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.-MILTOK Isolationists...
...I net so many publications thai I ran find time to read but a part of them...
...and our papers out here rarely give him a line...
...KNAPP...
...Modern War (Pease...
...Did he have brains sufficient to realize that such procedure would create enmity among the colonies such as exists in Europe today...
...of new territory...
...Yes...
...One of my very good friends locally is Martin Walsh, who managed the elder La Follette's campaign locally when he ran for president on the Progressive ticket.—JOHN M. COX...
...As a revenue measure the graduated tax on natural resources would be a just and equitable measure, i It would produce a very large j amount of revenue from our very rich I mineral, oil and gas resources and the j very- valuable lands in our large cities 1 which could not be broken up into j small holdings and the greater part of | their value would come under the ' straight two per cent rate or what...
...In the autumn of 1898 two Christian traveling men met for the first time and were assigned a room in a crowded hotel in Boscobel...
...So great a man would ask no greater tribute than to be given recognition.— FRANK L. HANSON...
...Laws of Wisconsin 1939...
...It should not be tolerated, ft is robbing the people of their God given rights...
...receive high acclaim from the masses and consequently approval by congress...
...The Isolationists repeatedly state and argue that the war in Europe is merely "just another war...
...In Christian America, church and state should be kept separate, but do not on any account make or observe any law which would keep our religion apart from our government...
...Even at Verdun, the French lost more men than the attacking Germans...
...New Zealand...
...Ana, Calif.i — While the : FBI...
...Or do you prefer to preserve complete isolation from kindred efforts...
...to hold up Ihe government with their demanded Interest rates, the president Induced congress to Issue millions of non-lntercst-bearing...
...It's going to cost more after this, for effective insulation against brutality will come high...
...A simple transaction like the paying of income tax would become an act of faith in democracy instead of an occasion for complaints and bad jokes...
...It is not fitting to wear a flag made in Japan, nor one with less than 13 stars and 13 stripes...
...The condition of the world demands that we put our own house in order so that we shall be prepared to give effective leadership towards reconstruction on a world scale...
...Every issue of the Forum has various statements about the British empire...
...John Hanson...
...John Hanson (Bryn Mawr...
...As Thomas Edison said: "If the government has the right to make a dollar bond, it has the right to make a dollar bill...
...I shall never forget the speech I heard b' Hubert...
...Ninety-three per cent Gf them, according to the Gallup poll, have to be shown that duty demands the sacrifice of one American youth in wars across the sea, They were told In 1917 that the future of democracy was at stake In the European war...
...Their engines arc/made for about 100 hours flying tin)* while the Allies ate geared for about 500...
...Would invalid pensions be included in the "improved security program of "Plank Eight...
...Yet now the isolationists contend that danger from Hitler...
...Wash.1—I sometimes wish the cables to Europe were cut...
...They were told in 1917 that Great Britain and France were the first line of defense...
...Last year the isolationists arsned t...
...j Just now the necessity for more I revenue is apparent for the purpose o; | meeting defense needs and balancing | the budget...
...The "bug" stung our own liberal-minded Judge Lawler and other judges throughout the land...
...Paying for Arms (To the Editor)—We hope some congressman develops sufficient courage in the next few days to instruct the electorate in one of the elementary facts of economic life: That you don't get anything for nothing...
...And this is an excellent time for the entire country to realize why it pays money into the common treasury and what it gets in return...
...Even there, every effort is made to further self-government...
...And second, homestead tax exemption on family-sized, owner operated farms...
...Henry A Piker (Belleville, Kans.i—Some of our present day philosophers seem to think Secretary Wallace is a sinner to advocate restriction of farm products when so many people are hungry...
...If there is horror among the reactionaries, the scheme j ought to be forgotten by now...
...agricultural colleges, master farmers, and their promoters and all their over-production works will hardly prevail against him...
...England tried the same feat in northern Norway, but was forced to I give up the undertaking...
...No nation has ever gone down because of outside enemies but because of internal weakness...
...the who!e of it...
...We've had a great bargain up until now, buying America for the ludicrously small income tax most of us turn over...
