The Mistakes of the 2020 Anti-Government Organization

And the Use of Freudian Psychoanalysis

Benjamin Levine

• Publisher: Palmetto Publishing
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781649903631
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political History & Theory
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Abraham Lincoln was the worst president. He killed 800, 000 Americans and failed to seek peace that even barbarians sought throughout history with much less loss of life. Truman was the second worst president, splitting the world into two ideologies and causing the Korean and Vietnam wars. No other book has the fortitude to address the errors Blacks and Whites make with respect to race. This book reveals the racist words of Blacks today that create fear and mistrust that can be verified in the speeches of the democrat and republican convention speeches. The American people must learn the truth to prevent a constitutional and religious loss of freedom. The bill of rights is being attacked and a second civil war is looming by outside influences pledging death to America. Anti-government people pretend to know how viruses spread and then blame the government, when they themselves are the cause of the deaths.

The 28th President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)(1912-1920)

Wilson’s father published a pro-tariff and anti-slavery newspaper in Ohio. The family moved to the South in 1851 where his father, Joseph Wilson, owned slaves. At the age of three Woodrow Wilson remembers Abraham Lincoln becoming president and the talk of war. Wilson did not begin to read until age 10 due to dyslexia. But, he achieved academically with hard work and discipline. After a year at Davidson College he transferred as a first year student to the New Jersey College that became Princeton University where he studied political philosophy and history. In the 1876 contested presidential election Wilson supported Sam Tilden, but Rutherford Hayes was granted president by the electoral commission. After study at the University of Virginia Law School, he attended graduate school at Johns Hopkins University in 1883 where he received a doctorate in 1886 in political science and history. He also studied German and economics. In 1890 he was elected to be chairman of Jurisprudence and Political Economy. He took a six-week course in administration at Johns Hopkins. He taught Constitutional Law at New York Law School.

Wilson considered the United States Constitution to be cumbersome and open to corruption. He favored a parliamentary system. “Congressional Government”, his first book advocated a parliamentary system. Wilson believed the system of checks and balances complicated the government. Wilson criticized the House of Representatives believing that the 47 states had a Standing Committee, which he called petty barons who “may at will exercise an almost despotic sway within their own shires, and may at times threaten to convulse even the realm itself.” Wilson believed there is no danger in power, as long as it is not irresponsible. He stated that if power is divided or dealt out to share by many, it is obscured. Wilson said that the presidency will be as big and as influential as the man who occupies it. Some uneducated persons may call such power a dictatorship, but it is not a dictatorship. It is a strong executive government that will lead the nation to growth, leadership and protection. He used the growth of Prussia, England and France as examples of public administration where the executive increased government efficiency. Wilson believed the administration lied outside the spheres of politics so that party differences would not interfere. He contended that the items of administration must be limited, as to not block, nullify, obfuscate or modify a decree of government made by the executive branch.

