Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-09-29

There has been tendency tOWarO
soaking the rich, said the speaker.
but "the rich pass on taxes-get that.
All the people pay it."
Good MOther.in.law.
The $2,4OO, zoo, 900 means $50 to
every man. woman and child. The
money spent on public construction
work is largely squandered but If 1t
goes into the channels of trade it
will do much more good. said the
speaker. In the case of his family.
| wife, two sons. and perfectly good
mother-in-law, it would be 500 and
would buy groceries, shoes, clothing,
biennial dress for his wife, etc., going
into the channels of trade.
The former governor said his dis
tinguished successor, undoubtedly
meaning we'll with the 45c per hour
minimum wage on state road con-
struction work, now finds that it had
the opposite effect Of that desired for
the contractors were adding more i'm
proved machinery and doing away
with horses and men to compete with
one another.
The way to adjust unemployment is
to cut down the hours per week, max
ing for more leisure and better liv-
ing for Labor. said the speaker.
During his six years as governor,
he said the bonded Indebtedness of
the state was reduced from between
$15,OOO,OOO and $16,OOO.O0O in 1923 to
| S3,OOO,OO0 in 1880. The state tax levy
was also cut 13 per cent.
Going on the speaker said there is
too much extravaganza in government
| and some economists say we can cut
the federal tax one-fourth. He cited
the spending of $2O,OOO,OOO last year
on booklets and pamphlets sent out by
the federal government. postpaid, free
of charge. These publications told of
where sheets wear out first, treatise
on lightning bugs. the lovelife of the
American bullfrog, etc., etc. The new
expensive Department of Commerce
building has one elevator used only
by the secretary of commerce. The
attendant takes him up in the morn
ing. gently lowers him when he
wants to go to lunch or golf and again
gives service when the chief leaves
the building-the only occupation of
this elevator operator.
FavOrs Some Initiation.
OF the total debt of the country,
$3.50, OOO, OOO. OOO-public and private
the $4,000. OOO.OOO is private debt,
and the speaker said he was in favor of
a certain measure of initiation to re-
lieve the situation. We have Debated
and now we must initiate. The Federal
Reserve Board has already put one
billion dollars more in currency into
circulation by buying up bonds. This
is in the process of bringing the dol
lar back to its same purchasing power
at the time the debts were incurred
stabiliZing the dOllar-sO as to give
the debtor a better chance. The
GoldsborOugh bill introduced in the
last session of Congress had for its
purpose the expansion of money.
Mr.. Christensen stated that he is
believer in the tariff, but the farmers
do not set the prices on the exportable
surplus, and therefore it is necessary
to adopt some such plan as the Nc
Nary-Haugen proposal, the debenture,
or the domestic allotment plan in or
der to make the tariff effective on the
farmers products. The Underwood
tariff had wheat, corn and beef on the
| free list and with such a tariff law
there would be no need for a McNary-
Haugen law or anything like it, for
if there was no tariff there was moth
| ing to make effective. The tariff
rates must be maintained or even
| raised to make up for the lower ex-
change rate of foreign money. The
tariff is absolutely essential, said the
speaker, and added that there must
| also be development of foreign mar
kets. There should be a duty on
vegetable oils from the Philippine Is
lands, and if not constitutional on &C
count of that country being under the
protecting wing of the United States,
then they should be given their free
dom for the good of the American
dairyman.
Cut Private Expenses.
| While the former governor advo-
Gated the cutting of public expenses
he said that private expenditures
must also be cut. There can also be
economy in education, he said, and we
do not need the sanctified educators.
| The speaker asked for the election
of all the candidates for Congress on
the Republican ticket, mentioning a
few of them by names, but no mention
was made of President Hoover in his
ASkOv address. The nearest he got
to mentioning HOOver's name in his
Rush City address was to say that
"Our president has worked hard for
the deep waterway" The name of
Earle Brown as a candidate for gov
ernor was also mentioned in the
Askov talk.
The former governor stated that he
had not been out of office more than
two or three months when the legis-
lature passed a $15,0OO,OOO trunk road
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