Show i i as 1 S S i wt pr v I 1 communications I 1 t II aa ANI AND AN D POVERTY editor park record I 1 sincerely hope that I 1 shall be able abla to com command mancl the language that will con kincl 1 that at poverty ls Is not a necessary condition cd I 1 of human existence and that this country is very ery wealthy and that it is our own grasping wicked selfishness and ignorance that has brought on us the retribution and the penalty ot of poverty coverty and its ita diseases wealth Is that which sustains life and makes it enjoyable namely toed food and fuel houses furniture clothing radios etc money aloney in itself Is not wealth it la Is simply the medium by which we bacill facilitate the exchange of these things money does not posses the necessary qualifications of wealth but food fuel clothing houses etc do namely to sustain ufa ilie and make it enjoyable but money our medium of exchange is inadequate and in hiding and does not function it Is certainly the foremost duty ot ob governments government 1 to provide its citizens alt with a sufficient supply of money to bacill tate the tree free exchange of labor the prod duct of labor and other forms of wealth wealth between its citizens but the real tact fact of the matter Is that this extremely important function ot OA government has been farmed out to a bunch of banking racketeers who have hava usurped u a u r P ed their powers so that instead ot of serving as a medium ot of exchange money and a nd credit has been so controlled and manipulated that the ownership of thai real wealth of the nation has been dl dia averted from the masses who by the tha sweat of their brows produced it into the hands bands of a 8 few exploiters who never produced any part of it the united states possesses the powe to clothe house and feed not only liell hen one hundred and thirty some odd millions milo 0 O s but can d do 0 so I 1 lavishly a tor for se several hundred more million human beings her hep coal fields her forests flocks and farm I 1 lands could easily be made to furni furnish sll ample fuel food houses clothing etc for all and in doing this no man need be called upon to work more than four hours per day but says the reflective render you have made some tremendous and apparently visionary well there therb is a big financial writer here in this country called roger W babson hired by wall street and the newspapers of wall street lets see what he says mr AM roger babson says in 1934 I 1 with intensive production and proper propel distribution every family in the country should receive an income of per year with everybody from 20 to 50 yeara old aking working eight months annually I 1 today in this land of plenty the very spirit is being crushed out of the common people and th eyare upon every ever hand saying its no use no longer do they hold up their heads look the world squarely in the face and say god home and liberty lib eity in too many cases the home has been swept from under them they are trapped in a maze of laws which tend to protect and promote the welfare of the favored few until it seems that god in his infinita justice has faded wit out of the picture i now lf it we as common individuals were to set up a business which like a huga slot machine sapped the life out of our community and gave nothing in return but some worthless scrip backed only by idle promises how quickly would our local magistrates come down on us declare our business illegal and forbid our further operation yet that Is just what the wall street high binders have been doing to this thil country for years on a most stupendous scale these bloated bloodsucking blood sucking imps ot of evil with their gigantic speculation blocs they establish the price of commodities so that the farmer must sell at their palce or not sell at all with their chain stores they dare the small independent merchant to make a living with their vast system of interlocking directorates direct orates they browbeat the banks of the nation and make the business busine s a man who would try to be honest bow to his financial master of wall street with their vast resources of slush funds they dictate d politics in the nation even down to the smallest county election with the billions of dollars they have available S they carry their kropog anda even into the public schools and drum into the minds of young boys and girls the creed of big business la Is the tha salvation of america what these bloated imps ot of inordinate wealth want with so much wealth no man knows it if they had the whole world I 1 dare say they would wish for the other and if they had that like alexander hiie the great they would cry for more in short they are never content theirs is the role of the dog in the manger who not able to eat bay snarled at the hungry ox who replied surely canine creature that thou art you cannot eat the hay yourself and yet you will let no one else eat it it Is easier for or a norsa horse to go through the eye eya of a needle than for a bloated plutocrat to enter the kingdom of heaven there we wi see them today rolling la in wealth enjoying the pleasures of their million dollar yachts spending their summers on the snowy peaks of switzerland and their winters in the warm tropics ot of the south seas dining on rare delicacies all this while in america millions