THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Racial Hatreds Dear Sirs: There are persons as well as nations who always teach and incite international, racial, and religious hatreds. Against all such, true Americans can...
...R. W. McKeen Harrisville, W. Va...
...Human greed is responsible for trying to hang on to ideologies long after their usefulness is past...
...Yet it automatically puts a charge on what is not human service...
...England has ruled India for around 150 years...
...Once this sub-structure of democracy is undermined, as it was in France, it is but a matter of time when democratic superstructure will collapse, and those who deny all honesty of opinion to every opponent, are undermining our democracy...
...P. O. schallert Winston-Salem, N. C. * * * Give People A Voice • Keep up your efforts in preserving civil liberties in our blessed land...
...pie after which tariffs and taxes j keep them in bondage until a revolution sets them free as in 1776, our own experience...
...They at least stand still with the exception of cheese and that slips a notch now and then and goes in reverse instead of high gear...
...Here is what he said: "As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign until wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed...
...That was the program when the dear allies rearmed Hitler, but then Russia steps in and upsets the apple cart...
...Most of the time they have "axes to grind" or they want somebody to "pull the chestnuts out of the fire...
...It seems to me that our financial resources could best be used after a peace settlement for the purpose of bolstering up the British Empire...
...Christians seem to be rare in a world that has had 2,000 years of Christianity but President Roosevelt has the opportunity of the ages to become The First Christian in a reeling world...
...We have the picture of our government voting billions of dollars in bonds, a mortgage on the earnings of the people, for generations to come...
...Efforts for peace are going on via Stockholm...
...If pricing was truly by duration of the service of normal adults, natural resources would be free of price...
...I say a wise man sets his own house in order first...
...Thirteen .states have poll tax laws which do not allow citizens to vote who have not paid their tax, some amounting to $6 a family...
...I think before this country enters a war on a foreign continent, the people should be permitted to voice their opinion by the ballot...
...Let us remember that Germany, in spite of Hitler's perverted ideals, has a tremendous potential for good...
...It is not Hitler they are fighting, it is his monetary system...
...As explanation I'll mention a few things done under the name democracy...
...Thence, "mirabile dictu," they were ordered to love Russia, the Balkans, and the Baltics...
...John T. Flynn in the December 28 issue of The Progressive, then they might change their mind...
...Your field is unlimited...
...Our federal reserve system is a private ! banking concern, members of which own all stock in system...
...these are the real "fifth columnists", for they are always destroying and never building...
...In our own U. S. A., before democracy can be as lovely as pictured, a few reforms must be made...
...The place to maintain democracy, like charity, begins at home...
...Fred Wilson Empire, Mich...
...Keep up the good work...
...Differences of Opinion Dear Sirs: Enclosed find $2 for which please continue my subscription to The Progrtssive for the current year...
...turned out to be a 30 Years War as Sen...
...This is all very materialistic, of course, but time and again our wise men have stated that Western Civilization was just that...
...Then it is presumed we shall protect China too, with 450 million people and a right smart distance away...
...They receive five to 10 cents a day for work and live in filth and rags...
...There are persons here and elsewhere who are constantly preaching and advocating these same hatreds...
...There would be no fight in armies with empty stomachs and Belgium proved that to the satisfaction of all yet our prices seem to have been frozen somehow...
...We have some splendid young men in our community and it would be a pity to send them across there to be crippled, blinded, killed...
...And mark my guess, Germany can never be licked without being invaded...
...14 million square miles...
...Norman Thomas does not wish for a victory for Fascism, either by way of Berlin or Jersey City...
...In short, while England is winning the war, the very thing she was fighting to preserve will be destroyed...
...and worst of all, Russia...
...The habit of pricing by comparison of results or friction of supply and demand, hides from persons the fact that all anyone can truly do for another is to devote a portion of: his or her life to serving that other...
...William Champeau Denmark, Wis...
...Free Of Price Dear Sirs: I note Gorham Munson's article taken from "Dynamic America...
...And talk about invading this country, if that were likely, don't you suppose Hitler would sooner go East...
...This interest steal, gets worse as bonded indebtedness increases...
...Is this the English democracy...
...so has Italy, so still has France...
...when I was there in 1935, the German people were asked to hate Italy, England, Spain, France, Belgium, Japan...
...1 read Phil's radio speech and I am telling others to read it...
...Our money system tied up with the British through our Federal Reserve, in name only...
...Most any argument can be called controversial...
...No fooling...
...if the Britain of Churchill parries them, the Britain of Bevin will favor them...
...When the holocaust ended, we too might have to "strike off a new coin" for we face a revolution between two world orders...
