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OP

·PRESSION

WH N

WILL IT

END?

Written by

Judge J. F.

Rutherford

Internationally known

author and

radio lecturer

His other books

The

Harp of

God

Deliverance

Creation

Reconciliation

Government

and many others

have a combined circulation exceeded

only by the Bible

Malle In U . S A.

Copyrighted 1929 aDd publisbed by the

Int

ern

at

nal Bible Students Association

Brooklyn New YOl k, U S. A.

London Torouto MClhourne Cape Town Dcrlle MD gdeuurg



•

•

PUBLISH

En S

FOREWORD

T

GIVES

us great pleasure to

pre-

sent this

treat

ise f rom the pen of

Judge Ruther fo rd. Like everyone else

WllO

takes note of things going on in

the world, he recognizes the oppres-

sion of the multitudes of people of

every land

His

interest n hmnanity

inspll ecl hllj:l to search for the cause

and also, if such a thing could he

found, the remedy; and here in this

booklet is set forth not only what he

found to

he

the cause of

th

e di

st

ress,

bnt also the only possible solution to

the problem.

vVe conm1end this booklet to yon n

happy anticipation of yonI' pleasure

and

pro1lt. .



OP

PR

ESSION

W

N WILL IT END

T

HE

5: 15

p.m.

train

was beginning to move

out of the station as Jacob Gershom swung

aboard.

He

was a

co

mmut

er and

rode

that train

six

day

s in the week. As usual, he

arrived

at

his modest home s

hortl

y before 7 :

00

p.m. To

the joyful

g r t i n ~

by his wife he only gave

a

gnmt

and a sigh. A wholesome

supper of

plain food awaited him. He ate in silence, little

thinlcing of what

he

was eating

or

how.

His

wife was concerned about him, and at the con

.elusion of the

supper

inquired about his dis-

tress of mind. .

Elizabeth, this earth is a b3autiful place,

he replied, aild yet the world is cold, c

ru

el,

and

oppressive. The train, as you know, tra-

verses some pleasing

co

untry on the way

up

from the city.

At

this season of the year the

foliage

is

so amazingly beautiful, and the hills

and valleys so qui

et

and peaceful,

that

one is

drawn

to them. I am immediately r eminded,

however, of the condition of ihe people about

u

s

including ourselves. I feel like an exile frolll

the

thing

s

that

would make one glad. You know,

my name 'GeFshom' means exile. I wonder

if

that ha

s anything to do with

my

feelings.

But

Ja

co

b, what is there

in

a nam

e1

f

you

would insist

that

there is something, then' you

mu

st rem

ember

that

my name is Elizabeth. You

3



4

OPPRESSION

have always lileed

that

name, and

it

means 'con-

secrated

to

God'. You should trust

Him

and

lruow that all things will be

right

in due time.

"That

is mighty nice of you, Elizabeth, to 'put

it that way. But ho\ > mauy people are lilee you1

Ou the journey up this evening I spent the time

reading a condensed statement of some of the

conditions that the people have to contend with.

Some man has collected tJlese facts from the

papers or

elsewhere and

put

them in form and ·

published them, and a copy fell into my hands.

The sum total of these statements

is

this :

There are a few that roll in

mat

e

ria

l wealth

and continue to increase their holdings. These

are

even cruel anel wicked and

great

oppres·sol's

of others, and yet they

are

of the ones that seem

to

be proud a.nel happy. h e r

~

are milliOllS of

people like

u·

stri.ving . o make

an

honest liv-

ing, pay for the li ttle home and lay aside some-

thing

for

a rainy day,

hut lilee

ns they do not

seem able to succeed in making much prog-

re

ss. I lltld

\

litt

le run·in today with

the

head

man of our company. He

wa

s

unr

easonable and

crnel and I

pre

sume tllat is the reason why my

mind

t l lr l lS

specially to these things tonight.

Yon Imow

that

my

salary is not

what

it

should

be for a man of my attainments and ability.

Bnt what am I to doY Yhen we were married

I

had

a little business of my own,

bnt

'the big

fish' soon swallowed me up and I was compelled

to go to work

lor

a salary or let us both starve.

Our home

is

not yet

paid

for. Regul

arly

and

promptly every

three

months the

interest

mnst

be paid all the mortgage, and the taxes con-

tinue to increase and

must be

paid.

In

fact, our

,



HARDSHIPS OF TIlE POOR

taxes now amount to more tha';

w

had to pay

for

rent

before the war.

"The cost of food continues to increase; our

clothing, which

is

very modest, is more expen-

sive than it used to be, and the material is not

so good; the e,lectric light; the gas, and the tele

phone .bills are higher than they formerly were,

and the railroad rates still continue high since

the war.

, Ii[

e are compelled

to

live more economically

than we did ten years ago. I

1. 110W

that

the big

corporations are malting much more money

than they did a few years ago; I know

that

the

company for

whic 1.

I am working is rich and

daily growing

ri

cher, and that

my

services are

more valuable to that company

than

when I

beg

an

to work

th

ere.

T

he head of our company

is

fully acquainted

,vith all these cOl1ditions. I went to-him today

and

asked him

for

a small

raise

in my

sa

lary,

'and, do you believe it ' he would not even be'

r easonahle enough to listen to me. lIe ordered,

me out of his office in an angry manner and

said :

'If

you

are

not satisfied with what you

are

getting here, you can go somewhere else.'

Well he mows tlmt I must meet my obligations,

that

I can not afford to quit

and hunt

another

job, because jobs are not easy to find. I am

just one of the many millions who are being

oppr

essed and who are compelled to suffer be

cause of the harshness of the few. I wonder

if tl{is cruel oppression of hmllan beings will

ever

em1

. .

"On the way to the train some one handed'

me this magazine. I see

that

our condition is



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OPPRESSION

not even as deplorable as some others. Misery

loves company, so I

read

this with considerable

interest 011 the way home today. More than

evel' I am impressed with the conclusion that

the men who rnle the world are cold, h

e8J.-t

less,

cruel mId oppressive. Shall I J>ead some of

these things that

appear

h r ~ Thank you, I

will do so.

The Farmers

The

farm

ers are the men that produce what

the people need to sustain life. f theTe were

no farmers or truck gardenel's the people wonld

st

arve. During the pa

st

eig

ht

years

the

public

press has repeatedly called the attention of

its

readers to

the

great

co=ercial

prosperity

throughout the land. In that same eight years

he farmers

have made no profit. On

th

e con-

trary, many of them have gone into bankruptcy.

Such has not been due to their lack of endeavor

or the failure of their crops.

The chief r eason for

th

eir unhappy condition

is

that

the

men who produce the food have been

cheated out of their just ealmings by merl who

produce

not

one thing. So d

es

pe

rate

have the

fprmers growlL that the issue in the recent polit-

ical campaign

fot:

preside

nt

was:

''What

shall

be do ue for the farmed

n

different parts of

the count

ry

e farmers grow different kinds

of crops. The et resnlt to t,he farmer seems to

be about the same. They aTe very much dis-

cOUl aged.

Practically everybody eats potatoes, and

therefore there is a great market for potatoes.

The farmer grows the potatoes at

lhe

cost of



THE FARMERS

7

money

and great

effort and

yet

gets

littl

e for

them.

Oft

en the

farm

er,

after

paying for

the

cost

of

production, has nothing for himse

lf

and

family to live on and to

pay

th

e interest on the

mortgage on his farm. The p

eopl

e

who

eat po

tat

oes

must pay

a high

price

for them, and

there are

millions of people who would be glad

to

eat

more potatoes

i

they cou

ld

get

th

em

at

a more reasonable

price

and

in

keeping with

their

daily wages.

Th

e potatoes

for

the

lar

ge

cities

in

the

East are

grown along the Atlan tic

seaboard, from

Florida

to Maine. This is prob

ably

th

e richest potato-growing

co

untry on

earth

. Practically eve

ry

one

of

the

farms

is

mortgaged for as much as the land is worth.

All

are

agreed that the

far

mers

are

-in a des

perate

condition. The followlllg is a sample of

some

of

them and

their

condition :

Ed. Kellam, of

i n ~

r

Virginia, has a seve

n-

ty-five-acre farm. Iil 1924

it

was cLear of debt.

Today, in

1928

, he does not own a foot of it,

and in the m

eant

ime he

has

farmed

it

every

year.

Th

e interest and taxes and the loss of

his crops

hav

e

co

ns

um

ed his farm.

R

C. Doughty, ProducevilJe, Virginia,

has

a

150-acre

farm

w

ith

a beautiful home.

Thr

ee

years

ago the

farm

as all

his O \ \ ~ l

Today

it

would ]lOt pay even the mortgage. He is

pra

c

tically homeless.

One of the tenants of

R

D.

Vail

maJ<

es this

statement:

I

came h

eTe thr

ee years ago wIth

seve

ral

hundred dollars in money

and

went -into

the

potato-growing

bu

si

ness with

my

broth

er

.

This

year

my brothe

l

and I produced and mar

keted three thousand barrels

of potatoe.

My



8

OPPR SSION

money is now all ,gone and I have

not

enough

left of

it

to

buy

myself a

pair

of shoes."

In the la

st

three years an estate

in

Virginia

worth several hundred thousand dollars has

dwindled

in

value until it is almost of no value

to the owners. The estate was cut up into small

farms aud

rented to potato growers.

Th

e

row·

ers were too poor to tinance their own needs for

farming, and

as

they received practically no

returns

for

their

products, they have

had

no

money

with

which to

pay

the

rent or for

the

llachinery

and

money advanced to do the farm·

mg.

Here is

a sample condition of

the

many po·

tato growers : One man makes a cash invest·

ment of $4277.09 to plant, cultivate, and produce

. his

potato

crop. He produces 1350

barrels

of

potatoes.

He

takes his potatoes to

market

and

sells them

and

realizes only

$1687.50;

so

there

is

a

net

loss of

$2589.59,

to

say

nothing about

the necessiti.es

for

bimself

and

family during

the year.

R.

B.

J

ollllson, of

COl1cord Wbarf had

seven·

ty.flve aCl'es in potatoes, and his loss was $3000,

besides all

hi

s labor.

He

r

ece

ived about ninety

cents a ba rrel

for

his crop.

I t

used

to be

that

potatoes were

marketed

wit.hout

regard

to size. The buyers took them

as they

came.

But

now the chain stores control

most of the foodstuff of the conn try. They do

not

want

smull pohltoes,

nor do

they

want large

ones.

They waut

an average size and

insist

on

cnlling

out

all the others.

The

farmer

must

bear

the

cost of the sorting and

then take

what- he

can get

for

those t

hat are not

desired.



UNF IRNESS TO F RMERS

9

In

1928 thel'e was

an

unusually large crop

of

potatoes grown in the country from North

CaTo

lina to Maine. The dealers smashed the

prices, and the

farmer

lost.

Ten years ago a man took his potato crop to

the

market

and whether he

had

a thousand bar-

~

·rels

01'

a few barrels he got the market price

and received cash for

it

In rece

nt

years it has

become different. Now a farmer has absolutely

no control of llis market.

He bring

s his product

to the station, and the local commission mer

chant receives it

on

consignment, not promising

him

that he will get a cent

fo

r it. The prices are

fixed in the following manner: The dealers

in

the big cities ascertain from the local dealers

what is

on

hand,

and

wait until the shipping

stations

aTe

jammed full; then the price is

forced down and the big dealers buy

for

about

what they want. The madmtJllay be glutted to

day and potatoes be wO l·th 1.50 a barrel, and

tomorrow they may be

worth

$3 .00. ut the

price always goes up after the

farmer

has part·

ed with his potaj;oes. .