are hungry while wall street buc allows ws food to rot in the field and the new deal plows up lip corn and destroys hogs when I 1 think of the millions of honest and industrious people suffering front from hunger I 1 long lor for the mystic powers to coin sentences that would sear like sulphur flames fresh from bell the backs of those bloated imps of inordinate wealth who are responsible for misery slavery flourishes in abyssinia siberia china chinai and several moslem countries about 2000 slaves are taken annually from africa across the red sea to arabia I 1 by a strange irony in siberia which was founded by escaped slaves and freemen the practice shows no sign of abating and by a still stranger irony in america which Is called the land of the free through the machinations of frenzied finance partisan laws and of questioned in integrity in the management of corporations and trusts two thirds of 01 one per cent of the people own as much as nil all the rest of the people put together it remains for this country to furni furnish sli history with the gre greatest a test number of financial slaves ever h herded since they began counting time I 1 T rh areat pta abraham lan communications I 1 continued from page one coln coin said just before his assassination 1 I see sec in the near future a crisis approaching pro aching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country corporations have been enthroned ned an era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power ot of the country will endeavor to tc prolong its reign by working upon the prejudice of the people until the wealth Is aggregated gre gated in a lew few hands bands and the republic Is destroyed 1 nature has stored up in utah and other states billions upon billions of tons of coal as a legacy to mankind to make lour homes warm wari aland and comfortable and we have both mn men and machinery to mine it rapidly but we are such fools that we permit a 11 few infernal rascals to say bay that they will not permit us to take bt at out of the ground that they will limit the output to halt half of what we need it Is not to the interest of a coal trust to produce wealth lor for there is more profit from one ton at nine dollars than from rom two tons at six dollars hence it Is to their interest to limit the supply and make prices high in other words leave the wealth in the ground and rob and freeze the people this Is one of the evil 1 I results of our veneration for a wicked vested right men must learn tto to trample on them because a vested right to one individual Is a monstrous wrong to millions the vested rights dear reader are dogs in natures manger they will not dig coal themselves or let anyone else natures bounties belong to all but privileged vil killians lians selm seize by vested rights the wealth in her bosom it if we workers are so foolish as to permit this state of affairs to longer continue we deserve to be frozen and starved the law is such that without change the remedy Is within our power the I 1 state reserves the right of eminent domain to all lands where their use la is diverted from the public good to the public detriment the people must call on the state to use her power to reclaim the coal fields organize this industry like the postal service take the children out of it work the miners for the people and by the people place no limit on the output but make demand the measure of supply s aply and cost the limit of price when th this Is Is accomplished the disgraceful scenes and conditions now yearly wit hessed throughout the coal producing states of the union will have ceased forever the humblest will be able to procure fuel for helpless children and mothers and the miners home will radi ate with happiness it if those who are raising such a furore against the division of wealth would stop and consider the tact fact that natures bounties belong to all and that the coal barons did not create the coal the oil magnates did not make the oil the lumber kings icings did not grow the timber nor the great mining companies manufacture the minerals why should those things not belong to the nation and be I 1 limited against monopoly the following are a few good cr examples amples of the advantageous of public owned industries the citizens of hartford connecticut pay tor for the first 15 kilowatt hours of electricity that they use and of course they buy their current from a privately toyed own owned plant the city of holyoke massachusetts Is but 33 miles from hartford and located on the same river holyoke has its own municipal electric plant and the cost to the citizens for the first 15 kilowatt hours Is but 60 cents as against Hart fords charge of sa 3 00 cleveland ahlo also has its own municipal plant its citizens pay 59 cents for the first 15 kilowatt hours that they use 1 the swiss railways are owned by the tate state B A swiss pays 1200 12 00 a year for transportation and having bought his ticket at the first of the year he con can thenceforth go anywhere toe be pleases and as often as he pleases without further i expense until the next year corporations taxes collected in the united states during 1934 amounted to less than one third of the amount of money lost by the public durine durina that year through corporation frauds in 1931 one of ta V worlds most