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Show PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT SAVE AMERICA WHY DO NATIONS DIE? WHAT POWER IS IT? PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT Issued every other Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah, in interest of Natural Government What power is it that is squeezing the economic life out of the workers and farmers and small business people of the country? What awful force is it that is putting such a grip and levy on all that the country has been blessed with? There is a sinister power, out of sight from the people and beyond the pale of law, which is 90 per cent responsible for the ills that PRICES OF SUBSCRIPTION upon us. Why are the ills continued? Why is the currency . One Year .$2.00 not inflated to meet the needs and demands of the people? Why Six Months 1.00 is gold held so dear and kept so scarce while human wastage and wreckage goes on and on? Rates on Application. Advertising There are underlying causes which a united and informed Class A and B Credits Accepted in Either Department people could remove. But being neither united nor informed Worth-whil- e communications invited, and your moral and financial the people can do little, if anything, and must remain stranded support is solicited. Help us carry the saving message of and suffering until a leadership arises which will act in their to the world. interest and set matters right. We should have a leadership which will endeavor to free mankind, save the weak from the SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1932 strong; let the light of justice enter in; and instead of devoting its stewardship to the will of the power of gold, will devote it to human welfare. THE SPIRIT OF HARROW Entered as second-clamatter April 26, 1932, at the post office at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 8, 1879. C. N. LUND Publisher and Managing Editor ss "Its a crazy world and Ill be glad to leave it, says Oar ence Darrow. That is not the proper spirit. It seems to be a case had in mind by the poet when he said: ABOLISH THE I (Tart Three of a Lecture by the Editor) Looking at the examples of the past we must ask ourselves, another searching question, "Why are the sandi of time strewn with the wrecks of empire? Why are so many of earths once The sordid story-oit all imperial glories buried forever? told in that one verse from the poet Byron : is-ar- First freedom and then glory when that fails. Wealth, vice, corruption, barbarism at last. And history, with all her volumes vast. Hath but one page. It is a natural and scientific truth that material sprogress, unsupported by a natural, responsive, honest people government, and the proper moral and spiritual principles, cannot this material prosperity rises to a manently succeed! certain height, it develops a subtle poison which affects the body politic much like slow poison affects the individual. This poison is distilled from the mad and unbridled struggle for wealth and power; from dishonesty, corruption, immorality, crime and atheism. Once well started in a nation it stupefies per-Wh- I RAKE-OF- F en When a "When all the. blandishments of life are gone, Cowards turn and flee ; the brave live on." not cominea to Duller ana ixniKy uui applies 10 nearly every i j grapple torhorns leaves the nation more or less helpless in a death out product we use. Somebody a thousand or two miles m daricof life the often the allowed! existence, and government grcs on purchase and takes a fat profit. Why is he In the present crisis the duty of men as gifted as Clarence to do every this? Darrow should be to get into the fight for better things and better days. Of course, he has long been in that fight, in his dcr liad'maney toinvest He bought up our industries, and now I Shall it repeat itsslf in our day and our ooootry? Thtvnswtru way. But today, he should fling himself and all his ability and w.pay inn, daily for tke right to live. If he retdly were.only eloquence on to the side of the struggling people and, if nee back to first principles, to the essaiy, wear out, or sacrifice his life in an effort to win for. them uiiaiiiKet uuk maiauav .seek to retrace our steps and get created by the foundcrsj and we the battle for economic freedom. If we all should lay down peoples government person Dut a vast aggregation of wealthy and pow- - natural, of morality and d the abide and return to principles and say it was a bad mess and wish ourselves out of It, what erful imby corporations, too jnany of us are awed by his very would become of the world? . . mensity .and our souls cringe, and we dare not question the religion? T Natioim of Antiquity, It is true that the times are bad; it is true that they will right of this financial colossus to take from us the money which be worse. But it is also true that never before was there higher should remain in circulation right here in this state. glimpse some of the awful warnings that nse like from the buried past. Egypt, with all her wisdom a service to be rendered, nobler deeds to be done, greater tasks to Because of this absurd arrangement, we have no way of ghosts and religion rose to supreme and dazzling and art be performed. Never before did God and truth have so much keeping our money at home. So we must adopt the N. D. A. need for helping hands and able minds. We must not shirk; plan of getting all these necessities without the use of money, heights and flourished for four thousand years. But! irom the we must not falter; we must not lose faith, but carry on until To the loyal Utahn, there is a solid satisfaction in the thought above mentioned causes, she fell to shame and degraUtimand we behold the victory over economic and financial slavery. Mis- that he has been able to buy his food andclothing and other remains to this day as the land of darkness. Babylon, the Great, the magnificent, the proud, the wonder and the queen of the understanding