THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM APPLYING ECONOMIC LAWS fNucla, Colorado, sept. 22]—The proposal to raise prices by restricted production is impracticable. Under normal conditions the law of supply and demand...
...E. Barth...
...It is therefore a great mistake to try to remedy deep-rooted social evils of such "palliatives" as proposed, or by tariff,— or any other legislation that does not go to the root of the matter and removes its cause...
...The only way to correct this is to repeal all taxes on the products of labor, including improvements on land, arid to put them where they properly belong...
...We have laws requiring machines j to be guarded for the protection of workmen that are pretty well followed, but the laws for prot?cting the .workmen against the corporation management is a very different problem...
...Meridean...
...Wouldn't it be great if Old Bob could come back and see what his boys are doing...
...Can't stand still but can't quite make up their mind to fly off,—' MUST DIG DEEPER 'River Falls, Wis...
...Why do not such men as "Messrs...
...Karkoff, as I presume you have his address, as it is certainly too bad when those who enjoy reading the paper are forced to give it up...
...When we build a machine for crushing stone it is a crushing machine and will crush whatever is drawn into it...
...It is an impossible thing to improve the condition of the poorer class of people and at the same time keep up the massing of wealth in the hands of the other class...
...Sept...
...18;—When I get...
...WOULDN'T MISS A COPY fAdamstown...
...The eastern papers give but little space to the Progressive turnovers that are taking place in both the Republican and Democratic parties...
...By the time a renter gives one-third or two-fifths of the crop and pays three or four cents a bushel for threshing besides other expenses, how much has he left...
...Only a few great men have been so fortunate as to give the world sons so worthy of their father.—W...
...Light, ventilation and things that make better conditions for workmen have been developed because they give higher efficiency of workmen for the production of wealth...
...Iowa w-ould be as progressive as Wisconsin If we had a leader here like the La FoUettes.—Ella G. - Hamlin, PREFERS CLEVELAND DAYS [Winfred, S. D„ Sept...
...Until organized labor has an equal show- before the law, this problem "ill continue...
...Why not live and let live...
...Inert matter and human beings are the materials used for profit for incorporated business, and men like machinery wear and are replaced when the es-| timated reliable and profitable service has been rendered which is strictly a business principle...
...Of course, it happens to be the law, and for that reason subterfuges are resorted to...
...Wishing you still more success in the-future.—Wellington M. Glass...
...I want them for distribution...
...27]—Please give me credit for the enclosed check...
...It is a great pleasure and honor to vote for such men...
...And the primary cause is individual possession and ownership of that, which by right is, or ought'to be public property, 1. e.: Tne natural sdurces of production, such as lahd-va'lues' as they are by nature and by demand for use, or as enhanced by increase of population and by public improvements...
...KEEP THE TRUTH GOING [Woodbury...
...It is a pity that every state could not have a Bob La Follette...
...viz., on special privileges, or, which is the same thing, in the form of a single tax or rent in proportion to the annual use—value of natural and community-made sources of production...
...25]—In the September issue of The Progressive appeared an article by L. J. Karloff...
...26) — I have been waiting for the Wisconsin primary to be over so that I could congratulate Phil on his victory...
...R. Smith...
...Dealing with economics is like dealing with mosquitoes—we must go to the breeding places to elimitfate the evils...
...Give me Cleveland days in preference to what the dollar-a-year patriot is giving us now.—H...
...W. Eoe...
...It is ,now under private control for private gain, and is used very largely for buying public office for the control of government...
...The management of a business corporation is limited to...
...Take' away all special privileges and establish free and equal rights and opportunities for all, and the social body will heal^ itself in a comparatively short time...
...we have given the Stalwart gang a sound thrashing which will keep them whining like licked dogs for the next two years, all right...
...Accept my congratulations on the splended success of the Progressive movement that is now in progress...
...I have been a render of La Follette...
...I can remember in the Cleveland administration when the price of grain was low but a person could take a dollar, and buy something with It...
...CotYermann...
...I am very sorry for delaying the matter so long, but I hope it will reach you in due time, as I would not like to 'miss a single copy of The Progressive...
...It is quite true that all corporations do not live up to the full advantages that incorporated business provides for, but many of them have reached the purely scientific basis that the chartered organization provides for where men like machinery have an estimated time—limit of efficiency, and profitable service...
...Laws of social order and economy can not be made by man...
...and by business principle...
...So I have economized to be able to send you the attached check for a subscription...
...The next of importance is the abolishment of the iniquitous tariff system, and the establishment of free trade...
...I would be pleased to receive a picture...
...Probably less than one-half of one per cent...
...There must be some progress made towards a fair and approximately equal distribution of wealth, or . (I venture to predict > times will not improve, but...
...The double campaign for both primary and election takes much time and money, as I think everyone who has been a candidate well knows...
...25] I do not want to miss a copy of The Progressive...
...We must dig deeper into our problems and if we do we will find that the control of money and credit underlies practically all of them...
...At, present they are like a cross-eyed pullet on a rickety henroost...
