A QUESTION FOR THE GOVERNOR
The Opportunity for Liberalism [By T. ARTHUR TURNER] A liberal is a referee in the battle of ctrinaires. The ideal liberal is one who views the disinterestedly, Impersonally, and scientific;! cist...
...That such a dam can be constructed seems to be indicated by recent political developments in England, where a liberal Labor gov-erment Ls in control, and where liberal legislation h- . long since prevented bloodshed...
...Unscrupulously, with no regard either to the good of their country or the welfare of generations yet to come, this class satisfies its greed until the masses, driven to desperation, rLse up and destroy the system...
...We may profit by the precedent of history...
...If the nearly 5,000,000 that voted for La Follette in 1924 had then have organized a public ownership party and had each one paid $1.00 a year dues with which to educate the others on that issue they could elect, a president in 193...
...now we ought to he able to win in 1940...
...poverty breeds poverty, together they ferment disaster...
...The hidebound conservative who continually prates of evil minded agitators "spreading the .seeds of dLscoment" neither seems to know nor possess the ability to learn that people who are properly fed, clothed, and housed will turn deaf ears to any propaganda of discontent...
...to attempt to stay the current, or guide it by the will of man into channels that do not sweep civilizations before it, would be to attempt to make a brick fall upwards, or like Cnute, command the tide not to rise...
...whose lot has been poverty, squalor, and hunger...
...It particular crime of the illiberalLsm of those in power...
...If we would star...
...Kerensky could have testified to th . DISEASE CALLS FOR RADICAL REMEDIES (Editorial in London "Herald," Organ of British Labor Party) Stomachs remain empty while wheat piles up in the elevators, and farmers dread a too good harvest...
...Sr., and (his evening I heard his son...
...And goods accumulate and men decay, production must artificially restricted...
...and we cannot, blame him...
...out of the masses always grows a class whose material rewards for its service to society are far out of proportion to its actual worth...
...No fiddling with tariffs, upward or downward, or deal with this evil...
...Liberalism has...
...For the evil grows apace...
...there is but one way to eliminate the evil, and a wholesale destruction of the entire system...
...What is liberalism...
...Russia did not have it under the blundering bureaucracy of the Tsars...
...A, F. Heising...
...Their motivating force was not Karl Marx...
...The vicious circle widens...
...i idea, he must have a sufficiently scientific attitude ind to abandon it once it is proved wrong or impracl It ls not enough that a man be born with i proclivities...
...AllliotiBh it is true lhat we cannot accurately peer into the mysterious gloom of the future by the dim light of hLvtory...
...To them the red flag of Revolution was the symbol of their blind, unreasoning hatred of a system that had starved them...
...the conservative may recognize the same thing, but he fears the temporary pain of the operation, and relies on a stupid faith that maybe everything will be all right anyway...
...The true liberals' first thought is the life of the nation...
...the conservative's first and last thought is of his stomach...
...Wh that time comes, the liberals must take refuge with t conservatives, or their blood will serve also to color t stream of history...
...who has felt on his neck the gold-hobnailed boot of an indifferent, society crushing hi more deeply into the gutter of ignorance...
...Phil, speak;- "ril...
...OBVIOUSLY, the only dam that can brave the current is that of liberalism...
...It is only by doing thLs now, while the country s has wealth to save and while the masses are still suf ciently well fed to be contented, that our nation can steered clear of the shoals...
...To thus train men against any attitude of liberal tolerance, is to endanger the social structure...
...millions of cubic feet of natural gas may be wasted, every variety of public wealth may be laid as a sacrifice on the altar of private greed, and the conservative stands by solemnly, occasionally emerging from hLs shell long enough to say, "The country is basically sound...
...It would appear that to attempt to dam this onrushing stream of history would be to attempt defiance of universal law...
...What did the Russian proletarian know of Karl Marx beyond a vague notion that he was .some .sort of a demigod whose words bore a magic potency to put food in the mouths of their children...
...It recognizes the fact that abscesses can only be healed by aspiration...
