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.-MLTON. Munition...
...He attracts the shallow and the gullible...
...only in a garbeled form You did much for democracy here at home...
...This is just the thing that the anti-unton boys want...
...Finke, 90 per cent of these figures about banks are a lie...
...These same corporations induced these foreigners to come to this country...
...Or was there a gentleman's agreement somewhere that these companies would not press their suits for back taxes if they were relieved from the tax in the future...
...Macfadden (Emporia, Kas...
...The vohime of currency should be ' geared to the volume of production j and employment...
...The big difficulty lies in contending candidafes and groups seeking personal profit and power...
...I am sure anyone would be willing to assume that duty if he would have the advantages that go with issuing money also...
...The dose was repeated in 1939 by raising reserves and destroying another $8,000,000,000 in currency...
...Destruction of demand deposits was the board's answer to increased prosperity and production occasioned by the spending of the soldiers' bonus money in 1935...
...A really intelligent electorate would have rejected him with calm contempt as a person utterly unworthy of the high position to which he aspires...
...A battlefield is at last available and the munition-plants can peacefully keep on working in three shifts as in the last wear...
...This desk awaits with interest the proud assertion to be expected when the governor tells what he has done to the university and college budgets...
...My ancestors were driven out of England due to the rotten economic and political conditions that prevailed at that time and still prevail at this time only they have not improved in the least up to this day...
...Which is it...
...There is not one in 10,000 workers and producers in America that know anything about bridge and never have a quarter to go to a movie or a dime to get a lot of bread unless it has been donated by a generous government...
...1 Creation of a congressional eom-| mitlee of equalization value so a farmhand would not have to work two days ; in order to get two minutes service i from the doctor...
...Either industry pays wages or the government taxes industry and pays relief...
...17, a Stockholm dispatch points with pride to the fact that the Communist party in Norway "stood by :ts post" while leaders of the Labor party fled Oslo...
...Also the occupation of some Norwegian islands up around the North Pole, or at least in safe harbors...
...But being English does not blind me so that I cannot see the true perspective which exists today...
...Can we expect millions of unemployed, in poverty and idleness, to continue so indefinitely, in the midst of plenty—LOUIS SCHOLL Creating Panics (Summerfield, Kan...
...I'm hoping some one will make a complete investigation on this matter...
...Still the privileged few and their political champions are not satisfied...
...while neutral civilians and the immature youth of Britain, France, and Germany are being ground into dust in the ports and fields and valleys of Norway...
...By the plan adopted 150 years ago, we can have any kind of government in three years in good working order...
...The total deposits of all banks, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica...
...The average human beings that I come in contact with have human blood in their veins...
...Taxes and investment play a role in getting this money back into circulation but the matter is comparatively negligible...
...The legendary idea or hope still dwells or lingers in the minds of many that providence will eventually intercede in the behalf of the righteous or those who in their self conceit think they are right...
...The federal reserve system issued some $200,000,000 in federal reserve notes and the threatened panic subsided...
...the Labor party quit the Comintern...
...Let us say that we could, what would happen1 We would not only destroy all national income but also would have only $2,000,000 of U. S. currency left, it would not be i in circulation...
...But by 1923, the Labor party had suffered enough of the Comintern's insistence on utter submission in national as well as International affairs...
...the political side of our affair is comparatively negligible...
...It may be well to repeat the allegation of Charles A. Lindbergh Sr...
...A war is all right, as long as you do not have to fight it at home, and what could be better for Chamberlain...
...Under it we must create interest-bearing debt before we can have access to cash or credit...
...However, the Peoples' Forum of Apr...
...What is one to say of such "sovereign" voters...
...However, the defense of our banking system and sales tax by A. C. Finke can do ought but draw my sharpest fire...
...6 issue such as that of C. E. Payne...
...Germany has no need for Norway...
...I will admit that I was fooled for more than a year in the matter of which lde was right, but long before the "Krivitsky" articles in The Saturday Evening Post, I discavered the truth about the matter...
...Thus over the last four years tjjese corporations, representing one-half of the industrial earning power of the nation, have earned an average net return on their invested capital of more than 8-2 per cent...
...Economic Plan (Washington...
...in order for them to have money they must receive wages...
...La Follette Sr...
...or the money and banking system, the most important single issue in economics, a, mandate by the people would Hccomplish that...
...Bad As Reds (Del Mar, Cal...
...We pay $8,000,000,000 annually for the privilege of using this legally counterfeited money, and that drain in itself is enough to preclude prosperity...
...It's tentacles extend to the various departments...
...REV...
...why they did not start in with blowing up each others munition-factories...
...Provided that the industry as a whole should manufacture the amount of goods estimated as necessary by its planning board...
...from now on out.—W...
