Posted on 06/04/2019 6:32:05 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
The progressive era is a mystery to far too many people, and this is by design. One example of this is the book "Philip Dru: Administrator", which is in reality a blueprint of progressive action. This is not a conspiracy theory, it is an agenda - a provable fact. But due to the progressives' need for shadows and darkness with which to hide in, they have erased their own history and put a nice shiny bow on it.
At the time of its publication, Dru was a big deal. We don't know that today, again, by design, but it was so big of a deal that it was discussed on the floor of the senate. As recorded in the Congressional Record for 1918, Senator Lawrence Sherman of Illinois made (in part) the following: (source)
"Here is exhibited the colonel's whole mental viscera. If there be twilight zones in the biography of 1918, the colonel's 312 pages of fiction flashed from the watchtowers of 1912 a searchlight athwart the gloaming so any wayfarer can see everything. Suffice it to know Philip Dru is an autobiography of the colonel himself and solves the Conundrum how to get rid of the Constitution."
A blueprint for how to get rid of the United States Constitution. That is what this book is. The progressives have been attacking our states and our country for 120 years, we just have not been diligent enough in turning on the lights. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Shortly after the Senator's comments, sales of Dru hit new records and caused a second printing. (Source ) By 1920 it had received its third print. (source)
Being as Dru was printed in 1912, its text is free in the public domain. The audiobook recording is also free in the public domain.
Please add me to your list.
Synopsis
Set in 1920-1935, House’s hero leads the democratic western United States in a civil war against the plutocratic East. After becoming the acclaimed leader of the country, he steps down having restored justice and democracy. House outlined many additional political beliefs such as:
- Federal Incorporation Act, with government and labor representation on the board of every corporation
- Public service corporations must share their net earnings with government
- Government ownership of all telegraphs
- Government ownership of all telephones
- Government representation in railroad management
- Single term presidency
- Old age pension law reform
- Workmen’s insurance law
- Co-operative marketing and land banks
- Free employment bureaus
- 8 hour work day, six days a week
- Labor not to be a commodity
- Government arbitration of industrial disputes
- Government ownership of all healthcare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Dru:_Administrator
This is making me wonder about how many ways the progressives used the Marshall Plan to their advantage and try to support their “totalitarian positions.”
I.E. we’re with the government and we’re hear to help.
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