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Show Progressive Entered as Secona viass A Liberal American Weekly at the Post Salt Lake City, Utah, or GREAT SOULS AND THEIR FAITH CROSS OF GOLD 217 Keith Bldg. THE Then and Right Now, say that we are opposing national bank it is true. ... We say in our platform that that the right to coin and issue money is of government. We believe it. We believe that a part and can no more with safety be delegated to private individuals than we could afford to delegate to private individuals the power to make penal statutes or levy taxes. Those who are opposed to this proposition tell us that the issue of paper money is a function of the bank, and that the government ought to go out of the banking business. I... tell them, .. . that the issue of money is a function of government, and that the banks ought to go out of the governing business. “And now, my friends, let me come to the paramount issue. ...If they ask us why we do not embody in our platform all the things that we believe in, we reply that when we have restored the money of the Constitution all other necessary reforms will be possible, but until this is done there is no other reform that can be accomplished. “If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we will fight them to the uttermost. Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, sup-ported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: YOU SHALL NOT PRESS DOWN UPON THE BROW OF LABOR THIS CROWN OF THORNS, YOU SHALL NOT CRUCIFY MANKIND UPON A CROSS OF GOLD.” “It is now evident to all that the world is face to face with the problem of reconstruction of civilization. The earth is ready, at the touch of industry and intelligence, to make a comfortable home for each and every one. It is practicable to make the world a beautiful and happy place to live, with hope and animation in the breast of all. Instead of this desirable condition existing as it should, we have hunger, poverty, tenantry, crime, restlessness, discontent and organized killing of each other—with seemingly no hope for betterment in the future.” * * * * Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Waterfall Golden Wedding on Wednesday, fifty years they have lived a good well. May they live to celebrate ding. Congratulations. ’ * Ed ® * their For done wed- * ® = i Philosopher and Shakespearian scholar John A. Anderson of Axtell has remembered us. He must have done a great deal of soudlyate out there on the farm. s & es MADE countries had never known aioubll is not economic inevitable. It can BE before. Authentic The outcome Days of youth, the Golden Age, The happy, carefree years, ‘When life is love and song and hope Unspoiled by doubhts and fears. The poet called it “Very heaven,” ile revelling in its dream; O that it might last forever And ever richer seem! SPOKE AFTER CIVIL earth should s H. P. Hansen of 1725 South 8th East has been placed on the list. We have found him to be a very good and kindly man. GREATEST THE LIFE SYSTEM A soul like that of Jesus melted with grief at such conditions and he came not only to preach spiritual redemption, but economic redemption as well, to set at liberty the downtrodden and abused peopie, to heal their heartbreak and lead them out of slavery. His message meant the recovery of their earthly possessions as well as their spiritual heritage. He wept at the social outlawry forced upon his people. He knew how society had made them outcasts but he knew also that God had not disinherited them. He knew that “the good fat earth, its udders distended with milk, be a teat for each one of God’s offspring.” THIRTY-FOUR POISONS There are 34 poisons in the hearts of men. They are: hate, anger, irritation, fear, worry. They are: lying, stealing, cheating, cursing. They are: jealousy, revenge, vanity. They are: greed for our brother’s property, criticism, selfishness, love of self. They are: self-pity, empty talk, reading and listening to trash or murder stories. They are: bad thoughts, gloomy thoughts, filthy stories, human will, worship of reason. They are: love of alcohol, nicotine, adultery. Love of lusting after women on the street. Love of fame, money, power. Love of ease. No love for.God and our-brothers. We are all poisoned with many of these poisons and don’t. know it. We love these poisons or we would not let them live in our hearts. Until we chase them out of our hearts, we will never be healthy, happy, free from fear, worry and hard luck. For they make all the misery we have in the world. PERSONAL WAR become their By Britany Yi Young—1860 All we have yet heard and all we have experienced is scarcely a preface to the sermon that is going to be preached. All you now know can scarcely be called a preface to the sermon that will be preached with fire hail, rain, thunders and lightnings, and sword, tempests, earthquakes, fearful destruction. You pall hear of magnificent cities, now idolized by the people, sinking in the earth, entombing the inhabitants. The sea will Ae itself beyond its bounds, engulfing many cities. Famine will spread over the nations, and nation will rise up against nation, kingdom against kingdom and states against states, in our own country and in foreign lands; and they will destroy each other, caring not for the blood and lives of their neighbors, of their families, or for their own lives. ITEMS OF INTEREST UTAH’S GREATEST FAIR OPENS 2:30 P.M., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. GET IN LINE. EVERYBODY IS GOING. “T fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America, and use it to systematically corrupt modern civilization. They will not hesitate to plunge the whole of Christendom into wars and chaos in order that the inheritance.”