Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-01-16
STOCKWELL TO
SPEAK AT PINE
M n n eSota Legislative
Leader Will Discuss
Power Problems.
Meeting Will be Held on
Friday Evening,
Jan. 24th.

Electric power rates, Muscle Shoals.
Boulder Dam, and the power problem
In general will be discussed at pub
lie meeting in the village hall in Pine
City on Friday evening, January oath.
The principal speaker will be the
Hon S. A. Stockwell of Minneapolis,
a leader in the Minnesota state legis-
lature for many years. The general
public is invited to this meeting.
Concerning the meeting and the
speaker the Lower Electric Rate Com
mittee of Pine City. by E. ]. Prochaska
has given out the following for pub
location:
I'VE have been fortunate in secur-
ing Mr.. Stockwell to address the peo-
pie of Pine county. He is recOg-
nized authority on the power problem
and has been making a courageous
fight on it in behalf of the people for
several years. He has visited the
largest power sites on the American
continent and has made a consider
able detail study of the problem. He
is well informed and will give the
opinions of prominent men in Amer
lean political life such as Senator
Norris of Nebraska, the great progress
sive leader who represents today in
the United States Senate what Robert
NJ LaFollette was before his death;
Al Smith, who needs no introduction;
Governor Roosevelt of New York state;
Senators Shipstead, Hiram Johnson,
LaFollette, Nye, Wheeler, and host
of others.
THE problem of Pine City village,
Brook Park, Henriette, and Rock
Greek, where the rates are 12c per
kilowatt hour, will be taken up at
this meeting. The question was taken
up at the last meeting of the Pine
City village council and Mayor Ben c.
Boo appointed VIM. Korbel and Adam
Biederman to make study OF the
comparative electric rates to be taken
up at the next meeting"
The committee also announces that
there will be more information on
this meeting for the next issue of
the American.
As above stated, the principal speak
er for the Pine City meeting on Jan.
z4th, the Hon. S. A. Stockwell, has
been a member of the Minnesota legis-
lature for many years, and political
leader in the state for over quarter
century. In one of his weekly reviews
on the legislative doings, Martin w.
Odland, who was correspondent for
the American while the legislature
was in session last winter, wrote in
part on Feb. 14th about Mr.. Stock
well as follows:
Unlimited Courage.
1.-The first outbreak of hostilities oc-
Cured Tuesday afternoon, when Rep
resentative S. A. Stockwell of Min
neapolis. introduced a resolution or
dering the speaker and the rules COM
mittee to remove all house employees,
related to members by blood or mar
riage, and appoint in their places
needy ex-servicemen, recently dis
charged from hospitals. Mr.. Stock
well maintains that the practice of APP
pointing relatives leads to corruption
and undermines a democratic form of
government. Stockwell is a prominent
insurance man. who served as Dem
ocrat in the state senate thirty years
ago and in recent years has sat in
the house as spokesman for the
Farmer-Labor party. Unlike many
radicals. he is an ardent dry and
none of his political enemies have
been able TO deny that he has lived
a clean life and that he has ever been
untrue TO his principles or his con-
victions. The principal charge against
him is that during the World war he
was pacifist.
I'm appearance, he is tall. slender,
dignified, with silvery hair standing
upright like old Bob LaFollette,s, and |
a stern face, which becomes almost
fierce when he rises in his seat to
denounce what he regards as evils in
our government and society. He is an
able orator. with a clear. ringing voice |
and unlimited courage"