The

farmers

see a few men rising ,to affiuence

in a few years while at the same time

the

farmer

is becoming poor. They know

that

the com

n'lission

man

never rllns any risks

or

takes any

chances. f anybody loses, the farmer

must

suf-

fer the loss. ---

When the

farmer

ships his potatoes the com

mission man will say to him that it is impos

sible to name a price bec

au

se the prodnct is

p

~ r i

s

h l

ut

the

farmer

notices

that

as soon

as the commission man gets the potatoes

in

his



10

OPPR SSION

p o ~ s s s i o n t l ~ r is no difficulty about fixing the

pnce

.

The

farmer

can not go from door to doou to

market his potatoes with the people who want

to eat. That part of it is a business

in

itself.

Therefore tIte men

who

produce nothing see

that the towns and cities make laws that for-

bid peddling.

Another sampl

e

Mr. Johnson tal,es his pota-

toes to the man who buys for the chain stores

or

big' wholesalers.

He is

told

that

he can not

expect to

get

more than 2 .15 a barrel. He sells

for that, and within a few minufes

thereafter

the same potatoes

are

sold for $3.25 a barre1.

The chain stores no\ operated by big corpo-

rations have much to do with the prices through-

out the country. Today there are 13 chain

stores

in

America. They buy in

great

quanti-

ties when the market is glutted, distribute

among their stores and sell

at

a high price to

the consumer. The man who produces and the

man who eats must suffer, the one because he

has to pay a lrigh price, and the other because

he must sell

at

a loss; and the man who produc-

es

nolling

makes the profit.

It

is

not

unusual for a

farmer to

ship Iris

produce on consignment,

pay

the

transporta-

tion chlll'ges, l

ater

find out that his

prod

uct is

Tepresented to him as being worthless, and then '

get nothing.

Even

though his potatoes have left

the shipping station

in

good condition, he

is

often told that when they arrived

at

the destina-

tion they were practically worthless. The fol-

lowing

is

a sample of how fann products are

often handled by the commission man



COMMISSION

MEN VS

. FARMERS 11

A man was engaged in growing peaches in

Alabama. He produced fin e peac

he

s.

He

shipped

. a carload to'a commission house III Indianapolis.

This

WI lS

his first experience w

ith

the commis-

sion house.

He

received a tel

egrap

h message

that his

fr

nit

had arriv

ed in snch damaged con-

dition

that

t was hardly

worth

handling. He

took the first

train

to Indianapolis, and, without

re\ ealing his identity, called on the head of the

commission honse and represented himse

lf

as

one who wished to buy peaches. The cOl 1mis-

sion merchant said, Yes, we now have in the

yard

th

e fin es t carload of peaches that ever

came to Indiana.

Th

e grower asked to see

them. The commission man took him out lllto

the railroad ya.rds and pointed with

prid

e to

this car of extraordinarily

fine

peaches, saying,

Nothing as fine as this ever be

for

e came into

this city. The grower took

his

revolver out of

his

pocket, stuck

it

In the 'commission merahallt's

ribs, and demanded inunediate settlement fo r

the full price and got it. Not every man, how-

ever, wishes to und

ert

ake this hazardous way

of collecting

his

money.

The fa.

rm

er s are often told th

at

. the rea

so

n

the price is so l

ow

is tha t there is a great over-

production.

At

the same time

th

e

re are

millions

of people w

ho

would like to eat but can not eat

be

au

nse they

hav

e not the money to

pay

the high

price

that is charged

for

food. There could be

no , such thlllg as an honest overprodnction

in

a country where there are millions of people

out of employment and on the verge of starva-

tion because they can

not

buy food.

I



12

qPPRESSION

rohibition

And

just

here there is an interesting matter,

for

consideration with reference to prohibition.

In

recent

years

chemists have discovered

that

the

fal

'mers could make gl'eat quantities of

alcohol

from

theil' so-called overpl'oc1uction of

potatoes. They could also make it from the

great quantity of corll-stalks that

go

to waste

and f"OIll many oth

er thil1gS

about

the

farm,

They are uot pe

rmitt

ed to do this, however,

f

a

farm

er should use his products to make alco

hol, whnt would he do with

it

1 H e

co

uld use

it

to operate his tractors, Iris automobile, ane his

engines to pump water about the farm

at au

exceedingly low price, instead of usiug gaso

line. The Standard Oil Company and other big

oil companies pl'oduce gasoline for sale

ane

th

ey sell

it at

a high price. t is a well-known

, fact that the big oil , compaLllies are specially

interest

ee

n

having the prohibition law kept on

the

statute

b

oo

ks

and

strictly enforced, becanse

if

the farmel's were p ernrittee to make theil'

own

fu

el alcol101 for operating their engines

the oil stocks would gl'eatly e epl'eciate.

In

the

re

cent campaign the big oil opel'atol's,

who manufactm'e and sell gasoline, ane the

pl'eachers worke

e

hand

in

hand

to k

ee

p the

pl'O-

hibition law in force, aJ1d they threaten to e

n-

force

it

more rigidly hencefol'th.

Of co

urse

everybody understands

that

the

ig

oil com

panies, like the S taudare Oil, are great moral

ane charitable" or

ga

nizations. Some of

the

.big

men in them are the chief advocates of Sunday

school

and

churel1 organization throughout

the

land.

ManJ

of the law make

rs

know t

hat

this ,



NEED O F RM RELIEF 13

statement is absolutely true, and yet

ig

Bus

i-

ness prevents

th

e farmer from using his own

product for his own benefit to operate his ma

chines;

and

while it is doing this the preach-

ers, as the great moralists, flU'nish the

smol<e-

screen behind which Big Business wo rks.

f

the farmer could use his surplus crop of pota

toes, corn-staU,s and other products to produce

fu el for his

farm

machinery,

his

automobile,

etc., he cou

ld

greatly reduce the cost of operat

ing

his

farm

;

but

in

that

event the poor oil

companies would suffer and the preachers

wou ld have nothing to rant about. .

Here is a statement from a man

who

tra\

e

ls

about amongst the

farmers

: During the past

few days I have talked with a munber of farm

ers. I found that a lot

of

them will not dig their

potatoes because they can not get the cost of

digging, sorting and marketing

out

of the price

at which they are forced to sell.

Grea t fields of potatoes

in Kan\as

and the

Dakotas and along the eastern seaboard have

been left in the gl'ound undug because the farm

er could not afford to

pay

the cost of digging

and taking them to market.

f permitt

ed,

how

ever, to produce the fuel for

his

engines from

them he could mauage to save a little money.

Probably he

wo

uld be able to haul in trucks at

least part of them to the towns and sell them

to the poor and give them a chance to eat. Of

course the big corporations

will permit

their

moral duty to conlpel them to make and ell-

fO 'ce

sllch la,ws as they say are fo r the good of

hmnanity,

but

from which only the rich profit.

AnotlJer man writes in one of the leading



11

OPPRESSION

farm

journals: Many cars are oeing loa'ded

with po.tatoes

and

shipped at a

price

as low as

twenty-five cents a bushel,

and

none

at

more

than

thirty cents a bushel. That is the price

paid

the producer.

There

are two

and

a half bushels in a barrel

of potatoes, and sixty pounds to the bushel.

The

farmer

is compelled to sell at thi ty

ce

nts

a bushel.

He

gets, therefore, seventy-nve cents

a barreL Looking at

the

market price in tlw

papers

today, we see

that

potatoes

are

retailed

for

three cents a pound, whioh is $1.80 a bushel.

or

4.50

a barrel.

In

other \Vorus, the man who

raises the potatoes gets thiTty ce nt s a bushel,

and the lIlan who eats them

pays

$1.80 for the

same potatoes, provided

he

is able to

pay

at

any price at all. The

majority

of the people

must buy in small quantities, and the pI'ice i s

then even higher.

This oppressive

and

unhappy condition that

exists amongst the potato growers exists like

wise

with

praotically all kinds of farmlllg

throughout the land. t is not at all slupJ'ising

that during the campaign of 1928 both the

big political parties found it necessary to make

many

promises to help

the

farmer. One of the

candidates used these words: The working

out of agricultUTal relief constitutes the most

important object of

the

next administration.

Bnt by the time the neA-t administration gets in

full sway, will these promises be remembered

T

Prosperity

In

that

same national campaign the people

were

repeate

dly

.

told t.hat the country' was never



W LL STREET MBUN

15

befol'e so 'Prosperous as now, The prosperity

does not seem, however, to be with those who

produce the wealth, but wit.h those who juggle

and gamble with what is produced, Only a few

days after t.he election, Mr,

Bri

sbane, a daily

writer for the press, in,one of the leading New

York

papers

made the following illuminating

s

tatement:

Big day in Wall

Street,

all sale

records eclipsed, making $500,000 for a seat and

chance to do business seem a bargain, The

tape couldn't keep

up

with orders and

ran

more

than

an hour late all day, 'Nickel' and 'Radio'

caused hearts to beat faster, especially the

hearts of poor bears that

had

gone 'short', In

telligent bears will change to t

he

bull side or

take a vacation for four years, Income tax re

turns

show' 283 Americans with net incomes of

$1,000,000 a year

or

more. The number has in

oreased by fifty-two in two years. Once a man

wi

th

a million was considered rich. To be

REALLY 'rich' now you need $1,000,000 a year.

rhere

are

several billionaires in existe

uc

e tba t

modestly refrain from tallcing about

it

.

The stock-gamblers in Wall Street are mak

ing fabulous fortunes out of that ,,,mch they

never

earn: At spare

moments they Tush into

TTinity Church ill the same stl'eet and seek ab

solution from their

wi

cked deeds. Trinity

Chmch property is worth 'upward of fifty mil

lion dolla.rs. The fo llowing frol11 the New York

Ji11 e1 icwn, o November 23 1928, is somewhat

illuminating and shows tbe alliance between

Big

Business and so-called

or

ga.nized Christianity:

Trinity

Church Corporation

of

New York City

owns

the

be

autiful

old church

and

gl'a\'eya

rd

at

the



16

OPPRESSION

top of Wall Street. There the fortunate

at

noon can

thank

Providence

for

their winnings. At the other

end of the str

ee

t there is a convenient dock from

which they can jump

i

it

goes t he other way.

Winners

Turn Left-Losers

Right

IICopyrlg bt New York American Inc. Courtesy New York

Amerlcn.n

In

a deal mvolving more

than

$20,000,000 ,

Trinity

Chureh has purchased more real estate on Seventh

Avenue, in llfanhattan.

f the Founder of Christianity lived

in

New York

with

its

East

Side slums

and

worried mothers,

and

if He

ha

d

$20,000,000, wo

uld He buy more real estute,

cr

what .would

He do

On November 21 1928 The ation said

W inter is coming and almost nothing has been done

to protect

the

several millions of our unemployed

from destitution, but

283

persons in the United States

iv ill not

WOl'r.l\.

They a·re the individuals who re·

ceived

in

1927

an

income of more than $1,000,000.

