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Show A PAPER A LIBERAL a s W1TII VISION - PAPER 1 i LINCOLN AND BRIGHAM YOUNG WARNED US Editorial ITS PERSONAL PROGRESSIVE ITEMS AND (C.N.L.) Give em the Flowers Now WEALTH WOULD DO. : 'He digged, pit, he digged kdeep; He digged it for hb brother, But forhii tin he did fill in, The pit he digged for t'other" ( TWO PROPHETS HAVE SEEN THE RESULTS OF CONCENTRATED WEALTH HAVE WARNED THE NATION ' on advanced economics will not begin nn-'t- il new series .(The next week.) Abraham Lincoln and Brigham Young, prophets in their separate spheres, saw the vision, when others were groping ' r blindly, of the calamity that is sure to come to a nation when And they it permits a great centralization of its wealth. not afraid to speak out their warning words. Every reader knows the solemn words of Lindn about corpora-tions becoming enthroned and threatening the wreck of the government, but few have read or heard the following time ly words of Brigham Young, uttered in 1868 and quoted by Bp. John Wells in his article on Cooperation in the current Belief Society Magazine. Brigham Young said: One of the great evils with which our nation is menaced the at the present time is the wonderful growth of wealth in frnnHa of a comparatively few individuals. The very liber-- V ties for which our fathers contended so steadfastly and bequeathed to us as a priceless ' courageously, and which they legacy, are endangered by the monstrous power which this , . accumulation of wealth gives to a few powerful corporations. By its seductive influence results are accomplished which were it more equity distributed, would be impossible under our form of government. It threatens to give shape to legislation, both state and national, of the entire country. not taken to If this evil should not be checked, and measures riches of enormous among the continued growth prevent the class already rich, and the painful increase of destitution and want among the poor, the nation is likely to be overtaken such a tendancy among by disaster; for according to history, of disaster. sure the was precursor once nations powerful i . And it is at least one thousand times wors e today than it was in 1868. And the reckoning isnot yet but very soon. ' WORK OF THE PORKBARREL BLOCK a '.Reactionary old politicians have made Federal relief state? about state. How in your my porkrbarrel stinking cooperatives wrecked by a I saw our marvelous self-hel- p New York for that pur from sent out sappy college boy Transcient Federal a saw Camp that was a mirI pose. rehabilitation smashed, the ablest agriacle of efficiency and been my privilege to ever has it human culturist engineer -. -- know discharged and his work destroyed because he refusleased in law ground, by planting, ed to violate the California -' diseased potatoes purchased by a politically controlled corof rupt procurement department. I sawofa splendid group efficiency, loyalty, unemployed men with a high record and willingness to work kicked out of the home they had created for themselves by their own labor in that Transcient ' Camp, and driven like wild beasts across the state line by ' the Los Angeles police. I saw the beginnings of a beautiful, school dissipated and the and probably "wild boys of the depression thrown out onto the highways to starve or live by crime. THE WAY TO FOLLY surer a is If there way for a nation to turn to folly and worse it is for a considerable number of its leading people to fear and repress new ideas, to be unwilling to experiment, to all the old formalities, to be content to " and change,' cling with their environemtr and to keep on upholding the social relations which are entirely out of joint. Better to fail in some of the experiments and changes than to remain in the rut. Better to endure a disordered plenty than a dictated and ordered scarcity. There may be some dangers in tolnot tolerating erating fools, but there is more danger in them. One of our troubles is that we are, as one says, more . careful about our paper wealth than we are about our human wealth. nyi to the qntem you them exploit tng The liquor commission had an portunity to save turned it down. $30,000. But they What.i a Untie matter Today we are again out woods,1 op- ' $30,000? says Bapton, of the "with the broad smooth highway of prosberity beckoning us to start another joyride? Then what? Will we have anothef collapse . and consequent period of suffering? It America's future just an unending series of staggering peaks and depressing valleys? Just joyrides 1 and headaches?1 Individualism, rugged or otherwise, has taken its toll of men in America. This is not confined alone to captains of industry. For workman have not been -- self-supporti- unwilling to trample underfoot n the bodies of their who dared to enter a plant where a strike was in progress. fellow-workme- - The mad passion for gain has provided us with problems that as the only call for self-restrai- nt solution. PROFIT SYSTEM VS Back in New Jersev we have the largest poison gas factory in the world and it manufactures enough gas each day to kill to every soul in America. This gas is made for but one purpose-used to be that will of and it war, kill human beings in time end in a wholesale manner. One munition maker says: We dont care who buys it as long as we get the order." Would it not be in the interest of humanity to take every munition