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Show Progressive- - Independent HELP A PAPER rxhjirr cr uiJJt FOR o HUMAN WELFARE JUL ? 3, No. 28. Five Cents Per Copy Sugarhouse. June 28, 1934. PLATFORM OF THE PROGRESIVE PARTY Emergency government work at all times at a variable hourly rate that would be low enough not to compete with private Industry yet high enough to compel it to pay $1.00 per hour minimum for common or unALLIWe. the PROGRESSIVE labor. For the farmer a price skilled the ANCE OF UTAH, realizing that time has come to declare for Econom- stabilizing system for major farm ic Freedom and Equality as the Fa- crops comparable to labor stabilizaFreedom thers declared for Political and to tion. and Equality in seventy-six- , 2 Old age, motherhood, educationdedicate ourselves to the proposition al, sickness, physical inequality penthat all people, not the few only, are sions. Immediate payment of the entitled to an equal share of all that World War Veteran's compensation goes to make for life, liberty and insurance in full aa of 1945. happiness, do make and set forth 3 No tax on industry. Helpfulness the following Declaration of Princiissued in its stead. No more money we ples. And in support of these al- interest-bearin- g bonds. Absolute mutually pledge our wholehearted circulation and labor from all call Progresupon legiance. We direct at 1 per annum, men and tate ownersand g sives and laws to protect the business to women who are dissatisfied with the consumer. The same purchasing old and failing system, to unite with to small dealers and industries us in the cause for human welfare, price as Chains and Big Business enjoy. utmost do their us and together with and labor tariff differentoward the end that government may Reciprocity tial. adminbe restored to the people and 4 Occupational representation in istered in their Interest and for the Congress. Government to assume welfare. common their of an make it a promotion expenses campaign ownership or organization j We favorofgovernment for person any felony resources all natural of any canby purchase, behalf in to money spend and all the means of production and didate. distribution. 5 A graduated income and inherit2 We favor the ownership and op- ance under $2,000. Each additional the eration of the banking system by thousand to constitute steps for comgovernment. tax. The arithmetical unit on 3 We believe that the government puting on income to be inheritance should guarantee security for life to more or less, to meet all needs of naall its citizense, and that it provide tional government not otherwise procitid employment for all vided for. 45. 20 of and zens between the ages 6 The U. S. Treasury to be the 4 We favor free education and institution authorized by Cononly free health service for all the people. to Issue UfL money. " favor peace and oppose con- gress 7 The measure of the value of the violence. revolution fiscation and by dollar to be one hour of minimum la6 We declare our allegiance to the bor. constitution of the United States and 8 The U. S. Government to loan our devotion to the high ideals of its money at cost of printing the bills founders as guarantees for govern- serve Bank System. Make loans to ment of ALL the people, by ALL the corporations and rial People and for ALL the people. subdivision labor governmental 6 We believe that the support of to the Federal Re- now this program will bring to the people as 9 it All loans forms of money expresent such a period of, peace and happicurrency to be with-pa- rt ness and permanent security as hu- cept fractional of the whole. The development, manity has never witnessed, and that tection of all bank deposits. through it there may at Iast.be real10 Eight hours of labor per day, ized an approach to the Brotherhood five days per week. No child labor of Man. under 18. struggle against the individualist, not This paper holds that the 11 Conservation, reforestation and g grafting, inefficient, lazy, public ownership of natural resources. been in have power politicians Idle land tax. and is it time that high long enough, 12 Suppression of crime, to select and elect officials whose clear to the leaders that there in unison with and for hearts beat .he common people. Here is a paper will always be individual differences to serve them and a hand to help in mankind, just as there are among them if they will but lift their own animals and plants, and that it would search out some of the duties that hands to help themselves. eteering and graft. We do truly believe that Brigham Young, were he here, would be RESOLUTION ashamed of a people numbering close to a half million, who couldn't do betThe following resolution was preter than have of their number on chairty in a state so rich as sented to the Old Folks' gathering at Liberty Park by I. C. Thorsen and was unanimously adopted. WHEREAS, There are many of our fellow citizens over 70 years of PUBLIC OPINION 4 age in this city, county and state of Utah, pioneers and public benefactors, who having spent the best part of their lives here, building homes, roads, bridges, irrigating canals, etc., and by tbe help of God made "the Many telephones are bedesert blossom