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Show v I' ' 4,vn. I!' Yes, It li this shortage of money among the common people that la the barrier between them and the things that are theirs by divine right, and which should be theirs by human right It Is because of this shortage of money that the plans and hopes of tens of millions of good honest men and women have been crushed and trailed In the dust of mammon. Not Knilirul EDITORIALS at matter second-cla- ss Publisher and Managing Editor Office at Salt Lake Utah, under the Act of March Poet the STRAWS IN THE WIND Another Holy Roller organization is HEART WORKS WONDERS out to save the people, The Good Government Crowd. Beware. The Power Company may get you. We believe In municipal ownership under proper management, but God save us from another army of beaurocrata where The lnate wisdom of the minds and hearts of the makers of the Constitution wrought a miracle In the long ago. The right kind of wisdom can do the same today. We beg of you to ead and ponder the fol- officers and employes are dictated by lowing and then try to think out what a Tamanyized central committee. a similar wisdom, if we could find it, might do today. This article Is about Let the Works Relief people and the Constitution and what It did. all federal employees under the relief 11 Read and profit Nothing better confine themselves to the one setup written. the salary is ample for all Just before the Constitution was job, as needs. Some are running about their framed, our country was in the grip doing two or three jobs and two or deof a greater, more three salaries. Would it not be wise pression, than anything we have ex- to pay all employees exactly what of since the the collapse perienced Is the families on relief. That given stock markets In 1929. woould be equality and should be The American dollar was worth tried. cents. only about two and This was five years after the RevolThe work relief people are laying utionary war. Mobs were being formed everywhere. Hungry men awake night trying to figure out ways direct action." to spend Utah's share of the were resorting to fund. The fact is that 60 per Every mans hand was being raised against his neighbor. A gang of cent of It is already spent and will hoodlums drove Congress out of Phil- go to the officials and overhead, and adelphia and forced it to flee Into overhead means most anything. New Jersey. Shay's Rebellion broke out In New England, and demolished "The American Commonwealth Pocourt houses all over the State of litical Federation," that is Utahs conMassachusetts. tingent, held a meeting this week to The national credit of the govern- start things, but no start was made, ment was gone. The little group of and may not be for some time. They colonies had become the laughing will move cautiously and wait until stock of the world. It looked as if the Productlon-For-Us- e party begins the North American continent was which this paper will support to the doomed to pass through a long, black limit, begins taking over the democnight of unspeakable chaos. Trade racy. One corner has been carted and industry had vanished. Social away already and will be kept in cold life was In disorder. Labor was at a storage.' One trouble is, so they say, standstill. Morals were being shat- that leading Democrats are tearfully tered. begging some of the Progressives All nt this seemed to break the to accept any office from tommission heart of George Washington. His to congressman. Some Democrats Xlow dettytkia, biff wtal-a- t stated in the 4eUerv vtnrVu tu'thai how deeply his spirit was crushed. meeting must be true. During the A leading authority on the subject meeting quite a rush was made to of Constitution has this to say: subscribe for a foreign Bolshevik When you read through that period weekly paper, red to the core. of history you will find that the of the farmers in Amsplendid people who came over to those shores with their religious Ideals erica are too poor to buy anything and their aspirations for better worth having. There is no use trying things were in large part such a mob to sell them anything because they politically, as Russia Is today. They have no money. Last year their intried fruitless experiment after fruit- come averaged only slightly more less experiment, many of which this than a dollar a day! There are some generation has again been fooling figures which will not be denied by with thinking it was trying some- J. P. Morgans hired press. thing new. It was during this period, prior to The A. F. of L. figures show that the writing of the Constitution, that at the present date in the Aeld of in-- 1 George Washingtons letters to his dustrial employment there are 11,-- 1 friends were filled with fear because 000,000 persons without jobs. of what he saw taking place in the In 1776, one year before After studying things for about five Country. the Constitution was written, he years the Department of Commerce wrote to a friend as follows: Unless Anally has discovered why it is that something is done, I can see nothing such a small proportion of people ahead but the black night of anarchy. own the houses they live in. The DeOn October 8, 1785, Washington partment could hardly believe its wrote to James Warren as follows: eyes when it saw what the reason The wheels of government are dog- wax Lack of money. ged. We are descending into the vale oof confulosn and darknesa In the shadow of million dollar About the same time, Washington mansions we see poverty stalking in of Plenty. There are more answered a letter from John Hay. He the senti Your said: child en today in the rich4,200 than Washington ments, that our. affairs are drawing est city in the worlds history who rapidly to a crisis, accord with my are so poor that they havent got