Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-09-22


ness is national problem and is in
creasing all the time. A state gov
eminent can not help that. There
are two causes Of it. The labor-sav-
ing machines are one and the profit
system is the other. On account Of
the profit system there is less work
to be done, as it takes away the
money that should be used to pay for
work and after that for products, so
there could be work by producing
more. Five hundred persons had net
income in 1929 from $1,OOO,OOO up to
5000, 900, and a many times greater
number than that had profit from
million and downward.
These great sums of profit have to
come in from products sold, so there is
not enough left to pay for the work
so as to make purchasing power, so
it can not all be sold, and that makes
the price low. And so much of the
work is done by machines so the Ia
boring class, by many millions, are
cut off from earning money, buying
and consuming
l cannot understand how there can be
people that can think prices can come
up and be work for all people Ohe
workers) under such a system Of la
Dor saving machines and so large
profits. The only help can be in taxing
all incomes above what is needed
for good living and upkeep of BUSH
ness, at rising scale so as to give a
good living by idle support for all
those who cannot secure work. That
would make market with good
prices for the products.
Real high prices can not be ex-
pected as long as we have to compete
with other nations at the world mar
ket. But business would liven up
and many of the idle would get work,
so after such a system would get into
operation there would not be much
idle support to be paid, but we must
vote a majority of the profiteering
representatives out of the White
House in order to get living for the
idle workers. Let the starving people
get a living. Everyone losing his
farm runs the risk of becoming one of
them, but tax for that purpose can
not come from overtaxed property
that gives no income. 1t must come
from profits. The government must
quit borrowing the profits, and take
as much of it as needed by taxation
and discontinue the taxing of all.
am not a Communist The people
are not ripe for communism. AS
whole people are too greedy for that.
1 will be satisfied with capitalistic
government if the capitalists will let
all the people have a living when it
is so easy to produce it. At the pres
ent time it is only the profiteers'
greediness that is the cause of the
depression. There is enough for ev-
erybody and easy to make more.
Now, dear readers! if any of you
can think of better plan as a rem
edy for the depression let us hear
from you, and if not let us hear what
you think about my plan.
After reading the letter from A. M.
Price in this paper, l wrote a letter
to him asking him to inform me
where Farmer Brown is toiling for
living on farm like the other farm
ers do, but he has not answered me
so far l am willing to excuse him;
he may not be able to, and may not
have any one near him to help him.
But then l met an old resident of
Minneapolis, that knows Brown, and
he told me that he is the owner of a
large farm right north of Minneapolis
where he is raising fancy horses by
others work. He doesn't clean barn,
milk cows, feed hogs, nor haul ma
nure. He is not a dirt farmer and
depending on that for living. He is
millionaire. So whoever wants a
dirt farmer for governor will fool
themselves by voting for Brown.
ANDREW RASMUSSEN.
Minneapolis, 5000 West River Blvd