OCR Text |
Show Food For TkoMgM Wheo, upwards of a hundred years ago, a prophet. aid, "War shall be poured out upon All nations," it seemed hard to believe. But it is practically fulfilled today Of the earth's two billi n people, one billion seven hundred million, or four-fifths, are actually at war. And the prophet said further that such war should continue until a full end is made of All nations A sad beginning has been made While men iike Gen. Mac Arthur are being driven to the wall in one of the most gallant defenses ever made, and soldiers and sailors are dying on many fronts there are those at home who are daily giving aid and encouragement to the enemy. During the darkest days of the Civil War, suffering at the hands of the Money Kings, Abraham Lincoln rose to full height and flung these words in their teeth: "I can draft a widow's only son. lean take her only m 'ans ol s pp.iit Irt.m betw.-en the plow handles and place him at the front of the battle where his life will not last Bix minutes, but I rannot lay my hands on enough money to pay for the food he eats before he is shot." But Lincoln found a way to get some money. He oould not get it from the money kings without paying 36 per oent. So he used the constitutional method and had the government issue several millions in greenbacks, no interest, inter-est, no bonds. This oould be done today. "Within yourself lies the cause of whatever enters into your life. To come into the full realization of your own awakened interior powers, is to be able to condition your life in exact accord with what you would have it." ' To read of possible stoi ms, em thquakes labor troubles and other conditions which are outlined to happen tinder the planetary aspects of the coming weeks makes one re-' re-' alize the more clearly that we are facing a time of still greater uncertainty. From more than one source are we able to check on these things and it would seem that this country is going through the final experiences which will resolve into the so-galled "last days" which so many people thought could not happen in our lifetime. If you have any doubt in your mind send for the February issue of Beacon Light, since it also contai a very valuable article arti-cle which was written back in 1937 a ut the "sabotage" to be carried on in our own fair land when the signa' is given to set off the "pack of firecrackers" we have talked about since 1931 and 1932 San Juan Record. 'Would you fain do something to relieve distress, to extirpate extir-pate vice? You must turn to political economy to know their causes that you may lay the axe to the root of the evil tree. If charity could eradicate want, if preaching could make men moral, if printing books and building schools could destroy ignorance none of these things would be known today. Where wealth most abounds, the eity is deepest; where luxury is most profuse, the gauntest want jostles it. In cities which arethe storehouses store-houses of nations, starvation annually claims its victims. Wh the costliest churches rear the tallest spires towards to-wards heaven, there is needed a standing army of police- j men; as we build new schools, we build new prisons. i " Whence this dark shadow that thus attends that which we used to call "material progress." that which current philosophy teaches us to hope for and to work for? Here is the question of all questions for us. We must answer it or be destroyed, as preceding civilizations have been destroved. For no chain is stronger than its weakest weak-est link, and our glorious statue with its head of gold and its shoulders of brass has as yet but feet of clay. "Political economy alone can give the answer. And if you trace out the laws of the production and exchange of wealth, you will see the causes of social weakness and disease. dis-ease. "And you will see the remedies. Not in wild dreams or red destruction nor weak projects of putting men in leading strings to the state, but in simple measures sanctioned sanc-tioned by justice. You will see in light the great remedy, in freedom the great solvent. You will see that the true law of love, the law of liberty, the law of each for all and all for each; that the golden rule of morals is also the golden rule of the science of wealth; that the highest ex-; ex-; pressions of religious truth include the widest generaliza- j tionj of political economy." Henry George. |