before that plant in hand, confiscate or destroy their product of the na--' children product is let loose on the men, women and before tions? We should act in the interest of it is too late. i Private profit is the widely heralded incentive to personal initiative UNDER THE CAPITALISTIC SYSTEM, but it The law of always accrues to a few and is paid by the many. the Old Capitalism is, Get the profits, no matter who is hurt. Money is a symbol of wealth, but it is not wealth, i Profits are only obtained when the increase is divided . a few. The Profit System goes with the Private Own-rests in erehip System. But when ownership of everythingto erase will be, for then all profits the hands of the people, at not cost, cost ; done at and will be produced everything often Too a well has said, Ford prosper" Henry plus profit. ous bank means a mortgaged community." How can any man under the present economic conditions have the face to ask, hope, or work for the continuation of the present capitalistic system which has brought us to where we are today? It has been taught and impressed upon our minds since the time when memory of man runneth not to the contrary. Our capitalists have continually told us to honest ser--; get the money, but not a word about giving an or crook, any vice. The idea was to get the money by hook ... old way, and get it before the other fellow got it. Struggle, our strife, war for personal advantage is thus the basis of Not time-taugof government. system 'present, agerold, i unity, but separateness ; not us, but me ; not ours, but mine, is the only thought in the minds of the world today, because men have been so taught and have not dared to . think anything else. . . Since our present world economic condition is so deplorable and unsatisfactory to us all (except the capitalist) , why not estabchange our plan of economics, and by organized effort lish a new plan for the benefit of all and not for a few? Why not think and act for, and grant to every other person equally s much as we now ask and struggle for ourselves? If all men would give as much time and consideration to the other fellows interest as he now does to himself, the world would t it be a far different place in which to live. At least, isn cannot we lose? to we Certainly, worth trying? What have be any worse off than we are now, under a system which has made millions for a few and paupers of many. . . ht Not Your Congressman, But You Thess are troubled times when a mon people dare . not leave all the ty and I will take them and reitore of the government to the crumbling economic system is placing 'pressuring" them to what God intended they reactionaries. Not yonr congressman, more strains and stresses on our demobut you, must learn to harness and ihould be, and make the declining cracy than any other government has direct the "force" which Washington days at pleasant at the green pastures ever borne, and survived. The probsaid k government Not your congresof youth. lems with which our government mud sman, but you must voice that opinion deal are so complex and baffling that of the people; demand the dangerous Mn. Maud B. Fullmer, a good even if our congressmen were super- liberty and threaten that little rebellion, kind old lady, ha. taken considerable which God knows they are not the storms in the political . world to men interest in this paper and at one time the burden would be greater than which Jefferson pinned his faith.Not wu taking three or four subscriptions could bear. If we are to survive your congressman, but you mutt be which the tent to relatives, she enjoy i they and escape the blood- the virtue and the vigilance which asa democracy die benefit every ittue.She it enjoying stained abyss of war and dictatorships Lincoln said would protect our of the proiberity plan and looks on it that have engulfed Europe, the com- - eminent from wickedness and folly as about die next thing to the miUenium May the live long to enjoy this paper HINT TO PROGRESSIVES and die monthly annuity the it now get. A genuine Progressive political cause must mean something . . the beneficent and progressive measures? BETTER SYSTEM By E. Chase, Ogden There is in this land, at the disposal of man, everything that could possibly contribute to an enjoyable life, but few of us have an opportunity to enjoy what rightfully belongs to alL There are fertile valleys for the production of food, surrounded by mountains on which is stored moisture for the quenching of thirst and for irrigation purpose and which,if conserved would be ample for all land. These es mountains are covered with timber for the building and furnishing of homes and contain s, coal and gas for heating and minerals for the manufacture of machinery to lessen the labor of man. We have warm climates and cold which make possible the cultivation of fruits, nuts and grains without limit. And with available resonrees at our command pur-pose- an abundance of electricity could be supplied to relieve us of all burdensome toil, but how small a part of the rightful stockholders reap the benefit of these bounties The shrewd and grasping have always taken the best things of earth and treated those in their (Continued on page four) INCLUDING VIEWS ON PRODUCTION FOR ALL A monetization of value for a social income to people over forty five year of age and aqeqnate relief for the unemployed. An eqnitable taxation ayitem to retire outstanding