
...All this indicates that a $200,000,-000,000 deficiency judgment hangs over our nation...
...In 1815 the Congress of Vienna guaranteed the freedom of these countries...
...Let's get our economy out of reverse...
...Coolidge was unaware of that depression, and vetoed the Mc-Nary-Haugen farm relief bill passed in fulfillment of the platform pledge on which he was elected...
...The navy and air force will see to that...
...Why is It that our university students are Communists...
...Frequent contributor to the New Leader's columns include Ferdinand LuiKlberg...
...No profits, no release...
...What newspaper dares to say a word against the gambling gang that without any legal right or restraint daily meets and sets the prices lower for the farmer and the cast of living higher for the consumers and takes all the ever-widening margin without rendering any more service than the Barbary pirates...
...We believe Pres...
...Personally...
...Church Taxes (Minneapolis, Minn...
...Russia was genuinely and with good reason afraid ot German and Franco-English designs...
...Herman Dekker of Portland, O., for his splendid clarification of our economic situation, as well as the solution he suggests...
...Impelled by fear of a Ger-man attack, she has taken possession in the Baltic—in an indefensibly brutal and clumsy fashion, as was perhaps to be expected—of indispensable defensive positions...
...As a practicing lawyer in Montana durring the Coolidge administration...
...Consequently, there is an interlocking mutual distrust and hatred between the manufacturer, labor, and the farmer...
...If this is fair trade and fair competition, it's about time to fumigate some of our public offices.—A BARBER...
...Red Utopia (Merrill, Wis...
...Seriously, at a time like this, do we want Dewey...
...I am quoting your front page edi-jtorial: "Does the record show, since the rise of the totalitarian war lords in Germany, Russia, Italy, and Japan, i that England and Fiance has ruth...
...SWENSEN...
...The Progressive has been coming to me for some time...
...Might Over Right," by Frank Simpson deserves lots of credit...
...As gold is included in this wealth, and gold is money according to our constitution, it is evident that all money belongs to the financiers and so all money in circulation is borrowed and steadily flows back to its source...
...Yet both here at home and in Spain each government was established in the regular democratic way,—by a majority vote unintimidated by any foreign influence or force...
...But the Finish democracy could only be established after two foreign nations,—empires, not democracies,—had sent troops and war supplies to aid Mannerheim in | murdering thousands of Finns who did not want any of Mannerheim's brand \ of democracy...
...I believe you are well paid for those lies in your editorials...
...Uncle Sam, stay out of that terrible muddle.—MARTIN GOETZ...
...Ben Stolberg, James Rorty...
...They can plunge them into murdering one another when it suits their purpose...
...Boosts Wheeler (Del Rosa, Calif...
...They have already demonstrated that they have but little respect for democratic principles, and that some of thcit activities are actually more subversive and un-American than have been those of the Communists in this country...
...the British diplomats got the Greeks to fight the Turks...
...In a genuine aemocracy, where democratic principles are put Into practice, really true Democrats are not one bit afraid of the spread of Com-munLsm...
...Roosevelt is helping keep us out of war, and since repeal of the embargo we are furnishing aid to the democracies resisting the dictators' savage onslaughts...
...NEW LEADER 7 EAST ISTH ST.—NEW YORK You Write This Page...
...The man cannot be serious,— he mast have been only joking...
...In the Twin Cities there are hundreds of millions of the finest property exempt...
...O.)—Daniel Hoan...
...I am much annoyed with the latest copy of The Progressive...
...There should be more such activity, or I see no reason to say, "We are the government...
...None...
...It l» a stimulating and lively paper...
...We all must eat, code or no code, but it will make outlaws out of good citizens...
...Why don't you ask yourself what the consequences would be of victory in this war for an England ruled and represented by Churchills and Chamberlains...
...O.)—Financial fascism is not democracy, and if business leaders will read the constitution's preamble, they may learn to their surprise, that neither the public nor the government exist for the purpose' of paying wages to money...
...V. BERD...
...Stresemann, and Bruning...
...Then bankers would not be needed and would be out of existence...
...Even the WPA has given us many thousands of miles of surfaced roads and streets, thousands of school -houses and other public buildings, parks, dams, bridges and other public works...
...For Fumigation [Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.]—I received a letter saying the code is in full effect in our city and it will be strictly enforced, if we send in $7.50 to the trade practices division...
...Wheeler and believe he would be unbeatable, even against a Taft-Dewey combination...