...Roughly, our economic reverses have coincided with their financial advances...
...1 am greatly pleased with the tolerant magnanimous attitude of some of your contributors in the Apr...
...Now the war can really last a long time, for a new generation of numbskulls, which has been fed patriotic soup since childhood, is ready to shoulder a gun and "die as heroes" before they have had a chance to live and penetrate the humbug which surrounds them...
...We nave before us the change of the entire personnel, the house of representatives and one third of the senate, also the president...
...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 cost price of the goods that concerns failed to make...
...The 8.5 per cent net return last year compares with 4.6 per cent earned by the same corporations in 1938...
...If this be so...
...It indicates inflated egotism and inordinate vanity...
...13, issue, on "The Yanks Are Not Coming" program...
...Yet people call him the wonder boy, the glamorous candidate, and he is beating more fit and experienced candidates...
...Why was she so much opposed to Russia building fortifications to protect Petrograd...
...His picture is in the papers and he is in the sensational headlines...
...One can overlook to a certain extent the attitude taken by the writer after the statement of the kind of blood he has in his veins...
...There always has been and probably always will be the class of people who like to be in the limelight and will pass anything on to their neigh-tors because their so:i has been crowned "master farmer" and others who are too busy and keep their nose to thj r:-::-dstc"-» nrving in dues.— WILLIAM E. WRIGHT...
...Every American citizen sitting around a bridge table and going to the movies—ye gods—with 10 million totally unemployed and 25 millions beggars or on relief—a polite way of saying bums...
...The symptoms seem to indicate that much...
...Think it over, you 100 per cent Americans, but do your own thinking...
...My ancestors were early settlers in Pennsylvania...
...In the case of wages, the government would have the dower to regulate working hours, which in turn would regulate the demand of industry for labor, which in turn would regulate wages...
...Bear ;n mind, our national welfare is primarily social and economic...
...Their assets are around a half billion in government bonds...
...In New York's Daily Worker for Apr...
...I am curious to know what the reaction would have been had England landed troops upon Norwegian soil first...
...It is not the business of this country to wet-nurse every little monarchy or big monorachy in Europe...
...EDWARD J. i GALLAGHER, j * * + j Foreign Policy (East Stanwood, Wash...
...Since then, the influence of Moscow in Norway has declined steadily while the power of democratic Socialism has grown...
...I' have no doubt that conditions in both Germany and Russia are bad enough, but neither of these countries have yet fought us twice and burned ; our capital right here on our own American soil, nor did they Inveigle us into a war that cost the lives of thousands of our finest young men, to say nothing of billions of our wealth, worse than wasted...
...Old toothless fossils are hardly equipped for this kind of warfare, and they are bound to lose...
...Our system of banking and currency is impossible of proper functioning...
...The only thing that counts in war are bullets and the ability to keep a steady stream of the instruments of war trained on the enemy...
...Under the 1935 law, seven utilities sought recovery or $575,375.18 and, under the 1937 law, two companies sought recovery of $742,974.46...
...Putting It Straight LITTLE Mary's father had denied her request...
...but makes no mention of resistance or of Adolf Hitler...
...If we attempted to pay off our debt, we would suddenly find it increased in terms of real wealth...
...Under this plan ther would be no direct control over either prices or wages...
...I came to this state in 1934 from the dust bowl...
...Should war be declared here, our constitution with its bill of rights will immediately go into "cold storage" and we will all be ruled by a military dictatorship, as we were in the last war...
...Finally, it was passed in a glorified form known as the federal reserve system...
...An official manifesto of the Norwegian Communist party refers to the invasion as "the ne'v situation...
...I have always been opposed to the patent laws as administered by the government...
...What has made him popular...
...I hope nothing is more serious than bursting soap bubbles...
...Now I can hardly think that you are really uninformed to a point that you have no idea of what is happening in Europe, and so continue to misinform your readers in so many instances.— RICHARD G. BOONE...
...I have human blood in my veins...
...Tis strange indeed that a press that complains bitterly of so many government rules and regulations can never see anything wrong with the federal reserve powers, in spite of its acknowledged failure to avert panics...
...The board of governors was no more in the saddle than a minor panic was the order of the day...
...By means of perfecting amendments the powerful few have encroached more and more upon the rights of the many...
...Sure, labor has always supported the government and always will...
...Sincere faith in democracy would condemn and banish bigoted and hate-ridden partisanship...
...Of course, we must have a definite plan of action, a vision of what we want this institution to accomplish...
...Obviously a nation as weak and decadent as the British whose people have not the courage to even get rid of their decadent aristocracy canr.ot hope to rule Europe or anything else...
...In fact the New Deal lias given the laboring class the best labor laws we have ever had since the foundation of this beloved nation...