pnrchaee medium beyond a dollar in circnlatlng or depoeit credit for each dollar unitin production capacity avalladle for the production of needed good and produce during each period of time that the total in credit revolves pnee within the total of national income. Geoige C. Christensen Velocity of Circulation The velocity of circulation of a medium of exchange is an important factor in the producmore than the securing of jobs for ward heelers. There is quite tion and sale of consumer goods sufficient of that among the standpatters in both parties. Any But increased circulation of Progressive movement must come clean on, for and with prin- money can substitute for the ciples. The minute it makes its objective the greed for spoils volume of money only within it dies aborning, as it should. the minimum limit of a dollar in available medium for each WRONG RELATIONSHIPS in available goods at ? causes do What men and women to wrong instead of right dollar of consumer purchase the time Where there is qn effect, there must be a cause. What is Since th i total in deposit and the cause of negative thinking? Why do so many persons ? see the bad instead of the good Why is it that the first circulating credit revolves twice to and criticize the impulse is person who is the sub- a year within the total of natthought cause of all the evil ional income a social credit of conversation? is the the What ject in the world, such as crime, cheating, lying and crookedness account based on our semiof all kinds? The cause of all the evil in the world is wrong to produce annual relationship between all members of society because of the needed capacity is a and goods produce profit-taking of living. competitive system present economic for financial reasonable basis fs in It society.separates wrong relationship Competition reform. us from the whole. BISHOP JOHN WELLS ON COOPERATION Bishop John Wells has a splendid and enlightenening article on Cooperation in the current issue of the Relief Society Magazine. It shows that he is well up in his information on the subject and he just about tells the whole story in the one article, tracing the history and the effects and benefits of the movement. He imbibed cooperative ideas in youth and early manhood in the sunny slopes of his native England and when he speaks or writes it is authorative. FOUR YEARS OF P.WJk. On June 16, 1937, the Public Works Administration is celebrating the fourth anniversary of its establishment as the principal agency for economic recovery through a program of public works construction. The fundamental purpose of the Public Works Administration Program was to put men to work so that their augmented purchasing power would pripie the pump of business generally and thus aid in economic recovery. The present status of business, industry, private construction and agriculture testify to the efficacy the program and the wisdom of its adoption. NEWS COOPERATIVE that with and bring them to in old age of pover- 1 . all the columnists criticising the president and the New Deal the papers cant employ at least one to write up the favorable side and commend How Is It THE PROSPERITY PLAN . . ' a taxation been made Labor would Xavier University, Antigonish Nova Scotia. Opportunities w 11 be given to attend group confer ences with Father M.M.Coady, director of the Extention Dept, of St. Francis Xavier University, under whose leadership the past five years, miners, farmers and fishermen have been solving their economic problems under Rochdale principles, Many of his associates wili also be heard. Stndy Groups In Swceden Harold V. Knight in Cooperative League News Service Saeedish cooperators have given mnch attention to the need of educating members and have succeeded in developing a most effective system the group system of study circles, which in itself is frequently associated in the minds of the people with cooperation. In 1935 there were 3,000 active study groups with about forty thousand participants. Cultural as well as economic subjects are taken up by the groups and Cooperative Union furnishes the study material and question sheets. In Stockholm and other cities the fifty nine housing societiescomprising the Tenants Savings Bank and Building Society have built 12,494 housing units valued at $40,000,000 and operate them cooperatively. Sixty per cent of the tenant-owne- rs belong to the working class. The Technotax The tcchnotax is proposal that has from time to time. placing machinery taxed to care for I dis- be COOPERATION IN SPAIN News has reached the League of the U.S.A. from Spain that the ployed and for economic Franco Facist forces are dessecurity for both old and young troying cooperatives in those If these taxes were made pay- sections captured by the rebels. able in either money or con- Those cooperatives in the sumer goods the total in provinces of Cordoba and Granada have been closed purchasing power would be their technical officials shotand by increased if additional purchase firing squads. Coopsratives in medium is issued for the pur- the loyalist sectio:i, however, chase of these consumer goods. have been delegated increasing This would also introduce a responsibil ty. The National measure of stabilty in commod- Supply Committee was formed and operated on the preity values since the most avail- sented by the Spanish plan -coopcra COMMUNICATION able of either of these, money lives and one