depressed years ind individuals IvI duals in the united states hod had personal incomes of over this while faced starvation in 1933 nearly persons chose a suicide V leide as the way out of their problems I 1 to be exact according to a report from the bureau of census diseases of the digestive tract increased during 1933 by over the preceding year under Is listed as the cause of death tax figures reveal th that 1 I 1 t 1 in 11 1933 the million dollar income 11 list S t inar increased a b by twenty six while incomes of five thousand dc rr lew less day by day and month by month the rich are becoming richer and the poor are becoming poorer and those of the middle class are becoming fewer and fewer looking backward tack ward upon the stream ol of time we behold the ruins of splendid empires emair a and the tombs of extinct races and in in amazement we ask why all this ruin and death the voice ot of history answers anul era in sorrowful u I 1 tones from unregulated um g ul abed wealth v violated law dissipation dissipation vice and crime j considering the present conditions and jibe I 1 the facts of history regarding the downfall of other nations I 1 suggest to the people of this great proud and glorious nation that they beware of the causes that blighted and ana enborn entombed bed rome babylon egypt nineveh and other civilizations which I 1 related in one of my recent articles sincerely LOUIS BARGO park city utah april 1 1935 TIIE THE FORGOTTEN MAN continued from last week of john D rockefellers Rocke fellers and henry fords and a thousand other rich men to a mob or to a wretched bunah of politicians ti tic ians clans if we do poverty wretchedness and famine will soon be our lot now these rich people are working for us at all I 1 they get Is a living and we get th the we wealth s ith that they create ninety per cent of this 11 matter blatter about leveling down and dividing up Is the wicked spewing of meanness jealousy ignorance and all round cussed cussedness cuss ednes nels beware of the politician who Is ready to sell bell his soul to cater to or cater lor for votes all honor to men like senator borah carter glass and a host of others I 1 who are not afraid of the voters I 1 do not always agree with these two gentlemen and a thousand others like them but all honor to the man or men who will not be swayed by the rabble the rabble will make a god of you one day tor for playing the and the next day when your has thrown them down into the depths ot of poverty t y and degradation they will hang bang you shall we wreck the country and stop the wheels of production and the wheels ot of orderly progress toward an ever higher and higher scale ot of living because some rich man has stolen a million dollars or got hold bold of it unethically or dishonestly I 1 suppose all poor people are honest and the poorer they are the more honest they are my experience Is that the poorer they are the more dishonest they are one of the main reasons among a a number of good reasons lor for striving ever to raise the scale ot of living Is because jealousy envy crime and general cussedness have a tendency to seek their level among the poor and ignorant the scale of living in this count country y h has doubled since 1900 the scale of 1 living i v in g in this country doubled between 1840 and 1900 ill admit that the scale of living has not doubled lor for every single individual since 1900 or between 1840 and 1900 1 mean that the scale ol of living has doubled on the whole tor for the whole country I 1 doubt if the scale of living has alse risen over 50 per cent in the mining camps since 1900 or let us say since 1890 lor for the mining camps the reason Is obvious the wages in the mining camps were to 3 50 la in 1890 and wages t throughout the country then were 60 cents a day to a day wages since 1890 and 1900 have gone up to sa 4 50 and 5 00 in the mining ining m camps with the price of things we buy up 50 per cent while wages have rl risen sen throughout the country per cent to per cent with a rise in the price of things we buy approximately 50 per cent thus you see the mine operators have not enjoyed the V great rest prosperity which they enjoyed in the old days and they have not been able to double and treble the wages paid in the old days now I 1 have said and I 1 say again that the forgotten man person Is the man I 1 who has really made this the greatest and richest nation on earth put y your our foot on his neck it if you will bog tie him and point the finger of scorn at him but you are hamstringing ham stringing your best friend and labors best friend and ana deliberately cutting your own throat turn back the wheels of 0 progress ess if you will and leg beg for a cr crust of bread without getting it as so many did in the great financial depressions ot 1 1873 1813 to 1879 and 1893 to 1899 hut but it if you do your children and your childrens children will curse your memory I 1 byg of you I 1 earnestly enar entreat eat you to evou U tip before it Is too late I 1 implore you not to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs who Is this forgotten man lie he Is the man who braved the terrors of the wilderness at jamestown in 1607 and plymouth in 1620 he Is the man who struck out over the AIe Ale ghaney mountains in the seventeen hundreds and conquered the |