...They may be utterly tired of spending their lives working in ways that, (hey feel do not benefit them in the main and they may be cold to any ideas which appeal to their loyalty to their bosses...
...If the isolationists were controlled from Berlin Rome and Moscow, and every work they uttered or wrote were prepared by Goebbels...
...The Germans have always been r very practicable people—and go abou : things Is an orderly and efficient ar.c ! scientific manner...
...There isn't any doubt about the answer...
...CHARLES FISHER...
...In the planning of modern warfare in all its details—it is essential that every angle be studied out and the greatest efficiency secured...
...Nye suggest...
...Channell refers to the "funny money" pension schemes...
...The big difference between the two is: The bond Is a "blood-sucking" note, while the bill is a "non-interest-bearlng note...
...Even the reactionary papers, as you Call them, the Tribune and Hearst's chain of papers are being condemned by you because they feel we hau- no part to play in the European blood bath...
...He can do It now...
...No Invasion iTo the Editor)—The false propa- : ganda...
...A week's experimenting with shifts in the household budget, altering the earmarking of funds, expanding credit and similar devices won't change the fact that your pistol cost, say, 25 bucks...
...you ought to be proud to pay for it...
...The wrick objective Is results and not theory...
...namely, that Germany will invade the U, S., has created a majority opinion to the extent that the president will not have to do as the late Pres...
...As to the second proposition—homestead tax exemption on family-sized, owner operated farms...
...Large [ land owners would be compelled to sell i off or give away a large part of their j holdings...
...Liberty Unity Bethany...
...the last war...
...I do not approve of the prominent space you gave the blast of William Green, president, of the AFL, against the Townsend Recovery plan...
...1 believe that with careful management the true liberals of America are strong enough to put their chosen leader into the presidency...
...as a result these two men met a third...
...On May 31 next they met again at Beaver Dam, Wis., and decided to have a meeting at Janesville Y.M.C.A., July 1, 1899...
...E. CASSEL...
...Why not the graduated i tax on natural resources...
...Intervention in 1917 may or may not have been a mistake...
...I have issued leaflets at different times and along some lines our thinking is parallel...
...Regardless of the success or failure of Germany, the reduction of 27 nations In Europe is essential for a Europe of abundance instead of scarcity, unemployment, poverty and war...
...Old Bob's Spirit (Port Orchard, Wash...
...led distaste the Inarticulate uiii .-II...
...The events In Europe are making it plain enough that Landon and his tribe of third term snipers are mighty small bore compared with the "Big Bertha" at the white house...
...Certainly the Allies had well equipped troops in this sector and about as many if not more men engaged...
...But these are necessary things to say and to remember if any future sacrifice we make Is not to be made in vain...
...South Africa and Ireland all govern themselves...
...FRANK 1...
...The final mistake the administration may make is to invite these same bankers to set up shop next door and bring their navy and old world troubles with them—J.'b...
...By the bosses they understand those who receive the major benefits of industrial production...
...We ihould not take history too seriously however, as some it is false and most of it is wrong psychology...
...As two-thirds of all men over 60 years old have not sufficient means to live on, and when out of a job, unable at that age to secure employment, are dependent on their children, relatives or state for assistance, the members of the federation may at last come to the conclusion that a change In leadership striving for labor peace and security in old age would greatly affect their future well-being and general welfare—FRED I.UCIISINGER Wants the Payer (Saw Jose...
...One of the greatest sias is the monopoly of the natural resources...
...The English have been giving up their colonies...
...Please send me The Progressive...
...That there is justification for mass production of war equipment to prevent invasion of the U. S. by foreign nations, namely Germany...
...The offense can also direct the strategy of the battle, while the defense has to keep guessing...
...That mistake must not be repeated...
...Calif., when he returned a short time ago from war-torn Europe...
...Every good citizen should consider it his duty to support a paper that does not base Its existence on advertising space but is continually' fighting, for the fundamentals of a democratic government and the interests and welfare of the common people...
...Did he advocate making new-states out...
...In the conjectural stories out from Washington at the end of last week, there was some mention of a plan to cut relief funds by diverting part of them for defense...
...Taylor offers two suggestions as tending to encourage this type of farming...