Uur nation has now

attain

ed the

proud i s t i n t i ~



CO L

17

of possossing more 'n\illion-dollar incomes than any

other nation

in

the history of the world, and mOl'e,

by fifty-two,

than

the

United States

in

1926, While

the avo rage wages of faotory workers are approxi

mately

25

a week, and while only a handinl·of farm

ers oan boast of a snbstantial·income, practically·all

the higher classeS of income-tax payers; from ' the

10,000·a-yeat' group to the million·dollar group, in

creased last year. The earnil1gs of corporations de

clined while the great personal fortunes made hy

specnlatiol1

increased-and

most of the profits. from

the

:greatest gamhling year ,

in

the

hi

sto

ry

of Mallcc

ill n.ot be ,l'QPorted until ne

xt

yoar. While the In

ternal Revenue

BU

;

eau

was announcing its figures,

;mother bUl'eau of .

tJ.ie

Goverllment, the Women's

Bureau 01 ,the Department of Labor, was issuing a

statement

o the average wages o certain

women

VOl jr

ers in our factories.

l h

e median weeldy earnings

of

111:i,ssissippi

white wOmen are 8.60, of Negro

w -

men

5 . ~ 5 ,

of S01jtj:l

Carolina

white

women

9,50,

of

New York white women 14.95 .

Coal

The coal fields

are

owned by powerful corpo

ra tions. Tliey operate the mines for their own

profit, regardless of the suffering of others. Tbe

man who digs the coal establishes a little home

for

himself

in

the coal region

and

hopes to .live

there. He works deep down in the

earth

during

the day.

In f a ~ t

his waking

hoUl'

s are almost

entirely spent 'in artificial light. Tbe coal oper

ators desire to

rai

se the price of

coal

Of course

the consumer must pay the iucreased price.

The miner is laid off so

that

the coal supply

will

appear to

be scarce, and then automatically

the price goes up. Men, women

and

children

suffer for necessities while the prosper,ity of



18

OPPRESSION

the mine owners increases. November'

21,

1

928,

the

ew R epublic

said concerning tbe coal

miners :

Thousands

of

miners

tour

tbe mountains from mine

to mine

in

search of the invisible job. They conclude

it

is just as well to sit down and wait. For what

No one can tell.

But

the man-driving increases.

At

Morea, over the

hill, men are actually compelled to work beyond quit

ting time, without extra compensation, to make up for

time lost

durin

g the working day. Old hands

ar

e be

ing laid off in the most conservative collieries. A

blunt. order comes from the main office :

Lay

oft ten

of your most unnecessary men. This order is im

plicitly obeyed, and wherever a man can only be

half-spared, he is spared altogether, the additiollat

work being shoved on

th

e man l

eft

•

.Gripped by s

la

ck tim

e, th

e average hard-coal miner

is growing

rest

l

ess,

Whether a militant union policy

would meet the

co

ming crisis,

or

whether no c

ri

sis

wil1 come, he does not know. H e feels quite S

Ul

e that

a wage-cut is in store, and a

st

rike will be difficult

to make.

Bu

t

it

may be unavo idable, he says.

What can you do

th

en " He accepts the future

with a slu'ng

-w h

atever

it

may be.

He

is only dimly

interested ill the story

of fa

bulous profits made by

coal companies, and vast royalties collected by land

agencies. He feels powcl'lcss to control these tremen

dous powers.

Ev

en the union seems to have little

powel to

wr

es t recoguition from tbe financial forces

tbat

dominate the

hard-c

oal industry.

SurroUllded by its culm banks and its breathing

breakers,

the

population of

th

e hard-coal towns con

templates its probable fate. The 'future is like the

{ ound Ullder its feet-filled with cracks and ho l

es

-und

ermined with dark po

ss

ibilities.

Day

follow.

day as the whjstles cont.inue silent and slack time

takes away butter ft'om the bread, and compels the '



HARDSHIPS OF MINERS

19

children to go l'agged to school. Hard

times "

ci'el'yhody sighs, including the fat salooll-keeper, whO

llOW sells most of his beer Oll trust".

And

bm-der

tim

es

ahead.

With

deepening frown the hard-coal

miner sits on the back-door step to contemplate the

cheerless future. For the

future

holds his fate in

its

hands-and

he wonders:

After

1930-whotY

n one ofthe bitmninous coal fields miners con

te

mplat

e hi

gher

wages

that

their families

might

live with

so

me

degr

ee of comfort. This being

denied, a s trike

foTIows. 1'he miners live

in

houses

built

on the

prop

e

rty

of

the

mine owners.

Thousands of the miners and their families

were evi.cted from

th

eir

110mes

in

the deael of

winter

(1927),

wit

.h no place to find shelter.

The

labor

union organized and con

struct

ed bar

racks on neutral grounds nearby to furnish

some protection for those unfortuuates. The

,mine owners imported

strDle-breakers

and

sup

plied them with machine guns,

gas

bombs

and

rifles

willi

which to destroy the

strikers UPOll

a

slight pretext.

member of the United States Senate, in a

speecll

ill

the Senate, appealed to the govern

ment to take action ou

behaa

of the unforttUlate

miners. 1'he following was

taken from

a

report

of inve

st

iga

tor

s

read

by

th

e

senator

into his

speech:

We

unearthed evidence of terrOl'ism and

co

unter

terrorism of mob beatings and near lynchings

o

dishonesty,

graf

t, and heartlessness_

We located machine guns and tear-gas bombs, pre

pal'ed to back up the ready rill

es

that wait to crush

any rebeUion of hung

er

-crazed men. And neal'

-

And

ear by

we

heard

the

eh.ilw·en of those me

n,

striking

miners,

crying

for

food

in

em]lt,y

kitchens.



20

OPPRESSION

C )ne room, split

in

tWQ

by

a rough hoard partition,

is

the standard

nue

in these miners' barracks for each

evicted family, r ega

rdl

ess of size.

'l.'h

ere may be

thr

ee

children.

Th

ere may be seven. All must be crowded

into this one room. No provisions are made for

the

single men.

Th

ey can s

hift for

them

se

l

ves

.

Privacy¥ No. Overcrowded ¥ Yes. But there is

no lack

of

ventilation.

With

the

temperatur

e below

freez ing and a 30-mile wind howling down the valleys

and across

th

e hillsides, there is warmth and a

measure

of

comiort in snuggling up close as the cold

ail' rush

es.

in

through the unmatchqd b081 ds.

The union fm·nishes coal, usually dug by the strik

el themselves from some neigbboring hillside mine

on a royalty bas

is;

but the $3 -a-week allowance from

the union must f urnish food, clothiug, und other nec

essaries.

For

a family

of five

this means a

littl

e l

ess

th2n 9 cents pel' person pel' day.

t

is less than 3

cents per meal. Think

of

wh at you can buy for 3

cents. The menu must be simple and monotonous-

bread and beans, bread and more beans,

wi

th occa

sionally a hunk of

so

up meat

th

at can be cooked with

plenty

of water, potatoes, and seasoning to give a

little variety to the bread

and

beans.

Th

ere is no

milk

for children, even for tbe babies, except wbat

they are able to get

from tbe

ir

mother's breast.

The children al·e ·

hungry

and underfed. And the

mothers, who tm·n aside f rom the table in order that

their childr

en

may have a little mo

re

, arc even

hUll-

grier and more tmdel noul ished.

Wh

en the

mme

rs

h eld p

eace

able meetin

gs

to

d

isc

uss theu· grievances and

to

aid and comfort

one

another

fi sts

boots clubs and g uns were

used

by

IJolice

oHi

cer s and reactionary officials

of the mine owner S to

br

eak

up

the convention

and arrest m any men

who ha

d done no harm.

Prof

ess

or

W.

H

Maurer

at

Ollio

University

,

Athens, Ohio

publis

h er of

JJ1

ss ng i· en-



POWE. t TRUST ACTIVITIES

21

deavored in his paper to cl

ea

l with the coal

strike

in

an impartial

way.

Th

e big

in

terests

saw to it

that the professor

was

discharged

from his position in the university, although he

had been assured of a posit.ion for si. >: years in

the lUuversity and

ga

ve up another position to

take it. The oppression extends not only to the

lniners but to an

yone

who dares to speak in

th

eir

behalf.

nllman Porters'

Pullman

'porters

and

maids formed a union

in an effort to better their condition as to both

wages and hours. In the South the colored man

can be easily frightened. One of the organizers

of this Pullman porter organization was guilty

of tbe crime ( ) of recruiting members for the

union

and

distributing the

ir

official literature.

He was brought into cour t and given time to

leave town . Of course the poor man bad no way

to relieve lumself of this oppression.

Power Tl'nst

The electric light

and

gas companIes fornling

the gr

eat

power

tru

st

are

operated to oppress

every on e

that

opposes them. They seek to

co

rrupt

Congress

and

legis

lator

s,

th

e co

urt

s

the public press, colleges, universities, anything

or anybody, to fur ther their se

lfi

sh interests.

n an investigation held by the F ederal Trades

Comnlission in W:::shingtoll, in 19

28

, the tes ti-

mony showed that practically one nllllion dol-

lar

s a

year

was spe

nt

by this great power

tru

st

ll

th

eir war against public ownership or public

utilities.



22

OPPRESSION

Power

Trust

Probe

Is

Again Operating

Th

e investigation shows

that

the utilities'

rept

'e

sentatives freely used the terms Bolshevik and

Socialist

against those

who

oppo

se

d private con

trol of

natural

resources. These publicity agents del-

uged

th

press with

t'news

releases and canned

editorials and boasts of the amount of free space

won

for the trust. One of these agents d

eclar

ed that

country editors are

('

God's fools .

Scores

of

college professors were secretly employed

to write

te,, 1

books for public schools and to make

speeches in favor of private initiative . Publishel's

of t.ext books 'vere also reached.

Former Senator Lenroot, a prominent candidate

for

vice-president

in

the convention

that

nominated

'V

arren

G.

Harding

for

president, was shown to have

received $20,000 for opposing the Walsh investigation

resolution.

n attack on the Ontat'io publicly-owned hydro

electric plant, issued tmder the auspices of the Smith

soJ;lian

Institution,

turned out

to have been written

by a man who received $3,000 from

the

National

Electric Light Association. The Smithsonian, wmch

is

a government institution at Washington, repudiat

ed the report,

Men of prominence are employed

by

these op

pressive corporations to catTy on

their

work.

George

B.

Cortelyou was

Secretary

of the

Treasmy

of the United

States

in 1907.

In

1908

he

was elected to the distinguished position of

pres

ident of the Consolidated Gas Company of

New York and also chairman of the joint com-

mittee of National Utility Associations, which

are

some more high-sounding names

for

the

Power Trust. On November 12, 1928,

t.he

New

York e1 ican

editorially

sa

id:



POWER TRUST PROPAGANDA

23

Beginning

in

June, 1927, this committee within a

few months collected a

fund

of four

hu

ndred thousand

dollal S, to be expended for the defeat of the Walsh

resolution

for

a Senate investigation of the Power

Trust,

and

for defeat of the Boulder

Dam

and Muscle

Shoals bills, which provided for public ownership

and

operation

of

those two great power plants.

The stupendous effort of the utilities eompanies was

suecessful. rhe Walsh resolution was beaten

in

the

Senate. I he Boulder Dam bill was skillfully delayed

until

the

end

of the session of Congress in May,

and

t.hen smothel ed

in

a filibuster. Though

t.he

Muscle

Shoals bill was passed, it was pocket-vetoed by the

President,

rhe fOUl -hundl ed-thousand-dollar fund was a small

part

of

the money mqlcnded by thc privatc power

companies for these purpose

s,

We have learned

in

the Federal Trade Commission's nvcstigatio.n some

more about it.

For

example, the individual power

corporations have been secretly giving eighty-foul

thousand dollars a year

t

an ((independent new's

service distributing t canne

d

editorials through the

COWltl Y, run by E

M.

Hofer Sons, of Portland, Ore.

Among the annual contributions to

o f ~ r

were SLX

t.housaud dollars from companies which MI . Cortel

you heads: Consolidated Gas, New York Edison,

Unitcd Electrie ;Light Powcr Company and Brook

l

yn

Edison.