...I would like to add that the La Crosse Tribune ought to admit that they arc running a non-influential paper, as they couldn't even carry La Crosse county without another opposing paper against them...
...considering expenses from the present standpoint.—H...
...Implements, etc., etc...
...is a good editorial, but you speak of modern industry as though it had the characteristics of human nature...
...It's wrong to protect a few and make the rich richer and the poor poorer...
...And the full dinner pail...
...Better change the law and allow respectable wages to our representatives at Madison and allow a candidate for governor or senator to spend at least double the amount of our present law...
...rather get...
...In a recent issue of your paper you were offering with one subscription, a picture of the late Robert M. La Follette, Sr...
...Business has profits as just its one object, while human life involves sympathy, friendship and the pursuit of happiness...
...HOPES FOR MAINE [West Paris, Me., Sept...
...serious unbiased thought...
...I wish every state were blessed with such honest and brainy men as the Im Follette brothers, John J. Blaine, George W. Norris, Burton K. Wheeler, and Gerald P. Nye...
...DAVENPORT...
...There may still be traces of the Human ele-, ment in it, but a corporation is an organization of business principles...
...W. RAMER...
...worse...
...It is without soul or heart...
...May the future of both be blessed with all things good.—L...
...Sept...
...Ohio, slating that on account of low wages he is compelled to cut out his subscription to The Progressive...
...Under normal conditions the law of supply and demand regulates that...
...Other social reforms would then easily follow, such as the public ownership,, or control of all public utilities...
...The law limiting a candidate expenses for our highest office of governor to $4,000 seems to me in these times of costly fares and hotel rates' to be too small...
...29;— Your editorial "A ROAD TO RUIN," treating with the problem of industry rejecting men who have reached the age of 45...
...Ia„ Sept...
...A REAL FRIEND [Dennison, Ohib, Sept...
...What we need is leadership and we will do away with Grundyism...
...existence, for the farmer, or for the people en mass...
...It embodies neither sympathy or sentiment...
...Let's quit fussing over such little things as the wet-dry question, religion, nationality and vote for the man regardless of party...
...Am sending money order for another year's subscription to the most truthful paper published.—E...
...Jennie A. Bates, West Paris, Maine...
...Oats ,sell here for 25 cents a bushel, wheat for 54 cents...
...The last two years of "Grundy prosperity" have been the most destructive of all...
...and contrary to the very principles of true Christian religion, is very easy to prove,, and ought to be evident without any argumentation to any intelligent eitizen who gives the subject candid...
...The Republican voters of Maine will be with the progressive movement soon...
...I have considerable respect for him and the rabid handling of the case was unwarranted...
...Cleveland...
...Hyde & Co.," say anything about the exorbitant prices of farm machinery...
...is impossible to make laws, that are not ethically and morally sound, to work socially and economically right...
...20 —The suit against the present Governor of Wisconsin has impressed me rather unfavorably...
...Congratulations to Phil upon his recent victory in September primary, and to young Bob upon his marriage...
...The Progressive I read each and every.article in it and pass it on where I am sure it: will be read and heeded...
...It is based on the principle that business is one thing and the human being another...
...25]—Please find enclosed money order for $1.50 for The Progressive, to be sent to Mrs...
...I..could fill your whole paper With arguments along these lines, did time and space permit.—Gunnar Naumann...
...Wis., Sept...
...Please send me a supply of your last issue and the issue that is yet to come...
...Sept...
...They exist, and have to be discovered and applied, the same as all laws of nature...
...I am tickled the way you fellows stood as one on primary election day and won such a great battle...
...Tenn...
...It looks like there is hope yet...
...27]—Some years ago an old farmer friend of mine told me'he had been able to make a living for a large family by just doing without the things he was obliged to have...
...If this offer still holds good...
...PASSES IT OS [Portland, Ore, Sept...
...Magazine from its very first copy...
...If manufactured articles, and commodities'of all kinds can be made cheap in a just proportion to the value of farm products, or of wages, there will be no complaint...
...There are no other remedies in...
...E. Bedley...
...I am herewith enclosing check for one dollar for six months' subscription of the paper which you will kindly send to Mr...
...Legge...
...It is doubtful if conditions takes control of money and credit which can be changed until the government is the underlying and controlling force behind all our activities...
...A PAPER OF NO INFLUENCE [La Crosse, Wis...
...it is a science like mathematics, and science knows no difference between joy and sorrow...
...2(T— Enclosed find check of $3.00 for the renewal of The Progressive for two years from expired dale...
...By the time the land owner pays high taxes and upkeep, how much has he left...
...Sept...
...We poor people are the ones that must keep the truth going even if we can get only a portion of the people to heed It...
...VVrll...
...4,000 NOT ENOUGH...
...W. Landwehr...
...It also ought, to be evident that, as far as the common farmer or laborer is- concerned that the main question is not reduction of production in order to raise1 the markrt price, but it is the reduction of prices of the things he has to buy...
...That, the present systems of taxation and tariff privileges for certain business interests, and falling so heavily on the consumers, are fundamentally wrong and contrary to the laws of ethics, of justice and morality...
Vol. 1 • October 1930 • No. 44