The Princeton Trustees gave Professor Wilson the position of president of the university in 1902. In 1910 Wilson submitted his resignation related to his ideas to abolish the upper class eating clubs and his desire to have a graduate school building on the main campus that was opposed by a trustee. Those ideas were vigorously opposed. Wilson in 1910 related his willingness to be the Democratic candidate for governor. Although Republican William H. Taft had carried New Jersey in 1908 election, Wilson won the governor’s election by a wide margin. He advocated four plans: a corrupt practices act; change in the election laws; Workman’s Compensation; and a commission to regulate utilities. Among many reforms was a new State Board of Education with special classes for students with handicaps. In 1912 Wilson began his run for United States president. The Democratic convention in Baltimore was one of the most contentious in American history. The convention deadlocked for over 40 ballots. Wilson won on the 46th ballot with the support of William Jennings Bryan. Wilson told Chairman of Finance Henry Morgenthau not to accept corporate donations. He called Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party the Republican irregulars. He sought advice from Louis Brandeis advocating the elimination of monopolies. He wanted lower tariffs. Wilson’s “New Freedom” platform included limited Federal government, lower tariffs, increased anti-trust law enforcement and creation of a new banking regulator called the Federal Reserve System. Wilson won with 41.8% of the popular vote and most of the electoral vote. He held twice weekly press conferences. In 1913 he became the first president since 1801 to deliver the State of the Union Address in person since Thomas Jefferson had discontinued it. Wilson’s administration advocated a segregation policy that he defended by saying it eliminated friction between the races. Blacks who voted for Wilson were disappointed. In July 1913 Wilson wrote a letter to Oswald Garrison Villard who was the publisher of the New York Evening Post and founding member of the NAACP. The letter defended Wilson’s stand on segregation. Roosevelt and Taft supported segregation and Wilson raised it further. In 1913 with reduced revenue due to lower tariffs, a special session of Congress resulted in the Revenue Act of 1913 that proposed an income tax, as the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution was passed allowing an income tax on all citizens in 1913. The new banking system began in 1915 and financed the allied and American War effort. Wilson advocated the law known as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act in 1914. It regulated business and avoided the trust-busting in courts. He pushed for the Clayton Antitrust Act that made certain practices illegal such as price discrimination and agreements prohibiting retailers from selling products of other companies. It tightened regulations of the FTC. Samuel Gompers called the Clayton Antitrust Act the “Magna Carta” of labor, as it ended union liability antitrust laws. In 1911 the Supreme Court decided against Standard Oil and American Tobacco and a bill in 1912 was introduced to establish a commission to regulate interstate trade. Wilson signed the Federal Trade Commission Bill (the FTC Act) in September 1913. The Clayton Antitrust Act was established three (3) weeks later. The FTC includes the Bureau of Competition, the Bureau of Consumer Protection and the Bureau of Economics. Wilson’s new programs helped farmers. The Smith-Lever Act of 1914 created the system of Agricultural Extension Agents from state agricultural colleges. The 1916 Federal Farm Loan Act gave low cost long term mortgages to farmers. Child labor was addressed, but the Supreme Court found the 1916 Keating-Owen Act that stopped child labor unconstitutional. In international trade Wilson was able to repeal the toll exemptions for United States ships going through the Panama Canal. That was considered unpatriotic, but foreign nations considered the repeal as a positive act that stopped past discrimination against foreign commerce. The Rocky Mountains contain veins of coal close to the surface. Railroad construction increased the need for coal. The Kansas Pacific Railroad began in 1855 and was called the Union Pacific Eastern Division in 1863. The Kansas Pacific and the Denver Pacific lines joined north of Denver. The true completion of the coast to coast rail network occurred at Strasberg where the Kansas Pacific joined rails. By 1874 Union Pacific investor Jay Gould gained control of the Kansas Pacific. In 1880 Gould consolidated the Kansas Pacific with the Union Pacific and the Denver Pacific calling the joinder the Union Pacific. The Union Pacific wanted to extend into the Rockies, but never did until much later. Large coal reserves were purchased by the Colorado Fuel Company formed in 1883 that competed with the Colorado Coal and Iron Company. The two companies merged in 1892 as the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. The United Mine Workers union was formed in 1890. The steel mill at Pueblo, Colorado became obsolete and was not improved due to the Panic of 1893. By 1899 the mill was improved with additional blast furnaces, a new Bessemer converter, open hearth furnaces and a wire mill. It was renamed Minnequa Works in 1901. In 1902 the company had financial problems, so Gould through channels brought in John D. Rockefeller. In 1902 John D. Rockefeller purchased the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. In 1914 a strike by the workers of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company resulted in the Ludlow Massacre. The largest owner of the coal mine was John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

THE LUDLOW MASSACRE

In 1910 the coal mining industry in Colorado employed over 15,800 people that was 10% of the state’s employed. The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company was the largest coal operator in the west. The company was purchased by a group organized by John D. Rockefeller in 1902. His son John D. Rockefeller, Jr. was given the company in 1911. The death rate in the Colorado mines was twice the rate of other mines in the nation. Company towns were built and Paternalism was the form of function of the towns. The Company had significant control over the activity of the miners. Company guards were brutal and had machine guns and rifles with soft-point bullets to control those entering the city and miners trying to leave. By 1900 the United Mine Workers (UMW) began to organize coal workers in the west including southern Colorado. The UMW concentrated on the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company due to the harsh management conditions by the Rockefellers. The new union listed about eight demands that the Company rejected. Many who joined the strike were evicted from their company homes and were moved to tent villages made by the union. New workers were called scabs and conflicts arose between the strikers and the scabs. The Company hired a detective agency to protect the new workers and to harass the strikers. The agency used an armored vehicle with a mounted machine gun to fire bullets into the tents. The strikers had to dig large holes in which to lie to protect themselves and their families. The governor called in the Colorado National Guard, which calmed the situation, but the Guard sided with the company. By the spring of 1914 the Guard was mostly recalled and two companies of militia set up a machine gun on high ground near the tent camp. Tents were set on fire. Bullets rained down on those trying to escape. Fifty-Five women and children died in the massacre. The leader of the strikers’ tent camp, Louis Tikas was found shot in the back. Three company guards and one militiaman were killed. After the day of the massacre other strikers became armed and a 10 day Colorado Coalfield War occurred. At least another 50 men were killed. The fighting ended when President Wilson sent in Federal troops. Both sides were disarmed and even militia was arrested. W.L. Mackenzie King, a labor relations expert and future Canadian Prime Minister helped with improvements and reforms for the company towns. George McGovern wrote his doctoral paper on the massacre. He was a historian, a United States Senator and a Democratic nominee for president. A Commission on Industrial Relations held a hearing that resulted in reforms wanted by the union that included an 8 hour work day and a ban on child labor.