The

Hofer

service, distributed free to fourteen

thousand small newspapers through the country, spe

cialized ill anti-Walsh r esolutiou,

anti

-Muscle Shoals,

anti-Boulder Dam editorials.

t

was a good

buy

for

the power companies, even

i f it

was a disgraceful

fraud and

cheat perpetrated upon the editoI S and

newspaper rea

del S

of the country.

We can not believe

that :Iofr.

Cortelyou is willjng to

stand

sponsor

for

this crookedness. On April 13,

1

928, the

Federal Trade Collllnission p ut into i

ts



24

OPPRESSION

records a

pre

ss release by the joint committee of Na

tional Utility Associations, quoting Mr. Oortelyou as

saying:

.

"We shall try to demonstrate that

the entry

of

Government into this field (publie utilities)

s

politi

cally unwise, economically unsowld and competitively

unfair.

Oan Mr. Oortelyou think of

anything

more politi

cally unWise than t his secret subsidizing f an inde

pendent) news service Y

Oan

he think

of

anything

more economically un

sound

And, seeing that

th

e sccret subsidy

s

paid with

money collected from

the

people

in

rates, can Judge

Oortelyou think of anything more competitively Ull-

fair?

"Land

of the Free"

America

is

proverbially known as the land of

the free and the home of the brave . I s

it

longer

entitled to be called by that name ' F

w

men

are

actually free to speak or even think what

they would like. A few men control the wealth

of the land, and wealth is power. Tllat power

controls the politics of the land, which includes

the law-making and law-enforc

m nt

depal·t

ments of the government. That power has in

vaded every branch of the government

and

has

sought to corrupt it, and has corrupted it. t

has invaded the churches and induced the minis

ters thereof, by some means best known to

them,

to

extol the

virtu

es of the power

trust

_

They tell the people what a great benefactor

the trust is.

The

big

oil magnates who prevent the

farm

ers

from using their surplus product

for

fuel,

and who scheme to corrupt the colleges, the



CONDITIONS IN BRITAIN

25

universlties, the schools - and the courts, are

made the principal memllers of the

flo

ck of the

olergyman in his church.

The people

hav

e come to cl

eady

see

that

Bi

g

Business men and corrupt politicians, aided and

abetted by dishonest clergy, rule the country

and

oppress t.he people. The common people

are discouraged. They are more than discour

aged. They are

n

great distress

for

themselves

and

for

the

ri

sing generation. They see

lit

tle

prospect for their sons or daughters to enter

any employment

wi

thout being

su

bj ect to the

oppressive hand of the unholy combine. In

stead, then, of Amel'ica's being a land of the

fr

ee and

th

e home of the brave , i t has become

the land of

th

e fearful and tlie home of the slave.

Other

Countries

The coal miners of Great

Britain

have their

troubles, and their

co

ndition is even worse than

that of the miner s of America. Their wages are

lower,

their hours are longer,. and their condi

tion more oppressed.

Mr

. Lloyd George,

n

a

speeah before an audience of 25,000 people, r e-

cently said: The chaotic condition of the coal

industry is due to the monopolization by the

mine l

ea

ders who

hav

e refused every offer to

help to a

so lution of the trouble. As is usual,

the man who produces suffers and the 'one who

is proud and happy produces nothing.

It is stated n the New York imes that dur

ing the

yea

r 1928 tbe unemployed in England

increased to 1

2

82,900. At the same time the

wealth of the few greatly iuoreased.

A Welsh newspaper, commenting on the

Ull



26

OPPR SSION

fair

method

of taxa

t.ion n England, receritly

said :

Ch)lrchill s latest

Budget

maintains the cruel

Wl-

faimess of the national taxation. rhe poor are com

pelled to pay, even though they

do

not

get wages

enough

to

provide

their

families with the necessaries

of life. The rich are left with incomes, largely

lID-

e

am

ed, whieh permit t.hem to

go

on living

in

llLxury.

Tlle Budget gives relief to manufacturers, railway

companies, landlords, farmers, and to parOllts

of

the

middle and

upper

elasses. The worlring classes who

do not

carn

enough to

pay

income

tax

get no relief

a t all.

The

tax on

sugar is

sligh

tly

decreascd,

but

the housewife will

find

other prices

go up us

a re

sult of increased taxes

11

other commodities.

Of the annual national income of

£4,230

million

no

less

than £1,200

million

(that

is, nearly oue quar

tel ) is une

arn

e

d.

One-ninth of the population receives

one-half of the national income.

The pl csent Budget is a glaring example of relief

to

the rich

at

the expense of the poor. Rates on in-

dustrial premises railways canals and harbours arc

to be reduced

75

perce

nt

, and on

farm

lauds and

agricultural buildiugs completely. The ostensible ob -

ject is to relie

ve

burdens upon industry and agricul-

ture

so that they may meet foreign competition. The

effect will be to subsidize manufaeturel S, railway

com

-

pani

es,

landlords, and farmers at the expense of the

rest of the

eo

mmunity. The owning classes will re-

ceive

this

subsidy wit.hout

any

guamntee

that

they

will

organize illdustI-y

or

agriculture effieient.ly,

pay

a living wage to the workers or reduce prices for the

consumers.

While the oppressive bm-dens

laid

upon the

backs

of

the poor

ill

Great

Britain increase, the

rich carryon a propaganda througb their news

papers

to mold public opinion

as far as

possible

n

their own favor.

After

returning from a trio



RICH CONTROL THE PRESS

27

abroad, Mr. Robel t McCormick,

n

the Cleve

land

Pla in Deqlm ,

said that the British peers •

rule the news and the English editors tell the

public where to get off .

The

Hamon,

of January

24,

editol ially says :

The sale of the London Daily 7 clegmph the first

penny paper published in London, now believed to

be one of the richest papers

in

the world, to Sir Wil

liam Berry and his bro

thel ,

James Gower Berry,

makes them the largest newspaper owners in England.

They now possess twenty-two morning, evening, and

weekly newspapers, and eighty-eigjJ.t w

ee

ldy, fort

nightly, and monthly

journ

als, as well as circula.

ting

libraries and book-publishlng enterprises.

'rh

ey have

become, with Lord Beaverbrook and

Lord

Rothermere,

the chief owners of British

newspapers and periodi

cals. Thn

s,

thre groups

of

very wealthy men control

90 percent of the publications, and through them the

public opinion of Great Britain. What would happen

j f they should merge their interests' Would there

liot b.e a power created thereby so vast as to menace

gove

rnm

ent itself' Naturally

th

ey are all extremely

conservat.ive in their politica l views, and they al e

c

lo

sely affiliated with highly consel vative Big Busi

ness interests. Thus, a third Berry,

Lord

Buckland,

s said to be a director

of

more companies than

.ny

other initi ,·idu. l

in

the world, bis

int

erests being

chiefly coal mines, iron, and steel_ Vhat chance is

there

for

libe

ral

and radical opinion to obtain a hear

i

ng in the press

of the-Berry r o ~

~

r s Prccious little.

On the otber hand, the growth of the liberal and labor

press of England is.neg ligiblc. The

DailllJ Herald

still

struggles for existenco with the aid of large trade

union subventions, and therc is no other Labor.daily.

f Labor progresses under tbese . circumstances, it is

certajuly a testimony

to

the righteousness of its cause.

In

India

the

farmers

are oppressed

far

more



•

28

OPPRESSION

than in America. The

Indian farmer

represents

• eighty percent of the population, lives in faI -ofI

villages where government agents

penetrate

twice a year to collect land l evenue, withdra.w

ing

th

emselves

for

the rest of the

year

to e

nri

ch

the few cities in which they live

aud

which they

use as centers of export and import

For

in

stance, in

that

part of

India

known as Bm doli

the farmers are greatly terrorized and op

press

ed

by

government officials,

Confiscation of lands and attachment of movable

pi operty followed, There are 130 villages in Bardoli

with 126,000 acres of arable land,

Forty

Pathans an

alien elemcnt known

for

its llllderworid activity in

Bombay w ere imported

by

the Goverllll1ent to fright;..

en th people and to harass them into suhurissioll,

Bullocks

and

buffalo

es

were attached, beaten,

and

tortured to incite

t.he

peasant., to whom agricultural

animals are a part of his faurily, The farmers remained

unmove

d

Furniture and grain bags

wel e appropri-

ated

only to be left where

they

were, because no

porter

would l i f t ills fulger to r emove them to the govern

ment stol,ehouse Carts were attached either to he

abandoned or to be driven by the officials themselves.

No drivel could be

had

to do it.

RoumaJ,lia

The conditions that have prevailed

in

Ron

mania since the iVorld War

are

almost

111lbe-

lievable. On August

26

1928, one

of

the lead

ing m g r ~ i n speaking

in

behalf of the peas

ants

of

that country, said :

The fight whicil the National Peasant

Party

is car

rying on is not liurited to a simple discussion of

CUl

-

rent political issues.

t

is nothing l

ess than

the con

tinuation 0.1 the long struggle of the R

<>umanian

peo

ple to

attain

their liberty and national

unity

.



MISGOVERNMENT IN ROUMANIA 29

After t.he war, which freed our lana from foreign (

mastcl s,

the

Roumanian people thought t

hat

as a

re

-

sult of their heroic efforts they would be able to live

as a free

and

united nation.

But

the

enthusiasm

of

the masses aud the faith of

the people were abused by an oligarchy of plutocrats

devoid of seruples and determined to exploit the

tragedy

of

the people for their selfish purposes of dom

hlation

and

oppression. The war was ended ten full

years ago.

During these

ten

years

the

newly annexed Rou

manian provinces, having

th rown

off the yoke of

foreigners, h

l>ve

b

ee

n

trying

to establish the founda

tions of a national Roumanian state, free and inde·

pendent.

But

by

the

cruel irony of fate the army, with which

the gove

rnm

ent was intrusted

in

1926 for

the

purpose

of defending the

co

untry against foreign enemies, has

b

ee

n utilized by a coterie of plutocrats

in

a war

against the

f

liberated provinces, against the produc-

tive classes, and against the masses of

th

e people

throughout the whole country,

who by

their sacrifices

have won the

right

to assume their proper place in

political life.

Thus for

ten

years

we

have lived under a regime

of oppression and exploitation

in

which the police

force,

martial

law, the censorship, and an

u t t ~

disre

gard

of all the laws have constituted the only means

by which the Lib

era

l Party has maintained its dom

in

ation, open

or

disguised.

CITIZENS n theo

ry, we have a constitutional

state based on universal suffrage, representative gov

erument, and ministerial r esponsibility. In practic

e

universal suffrage is a deception. For eight years

there has been no su

ch

thing as national representa

tion.

