Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-08-13
HUMAN RIGHTS AND
PROPERTY RIGHTS


containing hard facts that COM
mand the serious attention OF all
citizens was published in the July
issue of The State News, a politi-
ical publication in Minneapolis
which is widely read all over the
state. The editor shows in this
article his grasp of the situation
and that the issues he writes
about are those upon which he
has made long time study. 1t
is one of the best articles on the
economic and political situation
of the day that have come to the
attention of the Askoy American
and we are therefore passing 1t
on for the benefit of our readers.
In the first paragraph the editor
refers to cartoon which was
published in his paper in connec-
ton with the article. The edi-
torial follows:
Try as we might, we could not, in
present day America as does Cal
laghan in the above cartoon. If the
condition portrayed in this cartoon
were local or sectional, if it were con-
fined to Minnesota alone, or to Wis
consin, or to North Dakota or Iowa
alone, there might be no real occasion
for alarm, but it is nationwide that
is why it is serious, that is why it
warrants more than the passing at
tention of the substantial citizen who
must necessarily turn to the solid,
conservative leaders of the country to
preserve those sacred institutions es-
tablished by the American patriots
who, if they should return today
might shudder at the grim spectacle
that they would, at this time, behold
in America.
They would find that approximately
900 OF the wealth OF this nation was
controlled by less than 80 of the peO.
pie. They would find that their
dreams, their hopes for the future of
America were practically obliterated.
greed, hypocrisy, Indifference has al
most destroyed the initiative of the
masses; that the confidence once re-
posed by the people in their public
servants was fast disappearing; that
in the very shadow of our national
capitol where the flames rage the
fiercest, the guardians of once great
party sleep while the nation is being
exploited by those vested interests
which have practically shorn our citi-
zenry of their inherent rights and
sacred possessions. Even the bowels
Of mother earth have passed from the
nations people to the nations mas.
tiers.
Prosperity once a word so near and
dear to the hearts of our people has
become mockery. Busted banks,
bankrupt farmers, foreclosed home
owners, bread lines in our big cities,
poverty, distress, misery in thousands
upon thousands of homes in America
this is the toll that the go in this
great nation have taken from our peo-
pie. Often we wonder if these great
minds" who own, control and regulate
the affairs of our nation are really
great minds. Do they not see that
this cannot go on and on forever?
Do they not realize that some day
their wilfull, arbitrary attitude will
destroy the very goose which lays the
golden eggs?
The Republican Party today is the
custodian of our republic. The lead
ers of this party are in lethargy;
in reality they sleep while Rome
burns. Like Samson, they may awake
to find that they have been shorn of
their great powers. Around Senator
Moses of New Hampshire; Fess of
Ohio; Lucas of the Republican Ma
tional Committee, and President HoOy-
er, the nominal head of his party,
center the responsibilities that fall
upon the reigning dynasty. These
leaders of present day Republican
thought know too we'll that the tenn
per of the people is being taxed to the
limit, yet they dare not lift a hand
to relieve them of their burdens be-
cause the men higher up-the cogs
of the big wheel which turns this
country-demand to the very limit
every ounce which they bargained for
at the Kansas City convention.
The once great temple of Republi.
caniSm Is no longer holy i'm the eyes
OF the masses. If it were, its despoil-
ers would have stopped Norris in Ne
braska, Borah in Idaho, Brookhart in,
Iowa, Shipstead in Minnesota, and La
Toilette in Wisconsin. The Norrises,
the Borahs, the LaFollettes are, be-
cause of the very attitude of the
guardians of the Republican party,
coming more and more into their own.
They are building Republican party
on decaying foundation, it would ap-
pear, but they are building better
than they know. They are building
party that might for all time de-
stroy the Republican party and
launch in its stead movement which
will destroy the very structure upon
which future American prosperity,
American initiative American indi