...Gold Bugs (Boulder, Colo.1—While the men at the head of this nation are looking for ways and means to finance the appropriations of billions for enlarging our defense against possible attack, why not follow the sensible and only right way...
...Is It because the money trust composed of the private federal reserve banks, centered in Wall si...
...And why did fetish loving historians leave him out of our history...
...Wilson did...
...To the call of booty, they believed they had responded in 1919 — and somebody else's booty at that...
...The products of 'is idealism are plainly apparent.—SIDNEY NOKEN...
...In the battle of Flanders—from all accounts available to the layman—the Allies were fully as brave as the Germans...
...a plan that has been tried o . both in Denmark and in Ireland ar.< is now being tried in a cautious way :: this country under the present admin -istration...
...Money Power (Gerber, Calif.i—I wish to voice my objection to the un-neutral and hysterical attitude of the administration toward the war in Europe...
...We're doing it because it's essential to .your way of living...
...In peace time the general staff of some armies come to unsound conclusions...
...Whatever may be said of certain individuals in Germany, the people are supporting a policy of employment and public money, and are fighting the same private banking ring and the same feudal lords that Washington fought at Valley Forge...
...Were he and Washington very close friends, and did they embrace each other like old women when they met...
...I am Swiss born and now suffering lor my poor country which is now in : nger of being destroyed by the Germans...
...No Democracy j (Petersburg...
...What is Communism...
...One of the greatest fallacy advanced in the past few years and months is that the offense will lose three times the number of men than the defense...
...and wc know it can't be done on the cuff...
...This, we hold, is the fault of leaders so excessively involved in self-interest that they are unwilling to say something to this effect: "Look here, we are going to do thus-and-so down here in Washington...
...This idea is quite wrong...
...hurt...
...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.-MILTOK Isolationists (Santa...
...relative to displaying the flag...
...However, I feel a real satisfaction in reading as much as I can of publications like yours and then passing them on, Therefore, I am sending another remittance for which I have a number of other places, but am sending it anyway...
...Hitler and M u s s o 1 i n i cannot promptly overwhelm Great Britain and France...
...M. La Follette Sr., ill livereil ¦¦>'¦ Vulley City...
...Wis.l—World wide terrible conditions, strife between materialism and Christianity, becoming daily worse, calls for serious consideration as to what we Americans can and should do about it...
...Recent developments demonstrate that the best plan to keep this or any other country out of war Is to be prepared for war.—J...
...I would rather read their pro-American policies than your pro-European policies...
...I believe Uncle Sam is the most gullible critter on earth...
...In the Interests of democracy in Europe as well as In America, we must make a clear statement of objectives of our foreign policy and make acceptance of them the condition of our support of any foreign country...
...It's the new industrial and agricultural aristocracy that has never recognized the abolition of slavery or democracy...
...Unconditional intervention was a mistake, about which there can be no question, in view of dis llusionment and depression here, and disaster over there, that resulted from It...
...don't want honest, non-lntcrest-bearlng, constitutional money...
...North Dakota In hh.'j or lull) to 5,000 people After speaking over two hours, he paused to inquire if he were, tiring us...
...I hope some day the people will take the bull by the horns.—WM...
...The Germans concentrated their attacks and drove wedges into the Allied lines, destroying them in piecemeal...
...Before we make the last step (and we are very clase to iti on the road of Intervention, our representatives in congress should embody in a joint resolution the conditions under which America will intervene...
...They know that the future of democracy is always at stake, in peace as well as in war...
...The worst brand of Communists are the money mongers, monopolists, and Those who co-operate to get something for nothing...
...that's the reason...
...These are cruel things to say when British and French peoples are fighting valiantly with their backs to the wall...
...The situation will Degin to gel addled when the boys start trying to figure out a painless way of paying for it...
...Pres...
...they had the wrong idea of modern warfare—the Cap...
...VALLENTYNE...
...R. II...
...We believe most men would be proud...
...The old idea i of personal value has not the de- ! cisive results as it had in the past, j Personal bravery was necessary and ; of supreme importance in the old knights and foot soldiers...
...McDOUGALL...
...Wheeler and Sen...
...It Is only in the most backward countries that London has much of a hand in government...