the own. What, then, is to- - be done? shoes and clothing with which to atWould to God, that wise measures tend school.' may be taken In time to avert the( consequences we have but too much SOCIAL CREDIT, OR THE reason to apprehend." NEW ECONOMICS Finally, on December 26, 1776, less thw nine months before the signing The Social Credit people, a very live of the Constitution, Washington sent an(j growing organization, proposes to to Henry Knox the following letter: make the United States a big corporI feel, my dear General Knox, infin- ation which shall declare a monthly itely more than I can express to you, dividend of $40 to every person. They 2o r the disorders, which have arisen want to make money to reflect the Good God! Who real wealth of the country and thus in these states. could have foreseen, or predicted bring about an adequate purchasing them." power among consumers which, they It was in this atmosphere of un- say, la sure to bring prosperity and certainty, it was in his state of chaos, permanent economic security. Here, that the convention was called, in the in their own words, Is what they are year 1787, in the city of Philadelphia, aiming at and trying to get: We are endeavoring to bring to for the purpose of drafting a fundamental document which should be- birth a new civilization. We are docome the governing authority of the ing something which really extends g far United States of Ame lea. This beyond the confines of a change gathering was attended by in the financial system. We are hop56 men. For five months these men ing by various means, chiefly finanlabored, struggled, and wrestled. Then cial, to enable the community to deffinally, out of the travail of their initely step out of one type of civilizasouls, out of the white Are of their tion into another type of civilization, brains, came the Constitution of the and the first and basic requirement of that, as we see it, is Absolute EcUnited Stattes., When human wisdom seemed to be onomic Security. They quote the failing it was then that the super elder Rothschild as saying, Permit wisdom of Benjamin Franklin came me to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not who makes to the rescue and he concluded an its tows. with the following words. I therefore beg leave to move: "That hereafter prayers, imploring A HINT TO THE POLITICIANS I the assistance of Ileaven and its blesDont take a good man out of the sing on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before county commissioners chair to which we proceed to business, and that one the people elected him, and place him or more of the clergy of this city be in the office of secretary of state. Mr requested to officiate In that service." Quinn should remain where be is. And then they unitdd and brought There has been too much shifting forth the greatest document ever is- about of officials merely to get highsued from the pen and brain of man. er salaries while many In need of Jobs 'far-reachi- one-ha- lf $5,000,-000,0- . Two-thir- epoch-makin- sp-pe- . - ' It Is because of th. shortage of money that a moral, physical and spiritual collapse la upon us. Darkness broods everywhere. Faith is dying and dreams are becoming a delusion as the great the Beast, the Babylon, the Destroyer of both soul and body, holds sway and goes forth to trample all that we have . biulded Into chaos. ds st, S, 1879. WORTH READING lluf Itiglil This Paper is (or Production For Use and believes with Sinclair that the duty is to convert the Democratic party tc that idea. Make that the objective. OF MIND AND J Anti-Chri- Entered as WISDOM k. r fc 00 By WILLIAM C. UTLEY INQ GBORGK V's silver jubilee, now at Its height In England, has formed an Innocent, If world wide. Institution for propagandizing the unity and extent of the British Empire. No one, certainly, qnestlons its extenL Bat there are those among the political economists of the day who at least g realm shows Suggest that the signs of breaking apart, and when the real test comes, If It ever does, they may be righL , Recent developments In South Africa have again made people ask whether the British Empire Is breaking np," writes Fred Clarke, English educator and former representative of the Union of South Africa at Geneva, WithIn Current History Magazine. out attempting to answer that question, one can have no doubt aa to the ImA COMPARISON NOT FARFETCHED portance of the etatua of the Union act, which received royal aasent on Once upon a time some men im- June 22, 1934. This now law has a prisoned some of their fellow men In bearing on the whole future of Britan underground stone dungeon. The ish Imperial unity. The status set contains the Aral defiprisoners were to be tortured by thirst As a means of increasing nite official reference of the crown to the torture it was so arranged that the union aa a soverelgu Indejiendent the top layer of stones on one side state. Its accompanying seal act gives of the place was moistened with wa- the exclusive right of use of the Great ter. The poor men could see this Seal and Little Seal, heretofore held moisture but the wet stones were so by the king, to the South African minhigh that only the tallest among isters. For more than s quarter of a cen- them could, by stretching, reach high enough to touch their tongues to the tnry South Africa, politically, has been watery surface, and even this could torn bitterly between two political facnot quench their awful thirst The tions aa directly opposed as our New shorter ones tried and tried to reach Dealers and rugged Individualists. up but always fell back more thirsty f They were led by General Smuts, right-han- d man of General Botha in the and Anally perished altogether. Today the traveler la shown the marks ; Union government which arose s few that were worn