The ballot-boxes have been stuffed, individual lib

CIty

trampled

und

er foot, the press shackled ;

the



30

OPPRESSION

administration, the police force, the courts, the army,

have been drawn away from their great pm poses of

maintaining order, establishing justic

e,

and defending

the nation,

and

have been transformed

by

an un-

scrnpulous government into instr ents of corrup

tion and elec toral oppression_

The legis

la

t ive bodies have been

tj1e

products of

the artifices of violcnt politicians, of administrative

frauds, and often, lullortunately, of t he abuses of

judges llllworthY ,of their high miss ion,

CITIZENS The econ

omi

c life of the country,

placed on a false basis by the government, is

ruin

e

d,

Our agricultm e brin

gs

no profit because the new

organization, created

by t ~

necessity of agrarian

reforms, is unsuitable and

inefficie

nt, and also be-

cause agriculture s subject to the cruel persecution

of high tariffs, which prevent the procUl ing of cheap

agricultm al tools and supplies, and of e> l,ort taxes,

which disco

ur

age intensive production,

L

eg

itimate

industry

is

dosing

its

doors and the

taxes collected from the agriculturists a1'e being used

for

th

c maintenance of parasitic industries,

Honest business is goi

ng bankrupt

in order

to

make

way for t he commerce of exploiters_

The financial policy adopted by the Liberal Govern-

ment for the purpo

se

of res toring the value of om

currency,

bu

t maintained

for the

express

purpose of

protecting the

int

erests of

the

banks of

th

e members

of the Liberal Party, has completely failed and the

government has been ,obliged to reso

rt

to the plan of

stabilizing the currency, ,vithout, however, acceptillg

the logical cousequen

ces

of the utter fa ilUl'e and ab-

ject abandonm

ent

of its economic program,

Th

e policy of building np the

COlllltl'Y

with indig-

enous capital, the so-called

by

ourselves potioy,

doomed

from

the very

be

ginning by

the

lack

of

mo-

bile Roumanian capital, which h d bee n destroyed

by the war, prevented the import of foreign capital,



ITALY

UN ER

IR

ON RUL

81

made necessary a disastrous moratorium on our obli-

gat.ions to foreign creditors, and gave us the bad repu

tation of

haters

of foreigners,

through

which our cred

it has been ruined

and

our economic recovery frus

trat

ed.

Under the mantle or economic nationalism the

Liberal P arty has proceeded systematically

and

per

sistently to lay

its

hands on all sources of wealth in

the

COlmtry,

such us coal, oil, natural gas, m i n ~ a 1 s

waterfalls, health resorts, woods, f a c t o r i e ~ pipe lines,

fisheries, means

of

transport, trade in cereals, and the

bank

s.

Every1 hing in the OUll

try

of any valne has

passed under the control of trusts, either by the help

of

laws which serve as instruments

of

pillage or by

the help of the .whole administrative apparatns as

a result of which the enormous wealth of the

cOUlltr),

has been gathered in a few hands

and

transformed

into a Dlurderous

pn:J. 3sitie

enterprise, nourished

by

the misery of tbe masses.

Ita ly

In Italy

Mussolini and his oppressive govern

me

nt hav

e terrorized the people. A cable dis

patch to the public press, of May 28,

1928,

says:

ITALIAN WORKERS

U:KDER

IRON HEEL

1 h

e shipping industry

ba

s sec

Ul-edl1 20

pcrcent re

duction, und a 15 percent rcduclion is enforced on

cotton null workers. Uill'cst among agricultural work-

ers is increasing and al'll cd revolts arc reported.

usine

ss meu

giv c

11

1ntimation that their prices

will be lowered. Rents bave inCl eased in many locali

ties. l be sitnation reveals the

purpo

se of Mnssolini s

"industrial peace" system,

Wllich

has smashed the

legitimate trade Ullions, establishcd government-con

troiled I unions " and compulsory arbitration, and

outla.wed

strik

es.

Eve:ry wage worker mu

st

pay dues

to

a Fascist

union,

but

be

is

denied a voice or vote ill that



32

organization L

V

he does not accept

the

principles of Fascismo

tha t the State is supreme.

This autocracy has bound la-

J d R

bor to the State. No collective ac- ge utherfo

tion is permitted save by Mussolini 's

consent. Free press, speech and assemblage

are denied and no resolutiou can be introduced

in the Chamber of Deputies unless approved by

the dictator.

With master

igfior

n

ee

Mussolini calls this

Labor's New

Charter of Free

dom ,

books, th

Another

press

dispateh says:

lUUSSOLINI'S

GRIP

TIGHTENS N ITALY

You l

The Italian SenatB and Chamber of Deputies accepted

Mussolini 's proposal that election of members of Pat·liament

be

taken from citizens and placed in the hand of busiuess

corporations and organiljations of workers

that

are controlled

from

by the government.

So-called trade unions are offieered by government appointees.

No worker can vote in these unions

J ,

unless he accepts Fascism

t he theory that no liberty is inherent ill the individual.

Under

the

new election proposal, no minority party is permitted

and all candidates will come from the Fascisti.

Mussolini hailed the bill as a

great

legislati

ve

novelty , when,

n

trnth,

it

is

the

age-old scheme of destroying representative govem-'

ment.

I hM' e not tbe Slighte.st hesitation n declaring that un:iversal

suffrage is a pure constitutional fiction, said l\fussolini, in au im- ,

passioned plea for tbe bill. The premier scoffed at the tbeory that

any individual has inalienable

ri

ghts. l'he state ,is

sup

l'

cme,'

he

. said. 'Tbe state must be sole arbiter of l)olitical and social disputes

between citizens.

J • /

Under Fascist law

it

is a criminal offense

for

~ v o r k e l

to strike.

Wages

are

set by law, free speecb is denied, the newspapel are muz

zled and

no

proposal can be submitted to Parliament without l iUSl

lini 's approval.



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4

OPPRESSION

China

The conditions are

bad

Ul America, " ' 01'Se in

Europe, and

much worse

Ul

the Orient.

China

wi

th

its greatly overstocked population, is in a

depl

orable

condition. The following g ves but a

small hint of the condition of the mine workers:

the Pingshiang

coa

l mines the miners Ilave suf

fered

as

long as can be r

emem

bered under the ornel

ties of the 24-hom· shift. Tw euty-fom hours' straight

work out of every forty-eight.

Employers explained this

long

term

of

toil

by

de

claring that

mon

ey was saved by

ha

ving

to

lovi

or

and

1·nise the workers from the mines bnt once in

24

hours.

Overcome with their deadeniug toil thc workers

when they were

bra-u

ght

to

the sm·faee ortell lay

dazed by the mine shafts, too exhausted to make theil·

way to their huts.

Ohinese employers were jarred from their tt

n

quillity when, in September, these

minel S

wcut

011

strike and issued an ultimatum 'that contained the

fol

lowing expl·essions:

Most of

OU '

worlmlen have an income of but 20

coppers a day. With this, if

we

buy rice,

we

have

nothing left for clothes.

Wc have to

be conlent with

either hunger or nakedness. Eycry day we work in

dal k holes lil<e animals, and are snbject

to

frcqnent

/loggings. We can not stand tlris inhuman treatment

any Longer. We want to live like men. J J

And

now,

Elizab

eth,

I

am not gOUlg

to read

to

you any

more.

The

se are ouly a few

state-

ments of

the great

suffering of

the

people all

over

the

earth.

I

believe

yon can

\ulderstal).d

why

I appeared so morose at s

upp

er time. I

~

not

mean to be lUlkind, or even to appear to b

e,

but

I

have

been

in great distress

toda.y.

You

know we

have

lost

onr

own

little

bnsiness,

and

I am

compelled to

work for an oppressive

com-



WILL OPPRESSION EN IN TIME 35

pany which not only refused to raise my wages,

but notifies me to go. I

fear that

some time I

may be compelled to join

that great army

of nn-

employed and then be lmable to meet the' pay-

ments on

our

home,

and

failing .

in

this

we

shall

be at the mercy of others, without shelter .and

probably without food. My h

eart

cries out

as

I observe that the conditions go from bad to

worse.

It

appears that

the conditions of oppression

and

suffering are

far greater

in other

parts

of

the

earth

than here. I am wondel·ing

if

it will

some day be as bad in America

as

it

now

is

. in

parts

of Europe a.nd

Asia

and then I wonder

if oppression will ever endl Wi,ll it end

in

time

to benefit u

s1 Th

ese

are

questions

that

not

ouly.

give a man deep concern, but cause him

great

mental suffering; and I am

just

one in a great

army

of men

lind

women who

are

thus in per-

pl

exity

and

distress.

Conso lation

The duty

of a wife is to con

so

le

her

husband

if

she cant

It

would be impossible for

her

to

do

that if s

he

permits her mmd to dwell upon the

dreadful things of this world. You know, Jacob.

that

I have always believed

in

the

great

God of

heaven

and earth

. I have not understood very

much

about

im and His

,V

ord because I ha e

had no opportunity to learn.

In

the churches

where I have attended

there

has been little

or

nothing

taught

about God. Probably the reason

is that the clergymen know little or nothing

about Almighty God.

From

what you have said

to me touight, most 'of them seem to

be

allied



36

OPPRESSION

with the oppressors. But believe am begin.

ning to see some light, and it thrills my heart

with joy as

far

as can see.

want

to tell you

what little

know, and then

ma

ybe we together

can

learn

more.

You know

that

spent la

st

week with my

cousin John

and his wife, at

Wav

erly. They

too .have suffered much and have worked

hard

in an attempt to better their condition:

John

is a deep student, and

Sarah

is enthusiastically

joining him in the studies

that

they are pur-

slung. They told me some v

ery

wonderful

things, some of which am going to attempt

to tell you. Briefly, they are these :

'That

Jehovah God is the

great

Creator

of

heaven and earth·; tbat he is the God of justice ,

wisdom and love;

that he bea

rs

the cries of the

oppressed;

and

that

the time

is here

when he is

going to grant complete relief to the people.'

They told me so much and brought so many

proofs to bear, but was so enthused that can

not begin to remember all. Tbey have a number

of books which they

are

studying, and vhich .they

use together with their Bibles, and in hese stud

ies they

are

getting some wonderf'ul truths.

wanted to tell you abo

ut

it, but did not

want

to

I·isk my poor memory. asked J olm if he would

write

out some

of

these good things and send

them to me so

that

could tell them to you.

He

promised

that

he would do so Only this morn

ing the mail-man brougbt this

large

envelope

containing these many sheets of typewritten

matter.

have

had

time only to

run

over them

hurriedly' today.



THE BlBLE EXPLAINS WHY

37

It

seems rem arkable that I should receive

this letter

from John this very day,

at

the time

you

are

disturbed about the conditions of op-

pression and suffe

ring

ill

th

e world. I have

great faitll ill the future: lilat God shapes the

affairs of those who seek to kno' him and to

.do his will. Now you cau read b

etter

than I

can, and I want yo u to please take this and read

it

aloud so that we can both get the benefit of

it as we go on.

It is growing late, said MI . Gershom to his

wife, but I shall be glad to read it.

oil

[Gershom reads aloud the following] .

The

Truth

What is stated here is supported in each in-

stance

by

the Bible proof. The Bible

is

used as

authority for these statements because

it

is

the

Word of J ehovan God. The Bible discloses that

J ehovah God is the

great Eternal

One who

made heaven ' and earth and

is

the Giver of

every good and perfect gift.

It

proves that God

is the very embodiment of wisdom; justice, love

and

power. Because everything

he

does is un-

selfi shly done it is truly written of him that

God is love .

n

the Bible God tells why man

was created, why mall became sinful, why there

is

so

much illjustice amongst men, and why

lllany are

oppressed and who is the great op-

pressor.

He

also makes it clear

that

the time

must come when all oppression must end.

The Bible was written by men who were de-

voted to God, and he caused his invisible pow

er

to operate upon the miud of each of those men



38

OPPR SSION

a,nd

they

wl ote

as God directed tJlem. Tllat:ls

the reason why

we

know

that

the BillIe contains

the

truth

. The Scriphnal citations herein

refer

,to the place in the Bible where you can prove

the trnthfulness of the statements here made.

"Thy word is truth."

(John

17: 17) The

truth

of

the

Bible is a light

for

man to gnide him

in

the right way. (Ps. 119: 105)

In

going over

these points you should have your Bible

at

hand

and tnrn to

each referenc ) and

read

the wonder

ful words there written. The man who learns the

Word

of God, and then takes the course of ac-

tion

in

harmony therewith,

is

certain to receive

great

, peace of mind and other blessings .from

the Lord.