...We should know what the flag stands for—to realize its significance...
...They can't control that kind of money and draw interest on It, so it is not made, but instead, blood-sucking interest-bearing bonds are made...
...B. V. ' HIESTER...
...Their first effort was to put a Bible in every room in every hotel in the United Stales in which they have made good progress...
...N. Y.)—To the call of duty, the American people have never failed to respond...
...Bible in Schools (Eau Claire...
...In addition, the Gideons are working to spread the Gospel by placing a Bible at their own expense in each school in America, and except in Wisconsin and a very few other spates they have been meeting with good success...
...Now when so many more billions are needed for "arms financing," instead of adding more taxes to the already too heavy burden, or making more bonds lo draw interest for untold years, why doesn't Franklin D. Roosevelt follow Abraham Lincoln's example and induce our congress to exercise its constitutional right and make a sufficient amount of honest constitutional money to finance the proposed expansion and also pull us out of our present unemployment stagnation...
...This, the best money we have ever posessed, was paid out for munitions and soldiers' wages and everything else, and the greenbacks that escaped getting Ihe notorious wicked "exception clause" slipt onto them actually rose above par...
...Here again the value of the offense Is shown, the offense can dictate the way the battle is to be fought...
...I am wondering what could be done towards bringing together your movement with the Epics in southern California, the C.I.O...
...As the war pro- | gresses...
...It is made of dark bronze, and sets in a somewhat shaded place and is unattractive, indicating that the influence of some unjust clan is still at work...
...That stalwart figure standing with his foot on the other's chest Is not, the newly freed slave of British tyranny...
...Next they opposed repeal of the arms embargo to enable the United S ates to send supplies to Europe that might Injure Hitler, Stalin, or Mussolini, implacable enemies of the United States...
...They consider their taxes money lost...
...Lincoln read In the constitution...
...He must have felt the urgent necessity of instilling more loyalty and patriotism for things constructive into his fel-lowman, for when he went back to work on the bench he instituted a highly worthy procedure—of having everyone in the courtroom pay allegiance to the flag...
...Millions are homeless roaming the earlh, They have no Incentive to do anything worth while because of monopoly...
...if it had not been fo-American military aid...
...It is narrow-mindedness or intolerance of a subscriber to discontinue his subscription because he happens to disagree on some subject...
...Ireland (Erie) has chosen not to enter the war...
...Was he one of America's staunehest leaders and patriots, the first president of the United States, the first man to use the great seal, and did his signature cement the union...
...You could then apply all your energy to the troubles which beset us here in the U. S. That's why I take your paper—NILS ANDERSON...
...As long as troops can advance they will maintain the superior morale...
...This will prove to bp our strong defense, not tanks and airplanes...
...We have a feeling the phrase lacks elegance, but we would like to see the idea driven home as clearly...
...The senator says an isolationist is one that no longer considers this country a British colony...
...Communism Is preferable where nobody owns anything personally, but nobody is compelled to starve...
...We ought to have more like it in our corrupt world where truth in all things has disappeared...
...owner operated farm but It would also encourage home ownership in our cities and villages and many small, owner operated mining industries...
...Mich...
...If you want to keep your house clear of burglars you buy a pistol...
...Stalin and Mussolini—which they have heretofore denied—is so imminent and perilous that we cannot spare any military supplies at all...
...John Hanson was i the first man to visualize a growing group of sovereign states under one flag'.1 Did he vigorously fight, the Idea of making land grants to the already established colonies...
...But, after all is said and done, they lost...
...Though many injustices have been perpetrated by would-be bigwigs in this land, the flag still stands as an emblem of liberty and justice...
...P. T. Barnum used to say, "Yanks like to be fooled...
...namely, wait until after election to ask congress for a declaration of war...
...The "I am" people wear it as a badge...
...Does "Plank One" include land or not...
...By taking this colt blooded attitude they have won so fai And by the way they would have wot...
...Maps usually show the British empire all in one color as though England owned everything...
...As proof, Germany will evidently soon compel the surrender of France and England's army will be depleted and of little strength, but even with those odds in favor of Germany, her most difficult task is to transport men over a channel of water 22 miles wide and conduct a successful campaign...