...and second, the president's health may not withstand the exactions of a third term...
...and the Sherman anti-trust act, (a colossal blunder from its inception to the present moment), as examples ol progress under Republican leadership...
...They know that practical democracy Is a perfect, antidote against the spread of Communism...
...consistent with the constitution, bill of right...
...I think it* definitely the best of the liberal or Socialist papers...
...If this faction is permitted to formulate the policies1 of the party, it may be well for us all to expect a spread of some kind of "ism...
...he says: "Let us take a look at the contrast of conditions during Coolidge's administration and the present...
...I hope readers of The Progressive ' will realize this.—W...
...PROF...
...So, unless the government buys his surplus and distributes it among the poor workers and farmers, he must of necessity close his factory and shift his worker on to the government relief agency...
...Chaotic World [Geyserville, Calif.]—It is awful when you look around and see this chaotic world...
...And I had other hungry mouths to feed...
...Wheeler of Montana this week to the effect that Progressives of the mid-west might look with favor on him as a Democratic presidential candidate...
...agriculture suffered depression...
...It isn't un-American to discard obsolete things...
...doesn't need to enslave those who are in the working class...
...It would all flow out of circulation and a. collapse would occur if we did borrow it back as fast as it disappears...
...but doubt if a third term would be a wise precedent unless absolutely necessary...
...presents a study fit only for a cartoon-subject...
...The Turks annihilated the Greek army...
...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...
...Indeed, The Progressive has printed and will continue to print on this page letters that are sharply critical of this publication...
...Neither should we work for the government, but, the government should work for us...
...Evjue says, as the unrestrained emotionalism to which he abandons himself that I find objectionable...
...He, nevertheless, has been by far the best president we have ever had...
...Unobserved, and unnoticed, they listened to a conversation on how to Invade the United States...
...But now that the secret's out, what are we waiting for...
...Mobil's column.—A WISCONSIN DEMOCRAT...
...Not one clear, strong word did he utter in disapproval of the plundering of our public resources, but vented his wrath upon those who sought to conserve our rich heritage...
...Enclosed find money rider for my subscription to The Progressive...
...j. ROSE...
...Dewey wont't do!—RAY S. KELLOGG...
...They put over on the unsuspecting public the very opposite of what is pretended and cunningly fill the people's minds with decoy stuff...
...free and independent, true to God and man...
...Russia is obligated to its citizens for a winter outlet to the sea...
...Our "profit system" of distribution is obsolete, the only sensible solution lies in discarding it as we have done many times in the past to our credit...
...Thomason is one of those who put all the blame on the financiers...
...B. ALLBERT...
...Perhaps that what-to-do is not quite enough...
...Since most of as can no longer secure a loan, Roosevelt is doing it for us...
...Dewey and whisper in.o his pretty ear one or two facts of which he is quite obviously unaware:—d> About this "releasing" business...
...1—In canceling his subscription to The Progressive, W. T. Harmon of Riverside, Calif., displays pique rather than good sense...
...Russia may, or may not be devoted to peace...
...Power Politics (Philadelphia...
...Thomason blames Roosevelt for it, calling it a "debt economy...
...This great democrat, Mannerheim, i was also scheming at the same time to "aid democracy" by helping old | Czar Nicholas to get back on the ] throne in Russia...
...Moral indigation is a form of egotism and hatred that flourishes best where there is ignorance of the other fellow's motives...
...Thomas E. Dewey, in 1940, standing in the same shoes that Mark Hanna wore in 1890...
...Praising the silky scions of the robber barons for ; not getting mixed up in hold-ups...
...Are we so blind that we think we would lose anything worth while in discarding obsolete things, it would almost seem that way...
...From other sources I learn that 2 per cent of the population, the financiers own 75 per cent of the national wealth...
...What protection do we get against private home competitions where the code prices are driving our customers to where they have no respect for codes, laws, sanitation or anything else...
...consequent depreciated values and loss of purchasing power, resulting in failed banks and bankrupt merchants...
...I am for Roosevelt—For Ex-President.—E...
...It reminds me of one needing continuous blood transfusions...
...No one should become confused as to which of these factions is the truly democratic one...
...JOHN DEWEY I rend The New Leader regularly...
...If issuing new money instead of taxing was practiced, there would be more and more money in circulation, making prices of all goods to rise steadily...
...We are with Burton K. Wheeler 100 per cent...
...Party Factions (Sadler, Tex...
