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Show Fi(i INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE Two. TUR PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT Issued every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah, in interest of Natural Development matter April 26. 1982, at the Entered as second-clas- s Post Office at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act 4 of March 8th. 1879. N. LUND Publisher and Managing Editor Henri C, Fleiher, Advertising and Circulation Dept a Prices of Subscription One Year LOO Six Months Address all Istteri to 62 Post Office Place. their iniquity. They have defied all the laws of God and man. They were in league with and controlled and owned three national administrations whose leaders sat silently while by they plundered, like brigands, the economic life of the people. The leader of the New Deal has taken off the lid and the stench of their deeds smells to heaven and movements are on foot to make them decent servants of the public. No wonder that the poet Milton said that mammon was the least erect of all the spirits that were cast out of heaven. FOR A BETTER WORLD : AMERICA MUST DREAM AGAIN C. H. LUND, America must dream again, her dream of ancient truth, America must find the faith that lit her soul of yore And clear-eye- d turn, with lifted head, fo the vision of her , youth. When Washington unfurled her flag a tyrant world before; When human welfare forced the words, All men are equal, free"; When man was rated far above all mammon that could be. America must heed the voice that speaks the need pf A letter comes to our desk and it closes with the following sentence: Yours for a better world where justice and truth will prevail." That is the spirit, brother, and it is encouraging to hear it. How vastly much better we could make this old world if we set about to do it. If we united we could make a literal heaven out of it. But here we are, each pulling in a different direction, everyone trying to take advantage of the other, unscrupulous capitalists controlling our whole economic system, groups expressing their intolerance with other groups. We never can make a better world in that way. God speed the day when we look upon all earthly' activities in the light of human welfare instead of profit. Then will the new earth lie ushered in for good. earth, And move toward the destiny God gave hpr at her birth. THE VALUE OF COOPERATION The great Elbert Hubbard put himself on record for cooperation in the following paragraph: Before cooperation comes in any line, there is always for municipal competition pushed to a This paper has come out point that threatens destruction ownership of public utilities as will be noted by the pub- and promises chaos; then to avert ruin, men advise a belication in this issue of the petition and ordinance looking tter way, a plan that conserves and economizes, and behold toward this end. Ninety per cent df the people are for it is found in cooperation. and-the this Progressive Independent hereby makes itself And Frazier Hunt adds his testimony as follows: a vehicle for the voicing of their demands. As the people What is good and right for man, and not what is find out how they are being fleeced by the power trust good for profit and money, will be the new yardstick- of and other public utilities they should respond and help to the future. Human needs and necessities will control the support the paper that stands for their interests. We machine of the future. shall hew to the line and make our influence felt as far It would be worth a man's life to see that day ushas it is in our power to do so. ered in. Toward that end we have been working and talking and writing for many years. The rewards have been poverty, misunderstanding and often ill will. But I THE PLIGHT OF THE JEWS we are happy to see the signs that point to the ushering There are 600,1)00 Jews in Germany and that country, in of the new day when the goal of all effort and all by treating them the way she does, is simply committing leadership will be human welfare, when the swords of war national suicide. While the Jews arc suffering, the Ger- shall be sheathed and the guns of destruction silenced, man people will experience far more suffering themselves when poverty shall be banished and all men, women and in the long run. They do not know what they are doing. children shall in fact and in very deed have the full right But in spite of the wrong they are doing they are uncon- to life, liberty and happiness. sciously helping to bring about great purposes in the world. It has been told by ancient and modern prophets that the Jews should be gathered to their ancient home in AS THE ENGLISH WEEKLY SEES IT Palestine, that the country should blossom as the rose and President Roosevelt's language about the banking frabecome prosperous. As long as they are free and making the land will not ternity to puts our own mild criticisms into the shade. in countries other migrate they money of their fathers. The persecution going on in Germany Thanking God that, after all, they can affect only material is driving out thousands and they will head straight for things, he indicts them at the great bar of public opinion Palestine. There is an unseen hand moving among the and the conscience of Mankind as unscrupulous moneynations and peoples of the earth and it all tends toward changers who have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization at the moment of real peril.