in the solid stone years after the South African war, by the eager hands and fingers of the and General llertxog, a minister In poor, perishing prisoners. As we he Botha cabinet who was removed look back on it this seems to have Jn 1912, two years after the cabinet formed. been terribly cruel and stands out as General Smuts and his faction open-ania horrible example of mans inhum- -' to man. Mut was it any more y considered the Union a definite horrible and cruel than the economic fpart of the Empire, with British of today? The crazy money Ji ration and culture dominant Ilert- - cannot get a look In. The autocracy of the politicians will soon have to abdicate. They are not helping the people. In many respects they are like scavengers gorging on the afflictions of the people. In place of helping the people they add to their burdens. Here comes one of them down the street, proud and arrogant, with the attitude, What do I care. I get $3,000 a year and the work is easy and pleasant and I hope It never ends. Out on the farms and in the workshops the money Is being earned to pay 150,000 like him, and much of the work has been declared unconsti tutional. far-flun- .',' ty . clvl-syste- ra system werllve In is same thing to men, women and chil- dren. Not to a few, like the little crowd of prisoners, but to tens of millions who are imprionsed In the dungeon of depression, reaching up and up trying vainly to get that which will purchase a few of the good things of life, that which will pay their debts, that which would lift the burdens and chase away the fears. Like the prisoners they keep slipping back after having tried so hard that they have left the marks of their hands and Angers on the granite pages of life, and passing on to be thrown away to forgotten dust, tortured to death by the most ruthless system ever known to man. Let us And a Lincoln, sprung from the loins and heart of the great mass of common people, who will walk among us and .say, Come unto me, all you that " are weary, depressed and heavy-ladeand I will help you to unite and lead you into the house of plenty where poverty shall be known no more forever." ; isyrpatiieore bJd wt'S',lwtU1e4 complete social, cultural and political domination of the Boer population by the British, and have slways striven to make the Union a separate and independent nation. The present status of the Union has been effected as a sort of political compromise between the two generals and their respective parties The Union Is undeniably indeiiendent now, with merely allegiance to the crown," the string politically tying It to Great Britain. And the two parties have fused Into one. They Get Together. It Is Interesting to note that the coalition of the parties cume about because their differences became so bitter after England went off the gold standard in 1931 that party leaders decided that unity and compromise would be the only means of averting hopeless Internal political strife. Imagine Mr. Roosevelt and, say, Mr. Hoover, getting together before a political campaign and straightening out their differences ! General Hertzngs nationalist party, THE PARASITE WHO WOULD which was In power In 1931, preferred to keep South Africa on the gold standSEE US DEVOURED ard, believing that England had A certain rich oil man says that he topped off only temporarily, and tlint would not ihre a man who had been maintaining the standard would help on relief. Other rich men have complimented him. The statement of the man shows his utter ignorance of conditions. He has lived In luxury, f Continued on Paga 4.) n, ly as historical traditions, not as real loyalties and convictions It was they whose Insistence that these differences be wiped out once end for ell Impressed the nation with the necessity for taking up the real business at hand that of administering good result of the coalgovernment. As ition, the status set, satisfactory In the main to both parties, was effected. Boers In Opposition. The Boer In South Africa has long political domiopposed the nance of the Union by Iyindon, as pro-posed by' the Briton, for fear of losing hie Identity. South Africa Is a region of two separate and powerful cultures, and Its people speak two languages There Is, of course, the English with which we are more or less familiar. And there Is the Dutch offspring, Afrikaans. The New Deal for South Africa pad-b- y fostering both tbiturea, ftJboeatioil'ts atfhdfllstetW ja both. Newspapers and mngaslnea are published In both languages. That the atatus act, with Its admission of 8outh Afrlcaa virtually absolute Independence, applies as well to all of the British Dominions, Is Implied In the fact that It Includes In its preamble the Balfour declaration obtained by General Ilertzog when he beaded the nationalist government of 1924. This calls the Dominions auwithin the tonomous communities British Empire, equal In status, In no way subordinate one to another In n ny respect of their domestic or exter-iva- l affairs, though united by a common allegiance to.the crown, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations" Further removing British political dominance from the Dominions was the Statute of Westminster, which wee passed by the British parliament In 1931. It closely allied the constitutional development of the other Dominions of the empire with that of the Union of Bouth Africa. The Balfour declaration and the Statute of of are masterpieces Westminster phraseology which carried soothing balm to both South African factions. The status act Is the application of them to the South African constitution. Two important repressions are made to the Dominions In the Statute of Westminster. It gives the Dominion government power to amend, repeal or modify any British act which has been Incorporated in the law