...None...
...Roosevelt could easily be re-elected should he choose to run...
...I've often wondered how the majority of Progressives felt about Wheeler, hence was glad to learn this from Mr...
...I And In It news not available elsewhere, especially as to European conditions...
...What causes hardship Is the fact that the interest on this national debt amounts to about one-third of the value of newly created wealth, so that the farmer selling a dollar's worth of his product to the manufacturer as raw material must pass 33 cents of the dollar received as interest to the financier and vice versa...
...The only reason they want such a let alone, "hands off," policy adopted is because they have so much greater economic power than has the average individual...
...You are Just spreading English propaganda...
...2) Todav more than half of our population lacks the ready cash to provide even a profit-gamble, much less to guarantee profits...
...This element might properly be classed as long-distance Democrats, because the farther away from home democracy is, the stronger they seem to be for it...
...They formed a mob and resorted to violence to prevent the exercise of democratic rights in Jersey City, N. J. More recently they pulled p. similar stunt in San Antonio...
...Liberty league, and Hamilton-Weir crowd now out to crash the gate at the election...
...EetweerT1929 and 1939...
...L. POTTER...
...More power to your paper...
...by M. B. Whitaker, I would deny that it is fantastic, but that it is silly, and backw-ard...
...What value received do we get for that money...
...According to Miss Dean...
...All real Democrats believe in, and •support, the fundamental democratic principles of self government, free speech and the right of assembly...
...It makes the taxes for small homes high and saves the rich!—MRS...
...I hope to see the day when church property is taxed...
...After all...
...The University Peace foundation in a meeting at Madison declares the present war "imperialistic" and favors no aid to any fighting nation...
...I think both are very sensible...
...The other two cost over $5...
...Why is there war In Europe...
...Praises Forum (Manitowoc, Wis...
...Then there is another element of the party membership that seems to be divided between the two principle factions...
...one of our best governors, was defeated by the GOP Heil machine...
...Let's look at the record...
...I take no other paper...
...r am enclosing check for another year of The Progressive...
...It might cause the advocates to do a little thinking...
...In effect, each one pays out a dollar and gets back only 67 cents, unless each persop borrows the 33 cents for every dollar of income he must necessarily decrease his production until a zero point is reached...
...This is YOl'R page—make it as interesting and Informative as possible...
...the way some people fear losing the profit system...
...Permit me a few words in behalf of the nomina-tlon of Sen...
...Shame on him who penned this sentence...
...But by doing so he decreases the buying power of hLs customers who then cannot buy all of his output...
...It may be that the president should not accept a third nomination: First, because it will inject a false issue into the campaign—the third term tradition...
...The Wall St...
...This Tory faction also seems to want the party to teadopt that old anarchistic, lalssez falrc policy with reference to economic affairs...
...B. WALTON...
...In this masterpiece dealing with the Intrigue of European diplomacy, the authors write of their personal experience in Germany while traveling as pre-war tourists...
...Bible, golden rule, and the declaration of independence in spirit and principle...
...This no-profits, no-release system, that has kept millions of would-be "releasers" idle for a decade, is today grown so utterly rotten that It demands and gets, pure blood for its stimulus...
...Exchange Ad—Not Paid They Say...
...Communism never spreads except where there is a lack of democracy...
...We are not, unless we do some governing...
...What guarantee do we get for that money that it will improve our business...
...We were rapidly drifting toward a precipice and widespread ruin when Coolidge's term expired...
...The viewpoints expressed here are, of course, those of each contributor and not necessarily those of The Progressive...
...and they looked terrible even then, 50 years ago...
...Your "Peoples Forum" is especially good and Is worth the price of the paper alone...
...The Kept Press (Venice...
...Tell them the truth and make them like it.—R...
...Minn...
...In cold print the next morning however, one read the text of his address with incredulity and amazement...
...In view of the startling and similar methods employed by the German "seamen" who later turned out to be German officers in Norway, have we Americans any further assurance of German promises or signed treaties...
...Having come to the conclusion that your paper opitomizes the criteria In American Journalism, I am enclosing subscription.—JERRY CAl'LAN...
...Regarding the articles, "Townsend Eililons...
...Robert H. Jackson—SHARPLESS WALKER...
...Judging from the build ups provided by the nation's press and the recep-tions accorded him by the nation's | voters, it is more than possible—it is a distinct probability that Thomas E. Dewey, glamor-boy of the women's clubs and co-hero with Hoover and his G-Men, of the "cops and robbers" gangs on the nation's play-grounds, will be named to carry the torch for the Grand Old party in the November battle of the Tweedles...