...The EnglLsh Lf -borites are in reality not radicals but exceedingly so sible liberals who are fighting desperately to keep tr British ship of State from being pounded to pieces on th rocks of "the-country-is-basically-soundism...
...NO social organLsm can endure without liberalism, France did not have it in the days of the Bourbons...
...What to the rioting Jacobins were the words of Voltaire, Beumaicliais, Rou.-seau...
...dollars while the commonwealth stands a show of gaining five million thereby, only then does he view with alarm—only then does the country seem to be approaching "basic unsoundness.'' The United States of America is ripe for liberalism, even If it be labelled " radicalism...
...Now is the time- lei's RO.—B...
...Purchasi power declines again...
...and its final phase, unlr the cure Ls found, would be a desperate struggle for rreasingly adequate markets, ending in suicidal wars a the crash of civilization...
...and the rest...
...the conservative sees the trees...
...Nor can any similar pill cure t economic earthquake...
...When there is a prospect of his income falling to 500.000...
...Liberalism, except lor a much ridiculed minority docs not exist in the United- States of America today...
...The term liberalism -not to be confused with a party label...
...Liberalism does not exLst in the Russia of today —where it Ls going remains to be seen...
...Hatred breeds hatred...
...going to hate with every fibre of his being: what good In the society that is abusing him, he cann to him it Is all bad...
...Tolerance Ls a prime factor...
...that social order exL.'ts no more...
...Any man who has toiled and sweated and risked his life in mines or stone quarries...
...And 1 liberalism it Ls evident that we mean only intelligent o rection, a free interplay of ideas, a toleration of viev points, and a steadfast, determination to make an ii telligent evaluation of the merits of a proposition r gardless of its label...
...P. O. BEST WAY OCT The public ownership of public utilities and natu resources is the best way for the laboring class to ;. the wealth they create, and all who believe in that out to get- together in a party of their own and vote for ca;.-dldates for all offices from president to constable who believe in that...
...This is a radical disease of c system, calling for radical remedies...
...The problem is to turn human need into purchasi power, to create an increased "effective demand" t keeps pace with increased production...
...intolerance breeds intolerance...
...even though he himself on...
...socialism," "communism," or "BolshevLsm" by conservative fat-heads «-h-imagine they stand a show of protecting the abeui privilages of their class by screaming the terror...
...July .10.;—You bet I have not forgotten the efforts of the Robert M. La Follette...
...If the commonwealth at large loses ten million dollars while he makes a million, the conservative is satisfied...
...Posterity may be robbed ruthlessly and needlessly of its forest lands...
...REMEMBERS LA FOLLETTE'S EFFORTS Menomonie, Wis...
...He points with pride...
...cist be free of prejudice or fanatical adherence vstem or doctrine...
...If he is a man...
...Hatred in man's makeup precludes definitely any possibility of liberalism...
...The liberal sees the forest...
...The stream of history appears to have flown on inexorably, resistlessly: occasionally slightly deflected by a human rock, it has continued its general course imper-turbably toward the xea of eternity...
...he is indeed §. "chin oil the old block...
...First of all it does not take refug behind smug phrases and either stupidly or deliberate;, disregard festering sores in the body politic...
...Its prime mover has been the acquisitiveness of mankind...
...and although there sre no laws to be resolved by mathematical accuracy, there do seem to me to be some definite trends in social and political evolution...
...who has seen his wife and children grow sallow and thin and tuberculous for want of food, sunshine, and even decent, air to breathe...
...It Was a blind hatred born of hunger, abuse, and oppression...
...S. Cox...
...Unemployment grows...
...he must, to make the ideal liberal e the proper environment and training...
...it is the peculiar conservative method of playing with .dynamite which will one day destroy the very order for the safety of which they hold such neurotic fears...
...that m not be a liberal If he Ls human...
...If the workers do that the change could be brought about in from 10 to 20 years...
...that Russia Ls relegated to the limbo of useless things that were...
...no place in country once the wealth Ls gone and the masses an with blood in their eye and hatred in their hearts...
...It is a prob which must be solved quickly...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 39