...While military principles never : change the methods do...
...C. GLASGOW...
...Taylor admits that the first of these plans is "at least a two generation proposition" and I question whether the results attained either in Denmark or Ireland have been entirely satisfactory to the rural populations of these countries...
...Cut Cables (East Stanwood...
...ever rate might be fixed in the high | bracket...
...They are defending the worst system of private banking that has ever cursed the human race...
...SLOCUiW...
...W. Va...
...Frank W. Chan-nell in the Peoples' Forum of June 1 gives one of the best expositions of the labor saving machine and its relation to labor I ever read...
...would be no European war, thereby leading us to infer that they believed Hitler" Mussolini, and Stalin were benevolent dictators intending to b-ing about reforms by moral suasion...
...England and France have no new enemies, but they have the serious internal weakness of private banking and widespread unemployment...
...Again, as a reason why the democrats* should be overrun and the existence of the United States as a republic endangered without our effort to help our allies, the isolationists remind that the Allies did not pay their war debts—bping careful to conceal and not mention the fact that England and France quit paying us when Germany quit paying them the agreed indemnities...
...Did you ever experience the thrill of glimpsing our flag fluttering in the breeze, when on foreign trips It sure looks good...
...JEROME H. I.ANDRUM...
...Wash.1 — Do you realize how great our gratitude should be for the privilege of living under the radiance of the Stars and Stripes...
...Any American investor in foreign bonds owns as much of another country as the English do of their former colonies...
...Most of us see nothing shocking in paying our way...
...j They would divide them up into | smaller tracts, selling a few acres to ; one person, a hundred or more acres | to another according to the desire of ; the purchaser or their ability to pay...
...Burton K. Wheeler on this war mess and his definition of an isolationist, as he is called, and I feel the same as I was born and reared in the U. S. and believe in isolation...
...I have not seen any other ¦'iintry which has laws and people n abide by them like the Swiss...
...The United States is wisely pre j paring under efficient leadership...
...In order that no incongruity may be lacking, the Isolationists in a debate broadcast on the "American Forum of the Air" last Sunday, argued that our regular army needed more tents and uniforms, and therefore we could not spare surplus planes, rifles or ammunition...
...It is no more radical to tax natural resources under the graduated plan than it is to tax incomes in that way and it would prove more practical and easier to administer...
...j Such a course would not only en-I courage the family and tractor-si2ed...
...I was much interested in Carl Taylor's discussion in a recent Issue of The Progressive on the social aspect of encouraging and maintaining the family-sized farm as presented to the La Follette committee...
...The other former colonies hive decided to enter the war...
...Then we would tax the next S24.000 worth of land, including timber, mineral, oil and gas resources owned by one person or corporation j at the rate of one-fourth of one per [cent: the second $25,000 worth at the rate of one-half of one per cent: the I third $25,000 worth at the rate of ! three-fourths of one per cent: the I fourth $25,000 worth at the rate of I one per cent and all values above I $100,000 worth held in a single estate j at two per cent...
...After battling- for some time congressmen from Maryland recently succeeded in getting his statue in the Capitol building...
...The political fear of talking about taxes in anything save an apologetic whisper is never very pretty at any time...
...certain military features be- | come evident...
...Again I ask: Why not...
...people shouted...
...If Hitler is responsible for our mis-representatives suddenly starting some real activity in our medium of exchange, we ought to send him a bouquet...
...He .says of the Townsend program that you are not told what the plan will cost and who will pay for it, and that you will really get It...
...and deny, or suppress, what they know to be a fact: That the European war threatens us because it is a world revolution by our enemies, and a war of conflicting concepts of civilization which inmcrils America as well as Europe...
...To the call of duty, they believed they were responding in 1917...
...Did he have more to do with the making of this nation than any other one man...
...Mussolini and Stalin, or been more inimical to the interest ol the United States.—S HARP L K S S WALKER...
...After being shunted in the background for 160 years (the colonel is coming out in the open again...
...We're going to try to keep what we've got...
...Its beneficial influence would be felt j at once instead of having to wait one j or two generations for results...
...What nonsense...
...Mussolini, and Stalin to conclude that they would have a f'cc hand in invading and plundering the Independent democratic European nations...