The arth

God, trie grea't -Creator, made the earth.- fIe

created

it

for man to live

OJ1

for

ever.

For

thus

saith the Lord

that

created the heavens;

God

,himself

that

formed the earth

and

made

it;

he

hath

established it, he created

it

not

in

vain, he

formed

it

to be inhabited; I am the Lord, and

there is none else. I have made the earth, and

'created man upon

it:

I, even my hands, have

stretched out the heayens, and all their host

have I

commanded. -Isa

. 45: 18,

12

.

Of course the earth was created centuries be

fore man was created.

t

had to be

pr

e

pared

for

man. Then God made man from the ele

ments of the earth, and man was his most ihtelli

gent earthly creature.

God

made a perrect

wo-

man

for

man and then said

to

them both: 'Be

fruitful, and multiply, and replenish [fill] the

earth." .(Gen.

1:

28)

All

men upon the

eart

h

are



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L S T D A Y S

P R O S P E R I T Y

S U R E

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Away from the mists

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the mire

of

ignorance into the bright sunlight

of

reason sanity and truth has the author

taken these three subjects and gives us some

thing that evety reasoning sensible person

can comprehend and appreciate.

In

these bookletsJudge Rutherford answers

brieBy

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plain words witho

ut

hedging every

question that

has

ever come to your mind·

about

the condition of the dead their

hop.

life after death the end

of

present distress

of

people and na tions and the establishment

of

.real lasting peace on earth good-will to men.

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40

OPPRESSION

the offspring of

that

first man Adam and his

wife Eve.

God' made all men and all nations of one

blo

od.

(Acts 17:

26)

Therefore all men are

made equal before God. God never gave one

man dominion over other men and never author

i,zed one man or a class of ~ n to oppress the

ir

fellow creatures. 'Whether the people of a na

tion are made np of English, German, Ameri

can, French, Chinese or other people, all pos

sess equal rights. The laW s of God

are

just and

right, and had man always obeyed God's laws

there would have been no division in the human

race

and

no oppression one

of

another.

Origin of Evil

The world means the

or

ganization of mell

into forms of government under the supervision

or

control of an overlord

that is

invisible to

man.

n

the beginning God laid the foundation

of

th

e world

in

righteonsness.

He

appointed his

son Lucifer the overlord of mall. Lucifer was

invisible to mall because Lucifer was a

spirit

being. He was in the organization of God and

was appointed to act as God had instructed

him

.

He was a perfect and beautiful creature. (Ez

ek.

28: 13-15) Lucifer was not satisfied to be mere

ly the overseer of man.

He

wanted man to wor

ship him

and obey him in

order that

he might

have a world of his own and have all the honor

that that world could confer upon bim. That

ambition led im to take a w ~ o n g f u l course.

His ambition was really the beginning of evil.

He resorted to fraud and deception to induce

Eve

to believe

hat

God was dealing nnfairlywith



WHY ALL ARE IMPERF

ECT

41

her

and with Adam.

By

this means he induced

]ijve to violate God s law. Then Adam volunta

rily joined her in the transgression. (Gen. 2: 17;

3 : 3-6) God having told Adam

that

a violation

of

his

law would mean death, there was nothing

to do

but

to sentence man to

death;

and that he

did. (Gen.

3:

15-24)

At that

same time God

challged the name of Lucifer. From that time

forward

he

has been known by the names Drag

on, Serpent,

Satan

and Devil.

Eae

h one of these

names indicates his wicked disposition.

. Why Me

n Became Evil

Adam, having sinned, was

justly

sentenced to

death.

But

why did other men become

evi11

That is a question that has not been understood

by many.

But

when you see the

truth

of the

matter there can be no doubt about the correct

ness of the Bible statement.

The child inherits the traits of its father.

Man was endowed with power to transmit life

to his offspring. Adam was evil and under the

sentence

of

death before he began to exercise

that

power in begetting childl·en.

No

doubt he

had become cruel and hitter because of the loss

of his home in Eden and of the right to life.

Therefore he could not beget a perfect child

and, his wife also being imperfect, ll their

children were born imperfect.

For

that reason

it

is stated in the Scriptures that everyone of

the human race has been born in sin and shapen

in iniquity. By inheritance all men

a re

sinners

for

the

reason th

at

they are imperfect in mind

and

body. Ps

. 51 : 5; Rom. 5: 12.



42

OPPRESSION

Opposing Organizations

God s organization has always been right-

eous. The holy angels

are pure and

right. His

Son the Logos, afterwards named Jesus Christ,

has always been pure and righteous.

He

is the

chief execntive

officer

of God s organization.

God could have destroyed the Devil and sinful

men and

begun a

~ w

race on earth,

but had

•he done so man would never have had the op-

port

lll

rity

of

lea1 lling the disastrous results

from doing evil.

xper

ience is the best teacher.

Satan

tlle Devil, being evil

and

desperately

wicked, induced a number of the angels of heav-

en to follow hiln.

He

thus began

his

wicked or-

ganization. God could have prevented that,

but

his wisdom led

im

to

permit ll

creation to

have

an

opportl1l1ity to choose between good

and evil. As men began to multiply and

fill

the

earth

the Devil organized them into tribes and

forms of governments and exercised control

over them. The real oppressor of mankind

is

and always has been

Satan

the Devil.

He

has

used

his

wicked organization, of course, to car-

ry out his purposes.

That

organization

is

made

up

of evil angels and evil .men· who Hlle the

peoples of the earth.

God permitted g ood to be set before man, and

also evil to be set before him, and permitted

man to take his choice. Thereby man would

prove whether

01:

not he

preferred

to follow

evil. A few men in the early days, such as Abel,

Enoch

and

Noah, did their best to

do

good, and

God blessed them. The

great

mass

of

mankind,

however, being.imperfect

and

easily influenced,



THE GO OF nus WORL

43

fell

under

the influence of Satan and became

subj ect to him and under his contro

l

•

Egypt was the first world power or dominant

nation organized amongst men, and Satan the

Devil was its invisible rul

er

01 god. The.n in

successive order came into existence the other

world powers, to wit, Assyria,

Babylon, Medo

Persia, Greece, Rome, and Britain, and -lastly

the League of Nations. The League of Nations

has either directly

01

indir

ectly influenced all

the nations of earth. The World War made the

League of Nations possible. ll

the

nations

of

earth

are under the influence

and

control of

Satan the Devil. Almost all the people have

been and

are

ignorant of

that

fact, because the

Devil always practises fraud and dece it and in

duces the people to believe

that

th

ere

is

no such

thing as the Devil.

t

is written in the Bible that Satan is the god

of this world. (2 Cor. 4: 3,4) The people have

suffered greatly and they kn

ow that

their gov

erning powers are harsh and

c

l uel, and

that

the

clergy and the ch urches support

Big

Business

and the politicians,

at

the same time claiming to

represent

Jehov

ah God.

Satan

ther.efore causes

men to charge God with the ev il and oppression

on earth.

In

fact,

Satan ha

s been the one really

responsible

for

all the wars,

murders

and other

c

ru

el persecution of the people His real pur-

pose always has been and now is

to tnrn

man

kind away from God and make them

hat

e

him.

He does this in a fraudulent way in order to

keep the people under his control. Through a

few men he rules the

great

masses and uses

harsh, military a11d oppressive means to keep



44

f

OPPRESSION

the ma,Sses n subjection.

SATAN

THEREFORE IS

THE REAL OPPRESSOR Q}' ~ 1 A N m J > . D .

Th

e time has come for the people to find out

the real truth; and the only place to

get

-the

tl llth is from God's Word, the Bible.

Of

course

we must know how to study the Bible, and God

ha

s in

this

day provided the people with the way

to understand it. '

Relief

Pl'omised

God will give the h'nman

race

complete relief

from all oppression. In the thousands of years

that

have passed, multitudes of people have

been born, have lived for a

short

time, suffered

because of sin and oppression and then died.

ll these people will' be brought back to

eart

h

a

nd

given a chance

to

be blessed. ll people li

-

ing

on

earth will be

brought

to a Imowledge

of

the truth,

that

they

may clearly

see who is their

real enemy and who

is

t4e

ir

real friend. ll will

be

afforded a full and complete

lesson

in w

hat

i t memlS to follow evil and in what will

res

ult

from doing good. The people

have

now begml

to l

earn

this. Learning that the violation of

God's law began the s

uffering

of

men

and was

the cause of

man's

death, and

that

Satan the

Devil instigated tIllS wrong, we m11st now leant

how Jehovah God is going to overrule this evil

and bring about good.

Insn-ument of Blessing

Long

ago God made a promise

to

the faithful

man Abraham in these words: And I will bless

them that bless thee, and curse

him that

em'se

th

thee;

and in thee shall all families of the earth



MAN S FUTURE BLESSING GUARANTEED 5

be

blessed. (Gen. 12: 3) After that, Abraham

had

a son whom he named I sa

ac

I saac was his

natural

seed, of course; but he foreshadowed

the real Seed, which is CbJ:ist

and

which is God's

Anointed.

Abraham,

at God's co=and offered Isaac

as a sacrifice, but God permitted

it

to go only

far

enougll to make a pic

tur

e (Gen.

'22: 10-18)

In

that

pi

c

tm

e Abraham represented -God

and

I saac re

pres

ented

Je

sus, God's Son.

Th

e pic

ture foreshadowed

that

the Son of God, Christ

J

es

us, would die as a man and be raised from

the dead and provide the great redemptive

price fo r man. (Gal. 3: 16-29; 1 Tim. 2: 3-6)

God chose his Son

Jesus

to be the Ruler of the

world instead of Satan. He announced his pur

]?ose

to establish a right

eo

us govermnent for the

benefit of men and then said

that that

govern

ment shou

ld

r

est

upon the shouldelf of Christ

Je

sus,

his

beloved Son, and that it should be a

government of peace,

p r o ~ p r i t y and

righteolls

ness.

When Chri

st

J esus was on earth he was a

perfect man and his life as a man was exactly

equal to that of the perfect man

in

Eden. The

perf

ect

man

in Eden sinned, was sentenced to

death

and

was expelled. The

perfec

t mall J e-

sus, corresponding exactly to Adam, was

put

to d

ea

th.

He

submitted to this willingly,

and

thus he was made a substitute for Adam and all

his race. H e was put to death as a man

and

was

raised out of death a divine creatul'e,

and

was

clothed with all powel' and authority, including

the po

we

r to raise

up

mankind, establish a

right

eous govenuuent and

bring

blessings

to



46

OPPRESSION

the people. His death and resurrection is u

guarantee

that

in God s

eh{ scn

time all the peo-

ples of the

earth

will

have a full opportwlity

to know the truth, to obey bim, and to receive

the blessings

that God

has provided

for

th

em

and to live for ever. .

or

many centuries all the governments of

the earth have been evil because

Satan

the Devil

is their ~ o d

He

has planted se

lfi

shness and

cnlelty in the hearts of men. You will notice

that

the

fact that

one class

0;1

men

ar

e

put

out

of office and anoth

er put

in does not change

the result to the people. Probably in each case

the men

aTe trying to ·do some goo

d,

but

Satan

the Devil influences them in the wrong way.

When Christ, God s

great

beloved Son, b

eco

mes

the invisible Ruler of all mankind, then his gov-

ernment

will

be

right

eoli

s and

th

e people

will

r e-

ce

ive through him the blessings

th

ey so much

des

ir

e.