as tbe rose, but wbo through the Infirmaries of age, the ing connected again each present financial depression and the day in this community unemployment situation are NOW and others. destitute and discourage, without work or income, sorely in need of the Back in with necessities of life and Its comforts, to which they are certainly entitled, everyone, these families independently of public charity, once more can use the BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, telephone as often as That the President and tbe congress of the United States and the Govthey like. No longer are ernor and Legislature of the State of they dependent on neighUtah be hereby most earnestly asked bors. to enact, at an early date, such Old Pension laws and low rate SoAge If you are without a cial Insurance Laws that will amply telephone, why not get provide for the care and comfort of these our unfortunate associates, durin touch with us today? ing the remainder of the mortal lives, and a respectable burial when departing for their eternal reward. May God bless them now and forever! will take Any employee Be it Further Resolved, That an imyour order or call our mediate survey be made to ascertain who and how many are entitled to office such present and future assistance and provide immergency aid where 1 pro-dra- foward-lookin- 1, 5-- We es-a- ny ic self-seekin- g, slow-goin- rack-qui- te one-thi- rd We'll call you up. touch needed. The Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. 4 K No disturbance of present Institutions nor dismissal of big brains at the head of present great industrial projects. As we stand on the threshold of the nation's birthday let us do some serious thinking, which we should have done enmasse long ago. Let us but individualism is resisted as a devolve upon us, In this tragic hour. It should be the ambition of every patriotic American that before and above everything else, and at any price, even that of personal gain and profit, to do all that in his power lies, to improve decisively the condition of the masses of our people, to do away with poverty by establishing economic freedom and equality as the fathers established political freedom and equality, to win back the lost faith and hold it high against the future for all those who struggle in the valley of despair. We must strike out boldly and work to dissolve the congealed forms of privilege, injustice and tyranny that stand in the way of humanitys emanWe must turn from the cipation. snug hypocracies and set out to the physical and spiritual suffering among the people. There is as much spiritual poverty as there Is physical poverty and never was man confronted with a greater opportunity to go out among his fellows to restore "the upward looking and the light, which a brutal system has burned out of their souls. How shall the shepherds of Americas human flocks answer when they are confronted with the accusing truth that they have been blind and spiritless leaders while Mammon has been busy putting out the immortal fires in the minds and hearts of men? When they are shown bow the millions who once thrilled at hearing the fine spun phrases about Christianity, the flag of the Union are unresponsive and dead to the clarion calls to devotion and patriotism? That they care now neither for churches or constitution? That the heart break of humanity has gone up to God to plead against them? Let them beware of the judgments and the wirlwinds of rebellion that are about to break loose as a result of their blindness. Daniel Webster, when asked why panics come, replied: "The people wonder why financial panics occur so frequently. I can tell them why. It Is to the interest of the big bankers that they should occur. It Is one of the specious methods by which these despotic, utterly useless knaves rob the producing, aliev-via- m m CliiroiiruHur A, MAW FOR SENATE a progressive and Democrat and would supditch. port the president to the lastdecentHe is for ways and means of ralizing wealth and for giving the common people a fair and equal chance. He is for reforms in taxation, for the soldier bonus , for the farmers and workers and would do his utmost for them and for all honest citizens. He is decidely against what he terms the wrongs of some of the utility companies and would oe found, if in the senate, fighting side by side with such men as senator Norris He is for silver along lines Westerners believe should be followed and which they believe, would add very greatly to the prosperity of Utah and other Western Btates. Mr. Maw is a fearless advocate of all the rights of the people and would do his utmost against those who make it a business to exploit the masses. If his legislative stand against the usurpation of big corporations is radical then," he If I were says, I am a radical. seeking wealth and power I would not be fighting wealth and power. I have found that it was much easier to follow the flag and do my part overseas during war time than it is to face the opinion of the powerful and Intrenched interests when one Is fighting against them and for the people In peace time." He was roundly cheered time after time. thorou- Mr: Maw is gh-going Articles of Exchange