...I'm certainly surprised at your editorial in The Progressive, Apr...
...But when Hitler leaped on Norway...
...Where demand was steady and did not fluctuate, as in the case of staple articles, estimates could be made for a year in advance...
...The gun-factories have once more become Europe's "untouchables...
...Washington deplored fanatical partisanship and warned the young republic of its peril...
...Heil asks this and other editors of Wisconsin to read and...
...Reynaud and Hitler—just now—than the rocks and plains of Scandinavia...
...Production and dividends have increased out of proportion with those of the working class...
...I favor issuing notes as Lincoln did under the following circumstances...
...I have taken The Progressive for a number of years and have sometimes wondered why the Farm Bureau has not been exposed...
...Could we as a people occupied in useful pursuits meet in conference and generally agree upon a solution, the problem could be adopted in the next two elections proceeding in orderly manner without any recriminations attending our discordant political fiasco...
...To the Communists, however, standing by their posts in this case meant acceptance of the invasion...
...Don't be a fool, mate...
...Are U. S. bonds better than U. S. notes...
...We still have the relief emergency...
...Ruined' Business (From The Hoosier Sentinel) WHILE Republican politicians, in a desper-ate effort to get back in power, accuse the Roosevelt administration of "ruining business," the April letter of the National City Bank of New York reveals that -1,440 manufacturing concerns having a net worth just under $23,000.-000.000 earned a trifle less than $2,000,000,000, or a net reurn of 8.5 per cent, in 1939...
...It is cheap red baiting...
...along the lines of the "six willful men" we Indulged in before...
...La Follette Jr...
...And that had been going on with you and those of your ilk and the New York bankers for a number of years before that...
...Now it seems to me that The Progressive has of late years, and particularly during the last two years, been veering off to an extreme position toward the left in so many matters, so much so that I am reminded of the similarity between your publication and that Stalinist sheet known as "The Daily Worker...
...What would happen if every depositor wanted his money when the banks open tomorrow morning...
...A Labor Program (Newberry, Mich...
...Follow your own noses but no longer be led by your noses...
...Each has been criticised because he did not get all the attention...
...I once respected the heads of these organizations and thought they were sincere in most of their dealings with the employers and those they represent, but I have long since changed my mind...
...The plan here suggested would give congress the power to appoint production planning boards over key industries...
...Did the committee investigate the railroads...
...There would be another bank holiday long before that amount was paid out...
...Are you willing to go on record as declaring bonds, notes, and mortgages a better method of getting money back into circulation than an issue of government currency...
...Why not use your space for the promotion of your idea and that of the Progressive platform instead of helping to fan the flame of racial hatred...
...Surely these conceras could bear the tax more easily than the farmer and home-owner and the little merchant upon which more than 75 per cent of this burden will now fall...
...Yet the two labor leaders strike at the Roosevelt administration because it tried to treat both alike...
...Propaganda is a valuable auxiliary in war, but that is all it is...
...Misguided Voters (Winter Park, Fla...
...Why fear the future trends of business where they can be controlled through a planned economy.— WILLIAM OWEN...
...They were left untouched, by mutual agreement I suppose, such as it was the case in the last war...
...Then follow up the program two years hence and a full-working majority of the federal government would be instructed of the national objective...
...In 1921 the Norwegian Labor party had joined the Communist Internationa...
...Milwaukee Gas Light Co...
...The answer is, violent Urates against Roosevelt, wholesale attacks upon the New Deal, reckless and vulgar personalities, and expensive advertising...
...If money were so plentiful, why-did 1,500 banks fail...
...A total of $152,347.12 was asked by the other five companies...
...France and Germany...
...I have been tqld that the officers of the organization are selected by a nominating committee appointed by the chairman...
...Roosevelt has done more for the underdog than any man or group of men...
...20 where the top of the paper is pushed down half way on the front sheet is very suggestive of war-mongering—if I know what the word means...
...may beat me writing but I will split time with him any time he wants to talk this subject over.— H. C. WOODWORTH...
...The fact that a man was able in his forties and fifties does not make him able in the sixties and seventies...
...I am apprehensive that this year will be rather violent *n the political arena...
...S. J. S1MONSON...
...D. C—To evolve a system that will make relief unneces-essary is the biggest problem confronting this country...
...When the billions they "borrowed" from us came due, they merely thumbed their nose at us and called us Uncle Shylock...
...Joseph Stalin's influence among Norwegian workers was virtually non-existent...
...on June 30, 1938, was about $68,000,000,000...
...But when the New Deal stops it they squeal like a pig in the fence...
...I wonder what Robert M. La Follette Sr., would have thought of this editorial...
...The main Issue in this war is world domination...
...I'd give three 'hundred and sixtv-five 'holidays a year...