member of the It is left to the President to say who are belligerents and or goods, would be paid in for board is a represen tative of the he says Spain is belligerent. So no war supplies can legal- taxes, and a balance between cooperatives Western Farm Leader. would ly be shipped from the U. S. to Spain. be and goods money the unem- Cooperative But the President has not said that Germany and Italy are established thereby. A belligerents; so all sorts of war materials are said to be and an is record and to that it open Bhipped Germany Italy; Social Democratic Income System Mussolini and Hitler are sending whole divisions of their regu Advr In cates of consumer co opNational lar armies with all sorts of modern war equipments into Federation to the Democratic Government should favor a coneratives of the help destroy Spain income sumer people. Spanish system throngh monuments to the The newly formed Social a monetisation of value in Cities, villages, libraries and age-ol- d culture of a virile and active people are being put to the toren. Democratic Federation held its to the increase in wealth Old men and women and children are being shot down as first national convention in will enlarge the incomes This they flee. Black Moorish Tribesmen are being turned loose Pittsburg, Pa. the last three of members of cooperative units in pens of captured women and you know the rest. But Mussolini and Hitler are not at war, so the President says, days in May and drew up a in the United States by many and we, the American people are shipping war materials to declaration of principles for the hundred million dollars a year. Germany and Italy who take them right over into Spain building of a social democracy Coopetators should also favor where they aid and abet such atrocities as just quoted If On the topic of firance the the immediate establishment of the law allows this it is a dastardly mean law, and Federation says All capitalist an independent income system A. Spain, Paris, Texas should be corrected immediately enterprises in the various for people locating in state or TIME TO MAKE WISE CHANGES branches of industry and com- national resettlement areas And Accordng to the National Youth Administration the unem- merce are rapidly passing under many successful cooperative ployed youth of the city, a majority of them come from fam- the control of a large number units have been established in ilies which have an average of eight children and where the head of toe house earns an average of $62.42 a month. Half of great banks and other finan- localities removed from the of toe youths examined, ages 18 to 25, had never been em- cial corporations, which are so centers of large population. A ployed at all, and the average earnings of the other half linked together by interlocking social income for each indiviamounted to $6.20 per week, and the work was very irregu- directorates, holding companies dual over forty five years of lar at that. The statement admits that 28,000 young people and other devices as to const- age and adequate relief for the have had to leave the state in 10 years. This is not in Russia itute an almost complete unemployed is a program all or Germany, but in Utah, the Queen of the West, which is field cf money progressive groups can unite to in toe nations treasure house of potential wraith. Some one monopoly the further. must answer for this crime against the youth of Utah and and credit. For this reason, and Prof. Soddy On Money dont you forget it .The officials of the N.Y..A say that in the interest of the wage of tin ph as so' the litand the Speaking mean the but done. will well, be workers, farmers, Alas, they very something market in his book The money substantial fundament and is all at of business that ranks lower if men, tle, anything al can be done. IT CANNOT BE DONE UNDER THE PRE- the socialization of banking Role o f Money , Prof. Frederick Soddy says ". . . . VAILING SYSTEM. GREAT FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES credit is urgently necessary. speculative boom, fictitious MUST BE MADE AND YOU CANNOT MAKE THEM, over confidence, WORLDS WITHOUT END, BY PERMITTING RESIDENT NOVA SCOTIA TOUR prosperity, and the like, so glibly swallowed AWAY TO DRAIN CAPITALISTS AND supposed impartial student Rev. J Henry Carpenter by THE WEALTH THAT SHOULD BE THE HERITAGE OF of money in the past, should Cc-oService News League THESE YOUNG PEOPLE. It is time to quit condemning be universally as the those who demand change and to go to work and affect the A tour of cooperative enter- I olite way of recognized the informing change. It is a burning shame to see these youths go unem- prises in Nova Scotia will be initiated that the tan ard of ployed and penniless, and to see families of eight or more conducted August ffth to 20th. living of the working class children subsist on $62.50 per month while their more for- under the is rising dangerously above subauspices of the Co-o-p tunate fellow citizens are piling up wealth like Croesus. If sistence level, and the appromen do not change this diabolical system, then Iheir Creator League of the U.S.A. , in priate monkeing with the with the Extension tity of mony is being quanwill condemn them and permit their Babylonic system to fall enginwith a crash that shall be heard around the earth. Department of St. Francis eered to bring it down". Consumer Convention pro-Jorti- NON-RESIDE- p. on ' |