...Max Nomad...
...Praises Pen LSt...
...It has seemed to me that he tardily discovered that modem labor saving machinery is causing a permanent condition of unemployment...
...INGLIS...
...Natural bent, or talents, Is the strong and wohle-some Incentives...
...Other sources give the latter as $400,000,000,000...
...it must not be so bad for the masses...
...Paul...
...The governmetn should be our hired man...
...It is equally certain to totally drown that system in its own final, blood-drunk, debauch...
...M. THREE-WITS...
...Frriherrr.ore...
...It is not so much what i Mr...
...Her recent actions simply do ' not permit us to form a definite opin-| ion...
...Not to fight them in their chosen way Is to give them victory...
...Discard the pru.il...
...and this is a far better excuse for pitching onto the Finns—and especially since she offered a very generous and peaceful plan which they saw fit to refuse...
...Of course, there are no millionaires, but there Is no unemployment either...
...Enclosed find subscription...
...Perhaps we are wait-for the how-to-do-it...
...Would not that be also a debt economy with the only difference that such money would not draw interest...
...There are a lot of points on which T do not see eye to eye with the writ-but we can ill afford to refuse .0 along with anyone who may be go:'-e ''i :iv •¦'*« ourselves...
...j. HENDERSON...
...such indebtedness was reduced 28 billion dollars: Some of the indebtedness was canceled by bankruptcies...
...I enjoy your paper.—W...
...More Power (Ponca City, Okla...
...1—A way out for Roosevelt to stay in: F.D.R, could decide to accept the nomination for vice president, thus establishing a precedent without disturbing tradition...
...The charge is daughable.—CARL PETERSON...
...The balance includes two billion dollars soldiers' bonus authorized in 1925, and RFC loans and WPA public building projects, worth amounts loaned or expended...
...E. BROKAW...
...Why don't you ask yourself who is responsible for these war lards gaining the upper hand...
...Very well...
...In your editorial, page of Mar...
...Of course, if we would be honest, we would have to admit that there never has been a moral standard in international relations that has been recognized and respected by the world's powers in action and in their dealings with weaker nations—our own country not excepted...
...There can be no equality of opportunity where economic slavery Is permitted...
...C. FRANKLIN...
...JOHN DOS PASSOS I read your paper with the greatest Interest: it's about the only left paper that has information In It you can't find In the New York Times In spite of the fact that I don't follow your foreign policy...
...A. SCHROEDER...
...For we have a criterion to go by that will always enable us to distinguish a real Democrat from a hypocritical pretender...
...But more ice must break under the [ feet of our political reformers before i they will listen and think and ex-plore the regions unknown...
...Tobey of Vermont is similarly conclusive.—JOHN EHMANN...
...Hence the above national debt is against $100,000,000,000 of wealth still nominally owned by 98 per cent of us...
...They know that, if the government will just let them alone, they have enough economic power to compel millions to pay them more tribute...
...You show you don't know anything about Russia or Germany...
...Incidentally, tt la also aji excellent made-up paper...
...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 charge a copy of Charles Yale Harrison's delightfully witty satire, "Meet Me On the Barricades...
...For here is set down a program tha' harks back to the days of Marcus A. Hanna...
...The answer to Sen...
...Russia's foreign policy has recently been made understandable to me' by ione of the foreign poiicy reports writ-ten by Miss Vera Micheles Dean...
...what is imperialistic about Denmark and what is imperialistic about Norway...
...Such a state, of course, is no good for our millionaires, therefore, the press and lecturers have to fight Communism...
...Even though they have assured the low countries that there will be no violation of their sovereignty, how can WE, or the world, any longer place confidence in the mad Nazi's promise to adhere to international law...
...Yet such money would be nothing else than promisory notes...
...I -have read The Progressive for years and consider it an excellent paper and well worth twice the subscription price.—TIRZAH RAWLIN-SON...
...Sen...
...We suffered deflation of farm and farm products values, and inflation of the prices of stocks and bonds...
...Is it possible that a similar fiasco VS to be enacted at the Republican convention this year on a nation-wide scale...
...Under the New Deal we have slum clearance, federal housing, federal loans and debt moratoriums, decrease in interest rates, and employing, training and developing in CCC camps nearly two million young men, many of whom were drifting into idleness, vagabondage and crime...