...Invasion Bogey Dear Sirs: I am reminded by Victor Yarros —and some others—of the story of the little girl who began crying one day...
...The sole purpose of the catch question of Victor Yarros, is to impute a motive to a man like Thomas, that Victor Yarros knows is false...
...THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Racial Hatreds Dear Sirs: There are persons as well as nations who always teach and incite international, racial, and religious hatreds...
...Today 90 per cent of the people can neither read nor write...
...Anyway, I wish you success and that you keep right after that bunch of shysters...
...Isn't it ridiculous for anyone to try to have the U.S.A., three million square miles and 130 million people, to fight, the battle of a country -with 500 million people and about...
...Lincoln prophesied that...
...It was good...
...This is bank inflation, something bankers like for the interest profit...
...I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war...
...It's time a few American journals began to root for U. S. mediation...
...Anything is fair in love or war, even in democracy...
...They bet 35 million and lost...
...In that war of independence, the English had a standing offer of so much a head for every American scalp turned over by the Indians of Canada to the English Government...
...The U.S.A...
...Geo...
...She replied: "Well, I was thinking that when I grow up I might be married and have a little girl of my own, then when she is about six years old like I am now, I might be working in the house some day and she be playing in the sunshine out in the yard and lightning might hit her and kill her, and then how sorry I would feel...
...It is not the J English peoples' nor the American j peoples' war, but the international J bankers' war, and it is going to be fought to a finish...
...Axel Norman Winfield, la...
...This means we still have the $ sign as the single greatest thing to strive for, a strictly capitalistic idea...
...Yarros—and some others—might take a lesson from the reply of the school boy when another boy threatened to punch him in the nose...
...He would be the candy kid if he would let the international bankers control his finances, and turn his face Eastand fight Russia...
...I admired the stand he took toward the world war and also I admire the fight you are making...
...In fact, that is all that money ; costs them is the cost of printing, or about 27 cents a thousand, and if a member of Federal Reserve System, the right to loan eight to 10 times their value of their capital stock...
...For either side to win a military victory will necessitate enormous damage to non-military objectives...
...Frank D. Slocum New York, N. Y. * * * The Bankers' War Dear Sirs: Why is it that all the war-mongers and the press side-step the real i cause of the war...
...John F. Strain Alliance, O. * * * Role Of Peacemaker Dear Sirs: It seems to me that not enough attention is being given to America's potential role of peacemaker in the European war...
...Well, the way it looks to me, Herr Hitler might just aj well try with his army to capture the moon instead of crossing the Atlantic to tackle our peace loving nations...
...Roosevelt suggested we are endangered on two fronts, commercial and economic, by the totalitarian nations...
...Britons and Germans are racial kinsmen ; therefore England should be willing to free Germany from the threat of starvation by blockade by agreeing to keep hands off of her food supply in the Balkans-Germany's sphere of influence— and Germany would undoubtedly agree not only to keep hands off the British Empire—which lies in Asia and Africa, not in Europe— j but allow England to retain her navy substantially intact...
...They are preparing for defense and that's all...
...Next came hatred for-Holland, Denmark, and Norway, with the U. S. in second place...
...After reading of the profits" garnered by the giant concerns of this country in the manufacture of war goods it is quite surprising that we as a group should be recognized as of first importance...
...Britain's Stooges Dear Sirs: We have become the quasi stooges of Great Britain, and I can's see why the younger La Follette's generation don't see the utter hypocrisy of the New Deal administration...
...All interest of U. S. bonded indebtedness goes to these stockholders...
...Hitler undoubtedly would like to call the war off now, and the British, after a. few more Coventry's, may feel the same...
...Then in 1938, they had to hate Czechoslovakia and the Balkans...
...H. Phelps Findlay, Ohio Field Unlimited Dear Sirs: Even though dollars are as scarce for us as Heil-kept promises, enclosed find renewal of my subscription to your paper...
...Let us just consider Hitler's group in Germany...
...Perhaps we should help England short of war but I recall that during the Civil War, England helped the Confederacy short of war...
...C. E. Payne Ruby, Wash...
...La Follette wisely fears...
...It is that faulty pricing method which makes the phenomenon of land-rent...
...Now Hitler's only big hate is England with U. S. as playing second fiddle...
...Unfortunately most monetary students and reformers accept the' pricing by results method...
...But he sees the danger that Victor Yarros does not—that in trying to save Europe from a Hitler, we may lose America to a Hague...
...Against all such, true Americans can only be found on the one side, for no matter what our personal convictions are, the Declaration of Independence and our National Constitution assure to everybody here, these great American privileges...
...England has been one of the most aggressive nations on earth, J warring with and subjugating peo...