...And please don't give daddy any more children He don't know how to treat those he's got now...
...La Follette—I want to congratulate the senate civil liberties committee on their investigations and hearings here in California...
...But our "eminent financiers" have this all arranged, the American tax payers will have it to pay—every penny of it...
...During the 1929 boom the board of governors demonstrated its independence to congress...
...Protected by the Nasi juggernaut, his hitherto powerless followers are making hay...
...I have found out that 75 per cent or more of these people especially Mexican track laborers are aliens...
...No war can ever be won on the defensive, it is rank nonsense to think so...
...Macfadden poses as a friend of labor while he tries to stab them in the back at every corner he comes to, and why the laboring people continue to support his little sheet is more than I can understand...
...Have been around and seen what is happening...
...Travel Is a man's best education...
...They are being protected by mutual agreement between "the enemies...
...Pres...
...It might not be unparliamentary, uncivil, or uncouth to ask the gentlemen who run this war...
...Possibly we may have another "witch hunting spree...
...There hasn't been a law under the New Deal that in any way interfered with the management of big business, unless compelling them to be honest interferees with their management...
...Place a tax of 2 per cent per fort-¦ night on money in the bank or in cur...
...For several years past I have been a subscriber to your paper, regarding it as a reliable informant of what was going on in our country in both high and low places...
...Lately I find you across some 3,000 miles of salt water, along with the pro-war and propaganda sheets, shrieking about the terrible conditions facing the "European democracies...
...it will take a better organized system than we now have to bring these three together...
...As to my ancestors on both sides of the family are English, but it Is not English blood...
...market and federal reserve banks made loans to speculate on in the market despite the protests of Sen...
...Why ,if yer did that wed 'have ter work a ola day every four years...
...Lakeshore Gas Co...
...Already some people are beginning to wonder if we haven't another "He kept us out of war" president in our white "house...
...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 cannibal who roasts a human being for supper once in a while is a relatively tame and civilized individual compared with those whites who think nothing of destroying the world's flower of youth on the creaking altar of the business of war.—Peter Guld-brandsen...
...Munition Men (Berkeley, Calif...
...Docs any thoughtful person wonder at the way it functions or believe that one class of people are so sympathetic for another class that they start an organization for them and turn it over to them...
...The banks have about 10 per cent cash on hand...
...A constitutional amendment to limited personal fortunes to $1,000,000 and incomes to $100,000 annually...
...We have been feeding an average of one person a day that come to our door, begging for food...
...Here is a young man utterly without legislative or administrative experience, a man who has been successful as a prosecutor of gangsters, blackmailers, and other criminals, but whose political and economic views are unknown and probably very crude and superficial, who has had the impudence to start an aggressive campaign for the Republican presiden.ial nomination...
...It cannot take the place of action—all results depend on intelligent action...
...The interesting thing in this connection is that the last legislature made little attempt to re-enact this tax...
...He says it has taken labor seven years to find out the New Deal is a rotten deal...
...The federal reserve system of banks had $18,000,000,000 in govmment bonds at that time and if they dropped to 50, they lost $9,000,000,000...
...That is how I've found it—A READER...
...I am going to continue to pay for it and read it as I think it is a paper of great educational value in the political as well as the economic arena...
...that before the federal reserve system was adopted, panics were created haphazardly, but since its adoption they have been created scientifically...
...They are just ideal for the "merchants of death...
...Therfore industry should manufacture more goods, pay more wages and hire more men...
...The special priv-i ilege of allowing a banker to loan one ! dollar 10 times has caused inestimable 1 damage...
...This put the system in a position to ask more power and special privileges as its original form was not too bad a set-up for the public...
...Now this writer would have we American citizens stop playing bridge and going to the movies, grab a shooting iron and rush to the defease of their monarchy or ponder over the precarious conditions of this Norwegian monarchy...
...Stalin again assumed the role of the jackal...
...Wauwatosa Gas Co., $6,464.17...
...Somebody Tell Us the Reason (From Grant Co...
...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 supply was not sufficient to warrant all of the concerns in keeping their places of business open, then, 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...
...As a people, we must agree upon a general policy...
...There are moronic, elements in the community and others whose behavior in campaigns and elections suggest stupidity, extraordinary levity, or amazing ignorance...
...There is no denying that times are out of joint...
...Europe's Mess (Wasco, Ore...
...at one anothers throats...
...Gods, "there ain't no such animal...
...Also, I have been supporting ihe same cause ever since that time, and know that I will go down to my grave with the idea that truth and justice must be preserved at all costs...
...Norway will still have her monarchy when the smoke clears away...
...Macfadden says Santa Claus at Washington has been handmg out the treasures which have been hoarded throughout the life of this country...
...Praises Probers (Lancaster, Calif...
