THE WAY WE SAW IT
THE WAY WE SAW IT The following are excerpts from articles and editorials published by The Progressive since its founding on January 9, 1909. They have been edited only to achieve brevity. Unless...
...November 1940...
...The LaFollette Committee, November 1923 Energy monopolies Today twelve corporations, representing ten billions of dollars, control 65 per cent of the electrical energy produced in the U.S____ [This monopoly] has over-charged the public, watered its capitalizations, demanded returns on these swollen valuations, dumped its barrels of money into the political life of the state and nation, and even sought to contaminate the public schools...
...When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect...
...January 1949 Squatters on the earth Aldo Leopold preached to earlier generations that no one really "owns" land...
...We have acted as if we wanted to be obeyed because we were rich and powerful rather than emulated because we were free and progressive...
...Unless an author's name is appended, the material was editorial comment...
...Whitney Gould, January 1973 A working combination Industry, occupation, is as needful to the development of women as of men, and if either goes far ahead of the other in the work of the world, the race suffers...
...A bankrupt policy In the last analysis the overriding weakness of American action has been our reliance on power and our shunning of principle in the pursuit of peace...
...January 1912 The gasoline crunch Unless some means can be found to prevent manipulation of prices by large companies, and particularly the Standard group, it is as certain as any future event can be, that gasoline prices in the near future will be so advanced as to put gasoline beyond the reach of the public generally as a motor fuel...
...We abuse land," Leopold wrote, "because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us...
...Man is only a tenant, a squatter on a finite earth...
Vol. 43 • November 1979 • No. 11