...This is called "appeasement", of course, but the cost of defeating Germany will probably be far greater than the cost of so-called appeasement...
...This is not true...
...This the bankers call printing press money and would make our i currency not worth the paper it is i printed on...
...Back of the international bankers' power and manipulations lies the world-wide custom of having the monetary unit represent something else than a definite duration of the service of normal adults...
...Some of our boys of the world war are still suffering from the effects, and to us it doesn't seem right that so many jn Europe are suffering for want of food and we have our government corn bins at almost every station...
...The Progressive movement needs people who can take it, and those who cannot are about as much use as the persons who were responsible for the GOP candidate in the recent election and so cock-sure the third term would defeat Roosevelt...
...and recently after the Hitler successes, to love France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, and Norway...
...Sophus Anderson Geyersville, Calif...
...Would Be A Pity Dear Sirs: I am enclosing $1 for six months subscription to The Progressive...
...The bills of the U. S. A. could just as well be paid by paper currency, enough to retire all bonds now out or to be issued in the future, saving the country billions in interest...
...You tell us about what is worth saving...
...If we devoted the same tremendous effort to bring Germany and England together at the council table that we do to provide sinews to prolong and extend the war, peace would probably be attained...
...so that if one receives an hour of service from another, One can exactly pay for it only with a return hour of service to that other...
...About that terrible danger of Hitler invading this country, Mr...
...Her mother asked her what was the matter...
...Consider the fact that bombing is not having very great military effect...
...Let us now resolve never to make this mistake again, or else in final victory we will again miss the peace...
...You are right on the war issue...
...You are doing a splendid job...
...Peace efforts may fail but the knowledge that we had done all that could be done to restore peace would enable us to make war more consistently even though it...
...That is their story...
...There is one-sixth of the world and land all the way and they are called a backward people...
...whether failure or success attended his efforts, his prestige would endure long after the memory of the present crop of dictators had passed into the limbo of, forgotten things...
...Democracy is based on the assumption that honest thinking men can and do disagree, and that in free expression of opposing opinions lies the largest assurance of wise solutions of our public problems...
...Capture The Moon Dear Sirs: Nowadays reading our dailies we might come to the conclusion that Hitler may make up his mind most any day to come over here with his blitzkrieg, although when people would read the eye opener of Mr...
...Our radio systems are controlled by an order keeping all controversial issues off the air...
...They need a house cleaning...
...Undermining Democracy Dear Sirs: If our democratic discussion of a public measure of the gravity of the President's request for powers that have never been accorded a chief executive, except as conrr-mander-in-chief during war, has fallen to so low a plane that basic-motives are attributed to opponents whose life record, like that of Norman Thomas, has been of devotion to civil liberties for the underdog less than the upper, our democracy is done for, whether Hitler wins or loses...
...Real Democracy Dear Sirs: The controversial question is to help or not to help England...
...While I don't agree with just a few of the policies of The Progressive, I happen to recognize the fact that differences of opinion is what provokes discussion and that gentlemen are what pushes us forward* Arid any one who will not yield at, times is no help to any party...
...England is determined that Uncle Shy-lock will finance this war...
...H. D. Kissenger Kansas City, Mo...
...I believe in real democracy...
...Even Sweden, Hungary, Rumania, Switzerland, and Bulgaria are courted, but always the Jews are to be Hated on general principles...
...a charge which must be paid with slave service...
...Vaughn Bachman Brokaw Del Rosa, Calif...
...But what'll I be doing all that time...
...followed shortly by hating Poland, Turkey, and Persia...
...Plea For Peace Dear Sirs: Those who hate war, should make positive attempts to end war and back up their words with deeds...
...and England cannot do that job in 30 years...
...Could we not do the same...
...We are told England and the U. S. A. have real democracy...
...A democracy is supposed to have free speech, but not here...
...An example, a banker with $10,000 capital could loan $80,000 to the public in check book money and draw interest on every loan...
...It is pitiful for this war to involve us...
...Well, is it conceit that prompts us, or the wisdom of those who take us for Santa...
...I had La Follette's Magazine for ^ number of years...
...Nicol Trehn I Gardiner, Wash...
...This would act as a balance against any possible German effort to "dominate" too much...
...Let us not add another dictator to the crop...
...The very next year these same people were told to love Italy, Spain, and Japan...
...This is their last stand for the control of the world money...
...F. Nelson Pilling Silver Spring...
...Have written to our Senators and Congressman Martin...
...This should be public bonds and interest on same belong to the public...
...This, in turn, will destroy large areas of the material basis of European civilization...
...Hitler and Mussolini are just the effects of an abnormal international crisis, which we and England helped create...
...Yuh...
Vol. 5 • March 1941 • No. 10