—Bismark. OF AGAINST Capitalists were savagely oppressive in their exploitation. They secured iron-clad mortgages on land, harvests, cattle, houses and furniture, and after foreclosing on that they could take the inhabi-. tants themselves and carry them into slavery if they couldn’t pay. Gradually they gathered all the lands and fenced them away from the common people. depends. upon whether or not Anglo-Saxon peoples | as a whole are willing to take the steps required to turn the tide of a threatening financial collapse. We say this despite the fact that the complex machinery of another world-wide depression, still more calamitous than the last one, is in gear and already on the move. This movement is evident in the stream of reports on world economy now being: fed daily through various newsgathering agencies to newspapers, radio networks, and magazines with large circulations. These reports are conflicting and evasive. They are not understandable—and they are not meant to be. They are framed to creat fear and confusion; their aim is to inoculate the citizenry with a hopeless case of jitters in preparation for the final “take over.”—Destiny Magazine. BISMARK SIDE WAS As a boy he could stand on some high point in Nazareth and behold a thousand or more of his people being crucified on roadside crosses. He saw the entire population of a neighboring city, men, women and children, sold into slavery. Spies were everywhere and if a family saved a little it was taken from them at the point of the sword. Debt served as a gateway to prisons and slavery. It was a law that children could be sold to pay debt or taxes and he had some beautiful sisters who appear in the : record up to a certain point and then drop out. One says that one or more of them may have been taken into slavery. ruin is highly probable, it averted. JESUS Cash Contributions Needed. Jesus was against the system because he saw a world of a hundred million people in poyerty and distress in order that a few thousand Romans might riot and revel in wealth, sensuality and corruption— -a small group actually owning the civilized world. He saw all the economic despotism, the greed and the exploitation that came from centralized wealth and he was deeply grieved, more so than he would let his words express. AVERTED be the Price. The Capitalism of Rome was Simply Barbarous ~~ CAN Twice WHY , documents of those days reveal that the money of that period was of a very special type, fundamentally different from our present-day money, and, as far as we can ascertain, that special money worked marvels wherever it was adopted. An almost incredible prosperity set in and the wealth created was so well distributed among the people that “there was hardly any difference between the castles and the farmers’ homes,” as some chroniclers record.—Hugo Fack. RUIN Worth ECONOMIC MONEY JUDGMENTS will celebrate September 14. life and have the diamond Mr. and Mrs. Ole Petersen will celebrate their Golden Wedding on Wednesday, September 28, at .649 South 11th West. Congratulations. *® DIFFERENCE * J. F. Young of Logan is held in remembrance by us and we thank him for remembering us. * Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Lund, Publishers An Unexpected and Glorious Change However, with the beginning of the twelfth century an unexpected and glorious change began to manifest itself in practically all European nations. Germany, France, England, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, the Scandinavian and Baltic countries experienced an economic and cultural rise such as these 3, 1878. $2 a Year. C.N.L. Mr. and Mrs. pees Walker returned Saturday from a trip to lowa where they visited with relatives and, enjoyed their vacation. It is a wonderful country, the center of which is Des Moines, where they attended the state fair and saw some things that are “simply out of this world.” The fine livestock show was especially interesting to them. * of March THINGS I LIKE We were happily surprised when our long time friend, Mr. Robert L. Read of Los Angeles, California, dropped in. He has been visiting here and in Idaho, the latter place being the home of his father. He and his good wife are the parents of six children, three sons and three daughters. One daughter is now filling a mission in Canada. Mr. Read is a prince of a man. All of the brain didn’t go to his brother, Prof. Waldemar Read. *- the Act of Congress After the decay of the Roman Empire, which historical research attributes to continued and increasing scarcity of money-metal, due to exhaustion of the mines, Europe experienced a long period of complete economic stagnation and spiritual barbarism known to us as the Dark Middle Ages. For almost six hundred years the human race groped in the dark; generation upon generation living wretched and dissatisfied lives, levoid of culture and science. The earth became a “valley of tears” and many resigned themselves to a life behind the seclusion of high cloister-walls to pray for a better life in the beyond. Human genius seemed extinguished; scarcely a light worth recording pierced the darkness. ITEMS OF INTEREST * Under VISION | Was a Great Stimulus “They currency; we believe a function PERSONAL Utah, Money Didn’t Do It All But It “The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to speak to you in defense of a cause as nee as the cause of liberty—the cause of humanity.. sovereignty, City, Dial 4-7641 Subscription, BY TRUE Sent in by G. B. Leeke of Indiana Excerpts from William Jennings Bryan’s famous “Cross of Gold” speech at Chicago in 1896, which won him the nomination. of Lake SPIRIT AND WONDERFUL Ahead of His Time it is Office-at ‘Salt __A PAPER WITH Vol. XIII, No. 37, Sept. 9, 1949 Sugar House Wm. J. Bryan: Right Matter * * * *% Hereafter Hon. James Roosevelt and Arthur Gaeth will be weekly “guest” editors of this paper. * . Lars P. Jensen, a good faithfulr mene sends his greetings and good wishes. He-sa “T am always happy when I can sit down and toad Progressive Opinion. I thank the Lord that we have one brother and one sister who are willing to write words of ‘comfort and cheer and brotherly love. May the Lord bless you with his choicest blessings. “ A note from that: — lind, is thankfully received. be carefree. * * kindly soul, C. D. GoesMay his remaining days * * Udell Larsen and wife and little son Randy are here in Salt Lake again after an absence of nearly a year in Nevada and California working in the ' Radar -service and doing well. He will, for the time being, have some work in Ogden. They are with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Larsen but will soon be in their own home. * * *& * George C. Christensen remembers us from his bee farm in Grand Junction, Colo. He is doing well. — |