Show Vr particular ABOUT THE COMPANY WE KEEP v monticello utah july 24 1939 mr william kullgren editor the beacon light atascadero Atas cadero california dear sir your letter of july 16 duly received and is no surprise to me for I 1 had already perused several of your editorials in the beacon light and therefore knew what you stood for I 1 will ignore your insult in relation to the flag and your reference to the hammer and sickle this is the usual tactics resorted to by people of your type towards those of progressive leanings who want to see isee a better state of affairs for the common american after reading your books it is plain to see that if you displayed a flag at all it would symbolize the swastika and in justice to your readers it might be fair to insert a line on the first page official organ of the german bund of Ar america you charge me not only with being a communist but also of N ful ignorance and counsel me to read my bible and particularly V P ew testament of course you are entirely familiar with these works and especially with such elementary passages as the following from the ten commandments and the teachings of the messiah thou s al not kill why incite to murder thou not covet the possessions of jews thou shall not bear false witness in each issue of bacon L thou not steal nor rob jews or anyone else judge not that ye be not judged read any issue of B L vengeance is mine mayeth the lord why try to steal gods thunder love thy neighbor as thyself if you love anyone besides william kullgren beacon light fails to show it do unto others as you would be done by abbreviated suppose you had been born a jew the above are just a few rudimental truths of christianity which you break in every issue of beacon light which you print and yet you have the audacity to 0 quote scriptures to me your publication like yourself is totally negative you have spent the past 20 years trying to incite to hate revolution and the destruction of our demo 1 cratic form of government to be displaced by a dictatorship under which you and other promoters would be permitted to rob rape sack and murder the jews and divide their property just as the they y did in russia under the czar and just as they are doing in germany italy and austria today your appeal is to the lowest passions of which the human race is capable and yet you talk americanism and pretend allegiance to the nations emblem for your information there is not a drop of jewish blood in my veins I 1 am not an admirer of the jewish race although we must admit that they are smart and under the price and profit system of economics which is the game being played in this country chev i usually emerge with their share but because a fellow is too smart for us is no just grounds for persecuting and mobbing him I 1 blame the system which permits a few individuals to exploit and rob and half starve the masses of the people not the individuals who prove their superiority at playing the crooked game be they jews pretended christians or gentiles I 1 am not on payroll but that of marie M ogden I 1 have no personal ax to grind I 1 believe implicitly in christs mission and the code of ethics which he brought to earth I 1 believe the object of his mission was to bring to earth the true code and philosophy of life for happy successful living but unfortunately after nearly 2000 years bears and with people professing christianity so far as I 1 have been able to discover there are not people on the globe who are living up to his instructions and admonitions greed and avarice still rule the world and purveyors of hate av avarice arlice and mob violence are the antichrist anti christ influence which is retarding the progress of mankind and producing hell instead of heaven on earth god moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform and almost always god chooses the least suspected laboratory for his experiments peri ments it being apparent to god just as it is to any honest fearless sincere person that modern christian churches are not following the formula laid down by jesus christ in other words that the vineyards he planted had grown up to thorns and thistles whistles es and noxious weeds god selected the most worthless backward area on earth for his experiment if I 1 had a field or vineyard that grew nothing but weeds ane first thing I 1 would do would be to plow it up and then summer fallow it until I 1 got rid of all the weed therie there might be other fields where weeds predominate but where some grain could yet be harvested so I 1 would let that rest until I 1 recovered the worst land and so god apparently selected russia tor for the the experiment A land thoroughly dominated by corrupt but he overthrew a remorseless tyrant and a destructive antichrist anti christ capitalism which completely chokes out the seeds of true christianity which cannot grow and thrive in a soil fertilized by the selfish unfeeling price and profit system which keeps penal institutions filled to bursting with young men and young women who are seeking the short cuts to the common objectives of the race under this tah s system the people of russia are pawns in the hands bands of god they do not know what it is all about just what they are doing or why and paradoxically they do not so far as the leaders are concerned even acknowledge that there is a god and because of their destruction of the church parasites in that country they have of course incurred the and abuse of all the existing churches which to a greater or lesser degree share the shortcomings and iniquities with which the churches of that country were saturated the people of russia are apparently cruel and ruthless they are perhaps only following the mandate of god who said if your right