Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-08-18
VARIED COMMENT
ON HOOVER TALK
Farmer-LabOr Cause Looks Likely
to Fare Well I'm Election
This Fall.
BY KNUD WEFALD
(F.-L. Nominee for Railroad and
Warehouse Commissioner

by kNUD WEFALO
(F.-L. Nominee for Railroad and
Warehouse Commissioner
On Thursday. August IL, Mr.. Hoo
yer was notified in Washington of the
fact that he had been re-nominated
for the presidency. His acceptance
address is now before the people, it
has been variously received. Many
noted people have declined to COM
ment on it.
Banker Dawes, who was chairman
of the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration until he got the skids creased
for an $S0,OOO,OO0 loan to his bank,
when he resigned his position, says
that "the speech was able and effec-
tive-I agree with him on all points"
That is the least that man can say
who has been favored to the tune OF
eighty millions of dollars.
Unfortunately, the newspapers play
up as the biggest thing, his stand on
liquor question which holds small
economic portent. But having tried
to please both sides with declara-
ton for state control, it seems that
he has not made much of hit with
either side.
Andrew Volstead refused to COM
ment. Mrs. Manley Fosseen, high
priestess of Republicanism in Mime
sofa was not entirely pleased, but
takes Hoover's whole program on
faith.
Discards Hoover Button.
w. G. Calderwood, Minnesota dry
leader, tore off his Hoover button and
threw it where nobody will ever find
it. He says that Hoover will lose
three-fourths of the dry votes of the
nation.
Melvin Mas, defeated congressman,
says that he has said for nine years
what Hoover said in his speech and
he (Maas) was read out of the party
for saying what Hoover has now said.
1t is cruel world.
Senator Mckenzie, head of the Re-
publican hierarchy in Minnesota, en-
dorses the whole speech and says that
Hoover will carry Minnesota in the
fall election with "a large margin"
The size of the margin is, however,
not yet definitely fixed.
Nothing for Farmers and workers.
Mr.. Hoover's speech is in the main
message of disaster and defeat. He
is deceiving himself more than he is
deceiving others. He says that things
have been fixed so that there shall
no 10 hnr
cold" We suppose that Hoover hon
estly believes that there is no suf-
fering in the land-like the rabbit
who hides his head and believes that
he is hid.
Mr.. Hoover seems to have no idea
of the economic forces underlying
society; he is not an engineer in
social-economy, whatever else he is.
He holds out no hope for the farmers,
except lowering of taxes and he
does not know how this will be
brought about. He may do what he
can. And he will bring about lower
taxes by laying off government work.
ers. All that has been done for others
by his administration will help the
farmers, he says. Otherwise the panic
must wear itself out before the farm
ers will be all right.
Yet we believe that the billions
that he threw to the railroads and big
banks has not been reflected in
single pork chop bought from the
farmer.
Hoover Poor PrODhet.
Mr.. Hoover prophesies good times
again but Mr.. Hoover has proved him
self a poor prophet before. In 1923
there was published a small book,
American Individualism," by Her.
bert Hoover. az pages, selling at
$1,000. This book found its way into
the libraries of the land, but can now
be bought in second hand book stores
at from to 10 cents, it having been
discarded by many libraries. l have
myself bought one such discarded
copy from which l shall quote very
remarkable statement by Mr.. Hoover:
"The world at this hour (this was
in 1929 is witnessing the most over
shadowing tragedy of ten centuries in
the heart-breaking life and death
struggle with starvation by a nation
with a hundred and fifty millions of
people. In Russia under the new
tyranny, group, in pursuit of social
theories, have destroyed the primary
self-interest impulsive of the indi-
vidual to production.
Although Socialism in a nation
wide application has now proved it
self with rivers of blood and incon-
ceivable misery to be an economic
and spiritual fallacy and has wrecked
itself finally upon the rocks of de-
stroyed production and moral degen-
eracy, believe it to have been neces-
sary for the world to have had this
demonstration. Great Theocratic and
emotional ideas have arisen before in
the worlds history and have in more
than mere material bankruptcy de-
luged the world with fearful losses
of life. A purely philosophical view
might be that in the long rim human