of the Dominion. It further stales that no British law may be applied to any Dominion unless that Dominion has requested the application and consented . to iV3gggg: r -- j:; r V !! !' v4 1 ... General Smuts. stabilize a lending Industry of South Africa, gold mining, other Interests suffered badly, and General Smuts' 8outh African party accused the InTHE SPIRIT OF LINCOLN cumbents of pampering the political In the eternal sphere in which 3 Interests always proue to take the opmove I am not unmindful of the Btat posite line from the empire. Jeopardizing the Interests of the Union in genof the Republic I died to save. I an eral thereby. greatly concerned about It Fver It was conceded that If General while in the flesh I feared that thi Smuts could force en election at that grevous wolves of Mammon wouli time, he would have more than an creep in and destroy the last hope o even chance cf winning, but that he liberty in the world and I feel tha could not do so without stirring up my prediction Is about to be ver the smoldering embers of racial con, literally fulfilled. I said in the flict between Boers (nr, rather, the Intelligence, patriotism, Christ preseut-da- y Afrikanders) and Britons, lanity, and a Arm reliance on Hiii bd animosity that had been admirably who has never yet forsaken this fav subdued In the preceding deendes by ored land, are still competent to ad wise government. just In the best way all our presen' To youth of South Africa really goes difficulties. So I say now, use you the credit for coalition. Young uicn Intelligence, develop your patriotism f both parties know the sentimental live your Christianity, and trust li and romantic raclnl distentions mere God. Ion-ago- IL Really Independent The statue act Itself declares that no British legislation shall be considered In effect In the Union of South Africa until It Is by the South African parliament. The chief executive" Is defined as the king, who shall set upon the advice of his South African ministers In South Africa the kings representNeither ative Is the governor-genera- l. he nor the king have any powers of veto or reservation of a bllL The governor-general may, however, simply return a bill with bis opinion for further consideration If he thinks It wise. The king does not retain the power to name the prime minister and to dissolve parliament. The case of war would be the real test. For, with the clearly worded tatus act, the Union of South Africa enn now decide for Itself whether mr not to remain neutral If the empire enters a war. Says Clarke: It might even secede altogether, though not apparently, by legal process. Some commentators In England as well as In South Africa feel disturbed by these possibilities. But equal status' necessarily Implies them, and legal barriers would be flimsy defenses against the strong political pressures when the time of crisis comes" It will bs remembered that when Eugland entered the World war there was widespread dissension In 8onth Africa, and even serious uprisings in some cases. Clarke goes on: Neutrality and secession are political issues, to be determined In the light of all the facta when the question arises. They are not to be determined In advance, as some of the lawyers seemed to demand, by any constitutional legislation, especially legislation under such documents as the Balfour declaration and the Statute of Westminster." die-har- d Thu Ties That Bind. The alMtlitlon of the rerogatlve power of the king aroused the anguish of the faction In South Africa. Tbla faction claimed that in the time of crisis the king was the executive head of the entire British Empire, and that he could act as he saw fit In case of a crista, la order to keep the realm pro-Britis- h General Hsrtzog. from falling apart General Smuts was able to convince hie followers that for centuries no such prerogative. If there was one, had been exercised and that the question was not one of law, bat of politics Of course, what the economists who cite the atatus act aa evidence that the British Empire Is disintegrating fall to how to that political power or legal power are not the real bands which hold the Empire together. Experience has taught us that In time of war nations do not set on the literal Interpretation of the law. The tlea that bind are more sulf tantlaL In the case of the British Imperial Dominions they are the advantages of free trade within the Empire and the protection of the British fleet The Union of South Africa would be an eusy mark Indeed for an Invading force were It not for the protection of the greatest fleet In the world. It to extremely doubtful that the Union would ever want to forsake such s protection. With Its constitutional status now more clearly defined than ever before the Union of South Africa to ready Itself to begin expanding. It would like to annex the adjacent protectorates of Bechuanatnnd, Swaziland and Basutoland, which are now governed under the Dominions office In London, When the Union was formed In 1900, the constitution provided for the eventual Inclusion of these territories. Their population, however, to 99 per cent black, and they weie left out of the original Union and kept under direct London protection because of the treatment they had received at the hands of the Boers who made up large share of the Union population. When, last year, Prime Minister Ilertzog snnounced to Great Britain that the Union of South Afriea was ready to act Immediately to 'nclude the protectorates, his act drew an instant appeal from Chief Tshekedt Klmma of Bechunnuland. British administration to the protectorates bas not been all that It might be, bnt natives and native aympathlzers believe that It to better than the discrimination which might harm them at the handa of the Boers. Wfitpra Ntnpuir Unloa ( |