...Heil's Letter Campaign (From The Whitewater Register) APERSONAL i?) letter from Gov...
...Same is true of the railroads, that is for track laborers...
...You published much direct news that our metropolitan press did not, would not...
...Tim," said Willie, "if I was dictator...
...While the Germans occupy southern Norway right under the nose of the British fleet, the British claim smashing victories such as occupying the Faroe Island, a few sand bars and rocks slicking out of the ocean north of Scotland...
...better yet, publish an enclosed article telling of the savings effected in the department of the state tax commission...
...Ten billion dollars of credit money was effectively removed from circulation as if it had been dumped into the ocean...
...All the enemies of the rank and file have to do is control the chairman who will see that none are nominated unless they are "all right...
...The Wisconsin Telephone Co., also sued for recovery of $680,259.83 and the AT&T for recovery of $62,714.63 paid under the 1937 emergency tax law...
...as every schoolboy knows, it was intended to avert financial crises and panics...
...Lsn't it high time that we Americans confined ihe principal part of our attentions to the deplorable conditions now existing here and endeavored to find a fair, decent and honorable solution for them...
...West Allis Gas Co., $7,885.77...
...I have been (as the files will show) a reader of La Follette's magazine since it was founded by La Follette Sr., and I have never missed a copy of The Progressive since it has been a weekly, and I am not one of your quitters...
...The tax could be used to pay off the national debt and old age pensions...
...speaks vaguely of "the democratic rights of the working class...
...As if to add insult to injury the federal reserve open market committee dabbled in Wall st...
...and though America has enough machinery, enough raw materials and enough man power to provide plenty for all...
...Our first president warned us to keep out of their entanglements...
...17 to 2(5, 1933 from his senator or representative...
...Sen...
...C. Phillion...
...The final test of war is the most and biggest guns...
...These quotas would be based on inventories of the concerns' machinery and would be subject to check by government inspectors...
...They play the hand of big business andkeep the two labor fac-tioa...
...Are they totally indifferent to such issues as honesty, efficiency, genuine economy and civic decency...
...My only comment is that the administration should have told Messrs...
...It is the concentration and hoarding of wealth that brought this country to the deplorable condition we found our selves in, In 1932...
...certainly we are in a bad way which is still another reason for you to confine your editorials to our own country and its tr ubles—NELS ANDERSON...
...The artificial panic of 1914 was simply a bankers' way to secure more power for the federal reserve banks...
...His ambition is unwarranted, by all rational standards...
...Spanish War (Wilmington, Del...
...Why you should insinuate that the Allies won't draw the Americans into the war...
...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...
...131,360.91...
...Complete and frequent publication ; of financial ac.ivities of banks, cor-| porations...
...But we haven't found that out yet...
...It is the part of great wisdom to keep its snoot out of any and all European affairs...
...Yours is about the last paper I expected to see lined up with the war mongers...
...Robert M. La Follette Sr...
...The money derived from this tax would be more than enough to take care of the unemployed and should be used for that purpose...
...Now the main leader seems to be an old windbag who apparently has the least conception of modern warfare...
...L. SMITH...
...We have a machine set up in simple and efficient working order which can be set going and used intelligently...
...Communist Flop in Norway I From "Unccnsored," New York City) NNWHERE has disappointment in the Soviet ( dictatorship been deeper than among the workers of Norway...
...1920...
...They called all loans on agricultural real estate and refused to make new ones...
...The presidents of the rival unions ought to be shoved out of the picture...
...Aldrich tried to put through a money bill that would give the money changers grip on our commercial veins and blood, i. e.: our system of banking and currency...
...Along with this working hours should be limited to such an extent that all available workers would be required on the job...
...Most certainly not...
...Lindbergh...
...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...
...It is mathematically and financially impossible to pay off all our debts as we destroy the paying off medium in the process...
...Yet some current political phenomena ere calculated to shake one's confidence and optimism...
...But while the Heil administration attempted to tax many things to get more money—and did tax the poor man's cigarette to the tune of four or five million dollars—It neglected to re-enact a tax which had been imposed both in 1935 and 1937 upon these concerns...
...The European mess that is going on today is simply a continuance of what they have had over there for centuries past and, with minor exceptions, they are all tarred with the same stick...
...The profit and monopoly system continually sucks money into the coffers of big banks, corporations and wealthy individuals...
...I will leave it to the Judgment of the readers of this letter whether it is fair to »ny United States citizen to be denied a Job when these aliens have steady work...
...Out of Joint (Oregon City, Ore...
...Macfadden is continually howling to reduce wages but he doesn't say a word about reducing profit Mr...
...The voters can decide for themselves whether policies of the national administration are helpful to business...
...No figures were quoted for 1932 and other depression years...
...and his two sons I have always admired...