...After telling us that a government retirement pension for all citizens would cost too much and asking us where the money was coming from, they now toss billions over the counter for planes with the abandon of buying a bag of peanuts...
...It means that two or more persons agree to work together for some purpose...
...including Russia with the Allies...
...Judges 6 and 7, did exactly as God told him to do...
...Communism Is a great deal better than monopolism...
...111.'—The more I reac The Progressive especially since the outbreak of the present European war the more I think you are getting pro-military and pro-Roosevelt which I don't like...
...The j lessons of the World war and this one j can well be utilized to gain results.— | S. J. SIMONSEN...
...Trojan horses, fifth columns, saboteurs, and spies, they might try shadowing isolationist senators, congressmen, and editors who are giving aid and comfort to the enemy...
...This is the center of southern Bourbonism...
...It is an insult to the intelligence of any American to be told that these gentlemen are defending democracy and civilization...
...I left Switzerland when only 19 and . n now 76...
...And it is so deep-rooted that, people have come back to look upon taxation as a sort of unpleasant joke...
...Use of the Bible in schools does not of necessity constitute sectarian instruction,— ARTHUR C. GOWER...
...Call of Booty (New York...
...A few years ago any person that was Progressive was called a radical, or Socialist but now he is called a Communist...
...The Progressive is the spirit of Old Bob carrying on—ARTHUR BRINK...
...But, there certainly can't be any wrong about it or the Almighty would not release his hot winds occasionally and more or less cook the growing crops over half a continent...
...could...
...J. MAGAREY BARCLAY...
...This is a letter j I have been meaning to write to you j for a long time just to let you know that I endorse your platform wholeheartedly and one hundred per rent...
...Hawaii)—Enclosed find $2 for another year's subscription to your valuable paper...
...Monopoly Evil (Davenport...
...j Tricky Japan has named one of its islands United States, and things made there for American trade are branded—"Made in the U. S." Who knows if Col...
...You pay for it in cash, sooner or later...
...America's need for arms Is not Immediate, and planes, tanks, rifles and ammunition may now be spared and used to best advantage for our defense if sent to the Allies, fighting our enemies...
...Unquestionably the dissatisfaction with industrial life can play a great port in revolutionary methods, and the greater the unfairness people feel about, business and Industry the greater can be the success of fifth column activity.—CARL PETERSON...
...I judge that it looked better than ever to Judge Wcsiover of Long Beach...
...William J. Knights of Wild Rose, Wis., and the three organized an association which they named the Gideons, remembering that Gideon...
...Recently they voted for—or at least did not vote against—five billion dollars for defense, made necessary by the success of Hitler's armies and the known enemity of Hitler for America...
...8, Part 5: "The congress shall have power : To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign ;oin, and fix the standard of weights uid measures...
...I wish a copy could be sent to every congressman and senator and that they would take time out from the European "blitzkrieg" to concentrate on the real weakness of our country—the unemployment and want in the midst of plenty...
...I am desirous of learning the senator's attitude toward foreign relations, national defense, etc...
...Again we ask: Why is not this done1 Echo answers "Why...
...Wis., and while on their knees the thought came to them of the need for an organization of Christian traveling men...
...of course, reports from the men in the ranks, but it shows that they do not understand modern warfare...
...half of our program...
...Many people are saying '.hat there Is something phony about 'his war, especially the surprise victories of the Germans over Holland, and Belgium and Norway...
...Many believe that the empire consists of one-fourth of j the world and that London controls...
...If Mr...
...These are...
...So instead of allowing the Goldbugs of Wall st...
...Man makes progress by looking forward not backward...
...Take the Dies committee to probe the doings of Communism...
...More 'nan two-thirds of our people have been disfranchised through an unconstitutional poll tax law which has never been ratified by the people) and taxation without representation...
...The Germans apparently, in manufacturing airplanes, do not go in for a highly developed construction...
...Family Sized Farms 'Ottawa...
...It Is a step in the right direction but one step will never get us very far if we stop there...