Oppressive Rulers

·The history of man shows that in all nations

the masses of mankind have suffered oppres-

sion at the hands of the few. £here have always

been

thr

ee elements acting together

that

con-

stit

ute the rulers, namely, the commercial, the

political, and the religions eleme

nt

. The

com-

mercial power holds the wealth and

us

es it, and

by this power and influence controls the political

element . The political element obeys the dic-

tat

es of the money powers and makes and exe-

cutes the laws. The religious element, in all

ages forming a

part

of

the governments, has

fallen under the influence of Satan the Devil



DEVIL BEHIND RUUNG FACTORS 47

and made the people lJelieve t

hat

the f e

v

the

rich and the so-called

s t

~ s m

n

rule by divine

right. All the time the real ruler

has

b

ee

n Satall

the Devil.

t

was so in Jesus' day.

God had commanded the priests of the Jews

who formed his typical orgauization at one time

to in

st

ruot the people concerning his law.

e ~ e

priests, the Pharisees, and the Sadducees,

formed tbe clergy element. They claimed to

represent

God

but they easily fell lmder tp e

se

lfi

sb influence of the commercial and political

power, wielded by

th

e Devil,

and th

ey became

the sons of the Devil instead of the sons of God.

J esus plainly said to

th

em

that

they were the

sons of the Devil and were doing his will.

(John

8: 42-45) Clearly, by

that

he meant

that

all

men, though

th

ey claim to be God s ohildren,

i f

they

do

the

will

of the Devil,

ar

e

the

jnstn1-

me

nt

s of the Devil.

A similar condition is now clearly seen to

exist

in

the world. The great financial powers

control the politicians and the clergy of the

churches. They stand shoulder to shoulder,

work together, keep the people in subjection,

de

priv

e them of their

ju

st rIgh

ts

and oppress

them. The commercial and political powe ' db

th

e chief

part

of this work amongst me

ll w h i l

~

th

e clergy support

th

em aud try to induce

th

e

people to believe

that th

ese rulers are woi'king

for

the best interests of the people. The real

power,

in

visibl

e

and which oontrols the

three

elements, namely, commercial, political and

ec

clesiastical, is

Sat

an the Devil.

t

is easy

to

be

seen

that i f

every mall h'led to do right there

would

be 11

very

ri

ch and no poor. This

earth

•



48

OPPRESSION

produces plenty

for

all,

and

there is room

for

all,

and

all should dwell together

in

peace;

but

Satan, the god .of the world, makes conditions

exactly contr'ary thereto and exceedingly op-

pressive •

The Bible shows that it is God's purpose

that

Satan s rule shall fo1 ever end. The time of the

end is

l

eferred to

in

the Bible as the last days .

I've have now entel'ed into those last days , and

that is

the reason why oppi'ession is so manifest

110W. We see one class exceedingl)' prosperous,

and this kind of prosperity is magnified in the

publie press. We see the great masses of man-

kind are not prosperous, but oppressed.

At

this time especially we see the preachers teach·

ing higher criticism and evolution, denying the

Bible, and

turning

the people away from God's

\V

ord

and attempting to make the people believe

that

a combination or league of tile nations

would

bring

what they need. The course of the

preachers shows

that

the denominational chmch

systems have fallen completely under the con-

trol of Satan. And now note how clearly God

foretold this when the following scripture was

written:

This know also,

that

in the last days peril-

ous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of

their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,

b a s p h e m ~ r s disobedient to parents, uuthank-

f

ul, unh

oly, without

natural

affection, truce-

breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce,

despisers of those

that

are good, tr'aitors, heady,

llighmillded, lovers

of pleasures more than lov-

ers

of

God; having a form of godliness, but



THE TURNING POINT REACHED

49

denying the power thereof: from such

turn

a ,ay. -2

Tim. 3: 1-5. .

vVe

well Imow

that in

all the churches

there

is a form of godliness but at the same time the

clergy are denying the po\ver of God. The

honest people are plainly told in the

above.

scripture to

turn

away from sucb. And then

in

the same chapter the

Lord

caused these words

to be written: But they shall proceed no fur

ther: for their folly shall be manifest unto all

men. -Verse

9.

Many wonder why those

who

have the power

amongst the governments are so harsh, cruel

and oppressive. The answer is that these men

are blind to the power

that

is exercising influ

ence over th

em. Satan

the Devil is the

ir real

rul

er and oppressor. God, through his prophet

Daniel, described how these world powers would

reach the

great

wickedness and oppression that

we now see, and then said: And in the days of

these kings shall the God of heaven set up a

kingdom which shall

IleVel be

d

es

troyed: and

the kingdom shall not be l

eft

to other people,

but

it

shall break in pieces and consume all

these kingdoms, and

it

shall stand for ever.

Dan.

2:44.

Time

The

year 1914,

clearly marked out

hI

' the

Scriptures, SllOWS the beginning of the disinte

p 'ation

of

Satan's rule. (Matt. 24: 3-14) Tbe

Lord

foretold that the World

War

beginning

then woul d mark the great turning point. Be

ing bfuld to God's purposes , the clergy and

t ~

commercial and political elcm2nts told the p20-



50

OPPR SSION

pIe that the war would make conditions better.

The fact is, the war has made

it

worse for the

masses of mankind. Since then

there

has

been

great distress and perplexity. The reaS011 God

has not ousted Satan before is that it was not

God's due time. When

Jesus

ascended on ' high,

God

said

to him: Sit thou

at

my right hand,

\llltil make thine enemies thy £ootstoo1. (Ps.

110:

1) Other scriptures show that the end of

that time c( .me in 1914; and that is why the

world trouble began then.

The World War stopped suddenly in 1918.

It is

set

forth plainly in the Lord's Word that

then there should be a great spreading of the

truth on

earth before the coming of the final

end

of Satan's

organization. (Matt. 24: 14,

21,

22)

You have observed

that dUTing

the

last

few

years there is a class of Christians called Bible

Students who

are

going througho

ut

the

earth

teac)ling the people concerning the Bible. All

tru followers of Christ

are

now doing. tha t

work. This work done, then the great battle of

Armageddon

will

be fought. That is to be a

battle, as the Scriptures show, with the forces

of Jehovah led by Christ J esus on oue side, and

the 'forces of

Satan

led by

Satan on

the other

side.

It

will be a time of trouble such

as

th

e

world has never known, and in that trouble

Satan's organization shall peris

h.

being com-

pletely destroyed, and there

will

never be an·

other such trouble. (Matt. 24:

21,

22) The Lord

is now permitting many p

eo

ple to get some

knowledge of his purposes, which w:ill enable

them to avail themselves of protection during

the time of troub1e. The Lord also will be a



TH R;GHTI:OUS GOV RNM NT 5

refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of

trouble. -Ps . 9: 9.

The time has therefore come

for

the people

to take tlleir stand on

Jehovah

God's side ancl

against

the Devil. 'rhose who seek meekness

and right

eo

usness and

lo

ok to God for help

n ~

especially promised protection ill t.

hat

time of

trouble. (Zeph. 2: 2, 3) You will note

that

the

common people especially

are

informing them-

selves about the Bi

bJe

by home study.

At

the

same time the

pr

eachers

ar

e

getting

i

arth

er

away from the Bible.

.

God 's

Government

God promised to

set

up his right

eo

us govern-

ment with ' Shiloh as the gove1'll0r.

He

sa

id:

Unto him sllall t,he gathering of the people he .

(Gen, 49: 10) Shiloh means peaceful one,

and

is one of the titles given to

Christ

Jeslls.

That

government will bring complete l'elief to

the people. Conceming

that

time God's proph-

et wrote: Lord, thou hast heard the desire of

ohe humble : thou wilt prepare the ir hear t, thou

wilt cause thine ear to hear; to judge the

fat

her-

less and the oppr essed,

that

the 'man of the

earth may no more oppl'ess,

Ps.

10: 17, 18.

'rhe

big financiers flat ter the clergy,

and

the

clergy speak with

pr

ide n

~

r n i n g tbose who

thus hold them p. These foolish teachers claim

to

repre

sent God, being blind to the fact that

tlley are representing the DeviL

Th

ey speak

vanit

ever

yone

with his neig

hbour:

'ith fl at-

tering lips, and with a double heart, do they

speak. The LO 'd shall c

nt

off all flattering lips,

and the tongue

that

speaketh

proud

things; wbo

IlayC said, With our tongue will we preyail; o

nr



END

OFTHE

RULE OF SDDDlERS, GR FTERS

AND

OPPRESSORS

IN SIGHT. SAYS JUDGE

RUTHERFORD IN

HIS

M STERPIECE

GOVERJJJMOJjT

Ntwr in ~ history

of

nations was thee $ltCA d

spectacle

a.s we arc witnessing in rh(.St

da)s

. O ~ ·

I,

the;t

udk

pmu pacts, disannamtnt, outlawry

of

u'ar,

good",.;

rni.ui0JlJ; smedy, {tt trishly, ~ plan

grautr natits.

more

diabolic engines of \I.'(IT, poison

gas, m

urderous

bombing·plantS.

Wha

t does

it

a IM l

n

It

means,

prot.'tS rhe: author in this

moSt

afT ·

ordinary

book, that

m

gOl.'emmtnU are hw e ,

stmig

ht

fur

I

Mir {tnIJh

in AnnagWdon;

fur

u·htn

~ s h a f l s a , p t a a c l I \ d l O . f C f 1 . dim.sudMn

de.srnlC-

·

cion

CDman ,

ilt

time

is here for eanh'j right/

ld

,Rufer to tak o m p ~ (

control

and

bring

to

til( ptople

lMir heart s tkrire.

PEACE PROSPERITY, HAPPtNEss, LIFE.

GOVERNMENT

is a book y

o

u enjoy to

th

e last word.

INTERN TION L

BIBLE

STUDENTS ASSO C

I TION

117

A d a m s S t re e t , B r o o k l y n.. N Y .

For

(>rim in

-

To l

~

Roll' II/kcJ

' S l ~ Uoc ~

Lur".,.-



,

,

GOD HEARS CRIES OF THE POOR , nil

lips are our own: who is lord over us -PH,

12:

2-4,

In

the

above

words

God's

prophet

Loretc)iH

the present condition,

and we are

able to Sl'

how the

oppression

comes to

mankind;

and

tll(lll

God

adds

through

his prophet: For

the op

pression of

the poor, for tile

sighing

of

th"

needy,

now

will I

arise,

saith the Lord ,"

Ps, 12: 5,

'fhe

farmers and mon who till the soil, thll

ones who

reap

the

harvest

but

enjoy

it

not, ill"

labor

er who

bring

the coal

from

the depths

01'

the earth, ruld others who labor to

make

rich II

few, are

DOW crying

out because

of

oppressioll.

l 'heir cries

have reached the

ears

of the

gr

III

'God

of battle',

'oncel'ning

such

conditri.oll

God

caused

these

words

to be written : "Go to now,

ye

rich

men, weep

an 1

howl

for your

misel'h,"

that

shall

come

upon

you,

YOU

'

riches

are

cor

rupted,

and

your

gal'mellte

are

m o t h - e a t ~ I I

Your gold

aud sil"

er

is cankered; and lhe I II

MI

of

them

shall

be a wilness

against

you,

and

sh

ull

eat your

Iiesh

as it WC

'e jil'e,

Ye have

heapt'"

, tl'easU 'e togeth

el

' fo r the

last days

,

Bebo

ld , th"

hire of

the labourers who

hm'e reaped

dowli

your

fields, which is

of YO

Il

k

ept

back by

fra ud

,

cr

i

eth

:

aad

the cries of them which

have

reavt·d

are e

nt

el'ed i

ll

to the ea

l'

s

of

the

Lord of

sabaol

h,

Ye have

lived ul

pl

eas

ul'e on the eart

h,

and bet'

li

wanton; ye have

nour

ish

ed YO

UI'

h

earts, as ill

a day

of

slaug

h

ter

,

Ye

have

condemned uII 1

killed

the just;

and he doth not

res

i

st

you,",

Ja s, 5: 1-6,

Here God is

called

the great

God

of

baWil

because

it

will

be his

ba

ttle

, l

ed

by

Christ

JII



5

PPR SSION

sus, against Sat.an's wicked organization, in

which oppression shall be destroyed.