...It makes no difference how sincere the membership may be, it is the leadership -hat controls the way it functions...
...Macfadden even turns to John L. Lewis to try to prove some of his arguments...
...Or take the presidential race of Thomas Dewey, of New York...
...Lloyd George was then young and active and surrounded himself with able men...
...That was in Dec, 1913, and...
...This committee or its I duly appointed delegates should be in ' continuous session to investigate eam-I ed and unearned income to see who is I getting overpaid and underpaid...
...Propaganda got us into the first war and is now attempting to stear us straight into this senseless conflict...
...They cannot tell you what should be done to end the unequal distribution we are suffering from but will tell you that if the government would sit in Washington and return all the lost privileges that stopped the good old times in October, 1929, all would be well...
...We must not overlook the labor situation...
...They issued brand new crisp federal reserve notes, against the supposedly nationalized gold for the latter purpose...
...For years, Sen...
...Likewise any other part of our complex system of production and distribution...
...Some of the most unmilitary ideas have also come out of England since the war started, such as the superiority of defense over offense...
...You are as bad as the Communists with insinuations.—Ella M. Rogers...
...To accuse Lewis of being a bosom friend of the president is far fetched...
...and the federal government, j Some people talk as if the present ! debt system is an invention of the \ New Deal...
...27 issue you say quot« (we should) "to make democracy work through economic and social reform so that foreign idealogics cannot take root...
...m Imperfect Plan WEARY WILIE and Tired Tim were sitting by an English roadside discussing how they would put the world to rights if only they were given the chance "Listen...
...asked for a total of Sl.070.642.15 and the AT&T for $93,360.37 lor the two years...
...I have a vague notion the warring countries know more or less exactly where then-opponents' gun and bomb factories are located...
...I have it from authoritative sources that the Farm Bureau was originated by the Binghampton, N. Y. Chamber of Commerce...
...I may read all the Stalinist sheets at the 'ocal library here, and do so upon occasions, but I do not make the mistake of subscribing to a cause that opposes all that I stand for...
...Further, many voters were tired of Hoan's virtues, and wanted a change for the sake of change...
...Old Time Reader "(Norfolk, Va...
...I wish you and your family and paper prosperity and continued protest of the encroachments of the powerful few upon the rights of the many.— Samuel T. Swartz...
...It was the only Socialist party in the world ever to do so...
...Some will contend that we have plenty of money...
...rer.cy form...
...Right here in this part of the state I know of hundreds of men that would be thankful if they could get a job...
...and Wisconsin Eastern Gas Co., $4,280.22...
...The companies asking repayment of 1935 taxes, and the amount for which they sued, are American Telephone and Telegraph Co., $32,654.74...
...Wisconsin Telephone Co., $390,382.32...
...said Tim...
...We think and talk of the American electorate as a distinctly intelligent, wide-awake and progressive body of men and women...
...As long as the present system lasts we can give up the idea of prosperity on a sound continuous basis because the federal reserve system absolutely and unconditionally will not allow it...
...While hard words break no bones, they often leave a lingering bitterness...
...Most of these Mexican track laborers have lived in this country from 4 to 20 years and never became naturalized citizens...
...In last war the British had better and abler men in charge...
...Farm Bureau (Buffalo, Mo...
...He says...
...Stop all loans and our present economy would be paralyzed...
...Both houses of congress have been more charitable than anything dreamed of in past years...
...If we can continue to elect a sufficient Quantity or congressmen who are friends of the masses, the time is coming for a congressional investigation...
...so that the British...
...There are so many places for house cleaning that it could not all be done at one time...
...fought the Vreeland-Aldrich money bill with a long filibuster, over 17 hours...
...The Wisconsin Telephone Co...
...This caused the farmer to liquidate at a loss in order to pay his bank leans...
...2,356.05...
...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...
...The details can be left to commissions whose personnel is informed on the many phases connected with the proposed innovation...
...Should we desire this nation to take over for instance the transportation system as we already have the mails...
...Green and Lewis to put their houses in order and then look for legislation that would be in line with a labor program that would be an asset rather than a liability to the nation...
...Your editorial has changed my opinion about the Progressive party...
...Your foreign policy as expressed in your editorial of Ap...
...The old motto of "pro bono publico" must be dressed up in an alluring manner to attract the biggest group...
...i\d» union leaders scattered to escape cor.*:- "on camps, and presumably resisting the ion trom outside Oslo, the Communist parts p-e: mitted to take over the job of reor-ganiz...
...I wonder if the people of Norway had anything to say about the separation and act of setting up another monarchy...
...But Bernarr Macfadden has always he-walled this administration with every means at his command...
...It seems to be human nature to resent any criticism of an organization to which we belong, but the members should wt belong to the organization, the organization should belong to the members...
