Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-10-20
TARIFF, MONEY
OTHER TOPICS
ARE DISCUSSED
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Mr.. Roosevelt has fought Tammany
Hall, was member of Wilson's cab
met, and in the last election was re-
turned to the governorship of New
York with the largest majority ever
given a governor in that state.
Gives Pointed Question.
President Hoover had Republican
majority of both houses of Congress
when he entered the White House. If
he could not get the legislation he
wanted with that majority, how could
he be expected, if reelected, to get
what he desires when the next Con-
gress will have big majority Of
Democrats, asked the speaker
There has been stealing right and
left, said the doctor, and cited such
cases as the Cities Service, insult of
power fame, and others. Some of
those concerns conducted regular
promotion schemes by buying up COM
panies worth half billion and then
selling stock to the tune of two bill
lions-a fine mess of watered stock to
pay dividends on. The bubble had to
burst.
The doctor paid tribute" to the
editorials of the Minneapolis Journal
and the Minneapolis Tribune, saying
read some of them. He closed by
stating that much of the public works
program that had been advocated by
President Hoover was embodied in the
81, 200. 100000 appropriation bill of
Speaker Gamers. but coming from a
Democrat it was all wrong with the
Republicans.
Justesen Speaks.
In his opening remarks Mr.. Juste-
sen said that Senator Wheeler. DEM
ocrat of Montana, had brought out
recently about the concern over the
likely election of Franklin d. Roose-
welt. that big business was afraid Of
the consequences.
Federal income tax refunds to big
business the past ten years have
amounted to about four billions of
dollars. Less than ten per cent Of
this was contributed toward Repub-
lican campaign funds-a good invest
ment, said the speaker, and added
that big business has reasons to be
afraid, plenty of reasons to tremble
over the election of Roosevelt. The
famous Grundy of Pennsylvania, said
concerning the tariff, that they had
contributed heavily toward the cam
paign fund and they wanted a re-
turn on their investment. The wes-
tern states have no chips in the game.
This year, said Mr.. Justesen, the
United States is celebrating the 20Oth
anniversary of the birth of George
Washington, the father of our cOun-
try. His day was an age Of courage,
when men were not afraid.
About this time we might also be
celebrating the Tooth anniversary of
the cooperative movement though no
ope can point to certain date that
it started, it simply developed and
grew. 1t had its inception first in Eng
land about the year 1920. From 1880
| to 1910 was the Socialistic era and
from 1910 on the modern co-opera-
tive movement developed as we know
it today.
Robert Owen started Communistic
munism is nothing new. These colo
MES we're found successful only If
all the members were very intelli-
gent. There were some parasites
who wanted to eat and not work so
after 20 years experience Owen gave
up the idea. Next was the Socialist
experience but Owen did not find that
paternalism was successful.
Each Has One Vote.
A co-operator works for himself to-
gether with others and not against
others, said the speaker. When farm
ers began to organize co-operatives
in Denmark and Ireland the bigger
farmers in the creameries wanted to
vote according to property or the num-
Der of cows each member had-the
more cows, the more voice in the af-
| fairs of the organization However,
this was turned down for as some of
tile real CO-OpcTdlOIS Sdlu ueH are
not cows, we will all vote alike
whether the member has one or Il
thousand cows. The same system
holds true at the election, said the
| speaker, every voter has but one vote
and he or she should exercise that
privilege. The government is a big
cooperative system.
About the best times the country
has experienced was under the Will
son administration said Mr.. Justesen.
Farm prices then took form and along
came Food Administrator Hoover and
set the wheat price at 1920 per
bushel to the American farmer, though
ii sold at much higher prices in
France and England A picture was