may greet us on every side. Our motives may be impugned. Opprobium may be heaped upon us. But in world, became poisoned by wealth and immorality, and her palaces, her wealth, he beauty and greatness went down to the pits spite of doubts and dangers, fears and falsehoods, we must of oblivion and became but ugly mounds of rubbish. Ninevah so on said that of it be us that we did our best for carry may and Tyre and Sidon went to decay and forgotten dust. The human welfare. powerful Persian empire with its mighty Cyrus the Great, drank the dregs of the cup of poison and disintegrated . The same Sun in Baltimore the In a copyrighted interview published A JUDGE SPEAKS which rose to such not long ago Owen Young wrote some of the wisest words yet poison brought about the fall of Greece, AH of her that could be been never have as paralleled. heights spoken. They should be read by every citizen. her A judge, who is a student and gifted speaker, made "We have reached the stage where I believe we are con- - destroyed was ruthlessly laid in ruins. Macedonia with and of the Alexander, freely partook poison a talk at the 8th Ward meeting Sunday evening, July 3, in which fronted with the choice between trusting that the crumbling he traced the history of religious and political despotisms in process has reached its end (and risking absolute national dis- - went the way of all the earth. Rome, the undisputed mistress thc best administered OTWthe leading up to the American philosophy of government. Among aster if it has not) and turning around the emergency with fell and with her destruction to had ever world the seen, empire the things he said was the following significant statement, and gency methods. on the horfall of the went collapse bringing he said it most forcefully: "The economic despotism existing must when come the time the has think "I step government subtle of that same The ror the dark destroyed poison ages. manner. It is under capitalism is the worst in the history of the world. We in. And I want it to step in in no nations also brought about the paganizing and devitalizing of are facing a graver crisis than the fathers faced in 1776. We not wise and not safe to longer defer this action. In our own day we have seen the effects of the believe that he spoke the literal truth. Everywhere thinking "I have spent my life in private business and I have be- Christianity. in and Russia. We see it everywhere. It is the poison Spain men are coming to the same conclusion. machines could lieved that private business operate the great I sam sad misgovemment, a breaki story, converted and materials are labor and our which exchanged by tral moorings. It is wealth, ambition, greed, selfishness, un-binto things of use for all of us. But I am not willing to sit idly f NO PROGRESS UNDER CAPITALISM with my hands in my lap, when things crumble and crumble I morality, graft, corruption, crime and infidelity. These thingsthe undoing of nations. It is but the working of an lmmutand crumble and finally reach a: point where further crumbling able law. Good government, morality and spirituality are the known. never nation has this such cause as disaster Did you say "This depression is like all others and soon may "If we are too confused and too terrified to act individually, foundations of national success. In them alone is our security. will be over? Did you say "Prosperity is just around the corto step in and take risks in Make no mistake about it. Will men say, after an honest view ner?" If so, dont you think it is now time that you change then it is time for the government of conditions in the world today, that the present system is a fear individuals to bear. that business, starting your position? "No plan means anything if it will not serve to bring back success? No, it is proving to be a colossal failure. More than Statesmen of this country and editors of newspapers are seven thousand banks have failed in 3)4 years. Small business of bringing back jobs.7 now making statements which, made a year or two ago, would jobs, at least, to start the process has gone to the wall. Millions are unemployed. Unless we have branded them as "reds and would have made them liable change and accept a new ,better, and more natural system, we to arrest, prison sentence or maybe deportation. Thinking peoare doomed to go the way of the nations mentioned. There is INSPIRATIONS MINUTE FIVE ple of today have come to the conclusion that there will never no escaping it. All our material matness will avail us nothing N. Lund By C be prosperity again under the capitalistic system. The capiif we lose our national soul in a debauch of misgovemment, imtalistic system has served its purpose, and we are now ready to morality, crime and corruption. pass into a new order, one in which the idea is going to domiMountains The nate that every man, woman and child has the right to life, YOUR MISSION "How beautiful the mountains are the feet of him that liberty and the pursuit of happiness, which, summed up, means bringeth good tidingsupon and peace." pnblisheth By C. N. Lund a job and the right to work without some one taking a profit We should go to the mountains more than we do. What from their labor; also the right to live and enjoy the necessary hills to repair for rest, for recreaDont think that you need the wealth piled by greed. and the good things of life on equal terms with all other peo- better place than the eternal God and with ones own Nor places of fame and power. communion with with for nature, tion, Llano Colonist. ple. You need but the will, and the wish to fill soul ? It was King David of old who said : "The mountains are Mens souls in their earthly hour the source of my strength. So we who live in the shadow of With the living truth, the redeeming troth, these hoary monarchs should seek to make them the source of BORAH SENSES SITUATION That their need would have you speak. our strength. In a physical sense we fully realize