...JOHN F. STARK...
...I voted for La Follette for president long years ago, and have been supporting the cause for which Old Bob stood for a much earlier period...
...Personal greed is contributing more toward our economic ills than any other factor...
...In a most pitiable manner the British are trying to offset their apparently complete lack of military resourcefulness by inventing victories on paper...
...It is because the big-hearted, magnanimous bankers loan it back to us at Interest...
...Robert L. Owen testified before the house committee on banking and currency that the federal system created some $40,000,000,000 credit to finance the war and did a very good job...
...It is like trying to chop down a tree with an ax that becomes smaller with every stroke...
...VICTOR S. YARROS...
...You have brought out in your hearings that the packing corporations (which are mostly large ranches) hire mostly foreign labor...
...He Sees Red (Provo, Utah)—The editorial In The Progressive of Apr...
...The Communist daily paper was allowed tc ..;ir.ue publication...
...Why in the name of common sense didn't you put it on the editorial page...
...If we keep our feet on the ground and mainain a mental balance, we can solve all the problems without the explosion of a firecracker...
...He has no positive program, no ideas that he has not hastily borrowed from a committee organized by men of wealth to promote his candidacy for then-own selfish purposes...
...To Sen...
...the federal reserve board of governors raised the rediscount rate to 9 per cent and raised it arbitrarily first in Minnesota to seek revenge on Sen...
...I did not see any crocodile tears shed over tho downfall of Spain, and believe me she fell hard...
...During succeeding weeks—probably until November—other letters will take up other departments and tell of dollars .saved...
...and with 10.5 in 1937 and 10.1 in 1936...
...If that is true, why did the banks not pay it out to depositors...
...We wonder if the suits now dismissed scared the legislature from re-enacting these emergency taxes...
...In regard to a good part of your editorials of the last few months: Under the heading—"The Nazi T ..itors' Betrayal of Norway" in your Apr...
...But no...
...The writer of this editorial states that Norway decided to separate from Sweden and set up her own monarchy (heavy on the monarchy...
...or were afraid to print, oi if they did...
...Oftr earliest ancestors came here to escape it...
...The solid drives towards an objective grabbing all the strategic points is the only way that a war can be won...
...All but Spain did any one ever hear of England rendering any assistance to the duly elected government of Spain...
...Present conditions nere cannot and will not endure and if they are to continue we may have (God forbid) what is now going on across the oceans, right here in our good old U.S.A...
...John Public fails to grasp the difference while the band is playing...
...20, is one-sided and seeks to hold Germany responsible for everything whereas nothing is mentioned about "innocent" England which is just as much to blame for the present European war as Germany...
...In that month reserve requirements were raised, and a^ain in the spring of 1937 to a total of 100 per cent increase in reserves...
...labor movement in which it could obtain no foothold under democratic conditions...
...This is another most dangerous illusion...
...These laws levied these taxes for unemployed relief...
...V One Sided (Cochrane, Wis...
...That is where the j editorials belong...
...Establishment of the 100 per cent reserve to give us a cash monetary j system instead of a system that is 90 i per cent wind and water and capable j of violent expansion and contraction...
...They have tried everything but the right thing...
...The total sought for 1935 was $575,375.18...
...The people who are hollering to stop the government lending, spending program without adopting proper monetary reforms are simply crying out to have our finanlcal throats cut from ear to ear...
...The British had a convenient snowstorm up their sleeve as an alibi for not preventing the German occupation of Norway in time, and the Germans "discovered" a convenient British mine field in Norwegian waters— after they were on their way to Norway with an enormous fleet of freighters, stocked with uniforms, ammunition and fresh, inexperienced Nazi cannon-fodder...
...No soldier with front line experience can think anything else...
...Independent) LAST week seven utilities, operating in Wisconsin, dropped suits against the state to recover $1,328,349.64 which they had paid to the state in taxes based on 1935 and 1937 laws...
...Tire deposits like the banks are larger and fewer...
...The spending of the Patman bonus money sent stocks and dividends nigh enough to encourage dumping bonds on the market to purchase more valuable stocks...
...In order for people to buy goods, they must have money...
...However, when the principal is called, our staggering economic system breaks down completely...
...Look what England has got itself into by nosing into the affairs of every nation in the world...
...This sounds like thanking currency counterfeiters for supplying the country with currency and printing it so it could not be detected...
...That night when she said her prayers she concluded with the petition...
...He asks if it is the part of wisdom for this country to say to hell with the rest of the world—etc...
...Have you been aware of the change...
...I was an enthusiastic, reader of the La Follette magazine during the World war...
...The voters can believe the Republican office seekers or the factual evidence of a nationallv-known bank on earnings of the leading American corporations...