eye offend ye pluck it out and cast it from thee for it is better that one member should perish than that the entire body should dwindle in unbelief and so despite the insistent demand from within that they return to the selfish motive the sabotage and intrigue and the threat of force from an entirely selfish dominated antichrist anti christ world gods experiment still goes on and seems likely to continue when the time is ripe in my opinion russia will become the earsery and seedbed for the much distorted and maligned p precious grains that christ brought to earth in the meantime it is a most interesting experiment to watch from the time of ancient enoch god has been trying to tell the inhabitants of the earth that true liap happiness and successful living are j predicated upon the eradication of selfishness and the substitution of justice mercy an and d brotherly love with very indifferent success selfishness is briess is to be found f at the bottom of all our human woes boes in the families and our national strife and bicke rings and in all our international a I 1 affairs and yet we idling to it just uke ake the drunkard does to the bottle of strong drink that is destroying hie bio body and soul selfishness is the most potent weapon of lucifer in impeding and destroying the work of god it is the greedy desire for wealth and continued on page thirteen continued from P page ac a c five the self indulgence that it brings that leads human beings being to descend i to levels below the brute creation and commit crimes that revolt and shock even our calloused social conscience and so to ito try to establish a nationwide nation wide society based even ort on justice and reasonable equality is a herculean task for even god to accomplish for well the selfish beneficiaries of the status quo realize that if one country is given a chance to demonstrate that there is something better than the selfish profit motivated system something that will afford a higher standard of living eliminate want and misery promote true christianity and give it an opportunity to grow and function all the powers of hell cannot prevent the rest of the world from adopting it or something similar simil ar but in order to survive and endure it must have the sanction and protection of divinity for no purely man made could possibly endure in the face of such opposition as exists in the world today I 1 believe in fair play I 1 believe that the united states is the best country to live in today notwithstanding the weaknesses and injustice of our present social and economic setup set up I 1 am for all good and reasonable reforms and fully endorse a majority of the new deal reforms I 1 charge that those opposed are the selfish interests who have ha ve and hold the breaks and advantages under the present system I 1 and their paid propagandists the fact that you mr kullgren are opposed to any movement having as its object the emancipation of mankind and the improvement of conditions for the majority indicates that you are in the employ or on the pay roll of the corrupt selfish interests and the thing that irritates me most is for you to be quoting scripture and claiming to be in the service of god when your whole course is a negative one and calculated to thwart justice mercy law and order and all the finer things that the messiah stood for enough along this line to get down to brass tacks and our somewhat mutual problems mrs ogden at first advised against the publication li of your letter but later reported that she had received guidance that it would be all right to do so if 1 wished I 1 have therefore accepted your challenge and am giving your letter and this reply to our readers I 1 now challenge you to show the same good sportsmanship and publish your letter and my reply in your beacon light let us see if you have the courage and fairness to do so here is the way the matter stands with marie she has har bared all her personal affairs and humiliated herself almost beyond endurance she has almost mortgaged her immortal soul in order to redeem the main street building here in monticello for a home and headquarters for you and your publication activities she needs more business in order to pay out on her plant and she has been counting on you to furnish that business and while I 1 cannot vision marie M ogden whose code of ethics is i s so strict that she will not swat a fly or kill a mosquito that bores her linking up with a man whose only purpose in life seems to be to create hatreds hat reds strife and revolution ath the ultimate object of overthrowing the government and robbing and persecuting a race of people merely because they are numerically weak and financially strong far be it ft from me to dictate how she 41 order her life or place a straw lin the way of her temporal salvation I 1 have therefore tendered my resignation to take effect on your arrival here to begin operations or earlier if desirable I 1 trust that you have been sincere sincere in your overtures and representations and that your motives are constructive to her affairs in other words that you are not another silver shirt pelley seeking to bolster your campaign of hate and destruction at the expense of a defenseless woman because you must know by now that mrs ogden does not now have to hand over to you or anyone else for i nothing and unless she can get reasonable remuneration for the printing she undertakes to do for you she will be better off running her own show my job here is not a serious matter with me I 1 have always been be en able to make my own way I 1 have plenty of energy and resourcefulness ful ness so I 1 do not want you to consider me at all in this matter yours frankly and sincerely C S WILKINSON editor and manager |