Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-05-25

beng obliged under contract 10 leaVc on summer
lecture tour | take this method Of making brief
statement to the people of Pine County.
/ have lived thirty years in northern Minnesota,
and nearly twenty years in Pine County. | am here to
stay and pay taxes, and am not knocker or tran
sent like the people and have cast my lot with them
for better for My children have been born
and reared here, fond friendships have been formed
here and although wander far my heart and thoughts
are ever in these surroundings and with those love.
With my statewide acquaintance, political eXper-
fence and service in congress, ought to be able to
accomplish much in the Legislature and help to keep
Pine County and Northern Minnesota the map
Anyway would not go to sleep the job
In recent years not enough has been taken in
selecting members of the legislature and the state
has suffered accordingly. Patriotic men everywhere
must be willing to make sacrifice for the public
service.
If nominated shall make personal house house
campaign of the county and discuss the issues with all
the people, the end that if elected may surely and
earnestly represent them in their highest ideals.
Always deeply interested in public schools |
have given much thought to the subject of free edu
cation and believe laws could be enacted to distribute
its burdens equtably the state. The child in
the country has the same right to an education the
child in the city but the local community not always
able to carry the load. Only by solving this problem
can we fully develop rural districts and keep the
boys the farm. AT present they are leaving the
farm for education and not returning. The desire
to undertake this work is what urges me into local
politics.
Districts like those at Brookpark Hinckey Gron-
ngen, Finayson, Askov and many others in the county
illustrate the situation, and show what progressive
people willing to do to educate their children. But
as soon they through the school the hedgeings
fly the coop. Farming must be made profession quite
as honorable any other farm life attractive,
education practical, and the burden placed where
it can be easiest borne
Several east and west roads should be constructed
throughout the county, and if any legislation is
needed to help the work along | shall endeavor to
secure it.
Rural credits is another subject to which both state
and nation are compelled to give attention. No per-
fected plan be introduced once for conditions
are not the those of Europe. but it
about slowly by adapting the systems of other
needs. However, the subject up for discussion
and should be given the best thought of free people
On the question of county option there be
doubt upon the wishes of the people, for they have
passed it. The present law should not be disturbed
but having been fairly passed should be fully and fairly
tried
The method of choosing delegates to presidential
conventions seems generally unsatisfactory, and the
law should be changed before another election.
The question of universal woman suffrage is likely
to be urged upon the next legislature My attitude
this question is pretty generally known. believe God
intended for inspiration and man for perspra-
ton. The promiscuous intimacies of politics in big
cities spell the ruin of many girls, We have few
shining examples in state just now of what
politics do to pull folks down. God forbid that my
vote should put any girl within the of evil Some
of the most noted leaders of this movement divor
who neither for God nor man. but brazenly
seek unwonianly notorety The schooholse does more
than the courthouse and the college does than the
capitol. in governing the state and the of Min
nesota have long had suffrage educational matters
which does not draw them into the maestrom general
politics, but very few exercise the right An in
different delinquent endanpers the stability of
government
However to settle the question in state am
willing it should be submitted to the themselves
and If majority of all the women in Minnesota vote
for it. then shall say it is inevitable and let come
And have no objection to granting suffrage to
who the heads of families and unrepresented or to
women taxpayers on bond issues.
There are many other questions | shall if nomi-
mated discuss in the campaign fall and if elected
to the legislature shall be guided by the rpened Judge
ment of the people.
J. ADAM BEDE.