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...Wheels of rumbling profits: Wheels within wheels of profits Propelled America (The starwagon that was America...
...The Mad Adventure of Foreign War" by Sen...
...To keep America at peace, to maintain the good-will that Americans, bound by ties of blood to all peoples, have for all peoples, is the highest Christian duty of America to -the world—only an America at peace, will be in a condition to answer a devastated world's need for bare essentials of life...
...Good Advice Dear Sirs: The Nov...
...Burton K. Wheeler, Montana...
...The Democratic platforms published in the Wisconsin Blue Books from one biennium to the next make amusing reading, and rather contradictory statements, of principles...
...A. F. Rawell Everett, Wash...
...For i the same send me The Progressive for three months...
...Second, I would like to know if any of your readers can give me some information...
...Things That Count Dear Sirs: I am enclosing $1.00 for six months' subscription to The Progressive...
...The flick-flick: the dry whisper Of sand against the cleft hoofs: The sunbleak cattle skulls: The rusting chassis— All are tokens of a vanished Goshen...
...By making a secret pact with the Populists in 1892, the Popo-Crats were able to recapture Congress and re-elect Grover Cleveland for another term, and the president connived with J. P. Morgan to turn over the keys of the U. S. Treasury to Wall Street and the Gold-Bugs...
...Morris Lychenheim, D. D. Chicago, 111...
...Oliver Everett 1942 Webster St...
...Since the turn of the century, I have found nothing in their professions of faith, which could ever attract me to their standards...
...No, it did not...
...Our forefathers were land speculators...
...J. W. Hazelgreen Tacoma, Wash...
...Ralph Immell...
...The upper house is in need of more members of his sterling worth...
...who was defeated in 1875, after a two year experiment...
...Outside of our own people there are very few, over whom good-will reigns...
...Did it...
...Since it has changed hands I would like to know what it is before spending much money on it...
...Now Is The Time Dear Sirs: In 65 lines, in Nov...
...Good advice, gentlemen, let's mind our own business...
...Read the speech of Gen...
...iean kine Panting hard upon the thick hocks...
...Imaginary power has often led to disappointment...
...Many things in it that you don't find in the regular press, and things that count...
...San Francisco, Cal...
...I challenge anyone to go over files of any economic journal of the past 10 years and find anything worth studying...
...Thanks to you Isolationists...
...I have copies of The Standard edited by Henry George and Croasdale...
...Too Much New Deal Dear Sirs: Your letter was received and in answer will say I do not want to renew my subscription...
...When revealed we find the truth as old as the hills...
...I will probably be back for more at a later date for it is a valuable paper...
...In 1938 they fused with the Republicans, and HOW...
...So I say: No compromise and coalition with the Democrats...
...Turn Defeat Into Victory Dear Sirs: Enclosed dollar bill is for six months subscription and the one pound cheese premium...
...4, 1940, National Headquarters, 180G Board of Trade Bldg., Chicago, 111...
...H. A Moore Denver, Colo...
...but the Republican managers with a $16,-000,000 campaign fund, and_ several million perforated dinner pails were easy victors, against "a cross of gold, and a crown, of thorns...
...Anyone deliberately playing with fire may rightly be considered a fire-playing maniac...
...If the liberal element wish to come and sit at our table, and eat duck soup with us they are welcome guests...
...The Canton in which he was born owned a forest which was run on scientific lines, and the profits not only paid all expenses of government but made a surplus to be distributed to the inhabitants...
...Outside of our own country, this day of the Prince of Peace, there are very few where peace reigns...
...That platform was so putrid that the Great Commoner, William J. Bryan, openly attacked the Wisconsin platform in, his Commoner...
...30 issue of Progressive, Ada E. Shafer explains in my opinion, the problem of problems—Why wars, why unemployment, why so-called educated men and women are impossible theories of the "why and the whither," why religious differences, why vice, why crime, why the most impossible theories of a sane life are exploited, why so-called liberal papers continue week after week, year after year, to print drivel and legislators are giving out meat for children with no rhyme or reason except that of making a living...
...30, 1940, issue of The Progressive contains four outstanding articles opposing our entry into the war...
...Only this: that our 20 billion dollars worth of gold would be worth 1/35 of 20 billion, or a little over a half billion dollars...
