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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM HITS FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Detroit. Mich., Jan. 4. 1930 | I am or.e of the men who took an .¦active p;:::. ir. the Campaign in 1924 I for the election of Senator La Follette...
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...Many of the leaders in that movement or several of them were associated with or connected w:th National banks...
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...Prominent men in Congress and throughout the Country should unite now and establish a movement and stick to it till the forces that now control the Country are compelled to nir-render to Reformers who mean Reform and who are in earnest and are not...
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...As an old fighter in the cause of reform for years in this state let mc say that I believe I express the views of many others as well as my own that efforts now being made in Congress that is, in the Senate by Senator La Follette and others including Senator Norris in Nebraska, will amount to little or nothing in hoping to reform either of the old parlies...
...On this basis is it any wonder that more than 90 per cent of business ventures ultimately fail, as Is claimed...
...I have no doubt that the failure of : the continuation of the organization of which he was the leader went down due to the fact that the heart of the movement was not really supported by reformers...
...Getting the best 1 possible estimates of wealth at that time he added all the new production since...
...the Campaign in 1924 I for the election of Senator La Follette for Pres:d -i:t and with many others share the regret of cur aims not hav...
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...12] Many years a subscriber to your paper in its mission of defending the rights of the common people against the trust...
...He added the value of all the new cities and properties that have since been built upon all this territory: he added all the wealth accumulated from the Declaration of Independence down, and he found our average wealth increase was slightly less than 4 per cent a year...
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...6 I am returning herewith a torn part or The Progressive...
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...that the total annual increase I in wealth production in the U. S. over I the 10-ycar period was about five and one-half per cent, | He further says that Senator Howell...
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...1929 Being an old subscriber' of La Follette's Magazine I was very agreeably surprised on receiving a copy of The Progressive...
...It is to be hoped that the new paper which you are publishing as a weekly will be edited by men in the interests of the common people and take away the greatevt power for the control of the peoples intoreft and affairs from the banks and Wall Street and turn it over lo the people to whom it belongs...
...The Federal Reserve Bank System was organized for the purpose of controlling the money supplies at the expense of the people and placing the whole power cf the financial affairs of this Country, National and Individual in the hands of a few men comparatively to profit thereby end as a.democratic scheme the motive by democrats who belong to the Wall Street gang and are controlled by it, which scheme has been adopted by Republican party as its legitimate child and I have yet to read anything in the public press coming from WASHINGTON or in your former publication, the magazine, which attacks the system...
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...9 I have been a reader of La Follette's Magazine for several years and am glad to see The Progressive come out on the same lines...
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Vol. 1 • February 1930 • No. 10