...Concerned by the question whether they would favor a vast defense pro-pram if Great Britain and Fiance were victorious or fighting each other, they evasively and falsely refused to answer on the ground that the question is irrelevant—the principal reason for not answering being, of course, that to answer in the negative, which they must do if they answered at all, would expose the fallacy and perfidy of their attitude...
...It seems to mc before this war you preached peace but now I see no more of it Why...
...They know that foreign policies of Great Britain and France since the last war showed little concern for democracy, that in every move, interest in a democratic unity of Europe was subordinated to selfish Imperial interests...
...i * -:• •> He Is Critical (Belleville...
...but never take any of the laws e Swiss have home to their coun-es Here in Hawaii money ruli-.s.— AUGUST ITEN...
...In the initial stages of the offense more men may be lost, but as the offense succeeds, driving wedges into the defense—great slaughter of the defense will result by flanking and rear attacks...
...That is proof that they are not being held in subjection...
...reaction and anti-New Dealism, the birthplace of such reactions' ies as Glass, Byrd, Wood-rum, Howard Smith, Drewry, et si...
...Canada, Australia...
...It would be an indefensible attempt to use a world tragedy as an excuse to create a near-tragedy at home...
...Hart idea of defense...
...Yes, we have no Democracy" Is our new stale anthem.— R. A. IHOMPSON...
...Free of the danger of political sniping, some I hero of house or senate may yet rise | and announce: "Don't kid yourselves, I ladies and gents: this is going to...
...This is a subject that has commanded considerable attention during the last four years by members of both major parties...
...Japan and Russia, singly or jointly, is held by best naval authorities as impossible...
...A normal sense of self-preservation probably will make the undertaking popular and non-partisan...
...It would be to their interest to see them prosper and we would have one continuous "Year of Jubilee...
...and any other genuinely liberal movement such as the Socialist party in order to form a really strong third party on a national scale...
...In the World war the Central...
...First, government assistance in th way of easier credit facilities to thos» who wished to acquire farms of the: own...
...America is going to begin a huge, expensive defense program...
...ISillions for Arms 'Saginaw...
...More Like It (Hilo...
...I am eager to j help any good cause, especially a Progressive cause such as Sen...
...Would you consider working with folk who accept, shall we say...
...1, Sec...
...To the call of duty, the American people are still willing to respond, but today they are from Missouri...
...Our government at Washington should take warning and return the money power and the tools of production to the people...
...Certainly it will require a combined effort, concerted action and individual sacrifices...
...La ! Follette has been crusading for...
...1, Sec...
...j We believe that once such a law was ! enacted, our present big land owners j would become interested in those to ! whom they would be compelled to sell I the land...
...There is no other paper which compares with The Progressive in giving the truth in all things...
...There is widespread doubt about the ability of liberal democracies to resist the sini u - methods of the Nazi fifth column It is ely possible that the ease of Nazi column success is due to the tti...
...Have you seen our state flag...
...From reports we read in the newspapers, the British soldiers all claim that they were equal man for man to the Germans, but that the Germans seem to have 10 men where they had one...
...1 could easily have listened another two hours...
...40.29 read: "Subject to the power of the county board of education to adopt and supply books, the common school board shall adopt from the list of text books on file with the state superintendent all the text books necessary for use in the schools under its charge and file the list of the adopted books with the school clerk and keep a copy of it posted in the school...
...Fifth Column 'Chicago, 111...
...Heroism ! alone cannot win...
...Bur, the chances cf being shot down is quite probably within 100 hours and anything that will fly with great speed for a relatively short time is cheaper and more efficient than a high pricced article which life In battle would be about the same, and when shot down or destroyed the loss would be greater in workmanship and material...
...That applies to books lo be purchased at public expense, bi l as appears to the writer and to others does not apply to books which may be donated to the district...
...They possess their own independence and could have stayed out if they chose...
...No nation may hope to long survive this internal condition...
...As one lawyer said, "The Bible is a great seller and becoming more and more in demand, and children should be allowed to know why this is so...
...have for I he "business civilian ion" of today...
...Well...
...Green and taken the trouble to read the bill, he would have learned that the Townsend bill clearly specifies that the money Is raised by a 2 ]>er cent gross income tax against, those who income exceeds $250 per month and exempting those whose Income is less than $3,000 a year...