...Power and more power...
...If our peace is born of the will to serve a war-afflicted world's need of a healing peace, if it is born of good-will, that peace will prove a blessing to the people that gives it no less than to peoples who receive it...
...We tangled when we entered the so-called "World War" which was to make "the world safe for democracy...
...I have in my 80 years discussed and debated every theory of government and what do I find...
...In order to attract the western Silverites in 1896, the Democratic party fused with the Populists on the Free-Silver issue and nominated a Gold-Bug, Sewall, as Vice-president, and a Popocrat, Watson, for the Populists element...
...I can't get along without it...
...Our gold might have a hard time to find a place for itself at $1 per ounce and very possibly less...
...Kneeland T. Simons Chicago, 111...
...The international banking system...
...Democracy in its first and last stage...
...These advocates, "Short of War," are playing with fire...
...Had the Democratic candidate for governor used horse sense and withdrawn, Loomis would have been an easy winner...
...That tradition, not to involve in foreign entanglements, has been disobeyed, and the consequences have made their appearance...
...I am nearing the 75 mark, not on the federal, state, or county payroll, but am taxed for keeping four heifers—by aiming to belong in the class of self-sustenance...
...Frank D. Slocum New York City * * * Gold and Defense Dear Sirs: Will the U. S. pay for the present war in Europe and Asia...
...Next, read the speech of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., delivered on April 4. 1917, opposing our entry in the war...
...This is very liable to happen unless we redistribute our gold...
...Immell is our Wisconsin's Adj...
...Where is the mirage Hoover conjured...
...La Follette in the United States Senate and in The Progressive to discuss fundamentals for relief...
...Hope you get them all right...
...Some Coalition History . Dear Sirs: I wish to register my protest against a proposed coalition of the Progressive political movement with the Democratic party...
...Please date this back to the date I should have renewed the subscription as I am not looking for anything I don't pay for...
...Peace, like charity, begins at home...
...Their "loaded dice" are aimed at suckers...
...We have on hana now, I understand, about 20 billions of dollars worth of gold valued at $35 per ounce, Supposing that Europe, Asia, Australia, ¦ or the entire British Domain (should Germany, Italy, and Japan win) and South America go on a barter system...
...This letter was written two months ago and I found it in a book I mark auto repairs in...
...A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to a messenger of good-will, The Progressive...
...For no democracy can survive in a world, given over to war, among peoples of the world, lost entirely to good-will...
...Now The Progressive is too much New Deal and we get plenty of that in our other papers...
...In 1884 the Democrats made a fusion with the liberal Republicans, better known as the Mug-Wumps in some states, and with Tammany Hall in New York, and although they elected Cleveland that year, the cleavage beat him in 1888...
...And that's why I want The Progressive every week...
...Either lack of confidence in the individual man or schemes of government that temporize...
...Rocketed America through a hollow moon's-eye: Steamrollered America into a blur of dust...
...The most ridiculous and crushing defeat the Democratic party received in Wisconsin, was in 1902, when a platform was placed in the field to attract the Stalwart Republicans...
...Two years ago I subscribed for The Progressive expecting to get some news about the Progressive Party as I was very much interested in the party of "Fighting Bob La Follette...
...Never intended man to be free...
...The Consequences of War" by David I. Walsh, Massachusetts...
...I rejoiced at election of Senator Bob...
...Fred Hamann Pekin, 111...
...we must reveal it a little at a time and then behold...
...To this peace, with malice toward no people, with charity for all peoples, let us dedicate ourselves this Christmas Day to a peace with good-will...
...Also copies of The Public edited by Louis F. Pest...
...Seeks Information Dear Sirs: I enclose a dollar bill for the renewal of my subscription to The Progressive for two reasons: First, the Progressive Party in California was progressive enough to put the Socialist candidates on its ballot this year, and maybe the Progressive may become equally progressive...
...Otherwise I will not eat crow soup with them nor sleep on the crow-feather pillows...
...If our peace is born of noble indifference to needs of kindred peoples, that indifference will spread . to relatives between Americans, and we will lose our peace to violent forces of disunity within our borders...
...Who speaks the still remembered cries— "Prosperity is here to stay" "The sky's the limit" "Take while the taking's good" "The Lord helps . . . who help themselves...