Satan

the

great

oppressor will suffer complete defeat, and

his

ag

encies also

will

be destroyed. Then,

in

the

language of ,God's Word, it will be

truly

said:

"How hath the oppressor ceased the golden

city [t.he Devil's wealthy organization] ceased

The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked

[Devil],

aud

the sceptre of the rulers [his in-

struments]. How art thou fallen £1 0111 heaven,

o Lucifer, sou of the morning how

art

thou

cut down to the ground,

wl1ich

didst weaken the

nations 1 Isa. 14: 4, ~ 12.

God's l'ighteous government is now

to

be set

up,

and

it will break in pieces all oppression,

release the poor, and bl'ing blessings

to

the peo-

ple.

He

shall judge the pOOl of the people,

he sllan save the children of the needy,

and

shall break

in

pieces the

oppreSSOl

. They sha

ll

fear

thee as long as the sun

and

moon end

me,

throughout all generations.

He

shall come down

like rain upolf the mown grass; as showers that

water the earth In his days shall the l'igllt-

eous flourish; ; md abundance of peace so long

as the moon endul'eth. He shall have dominion

also fl'om

sea

to sea, and fl'om the l'iver unto

the ends of the

earth

. They

that

dwell

in

the

wilderness shall bow before him; and his ene-

mies shall lick the

dust

. -Ps . 72: 4-9.

Blessings

The entire creation is now groaning and wait-

ing for the relief that will come through God's

kingdom. (Rom. 8: 19, 22) The Biblc and the ex-

tra

,neous evidences prove that we are now enter-

ing that great

time of change from evil to good.



• RELIEF ND BLESSINCS T H ND 55

The lion is a terror to all the beasts of the

field.

The

Scriptures use the liou as a

symb91

of the fierce, cruel

corpontion

s that al'e a ter-

ror

to men and

that

make slaves of men and

destroy their freedom of action. The goveru-

ments of earth, rnled and controlled by the i-

nancial, political and ecclesiastical interests and

wor[,.-ing under the su,pervipion of the Devil, are

de signated in the Scriptures under the symbol

'ravenous beasts'. ,Vith God's government for

men in full sway there will be

no

lions n9r raven-

ous beasts in existence, as

it is

written: "No

lion shall be there,

1101'

any l'avenous beast shall

go

up

thereon, it shall not be found

th

e

re;

but

the redeemed shall walk there." l sa .

~ :

9.

Now the men and women who work produce

the wealth of the land by their laborious efforts.

Then it comes to eating, the l?roducer must take

what he can get, while the Idle rich r evels

in

that

which he does not produce. The babies of

th

e

poor

laborers cry for milk aud other food.

The

parents

deny themselves, even to a crust

of bread, that their children may not starve.

While this suffering continues,

Satan,

operating

thr,ough his instruments, the clergy and their

allies, blinds the people

to

Ood's 'Word

of

truth

and tells them nothiug concerning relief. But

let the people take cOluage Gad's government

·is . at hand, and in his govel'lmlcnt they shall

have not only relief but blessings in abundance.

They shall eat to their full and r ejoice, as it is

written : n this mountain [symbol of God's

government] sha ll the Lord of hosts make WIto

all people a feast of

fat

things, a

feast

of wines

011

the lees, of fat things

full

of marl OW, of



56

OPPRESSION

wines on the lees well r efined. And he will

destroy in t lris mountain [God s government]

the face of the covering cast over all peopl

e,

and the vail that is spread over all nations. He

will swallow

up

death in victory; and the Lord

God'will wipe away tears from off all faces; anel

the rebuke of his people shall he take away fl Om

off all the

earth:

foi' the

Lord hath

spoken it.

And

it shall be said.in that day, Lo, this is our

€to

d;

we have waited

for

lrim, and he

will

saye

u

s;

this is the LOl'd; we have waited for lriml

we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation/

I sa. 25:

6-9.

n

the

pr

esent evil day many a man has

had

Iri

s own little business cle

st

royed by cruel cor

pOl a

tions,

n ~

has been compelled t h e r

e ~ t e r

to

labor at the dictates of

harsh

men-

or

let

hllD

self

and family starve.

f

he loses his little home be

cause of not paying the monthly i n s ~ l l m e n t s he

will be forced

O Jlto

the cold charity of the world.

Fearing

this he is compelled to yield to the

dictates of a INtrsh master in order to meet his

obligations. Snch a thing will not

be

possible

und

er

the Lord s righteous government.

rhe poor will

the

n receive full consideration.

n fact,

t h

e

~ e

will be neither the vel'y poor nor

any very

ri

ch. Then a man shall build his house

and live in

it

and feel safe.

And they shall build houses , and inhabit

them; and they shall

plant

vineyards, and

eat

the fruit of the

m.

They shall not build, and

another inhabit; they shall uot plant, and an

other eat: f n as the days of a tree are the clays

o.f

my

people, and mine elect shall long enjoy

the work of

their

hands. - I sa. 65: 21, 22 .



KNOWLEDGE O GOD NECESSARY 57

''But they shall sit every man under his vine

and und

er

his fig tree

i

and none shall make

them afraid:

for

the mouth of tbe

Lord

of ho sts

hath

spoken

it. -Mic.

4: 4

Know Jehovah

One of the names by which God reveals

him-

self is J ehovah, which signules his purposes to

ward his people.

He

has annolmced his pur

pose to bless all the families of

the earth

with a

full opportl.tirity for life, libe

rty

and complete

l::appiness.

He

never fails to keep his promises.

He says

that

he has declared his purpose and

he will do it. (Isa. 46: 11) The time has come

when the people

must

begin to know Jehovah

God, because to know him and eln-ist means life .

everlasting.

(John

17: 3)

t

is written: Happy

is the pllOple whose God

is

J ehovah.

(Ps

_144:

15 A R V. Satan has

long leept the people in

'ignorance,

but

now the time has come

for

them

to·lmow tpe h·uth.

t

is

the

will of God

that

all

men shall be brought to a knowledge of the

• truth. (1 Tim. 2: 3-6) Because the Lord is now

proceeding to set up his kingdom the time has

come

for

the

truth

to begin to be sent for th to

all mankind, and

it

will continue to go thus until

the knowledge of the Lord's goodness has filled

the whole earth as the waters

fIll

the sea.

Hab. 2:14.

Satan's power and influence will be complete

ly

destroyed so that he can not deceive tbe peo

ples and nations ; and then knowing the

truth

and

obeying

it,

they will be led

in

the ways of

peace

and

righteousness and will dwell

n

happi

ness upon the earth for ever. (Rev. 20: 1-3;

Hell. 2: 14)

It

is now, therefore, of the

greatest



58

OPPRESSION

importance'

for

the people to acquaint them-

selves with the

truth

as set

forth

in God's Word,

the Bible.

What is stated herein is necessarily a very

brief outline of the great fundamental

truths

contained in the Bible. n this day God has

graciously provided @lple l

iterature

und hel

ps

to find out the truth as written in his Word.

The bits of precious

truth

here set forth ~

culled from books th

at

have been written to aid

the people to understand the Bible. These are

not

man's tl'Uths, but all the

truth

comes from

Jehovah God.

t

is the will of God that these

shall now begin to be told to the people so

that

the suffering and groaning creation may know

that oppression will soon end. Not O.rlly will

oppression end,

bnt

sickness, suffering and

death shall cease, and those who obey the

Lord

shall be granted health, strength, happiness,

peace and prosperity and life everlasting on the

earth. .

C 3 • •

The reading of the

paper

which E lizalieth h

ad

•

received from her cousin ceased. Gershom and

his wife

sat

in ' silence for a few moments, then

with a sigh of relief the husballd spoke:

Elizabefu, this is a great revelation to me.

r am beginning to see that there is a great lov-

ing God who will brhlg relief to the people, and

tl:at there is no other way for them to get r e-

lief. I see that the people have been oppressed

for a long time and are now suffering because

Sata

n the Devil

is

their gr

eat

oppressor, and

that

soon his power and influence will be de·

stroyed, Where did John get those books

that



PREACHERS SUPPRESS THE TRUTH 59'

he speaks about, and how did he find out so

much

ror

the benefit of manJtind

t

Does

it

not

seem quite clear to us now that the Lord has

permitted us

to

get some small amount of

knowledge that we may take our stand on the

side of Jehovah God and against the DevilY I

am

glad, Elizabeth,

that

you have always loved

the Lord. I see now that we mllst both take

our

stand

on his side.

"l 'urthermore,

we

mllst get those books men

tioned

and

pursue

our

studies together

Rnd

be

come further enlightened concerning God's

blessings

that

are coming

to

the people. This

has been a wonderful day for me. Most of t I

have spent

in

sadness, but now the day ends

with a

light

that brings me hope. I feel grateful

in

my heart. -I feel now

that

we

should thank

God from the depths of our

hearts

for the

knowledge

he

has brougl;lt to 'us .

this

night and

ask im

to

give us more light. And, Elizabeth,

please send for those books right away, that we

may pursue our stuclies aud find out more about

God's

great

plan." .

"But, Jacob," said his wife. John told

me

that

the preachers in their town

are

warning

the people not to get those booles; and

if

they

know

that

you have them

it

might have some

influence on yom: holding your position."

''1 can clem'ly see why the preachers

do

not

want the people to know these truths

and that

therefore they do not

want

the people to have

the books you men tion. Th

at

is another 1;eason

why I should have them.

We

will

keep them

n

our home and study them together.

Hereafter

we will tune n on some· radio

stat

ions broad-;



60

OPPRESSION

casting the message of truth

in

harmony with

those books."

.

.

.

.

.

Publisber

8

Note :

The books referred to in the foregoing conversation

are:

1 he HOIrp

of God,

Deliv61'anCe,

O reation., Recon.-

ciliation, GOV6l mnent, l ¥hef e A.re tlte

Dead 7,.'he

Last Days, p,·osp.,·ity Sure, etc. 'I'hese books are

publisbed and furnisbed to the people

at

a nominal

cost. 'l'hey can be had by addressing t ile Watch Tower

Bible fract Society,

117

Adams St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

The 1 Udio stations regularly broadcasting lectures

iu harmony with these booles are:

Chain broadcast, every

Eastern

Standard

Time.

Sunday morning, 10 to 11,

w e e R

New

York

WOV New York

WCS H

Portland,

Me.

WLSI P rovi

dence.

R . I.

WOKO

Poughkeepsie

N.

WFB

L

Syracuse

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Y.

WQOA

Paterson

, N. J.

WGBI

Scranton, Pa.

KQV P i

t tsburgh,

Pa.

W H K

Cleveland, Ohio

WMAL Washington. D.

C.

Y. WOL

Washington.

D. C.

WTAR

Norfolk Va.

W e T Charlotte, N.

C.

and

others

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broadcasts-

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pnocnAM P\,;n10DS K C METEns

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Austrllllu

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100

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MOil u e pm 8.30

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Watchtower: Oppression - When Will it End? by J.F. Rutherford, 1929