...I feel the same as Sen...
...The judg-I ment of best naval officials is based j on the above facts, and the fact that Germany has not found it practical, from the standpoint of generalship, to destroy England within a distance of 22 to 200 miles, what success would Germany have in landing troops here, either by plane or vessel...
...it pre-supposes that we are a nation of chlselers...
...The writer claims and believes every true American must stand by and support American and Christian principles practically the same...
...Quite a few of your readers are disagreeing with your war policies Here's hoping you change to pro-American policies as Sen...
...One landhog owning thousands of acres of land creates more havoc than all the harm that the Communists could do If they were so inclined...
...Powers bein« on the offense prac- : tically all the time last only half as many men...
...There are many rules, do's and don'ts...
...AFL Leaders (Independence...
...Here in this much praised and sung virgin state, Virginia, we still retain many of our old and outworn institutions such as slavery, | (Industrial-white and peonage-tenancy and share cropping) government oy the plutocratic minority...
...The dificulty is, of course, that there isn't any painless way...
...Free Britain (Evanston...
...as suggested by N. P. Stenshoel, in the open forum June 8, and have congress exercise the good old constitutional right and authority to make and control our money (Art...
...Did he outfit and send the first bunch of soldiers from Maryland to Massachusetts in the early days of the Revolution...
...full legal tender government notes called "greenbacks...
...Then they attempted to give to the world the impression that under no conditions would the United States send the Allies any arms, thus en-<—.irs>"ivc Hit'or...
...We see eye to eye in certain vital matters such as a government bank and co-operatives...
...I There is nothing in modern military history to warrant this conten-1 tion...
...dam it all...
...Col...
...Go on, go cm...
...But there are signs of temporary unity between the two major parties that are more encouraging...
...We would begin by exempting all homes occupied by the owner up to $1,000 valuation on their land values and $4,000 on buildings and other \ improvements...
...Wash...
...You :ank and file members of the federation, do j°" realize that your president favors the Social Security act that taxes the lower paid workers and exempts all that earn $250 per month...
...What we need Is a graduated system of taxation on land and other natural resources connected with it, the same as we now have on incomes and inheritances...
...investigating committees, and patriotic organizations are looking for alien enemies...
...they could not have better served the interests ol Hitler...
...unwilling to meet our share of the check...
...The Progressive renders the American people a great service...
...Minn...
...In 1861, when the union needed money to finance the war...
...All the wealth of the entire country secures the one the same as the other...
...who make up our plutocratic, bureaucratic, political oligarchy of obstructionists and wreckers of all social and progressive legislation in the congress...
...Whenever we see it waving we should think of those great men that made it possible, especially of Col...
...Of course, it is still necessary, but the scientific use of mechanized power in both the air and on the ground controls the j decision in modern warfare...
...Anything to fool the people...
...The "Farm Bureau...
...Charles G. Binderup, head of the Constitutional Money League, says: We are short 18 billions dollars of sufficient money to bring about an exchange of products and labor as it should be done to get ourselves out of the inexcusable, deplorable mess we are in and have real prosperity too...
...Look in your dictionary and see...
...The British Empire has planted democracy as well as it...
...Repeating these things with a shriek Is not convincing them...
...Every successful battle by Germany, Japan, and Russia has created an excuse for the issuing of bonds aggregating millions to be used to compensate contracts given to munition plants In the U. S. Congressmen understand that the people approve of these contracts and therefore are giving inslant approval to over three billion dollars for planes, battleships, shot, and shell...
...Otherwise we readers might wake up and find Europe's sweetheart Dorothy Thompson's column In The Progressive.—JACOB P. BOE11S...
...Henry, no doubt, is a piker compared with the way the great "I Am" does business along this line, but as long as he perseveres in his puny efforts to keep production down to where farmers can realize something for their labor, he will be in good company, regardless of what the two blades of grass boys have to say about it...
...Many other countries come to vitzprland to confer about their own .vs...
...say nothing about the added billions needed for war expansion...
...Was his foresight the chief cause of 35 additional stars being added to the flag...
...I prefer individualism as far as owning my home, which is essential for good citizenship...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 25
