The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-04-21
What Others Think
Worth Reading

Southern Farmer, a magazine published at Mont
gomery Alabama recently PUBLISHED under the heading
s'Worth Reading and Keeping" the following articl
written by A. R. Laudon, Redwood county probat
judge.
"Some thirty years of active life as judge in on
courts has given me wide opportunity to observ
many of the political didos of mankind. sometime
wish that could share the almost pathetic faith which
many of your readers to have in the effcienc,
of government; which, in the last analysis, mean
efficiency by frequent ever-changing groups of poll
ticians.
About five out of six of your correspondents seen
to everlastngly lambast phase of government il
efficiency, and then, with logic worthy of an inat
of mad house, prescribe remedy, still more gov
ernmental control. The sixth man will muddy tn
waters still further by citing isolated or excep
tonal of governmental efficiency as if the excep
ton prove the rule
"What efficiency be expected from everchang
ing groups of politicians? When Capone can, owe
a period of fifteen years, commit every crime in tn
calendar hundredfold, without once being brough
into court except only when he overlooked paying tn
proper tax the profits of his crme we still boas
of governmental efficiency Since when has the prac
teal bankruptcy of Chicago, New York. Philadelphia
Detroit and hundreds of other cities become evdenc
of efficiency? Over twenty per cent of the nationa
income in the form of taxes is required to meet TIT
carnival of national, state and municipal waste On
days labor out of five is the toll labor pays to
lied bureaucracy. We gbly talk as if industry ant
agriculture had control of it's affairs; when il
truth and in fact have taken both out of the hands
of experts and lodged full control in ever-changin
groups of politicians.
with one political board fixing overhead, and an
other fixing INCOME railroads, the nations artere
of trade frozen into all-consumng receverships
Governmental banking competition closes thousands
banks; governmental squandering of the taxpayers
millions completes with its citizens in nearly two
hundred lines of industry
"a congress, the legislatures of forty-eight states
and thousands of smaller political subdivisions are all
engaged in mad race placing political hurdles in the
pathway of both industry and agriculture until both
are brought to almost complete standst
Yet the cry labelling itself progressive is forever
more laws, more control, more commissions and con-
sequently more taxes.
"A million organized political payrollers, composed
of the nations brightest minds, intimdate all who
would put check on extravaganza and waste.
Until we free ourselves from our national de-
fusion that government is costless "Santa Claus
matters must inevitably grow worse.
In spite of our man-made THEORIES nature and ma
tural law, will in the long control.
Ten thousand years ago the whole world existed
savagely communard. What was thine was mine
mostly mine. When government began to protect the
individual in his property rights, began to accum
ulate and he continued accumulate in direct proper
ton as government protected him in his rights.
ut is not chance coincidence that civilization
flowers precisely and only in the lands where thos.
rights protected and withers precisely and only
In the South Sea Islands and Africa where commun-
ism is retained.
"In the long rum nature sees to it that there is
rough Survival of the ittest' between systems Of
government, there is in the organic world Ant
when the soothsaying politician whether he labels him
self progressive, democrat, republican what not
runs counter to economic law my bet is still
omc law.
Economic law is giving us the political head
ache suffering from"
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Now that bank failures have practically cease
and confidence is returning, it would be well to tax.
stock of the situation AS matter of fact the money
which the public has lost through closed banks is
mere trife compared with the gigantic sum which has
been lost in the purchase of worthless securities This
last mentioned item, if totaed up, would run into bill
lons 1t Is about time the American people got back
to sanity put its in its banks and cease to invest
Its cash In bits of engraved paper promising high
turns The banks don't bunco game.-St James
Plaindealer.
improvements cost money-but they are a conven
fence. Tuesday of last week the State Highway De-
partment let the contract for paving job that will
complete ribbon of concrete all the way from Mar.
shall to the Twin Cities Nobody would have believed
that this section would be SO quickly taken care Of
when the "Babcock amendment" was being argued SO
heatedly back in 1920.-Minneota Mascot
With the rock gardening fever at its height, COM
mon field stones said to be selling in Iowa for 81
bushel Let the buyer beware. Don't pay for a
bushel OF rocks until have picked them There
are unprncipled farmers who wouldn't be above Slip
ping peck of wheat into the bottom of the basket
Detroit News.
A Fairmont man just noticed night or two ago
that the family piano missing from the parlor,
made inquiry. It has been gone nearly three years
He'd never missed it-Fairmont Sentinel
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