the strength of the Senator Borah appears to have more political sense and mountains. All the gold men lure from the toils of the poor They are our sheltering arms, our protecting walls. vision than many of his colleagues, and he has the happy facthe crystal streams of water which flow limpid and us give Is but the limit of sin. They ulty of speaking his beliefs in a way that attracts attention. If laughing to the valleys. They give us summer range for our And the stately piles that they build the whiles his timely advice on the money and price situation was heeded livestock . You never may enter in ; They give us our lumber, our coal ,our granite, our and acted upon it would be far better for the country. lime, our lead, our copper, our silver and gold. But we must from days of birth to the end of earth But In asking for an immediate calling of an international con- get more from them than material things or else our strength You win by the powr of truth. ference on silver and for the stabilization of commodity prices, will be We should consider it a privilege to go and he said: "The situation is serious. There is no escape from walk their royal ramparts with lifted heads and dear viIf the truth be told all the wrongs of old chaos unless the government stays the fall of commodity sions upon and drink in new life and energy. Musing and dreaming, Will flee from the paths of men. The senator the truth. is now It prices." speaks nearly two and thinking in their clean solitudes should inspire us to greater is the work you never must shirk, So this years since the president was asked to call an international confor the battle of life, loftier faith, more vigorous indeTo bring the truth unto men, ference on the silver question and absolutely nothing has been courage pendence, greater strength of character, higher nobility of mind And pave the way for the coming day done. It may be too late now. Prices have been hammered and a wider reach of soul. When Brotherhood rules the world. down and down until the loss to the country has been nearly We may rest assured that God dwells there in "the su$200,000,000,000, five times as much as the world war cost us. preme and ancient silences, that he makes hi$ temples in their And the end is not yet. Farmers cannot sell their products at groves and silent places, and walks familiar with his rugged any price, it seems, and such a condition cannot be anything handiwork. He is present in the storms and tempests and winds short of disastrous. America must wake up to the seriousness that sweep through the canyons. He is in the gentle rains and SUBSCRIPTION PLEDGE of the situation and do the right thing before it is too late. the summer breezes that blow warm over the hill tops. Upon the high crests he sets the dawn in motion and makes the sun rise stalk from peak to peak, from crag to crag, until the sumTHE FARMERS ARE LEARNING mits shine like burnished gold. And when the long day is done he paints upon the towering heights the gorgeous sunset scene In another column. Dr. Elmer G. Peterson, President of the with his magic colors of orange and crimson and gold. Editor Progressive Independent, Utah Agricultural College, approves the determination of the Let us go jnore often to the mountains, to play, to sing, farmers of Utah county to do business without the use 6f money. to dream ; to reap ripe thought for our minds and rich food for 206 Scott Building: He quotes an Eastern economist as pointing out that, after all, our spirits, and cleansing light for our souls. Let us go there a quarter of beef can be traded for as many bushels of potatoes like Moses did to commune with our Maker and glimpse the now as it would bring in times of prosperity. towers and minarets of the Promised Land. Let us go there to I hereby pledge to help the cause of Natural Dr. Petersons endorsement of the policy of doing business seek out a new Mount Olympus with its groves j a new Pama-su- s without the use of money means that it is economically sound. with its muses ; a new Mount of Olives with its beatitudes. It is an indirect endorsement of the Natural Development AsWe spend too much time in the valleys. We live too closely and through that the cause of humanity, by sociations system of organized exchange. to our images of gold. Let us occasionally pass on up to the Because, as Dr. Peterson mentions, there are limits to the heights and seek to transmute some of our material well being for your paper. Enclosed find, ) interchange of commodities by means of simple barter, the into more developed soul, more, refined spirit, more glorious viassociation has devised an exchange medium that will almost sion. And let us take with us some of the gifted souls who entirely remove those limits. Every new activity founded or struggle in the valleys that they may write new and better annexed by the association widens by that much the range of poetry, that they may catch and hold purer and sweeter music, Name. the goods and service its exchange medium will buy. that they may bring down new revelations of art. More and more projects are being brought in, until in time Yes, let us go often to the mountains and linger long in the association coupons will buy any and every need, want or eternal solitudes that we may the better prepare ourselves for Address. luxury. The need for cash will dwindle to a negligible mini- that most golden of all Golden Ages to which prophets and poets mum. In resolving to do without money, the farmers are on and seers have pointed through all the long reaches of time. the right track. In that direction lies the solution of the ecoSigned.. nomic problem. Adoption of the Natural Development ex"On mountain summits our expanding hearts change system will make their efforts 100 per cent effective. Shall feel a kindred with that loftier world." tfJSSS? iiita-uau- uu time-teste- world-conqueri- ng emer-oHliwOT- ld, world-civilizatio- n, half-heart- ed y, one-side- d. |