SAMUEL GOMPERS (1850-1924)

Gompers’ family was originally from Amsterdam, but he was born in London, England, as a member of an impoverished Jewish family. He attended the Jewish Free School, but had to quit at age 10 to work in a cigar factory to support his family. His studies continued in night school where he learned Hebrew and strangely studied the Talmud, which is rarely studied outside of studies to become a rabbi. Gompers called the study of the Talmud similar to the study of law. In 1863 Gompers’ family was under severe financial difficulty and looked to the United States for a better life by immigrating to the lower East Side of Manhattan. Gompers and his friends formed a club to debate issues using parliamentary procedure, which improved his public speaking. At age 14 he joined the Cigar Makers Union. At 17 he married a co-worker. In 1873 Gompers joined another Cigar Maker where only the most skilled workers were employed. Gompers felt this change in employers was the most significant change of his life. In his new job the union shop was run by a German socialist. Gompers met many German speaking cigar makers whose mentality was keen and thought provoking. He learned German and accepted many of the ideas of his shop mates. Gompers met Karl Laurrell who had been a secretary of the International Workingmen’s Association (IWA). Laurrell taught Gompers to rely on the organized movement of trade unionism instead of the socialist political movement. The IWA was an international organization that attempted to organize left-wing socialist, communist and anarchist political groups. In Europe there were widespread revolutions in 1848, but it was not until the Polish uprising in 1863 that French and British workers sought to find closer relationships in work. A meeting was held in London in honor of the Polish uprising and was attended by those seeking to prevent the import of foreign workers to break strikes. Another larger meeting took place in St. Martin’s Hall in London. Many European radicals and English Owenites including French, Irish and Polish nationalists, Italian republicans and German socialists attended. Among the socialists was a journalist, Karl Marx. The Owenites started by Robert Owen wanted a radical change in society with the formation of utopian communities.

In 1875 Gompers was elected president of the Cigar Makers International Union, Local 144. By 1877 a financial crisis caused high unemployment, as the Cigar Makers Union lost members. Wage gains and shorter hours were in jeopardy, as workers were willing to receive subsistence pay. In order to rebuild the union, Gompers instituted a high dues structure that allowed programs for out-of-work pay, sick benefits and death benefits for workers in good standing. Gompers stated that capitalists only want profits and the workingman’s rights must be asserted. The main objective of the union is the “elevation of the lowest paid worker to the standard of the highest and in time we may secure for every person in the trade an existence worthy of human beings.” Gompers 1877 objective does not differ from the 2019 objective of a minimum wage of $20 per hour to bring all workers out of poverty and eliminate welfare, while increasing revenue from payroll deductions. In 1881 Gompers helped found the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions. By 1886 it became the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Gompers was its president from 1886 until his death (December 1924) except for 1895. He supported the 1898 Spanish-American War, but opposed the Philippine annexation. The anti-imperialistic position was based on threats to labor’s status from low-paid off shore workers. Gompers and most labor leaders opposed unrestricted immigration from Europe, as it lowered wages. He opposed all immigration from Asia as it lowered wages and he believed Asian culture could not be easily assimilated. Gompers and the AFL supported the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. The AFL helped pass immigration restriction laws, such as the 1921 Emergency Quota Act and the Immigration Act of 1924. The AFL and the Democratic Party were linked on immigration issues. Large corporations wanted more immigration and supported the Republican Party. Gompers supported the World War I effort. He was appointed to the Council of National Defense to chair the Labor Advisory Board. Gompers’ philosophy included: “Why should the wealth of the nation be stored in banks, while the idle workman wanders homeless and those who hoard gold roll about in fine carriages from which they look out at peaceful meetings and call them riots?” “Workers are consumers and cuts to their wages not only hurt them personally, but also hurt the economy as a whole.” “Only those who ignorantly believe in their avarice that business can prosper with wage reductions have yet to learn the lesson of industrial progress.” Gompers remained a Single Tax Georgist who believed that only a land value tax was needed, since only the wealthy owned land. Gompers opposed the radical Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) who wanted to replace capitalism with a workers’ commonwealth. He called the IWW the same as the Bolsheviki in Russia. Gompers led the anti-Socialist part of the AFL and lost to them only once in 1894-95. Gompers inspired labor leaders George Meany who helped to create the AFL-CIO. He was its first president in 1955 to 1979 and Ruben Soderstrom who was the Illinois president of the AFL-CIO from 1930 to 1970. There was a strike wave by CIO unions in 1945-46 that resulted in the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, which had a provision requiring union officials to sign an oath that they were not communists. John L. Lewis president of the UMW union refused to sign, while George Meany and many union workers not in the communist party did sign an affidavit. Gompers was buried in Sleepy Hollow, New York a few yards from the grave of Andrew Carnegie.