At the very earliest time of which there is record, and in remote places later times, the prinelpal article of export, liy common consent ami practice, was list'd ns a third element or Ozone Protects Life Our nlmosphcrc, estimated to he shout .Km miles deep. Is made up of many elements. One of tliesp, nnne, (a form or oxygen) Ims attracted a ht or attention. If all (Ids element were collected and compressed together. according to the Smithsonian institution, It would make n Inver around the earth hut Inch thick. Yet, It Is very Important to life. This ozone belt extending some 40 miles shove the earth niters the violet rays of the sun anil allows only those necessary to life to pass the short ones. Most of the long rnys (destructive to life) are retained outside this belt. Some do penetrate hut their damage Is quickly repaired by the short radiations. I'ath Duller Magazine. In one-eight- h -i ; iiin-ieii- nt SI manufacturing and mercantile classes of their earnings. It is one of the chief plans by which this infamous ring is riveting the chains of slavery upon the limbs of labor. It is one of the chief means adopted to build up a money aristocracy that shall live in idle luxury and ape the pretentious heirs of European nobility." Panics are man made for a purpose. War never produces a panic although it is often made a pretext for a panic. Over production does not make panics. It cannot if distribution is e looked after. Panics are for a purpose. Each panic ends by leaving money more concentrated into fewer hands. Panics occur every time the currency is contracted and at no other times. Contracted or deflated. The first panic in England was caused by the bankers hurrying their metal money in the ground (there was no paper money) and saying they had no money. This "contraction" caused hard times, an acute panic. Now they bury it in their vaults. man-mad- Five Cents PEOPLE ler Copy. $1.50 Per Year. NATURAL SYSTEM AS CLAIMED Writer Says Its Unnatural And Defies Everything: It Teaches. TALKING ABOUT FREEDOM AND LIBERTY There still is slavery in the good old United States, not the wage slavery, as it is sometimes designated, but real chattel slavery. In five states men 'and women without money or means of support may be bound out as horses might be to nerve at any kind of work for their keep. There are thirteen states where men, women without means of support are under the law denied the privilege of voting. These states are Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, VirginThere ia, Delaware and Louisiana. are two states, Montana and Arizona, where paupers may be auctioned off to the best or lowest bidder for their keep. In Iowa tbe poor may be farmed out for a period not exceeding three years. In Maine the poor may be bound out to serve for not more than one year. IS THERE DANGER This is the plight of the poor in the land of the free and the home of the OF REVOLUTION? brave. We know of some characters (Editorial from Rogers, Arkansas, Daily News, April 27, 1934.) While timorous folk talk excitedly of revolutions, planned at Washington dinner parties, the man who has a good pair of eyes in his head can get a much better sizeup of the situation by looking around the country to the spots where the spray is beginning to fly over the battlement. If we ever do have a revolution, it won't come from the eager intellectuals in Washington. Instead, it will be the result of a lot of ordinary folk getting mad and starting to throw things. The last weeks news contains that 4rome pretty lese-tlanding in that category. 'In Chicago, 10,000 holders of defaulted real estate and municipal bonds parade down Michigan boulevard, shouting, We have been robbed" at the top of their lungs. In Oklahomo City, Governor Murray orders national guardsmen on duty in 11 counties to prevent sale of property for delinquent taxes as advertised by county authorities. The soldiers are ordered to arrest as a military prisoner, any county treasurer or other officer who tries to conduct such sale. In Nebraska, farm leaders plan for a demonstration of 25,000 ers to protest against new deal agricultural policies and to demand tbe release of two men arrested for preventing farm mortgage foreclosure sales. And in North Dakota .farmers threaten actual battle to save their land from foreclosure, and beg the governor to declare martial law to save the situation. When you add all these things together, they sound rather ominous. A change is coming over the face of the waters and it's the lad down at the bottom of the heap who's causing it, not the brain truster sitting craftily at a desk in Washington. "What trouble we have is coming up from the grass roots, not down from above . And the way to avert more trouble is to remove the cause of this discontent on the spot." o THE INDIVIDUALIST VS. THE INDIVIDUAL Youth of Soviet Russia, a book by Michael Davidson, is very enlightening. We quote a paragraph or two to give readers an idea on the fundamentals of the Cummunistic system. The community comes first, not the individual. The man or the woman is no more than a responsible happiness and success of the individual are no longer striven after and regarded as final, but rather the development, happiness and success of all. Bolshevism is carrying on a the individual. In other words, It is eliminate them. What is being suppressed Is the individualist cultiva-atio- n of the Individual to the whole, The individual Is recognized as a fact tlon of these individual differences, tendency. Leaders say, While we are building Socialism, discipline, blind of exi'iinne. Then nnymie obedience and unconditional subordin-ar- e fur ethe supreme law, just as they are linvlng articles of cmunien-li:iii-.