- He has forthe working out of divine purposes. gotten, however, that even the Money despots have not aid of their creatures. Exactly as no ruled without BUZZARDS PICK VICTIMS CLEAN crazy Emperorthe or Czar has ever been able to rule without the support of hundreds of sycophantic hirelings, the (From Farm Holiday News) Money-powthat usurped sovereignty in this country In In Chicago recently the Titl and Trust Company 1694 and ha sexercised it ever since, could never have hotel brought foreclosure proceedings against an maintained its maleficent authority for so long but for of 176 apartments. The bond islue on the building, held its retinue of apologists, the professional economists It by the Title and Trust Company, amounted to $875,000. is impossible after their recent exposures to imagine .that the bankers have the wit or even the cunning to devise and execute the ingenious policies that- have both safeguarded and magnified their power over their fellow-meor when They confess it themslves on the witness-stan- d in need of public absolution. On the other hand, hey have always known how to attract and employ servile agents abler than themselves, who, for the sake of vicarious power over their fellows, have been willing to 'put their brains at the disposal of the ruling despot. With a few magnificent exceptions, of whom Ruskin is the greatest, the professed economists 'both of our own and other countries have ever since 1694 been consciously or unconsciously, instinctively or by calculation, Bankers men; and so close has been their corporation of panderers to lis Majesty Midas, that any rebel economist, even a Ruskin worth ten thousand of them, they dismissed as an unpaid a greater or less extent in every state. The depositors amateur, a crank, on the side of the angels, of course, stand by and lose their savings while greedy and gold for his beautiful sentiment, but pathologically impractical, hungry parasites take such enormous fees for their work that is to say, dangerous to the Golden Throne. It is one of the outrages perpetrated against the honest people of the country and should be changed to a more TAX-FRETOWNS economical and satisfactory system. PAPER IS FOR THE PEOPLE flat-foot- - Latter Day Saints Famous Tabernacle, Salt Lake City er ry n. E THE HOLY YEAR Taxless towns! Impossible! Unbelievable! the ordinary citizen ex- claims. : And when told that such towns, are tax free because of municipal ownership, the power company propagandist glies into a rage of denial and denunciation. For have we not all been told a thousand times that municipal ownership is everywhere and always a dismal, and a disastrous failure? But here are the facts: Some of them supplied to us direct from the cities mentioned, others sent us by the United States Chamber of Commerce, still others fom other reliable and trustworthy sources. Here then is the list of No Tax Towns so far as we have been able to compile the facts. There are doubtless others that have not been revived and, of course, there are a great many cities in the United States that are meeting a very considerable portion of their local colt of government through the surplus earnings of their pubidy-owne- d On Sunday, April 2nd, there was ushered in, by decree of the Pope of Rome, what he chooses to call the Holy Year. He and the united Christian world call upon the people to get back to the principles of religion and to work for peace and brotherhood among men. It is a very commendable movement and we wish it might succeed. How wonderful it would be if it could in reality be a Holy Year, that peace and contentment and good will and brotherhood might prevail among all peoples the world over. That is something to be devoutly hoped and prayed for. But alasi we fear, yea, we know, that instead it will be a very unholy year. The signs of the times prove this beyond any doubt. None would go to greater lengths to usher in .and to maintain peace, happiness, faith and true religion that would we. And none has a stronger belief in the ultimate good and the ultimate triumph of truth. But the spirit that is abroad among men today, the strife, utilities: the discontent, the hatreds, the desires to resort to the arbitrament of the sworfi in national disputes, the dictatorships and the tyrannies, with their persecutions, do not make for any of the things that' Holy Year stands for. All preparations are being made and the path is being cleared so that the four horsemen of the apocalypse may over the earth. War, pestilence, famine ride rough-sho- d List of No-Ta- x Latter Day Saints Memorial Farm, Palmyra, New York Towns and distress are unleashing their terrible forces and makening ready to add their horrors to the troubles we are during. Make no mistake about it. MAMMON IS RESPONSIBLE It is very clear now to all unprejudiced minds that mammon and her iniquitous works are1 responsible for all the ills that are upon humanity today. It is proved so conclusively that even a child should be able to understand. The big and crooked bankers are on the run and some ate running close to the prison doors. Their mad career, the most criminal and unholy in all the annals of peace time e history, has fleeced the American people out of twenty-fivwith whole our and population blighted billion dollars View from University of Utah Campus, Salt Lake City |