THE 1910-1920 MEXICAN REVOLUTION AND GERMANY

President William Howard Taft, the 27th president from 1908 to 1912 supported the Mexican Revolution that elected Francisco I. Madero. Madero challenged Mexican President Porfirio Diaz in 1910, as Diaz was running for his 6th reelection. In 1908 Madero who came from a wealthy family wrote a book that opposed the 6th reelection of Diaz, which he considered anti-democratic. Madero ran for president in 1910, while urging Mexicans to rise up against Diaz resulting in the 1910 Mexican Revolution.

Madero was born into one of the five wealthiest families in Mexico. Evaristo Madero, his grandfather, transported cotton from Texas during the U.S. Civil War. Evaristo Madero married the sister of a powerful banker and miner. When she died he married the daughter of one of the most aristocratic Mexican families. From both his wives he had a total of 18 children, but only 14 survived to become members of Mexico’s most influential families. Although Evaristo served as governor of Coahuila from 1880 to 1884, he was prohibited from further service during Diaz’s rule from 1884 to 1911. Francisco Madero therefore had issues with Diaz. He was sent to a business school in Paris, France. He studied agriculture and English at the University of California, Berkeley. By 1899 he accumulated a huge personal fortune. In 1905 he was involved in opposing the government of Porfirio Diaz. Although Diaz had brought peace and economic growth to Mexico, Madero argued that there was a loss of freedom with harm to the Yaqui people. Workers in Cananea were repressed. There were excessive concessions to the United States. Madero called for a return to the Mexican Constitution. He wrote a book in 1908 called the Succession of the President in 1910. The book claimed that the concentration of power in one man for so long had made Mexico sick. Madero founded the Anti-Re-election center in Mexico City in 1909. He traveled throughout Mexico giving anti-re-election speeches and drew very large crowds. In a show of United States support after Diaz announced his run for re-election William H. Taft planned a summit in El Paso, Texas and one in Mexico in October 1909. It was the first meeting between a U.S. and Mexican president and the first time a U.S. president would cross into Mexico. As Madero was the choice of the organized Democratic Party, which was the Anti-Re-electionist Party, he became the nominee. Diaz placed pressure on the Madero family’s banking interests. A meeting between Madero and Diaz resulted in Madero believing that only a revolution could stop Diaz from electoral fraud. Madero was arrested by the dictator Diaz, but he escaped from prison and instituted the Plan of San Luis Potosi that was written in the United States. The Plan called for the removal of Diaz’s presidency and the re-institution of democracy. The Mexican Revolution began on 11/20/1910 with a slogan of “Effective Suffrage - No Re-election”. Diaz resigned in May 1911. There were several officials who were opposed to Madero and even the U.S. ambassador Henry Wilson favored Huerta over Madero who held office until February 1913 and was then murdered during the Ten Tragic Days. The street from the Zocalo in Mexico City to the Paseo de la Reforma was named after Madero in 1914. The Plan of Guadalupe was then accepted....