-wmi lit first exelnite.'e them fur in a competitive game or In war. The ideas I and mine have been to a the article used ns meiliiiiii nf Algreat " extent supplanted by 'we' and fur the article 'our.' um-1 every sinMe article nf cnmnieree '!' at niio time nr ntmihnr Imen ns siirli me. limn nf exelmiiL-e: entile You have tend in the papers about t ! .n recce, (nine nml ether like a score of American something nilu-In rinInline irmi nml ii'ies; women who have spent thousands of :!.-i 1. S'.ii.e ineilievnl entiiitries nml, dollars wrug from the toilers of this in. I li'.ti'i recently, in .l:i:m : land in going to Europe to ape royalIn the cnliiiiy of Virni.i : wheat and fawn and flatter at its feet. ty i h'T yrnitis In m.iry iirleiiiinriil They went and apent months learn' e- - : ii:i. nml tin in times, nml ei-;- n ing how to be presented to the king r. filler, ami c.hl iilnm.-- t imi'aiT--- i and queen, whHt to wenr, what to ' any and how to art. And they learnly .'rum n lielci'l time to the pre-el.iy. Inn Imrs are still nse.l In lr.nl-I:.,- ; ed their parts like monkeys In trainwith tin' lint lies In (enlrtil Africa. ing. Finally came the day when they went to be presented. 1 HonIoii te K 1 Dr. Deo. OF TI1E THE PROFIT SYSTEM IS NOT A PANICS ARE MADE 1 K sm s HOW AND WHY THESE I m - 3, 1879. Salt Lake City, Utah, THIS FOURTH OF JULY able-bodie- quasi-publ- 217 David Keith lluilding, SOME THOUGHTS FOR Broad General Platform On Which All May Unite And Cooperate. 1: s second-clas- PROGRESSIVE ALUANCE OF UTAH Progressive friends are invited. proother things the following will posed Declaration of Principles A combe presented for adoption. on the development plete program of Utah will also be presented. Publisher and Managing Editor matter at the Post Office at Salt Lake Utah, under the Act of March C. N. LUND DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES OF THE The Progressive Aliance of Utah will meet in continued conference on Tuesday, July 3, at 2 p. m. at the Tribune Auditorium. All who attended the meeting on June 14, and their THE CAUSE I Entered as VoL SUPPORT tTKJUT THAT STANDS in history who, judged from the standpoint of money and property, were paupers, and yet they performed the greatest service to humanity. Being poor does not rob a man of his brain, or his Immortal soul. Poverty docs not quench the thirst for knowledge, nor seal the intellects domain of thought. Many a man who is without a dollar might cast a more intelligent vote than some who have more money than they need. Progress will have to walk many a weary mile before we get true freedom in this, the greatest country on earth. Self Help Organizations AreD6mgWorld OfGooH 'The profit system has defiled what ever it has touched," Dr. Frank E. Baker, president of tbe Milwaukee State Teachers' College declared in a recent editorial in the school's student publication. And the profit system has touched everything," he added. It has government, debauched corrupted politics, degraded morals, devitalized religion and demoralized human nature. Instead of producing business, as its apostles say it does, it has wrecked business and brought our whole economic system to ruin. Senator Borah stated recently, in a speech before the United States Senate, that if profit could be eliminated from tbe manufacture of muwould vanish nitions, tbe war-fefrom our midst. It has been said a thousand times that if profit could be eliminated from the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages the liquor evil would be cured forever. In the light of the history of the western world during the last half century, the discussion as to whether the profit system has failed would seem to be almost academic. The whole weight of evidence points to the affirmative. The profit system has been weighed in the balance of human experience and has been found wanting. The defense of the profit system, that it is a necessary incentive to great endeavor, Is a monstrous libel on human nature. For if there is any one fact that stands out beyond the cavil of a doubt in the history of civilization, it is that the great victories in the long struggle upward from barbarism to civilization have been won without any thought whatever of material gain. "Confucius, Buddha, Socrates, Jesus, St. Francis, Gallileo, Roger Bacon, Lincoln, Gandhi, Einstein all have wrought mightily for human welfare, with no thought whatever of .personal profit. "The greatest discoveries 'e v e r made, the noblest poems ever written, the most sublime music ever composed, the most beautiful pictures ever painted, the truest philosophies ever thought all were products of the unplumbed capacity of human