...In 1917 there appeared a book written by Professors Tyler and Davis of the University of Minnesota entitled, "The Roots of War...
...Certainly, there can no longer be any doubt in the minds of thinking men as to the real plans of Germany...
...1 early!.- .| »?-akr the first step, your second step will already have become clearer to you...
...I am grown exceedingly weary of the new liberalism that demands a regimentation of thought...
...There is no better government on earth today than Russia...
...When the Greeks got back home, they lined the diplomats against the wall and shot them.— SOPHUS ANDERSON...
...None...
...Why uphold F. D. R. who is an autocrat, .a breaker of faith with the people...
...After the first World war...
...My father and I. lifelong Democrats, occasionally Progressives—surely wish to go on record as favoring Sen...
...You can well imagine my pleasure in using so excellent a pen...
...But the reactionary faction of the Democratic party seems to be very afraid of the spread of Communism...
...Emphatically...
...GEO...
...Many of this element have worked themse ves into a frenzy trying to aid democracy in far-away Finland, but nearer home In Spain they not only failed to offer any aid whatever, but actually tried to keep any one else from furnishing any aid...
...Communism is a government where everything belongs to the government, the people...
...WILLIAM B. RICHTER...
...Soviet Alibi (Winona, Minn...
...Will such guarantees continue...
...Now Is the Time . . . "Democratic organ of the democratic left" I* the manner In which Eugene Lyons, author ol the Assignment In Utopia and editor of The American Mercury, recently referred to The New Leader, America's leading labor news magazine Here's a veteran, left-wing weekly with a new streamlined style cf telling the stories behind the news...
...The welfare of the country, however, requires that a Democratic candidate in sympathy with New Deal objectives be nominated, and delegates elected to the Democratic national convention who are favorable to Roosevelt, or to an able Democrat, committed to his princilpes, such as Atty...
...The attitude might as well be characterized as indifference to what happens so long as it does not happen to us...
...whose enviable record as a most sensible and business-like mayor of Milwaukee, best governed cny of its class in America, is known throughout the civilized world, was defeated for another term in this year's primary by a youthful novice whose only assets are a pleasing personality, a good baritione singing voice which he really abused by overwork in the hard campaign, and membership in virtually all the clubs, lodges, and church societies in Milwaukee...
...Schwellenbach's summary for the first seven years of the present administration was a me»terry statement of assets against liabilities which should appeal to all thinking honest men...
...Unpaid liabilities in commercial bankruptcies under "Cool-idyie prosperity'' increased from $250,-OOOtOOO to $740,000,000 in 1928—the al.'/time high being SI.120.000.000 in 1932...
...Maybe there will be a change before long...
...En joys Paper (Chula Vista, Calif...
...But, actually, we have twice this number of parties...
...Coolidge [Santa Ana, Calif...
...It is the only way to make wholesame progress...
...His cure for the economic disorders of the USA Is distressingly simple: "First, and foremost, release all of our productive energies so that our economy may provide the fullest measure of material well-being for our people...
...Hoan for Governor [Milwaukee, Wis.l—After 24 years of experience as mayor of Milwaukee, Daniel W. Hoan was defeated...
...16 you wrote: "In view of the barbaric purge directed by Stalin...
...M. Thoma-son says that our total national debt amounts to $300,000,000,000 and total national wealth to only $200,000.-000,00~0...
...I l*itnessed the legal business in the f northwest—like that in the central west, mountain states, and southwest —become largely of farm and ranch foreclosures, bankruptcies, and litigation growing out of insolvent banks...
...The one entitled, "The Poor Reds" by W. S. Crater is very good too...
...Our economic well being is, has, and will continue to function more smoothly if the Allied powers, with the help of God, continue to maintain a "status quo...
...the things which Mr...
...Under cover of this heavy silence somebody should approach Mr...
...there were more bank failures in the United than in any earlier period in history, comparable only to the second term of the conservative Democrat...
...Burton K. Wheeler for the presidency on the Democratic ticket...
...The plans included the invasion of our shores at several points such as Sandy Hook, Long Island, and Nar-ragausett Sound...
...It is unsubsi-dized...
...Realizing the degeneracy and corruption of America's "kept" press...
...Lakewood...
...Comparing support of Roosevelt for a third term to similar efforts in behalf of Coolidge...
