White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-03-07

be paid less, while maximum of, say,
from ten to fifteen thousand dollars
per year would also be fixed by law,
and no person serving in Industrial,
professional or official life would re-
! ceive higher remuneration, except in
some very special circumstances when
the government would be legally au-
! thorized to grant higher renlunera-
ton for unusual service in scientific
discoveries or inventive advantages of
| great value to the people as whole.
But no members of society serving in
the legislative, Industrial, professional
educational or other occupation of
| everyday life would be paid in excess
of the maximum limit. It must, how
ever be remembered that the present
| homes of all people would in no wise
| be disturbed. They would continue to
| occupy their homes just as they do
now, except that the home properties,
as well as industrial property and land,
would be exempt from all taxation, in
| surance and maintenance cost, as all
property would be owned by the whole
| people and not by individuals or COR
porations, as now But in case fam
lily should prefer to retain it's present
home~preperty as part of its private
or personal possessions, it could do so
by making it's own repairs to the pro-
perty and by carrying the risk of fire
and decay If, on the other hand, the
| family wished to surrender ownership
| of the home to the government, proper
remuneration would be made to the
owners in the form and manner here
| after fully explained.
People occupying governments owned
| homes would be free to remain undis-
turbed until such time as altered con-
ditions make change of location or
Of residence desirable, and it would be
the privilege of the citizen, just as it
is now, to suit his own will and plea
sure as to where he would locate.
The burden of constructing all pri-
vate dwellings, industrial plants pub
lie buildings, highways and other pub
lie works of every type and descrip-
! ton would rest upon the government,
to be carried out under the direction
of the department specially provided
for that purpose.
The government would supply all
materials from it's own factories and
warehouses, pay all salaries of the
Workmen, architects and engineers en-
ployed, and the products, when COM
pleted, would, therefore, belong to the
government for the free and equal use
OF all the people; also, when the works
are completed, there will be no rentals,
taxes, insurance or repair bills to be
paid by the occupants of homes or by
any industry or other institution what
ever, all will be taken care of by the
whole people through their constituted
government. And further, and most i'm
portant, is the fact that, since the
buildings or works have been paid for
with money issued by the government
upon the credit of the people and the
country, there are no obligations Gre
ated and, therefore, no payments to
be made for borrowed money and in
terest, as we now do. The property
would be entirely free from all debt of
every nature.
And right here the reader is asked:
do you fully grasp the significance
of the fact that the property is unin-
numbered by debt or mortgage, and
that it stands cleared of all claims
whatsoever at the moment the last
workman is paid for his labor?" This is
Natures method of conducting human
affairs, but men have tangled up all
industry and improvement with loans
and mortgages and interest until today
we are unable to progress further until
these bands of restraint are removed
from our economic arms and shoulders.
We hear whole lectures regarding the