This is the last News from the Network for 2014, but due to
the press of time we will not have the planned retrospective. If we have time next week, we will put
something together. Despite that, there
are a few things to note:
• We are still working
on launching the Campaign for Economic Justice the first week of January, or as
soon thereafter as possible. If you feel you can’t wait (or if you want to get
a charitable deduction for this year), send your check to “CESJ”, P.O. Box
40711, Washington, DC, 20016, U.S.A. Be
sure to note on the memo line that it is for the Campaign for Economic Justice. Any amount is fine, but because it costs time
and money to process any contribution, we ask that you give at least $5. Any contributions received in excess of
actual needs will be applied to other CESJ programs, so everything advances
economic justice, one way or another.
• Monica Woodman in
Cleveland sent us a box of cookies for Christmas.
• Guy Stevenson, “the Fulton Sheen Guy,” sent CESJ a copy of
another new discovery: a piece by Fulton Sheen from 1955 that suggests the
Kelso-Adler three principles of economic justice. This will be very useful in an article
currently in preparation. This is in
addition to the rare first edition of Fulton Sheen’s Freedom Under God from 1940 he sent us recently. If you want a copy
of the Just Third Way Edition of Freedom Under God, just go to Amazon
or Barnes
and Noble online and buy one. If you
want ten or more, send an e-mail to “publications [at] cesj. [dot] org” and we’ll
quote you a price. You’ll save 20% off
the cover price (shipping is extra).
• We received a copy
of Orestes Brownson’s 1852 Essays and
Reviews, Chiefly on Theology, Politics, and Socialism. Glancing quickly through the chapters, it
appears that Brownson had a good grasp of the essential American philosophical
concept that the State is made for man, not man for the State, and that the
surest guarantee of true liberty is widespread private ownership of capital.
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| Judge Landis |
• More research into
the grounds of the quarrel between Theodore Roosevelt and Peter S. Grosscup
brought to light an article published in the Lewiston Saturday Journal in Maine on July 25, 1908. Grosscup overturned a lower court decision in
the Standard Oil rebate case because, 1) The defendant corporation was not
permitted to present evidence allegedly proving it was unaware of the published
price being rebated. 2) The fine was
calculated on a different basis than the rebate, making the fine, in the
opinion of the Court of Appeals, “arbitrary and unjust.” 3) “That Judge [Kenesaw Mountain] Landis [of the lower court] in endeavoring to
get at a corporation which was not before the Court, erred in fining the
corporation that was before the Court $25,240,000, when its assets did not
exceed $1,000,000.”
• As of this morning, we have had
visitors from 59 different countries and 54 states and provinces in the United
States and Canada to this blog over the past two months. Most visitors are from
the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, India, and Russia. The most
popular postings this past week were “Two Key Questions for the Georgists,” “Aristotle
on Private Property,” “Thomas Hobbes on Private Property,” “Book Review: Field
Guide for Heroes,” and “Economic Justice, III: What is ‘Distributive Justice’?”
Those are the happenings for this week, at least those that
we know about. If you have an
accomplishment that you think should be listed, send us a note about it at
mgreaney [at] cesj [dot] org, and we’ll see that it gets into the next
“issue.” If you have a short (250-400
word) comment on a specific posting, please enter your comments in the blog —
do not send them to us to post for you.
All comments are moderated, so we’ll see it before it goes up.
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