White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-02-21

has, therefore, no cause for fear and
anxiety on any account whatever
These two factors then, mans labor
and the soil of the earth, are his guar
antee against all want and insecurity
throughout his entire life, and since
the great majority of men and women
love activity and work, all that is re-
quired is for man to give himself free
opportunity to utilize his powers of
production and those of the earth to
provide abundantly all that is neces-
sary for his material needs from the
hour of his birth until the harsh rattle
of the clods upon his coffin lid.
BY our present economic and social
system we have placed bands of re-
striction around our productive power,
and we have given control of our labor
and the products of the soil into the
hands of a small group of individuals
who have the power to dictate when
we shall and shall not work, which
means that they also have the power
| to dictate when and when we may not
eat.
Men living today are not at all re-
| sponsible for these unnatural condi-
| lions. The controlling group of our
day, as we'll as those who are con-
trolled, are alike victims of an age-old
decadent system saddled upon the hui
man race during the period of it's in
fancy, and men have perpetuated the
unnatural condition with slight i'm
provement right down to our own day
and generation.
Man must revise his economic system
and make it possible for every indi-
vidual to enjoy the full limits of his
own productive power jointly with the
benefits derived directly from the SOIL
The products of all of the people
and of the earth itself must be in the
control of all the people and not in
the hands of the few as they now are,
and it is the imperative duty of this
day and hour to find solution for
this complex problem, and to bring into
operation better balanced and more
equitable economic system
The correct credit of the people of
any nation is not represented by the
value of the gold held locked in the
vaults of the nation, but by the hon
esty and industry of it's people and
by the natural productive possibilities
of the land. These, and these alone,
correctly represent the true basis of
credit of every people and nation, and
the theory of limiting and combining
national credit by gold is contrary to
nature, and, jointly with war debts,
is responsible for the present condi-
ton Of depression and general break
down throughout the entire world.
The people, with their education,
skill and industry, together with the
natural wealth. have everything neces-
sary right in their own hands to pro-
vide comfort, safety and wealth for
every man. woman and child, and for
millions more as the population grows
and natural wealth is developed.
This is not Utopian dream. It is
hard cold fact, and easily possible
of attainment by, and within the time
of, the present generation. It remains
only to point the way and to possess
the courage to venture out in new dir
ections until we find better and more
equitable economic trail.
There is in nature more lust and
safer methods for conducting our econ
omic affairs than those in present use,
and if we hope to improve our social
and economic conditions we must cease
to cling tenaciously to age-old institu-
buttons that have served their evil dav
and are now slated for discard
ITO BE COntinnad>