spirit for tbe sheer love of achievement, untouched by the lure of gain. Tbe claim that high endeavor in the economic world Is aroused only by the promise of material reward is not only libel on human nature; it is a confession of the utter failure of the profit system. ar A letter from George T. Pickett, in Washington, at the head of the nap movement, reads: It tional is a certainty that the government cannot solve the problems of unemployment and poverty without the support of our people. All of us who know what we want must add our support in every way as there is so much unemployment and so many who do not understand why these conditions exist." Senate bill 1142 calls for the estabcommunities lishment of throughout the nation, the land to be IMPRUDENT TRUSTFULNESS held by the Federal government, and A provides for an appropriation to asman entertained the sist millions in getting on the belief that gentle treatment of ferocplan. ious animals would so change their George T. Pickett, who is general dispositions that they would show in Llano of the colony great manager friendRness toward their p Louisiana, is the father of this Gaining proximity to a cage of lions, bill, and Is now in Washington he thrust his arm between the steel p Rt the bead of the national bars, and patted the head of one of movement. the beasts. The creature growled There are now in existence in over savagely, seized the outstretched limb p 20 states various organizaand ripped off the clothing, and tore tions, and the movement is growing the flesh from the bones. The vicwith leaps and bounds as a practical tim was removed to a hospital, where plan to economic security. It is not he died from the effects of his terIs a the that permanent rible experience. argued plan our of economic distress, but solution Some have advocated the liberal it is a practical plan of caring for the and generous treatment of Capitalism, dispossessed and the unemployed, assuring that kindness extended to that is a condition and not a theory. corporate wealth would be reciprocatmovement ed. The public has It is strictly a granted subsidies by the people affliced with economic and conferred immunities for the bendistress and should not be confused efit of Commercialism. The benewith any isms." ficiary has shown no gratitude, but has bitten and lacerated the benefactor, who, through loss of financial STUDY ECONOMICS RUE blood, has been left in a weakened, TRUE ECONOMICS emaciated condition. In the management of caged brutes, the greatest precaution should be exThere is a woeful ignorance on the ercised. The benevolent emotions of subject of economics among Ameri- human minds cannot be infused into cana Only five per cent of those in leonine fierceness. school come out with any knowledge The utmost to be of economics. Perhaps this is well, employed in a prudency ought relations communitys because that which is taught is very with plutocratic power. Capitalism is PUBLIC OPINION- -2 not like a playful, harmless kitten, false aU and If largely it is a savage, economic devourer. misleading. the books on economics, text books, we mean, were scrapped, then, perhaps we could begin to build up a PERSONAL ITEMS true system that would help solve our On this problems. subject a writer says: More economic knowlege! Fine! Mrs. L. E. Elggren and Mrs. Owen But who Is to convey it? Woodruff have returned from Washofficial economic science has no D. C. Mrs. Elggren went to ington, of plausible theory crisis, of currency, meet son who returned from a of money, of Interest, of rent on lami missionherto Germany. Mrs. Woodruff of wage, etc. It is all contradictory went to visit her husband, who has confusion and c'.iaos. Better remain a position there as organizer for the ignorant than believing in a false p going whentheory from which you can not disen- ever he is department, sent. At last reports he tangle yourself. Only Gesell has plac- was organizing in North Carolina. ed economics in the realm of science, simple and apparent to every unbiasJohn Magdicl. author of the book, ed mind. American citizen and freewhich has met with some man, arm yourself with it and free Sociocracy, sale and is known as far away as your country from the fangs of the Japan, has gone to California in the money and land moloch!" interest of the work and with the view of accelerating its sale and the We do honestly believe that the of the wonderful plan wrhlch founders of the republic meant to in- adoption It proposes for the solution of our clude economic freedom when they said, "All men are created equal and problcmz o are endowed by their Creator with Many inquiries are received concertain unalienable rights among cerning Ecnj. B. Stringham and the which are life, liberty and the pursuit N. D. A. Both are still alive. Mr. of happiness." is Stringham No chance for swollen predatory worries and growing gray from the incident to putfortunes as unspent yearly dividends ting things watlngs over. But he is strong are cancelled and new credits Issued and healthy and Is sure to come out on top. each January 1st. self-hel- self-hel- p kind-hearte- d self-he- lp well-wisher- self-hel- Belf-hel- self-hel- So-call- ed Self-Hel- 1 s. |