...Study it...
...What would our gold and even our silver be worth...
...I steamed it open to see if the two dollars were in...
...These, then Are the long dark years: The requickening years: Years of deep sprouting...
...Now is the appointed time for Sen...
...H. J. Cap Los Angeles, Cal...
...This would help this country in protecting said hemisphere...
...Can any of your readers give me the name of that Swiss Canton, and is it still carrying on its good work...
...Truths and untruths are dissipating companions in time of war...
...Only an America, that has not lost in passing of war its good-will, will be in the spirit to give, not grudgingly nor of necessity, but generously to the necessity of a famine and plague stricken impoverished world...
...I am late in renewing, due to causes I could not avoid at my work...
...Pleased And Gratified Dear Sirs: I am not sure just when my last subscription for six months runs out, but am now sending you $2.00 for one year's subscription and have indicated that I prefer the ladjes fountain pen...
...Much water has run over the dam in the last 50 years...
...I would even recommend that the U. S. might help .supervise some...
...These Then Are The Years These then are the years Of tribulation: Fears: Want...
...Progressive For Facts Dear Sirs: Please renew my subscription to The Progressive...
...What is the aim now, that is going to be made safe...
...The defeat of Loomis should be turned into victory at next election...
...The Democrats have fused with nearly every known organization except the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, and the Holy Jumpers...
...Louis, Mis-I souri...
...I am enclosing two dollars...
...I want a paper that Wall Street does not control...
...finally "Wheeler and Immell Warn Farmers to 'Stay Out' "—This Wheeler is not Burton K. but L. A. Wheeler, who is director of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and Mr...
...Have we Democracy...
...My suggestion is that the U. S. loan to each friendly South American country on an average of one-quarter or even one-half billion dollars in gold, even though we might never get some of this back, and to specify that this loan shall be used as follows: To construct airplane bases, harbor fortifications, canals, railroads, and roads which might be useful in defense of the country, coastal guns, and anti-aircraft machinery...
...Mona Low Dayton, Wash...
...We are very much pleased and gratified with your late successes...
...Evidently he gained vision—you can also...
...G. F. Fischer Centuria, Wis...
...Never was there awakening More bitter: eyes more tear-stung: Never were cragteeth of moons More chilled in death grin...
...This excludes land and liberty, freedom, democracy, cause and effect, etc., etc...
...The next year the state Democrats fused with the Grangers, and elected William R. Taylor...
...Years ago I made the acquaintance of a Swiss Socialist, who told me why'he was a Socialist...
...In other words, we would lost nearly 19 Vi billions...
...These then Are the yea s c" '.h...
...Peace on earth, good will to men" must be more than a beautiful sentiment to us at this Christmas season: It must be the guiding principle in our relations with otber peoples...
...What would this mean...
...Our papers here are all Republican and can't see any good in Roosevelt and do not recognize the forgotten man, consequently I am fed up on them...
...William Henry Ferber Fond du Lac, Wis...
...Read The Progressive, like it or not, time may convince you that it is your best step...
...The truth it too profound, the light is too bright...
...M. D. Bryce Chicago, 111...
...I want facts and not half truths on any subject under discussion...
...Our interest is here in the United States, instead of engaging in foreign affairs...
...Virgil A. Davis New York City * * * Give Us a Trial Dear Sirs: Please rind enclosed 50 cents...
...The potted chicken: the two-car garages : Land of poverty abolished— Where are they...
...Robert E. Wood, "Our Foreign Policy", delivered to the council on Foreign Relations, Oct...
...Back Later Dears Sirs: To save my time for other pressing needs, I am cutting out all possible reading for a while so, j please stop sending The Progressive to me until further notice...
...Mrs...
...i Ask your Congressman for a copy of the statement President Wilson released to Frank Cobb the 1 night before he asked Congress to ! declare war on Germany, Then get | President Wilson's speech which he delivered on September 5, 1919 j (after the war), at St...
...and to draw the sore-heads away from Old Bob La Follette...
...Since the split at Charleston in 1860, the Northern remnant of the party has fused with Liberal Republicans at Baltimore in 1872, when they endorsed Horace Greeley, and were defeated worse than Willkie was this year...
Vol. 4 • December 1940 • No. 51