...We still have an army of unemployed, almost equal to those of the early 30's...
...It is human blood...
...Industrial production jumped from 65 (1923-25—100) in January of 1933 to 108 in August...
...But it seems as though the railroads and other corporations do give first preference to Mexicans etc., as laborers before a United States citizen...
...That is a serious charge, but deposi ors found it to be true.—to their cost and sorrow with the administrations of Harding...
...Could the FDIC guarantee every deposit up to $5,000...
...I can't make anything else out of this editorial...
...There is great allurement to stand and direct the spending of billions of this nation's income for what will stick to the fingers of the official powers...
...20 contains a letter by J. C. Macy of Modesto, Cat, which is the first slap on the jaw that has appeared...
...Recent laws may bring some help to the forgotten consumer...
...To Mr...
...Politics has been so badly mixed by our public acrobats and clowns that Mr...
...C. F. KNIZWEG...
...In your next article you infer that the loss of our trade with the Scandinavia countries is a serious threat to our democracy...
...The defeat of Hoan in Milwaukee by an obscure young man whose only qualifications for the office of mayor were good looks, a pleasant voice, and a certain geniality is a shock to all friends of good government...
...Government ownership of the 12 federal banks so the government could regulate the money after it had been coined or printed as the case may be...
...But knowing the sentiment against war of the founder of this paper as I do, it makes me see red for it to be used as a war propaganda sheet to Incite war...
...Coolidge, and Hoover...
...The duties of these boards would be to plan ahead the quantity of goods that should be produced by the indus.ry as a whole, and to assign to each concern a quota...
...It is no wonder that so many good United States citizens are out on the street, hungry and cold...
...In an editorial In Liberty Mr...
...He may make it sound all right but those of us who live in college towns realize that the penurious policy with these institutions has brought about a situation whereby it can no longer be Wisconsin's proud boast that opportunities for higher education await every boy and girl graduate of a Wisconsin high school...
...J- v War Strategy (Pease, Minn...
...She just beat England to the draw...
...1936...
...Do we learn nothing by experience...
...In May...
...The straw that finally turned me away from remaining with you was the last issue in which there appeared more articles upholding "The Stalinist" for their part in the Spanish war...
...Either the people of this country are and have been a bunch of worthless missrits in continually running up debt (except in panic years) or our mone.ary system is dishonest and oppressive...
...I treasure spiritual things more dearly than life itself, and love our form of government more than any other in the world, or promised by those who love slavery...
...to plunge itself into J that European madness to assist the | Norwegian monarchy knowing as you should know that it would mean the destruction of Democracy (what little we have) in this U.S.A...
...There is not an intelligent workman who will not freely admit that labor's support of the gov-ernment In the attack upon industries and business, the source of Jobs, was a terrible and tragic mistake...
...Anyone who questions the statements of the editorial Insort| ed the gentleman would find it in-| terestitig to get a copy of part 2 of the air and ocean mail contract investigation of Oct...
...He who lives a life of love and charity Is constantly at worship.—Swedenborg...
...Bernarr Macfadden continues his double dealing...
...I It is only common honesty for a bank I to have a dollar actually on deposit j if its books say that...
...By going through the campaign as fellow citizens of this republic, we should seek a solution free from partisan bias...
...After six months war of speeches, sinking of submarines in the official communiques, drowning of hundreds of neutral sailors, and the wasting of thousands of tons of ammunition on the Wet-tern front, the Allied politicians and Nazi leaders at last succeeded in finding a battlefield, where the youthful cannon-fodder to the warring nations can be slaughtered or mutilated without injury to Britain...
...I mortgages and foreclosures, etc...
...I find that the economic as well as the political situation has not been improved as much as we have a right to expect...
...We must however, handle this problem as an economic, social affair and leave the noisy wrangling politician entirely out of the picture...
...I Of all the boneheaded stunts—The Progressive screaming upon its front I page the equivalent of war propagan-i da for the U.S.A...
...It would necessitate ; changes in the printed currency but j would be well worth the trouble as it I would supply the government with swollen tax revenues and greatly increase the velocity of money...
...I do not quite agree that it is a government bureau...
...Why do they not eventually get all of it and we have no money left...
...If bond dumping had gone on indefinitely, the Lord only knows how low they might have gone...
...On the contrary the total I amount of debt has been climbing ; steadily since its birth and is reduced i only by the liquidation of panics, i.e...
...French and German munition manufacturers should not see a diminution of their dividends now that stocks were beginning to rise...
...It appears that thousands of young women voted for the inexperienced candidate because he was a bachelor and could sing popular ballads...
...They chose to let the nation suffer and protected their bonds by contracting the currency that caused the stocks to go up and expanding their own kind of currency to purchase the dumped bonds...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 19
