White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-02-14

| was nothing more to grab. Consider
the millions who suffered and died for
no better purpose than to glut the
desire of these two men for greater
power and more illustrious glory. Today
we have this same desire for power and
control. but In a different form, and
X we fail to oppose and to restrain
the will Of those who seek our SUBJ
mission to their bondage. they will
succeed in our day, just as other tyr
ants have held sway before our time.
To feed their vanity and ambition
some men do not hesitate to crush and
kill, and for the rights and welfare Of
i their fellow men they have neither in
| terest nor regard. They calmly sit In
| luxurious comfort, serenely oblivious to
the hunger and deprivations of those
| less fortunate than themselves, and
| quietly assume it is no concern Of
| theirs This is the attitude of those
| who now control our credit and our
wealth. 1t is no longer tolerable in this
| advanced day of modern civilization,
| education and of scientific thought.
| One of two things must happen: either
those. who at present are in possession
and control must wake up to their duty
and responsibility to industry and the
Masses or they will be eliminated from
the economic picture of the world.
There are other ways and means OF
maintaining industry than those of our
i those in present control of our credit
have the power to act? The unera-
| ployed have the power and desire to
work, but the power and desire to work
counts for nothing now as credit
Therefore, the masses are helpless, and
| must ever remain so until Money has
the courage to open it's vaults and per-
NIT Industry to again begin the pro-
duction of additional wealth. If this
| is not done, our Government must
then issue it's own money and carry
on the industry of the people free from
and independent of the present indf-
| ferent and inefficient channels of pub
| lie credit. There is no other way out;
either the present system must come
out and function or a new credit sys-
tenn will be placed in charge of the job.
The private Chartered Banks of Can
ada and the great International Bank
ing Houses of the world are but prison
tombs of the peoples credit, and some
thing must be done to release Labor
and Industry from behind the Locks
and Bars
We are hearing much these days re-
garding insurance for the jobless. In
surance for the jobless is mere sooth-
ing syrup that will never cure jobless-
ness. What the jobless need and desire
is not jobless insurance, but job and
insurance against joblessness The job
less are keen to get at the job, and
when joblessness has been eliminated,
the jobless will rush to get on the job,
the job of providing jobless insurance
for the jobless will be taken care of
by the jobless themselves the moment
! they are given a job
A crude form of unemployment in
surance is functioning now in the re-
lief and welfare work of the various
governments and municipalities, but
all such palliatives are merely tenn
porary salve applied to relieve pain
and distress What is required, and
what must be provided, is cure for
the disease, and the disease is our pres
ent obsolete, decadent and crumbling
economic and social system, and the
remedy is in removing all industry
from private to collective ownership
and control, and by substituting our
present system of private money based
upon gold by money issued only by
our government just as herein later
outlined
The carrying on of nations indus
try is not correctly private privilege.
1t is function which belongs solely
to the whole people whose needs Gre
ate the necessity for industry. 1t there
fore follows that the economic industry
of nation Should be under the con-
troll and ownership of all the people
collectively and not under private in
dividuals, or corporate groups as it is
in our present private ownership sys-
tenn.
This conception of industrial owner
ship is not the generally accepted view,
for, under the capitalistic system, in
dustry is supposed to belong entirely
to those whose money is invested in
industrial pursuits and the great mass
of consumers whose presence makes