...In the Democratic party we not only have the two principal factions, —the liberal or progressive and the conservative or reactionary—but we also have elements or the membership that are not in agreement with either of the principal factions...
...The Germany of Rothenau...
...You may change to the truth again...
...FDR for V. P. [Chicago, 111...
...I cannot imagine of any good coming out of this war, but the catas-trophe will be worse for the whole world, if even we cannot keep our mental balance...
...It is not intended to imply that Roosevelt is infallible...
...The profit system and its incentives are responsible for the worst in us, rather than for the best...
...They believe it Is Just as much the duty of the government to promote justice economically as It Is to promote it politically...
...It is ironical that the people who cry the loudest about being their brothers' keeper" are least willing to save their "brother" when he is in mortal danger of losing all the worthwhile human qualities...
...But the manufacturer can shift his share of the interest to the farmer by paying him less for his raw material, or on the worker by paying him lower wages or on both...
...The Pan-Germanic plot is the driving motive of the Nazis...
...But would farmers and workers get their due srfcre of the new money...
...He worked hard to make Milwaukee the clean city it is today and always took a part for good government...
...because It thrives only upon scarcity, which, in an era of abundance makes it as obsolete as the ox ever was...
...A large percentage of them take the position they do solely because of misinformation or because of lack of information...
...Both proved disastrous...
...To keep the poor class poor and the rich one rich...
...Keep Alert [Independence, Kan.]—The automobile driver who divides his attention multiplies tragedies, adds deaths, suffering and sorrow and subtracts from the safety, peace and happiness of his fellow beings...
...The farmer borrows and keeps on producing...
...I will try your paper for three months more...
...But one of the things I like about The New Leader Is that the author> often don't agree with each other...
...Right here at home in America some of them formed mobs and used violence to prevent the exercise of democratic rights...
...Free Press (To the Editor)—The subsidized free press is hypocritically long and loud about free speech and free press like the Ku Klux Klan...
...Everyone who has kept in touch with his record knows that he has : been 100 per cent progressive in his legislative activities, i There is toflay available for the nomination on the Democratic ticket no better man for the interests of the common people, especially organized workers and "dirt" farmers, The fact that he was on the Pro-gressive ticket with "Old Bob" La Follette in 1924, fits his public rec-ord...
...ree where several of your subscribers do not renew because their views and your are no, identical...
...Mayor Daniel W. Hoan of Milwaukee would also make a good governor for Wisconsin—DONALD j. POWELL...
...This would also decide the question: "What to do with our ex-presidents...
...What the people do not care for...
...Labor, of the state Democratic convention gave an ¦ idea of the sentiment growing within the party in his favor...
...For Wheeler (To the Editor I—-I was pleased to note in your column written by Radford E. Mobley that reports were tendered Sen...
...The report in the railroad i brotherhood's weekly...
...As simple as that Why hasn't someone thought of that before...
...Elmer Davis, Charles Yale Harrison, and Charles Edward Russell...
...We need to create a monetary system wider which all workers could secure the services of their fellow beings in exchange for their own without going into debt...
...Your "Peoples Forum" is especially since she offered a very geenrous and peaceful plan which they saw fit to refuse...
...I feel the need to secure a paper which is not hamstrung by advertisers and powerful vested interests...
...It Is much easier and safer, when not restricted by law, to rob your fellow-man, when you use economic power as a weapon, than it is to rob him when you use a gun as a weapon...
...BENJAMIN STOLBERG The New Leader is no doubt an excellent paper and...
...Frank P. Schwann, who wrote the article, "His Own Plan," should get a more perfect suggestion therefrom...
...However, I believe it should be put slightly "different, so as not to be confused with theorizing...
...The youth today growing up will never see a mayor of Milwaukee holding office for 24 years- Philip La Follette...
...Yet the Dies committee has made nc investigation to ascertain who was responsible for these un-American subversive activities...
...A farmer is Just as well off (or bad off) when he gets one dollar and spends two as when he gets two and spends four...
...If we all did that, It would probably end up with one editor and one subscriber left...
...Under the conservative Republican, Coolidge...
...We have now very few bank failures, and we have insured deposits...
...And to do this intelligently, we nesd some thinking exercise.—O...
...The Progressive party should not become disorganized, for if the Mayor | Hague, Garner, and Dies kind of Dcm-ocrats should control In formulating the policies of the party, real Democrats would like to become identified with a more democratic party than the Democratic party would then be...
...The conversation was between several Teuton army officers at a tavern...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 18
