Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-11-30
Uncle Sans Table Has Enough
for ALL-But Division is Unfair

gest single buying element in the
United States; the leaders of organ
lied labor have just pointed this vital
fact out. Now, if the prices Of what
the farmers and their dependents
have to buy are kept within reason.
so that these consumers can know
what to count on, the buying will
start and start right. Clearly, there
is nothing fair in handing the farmer
a 50-cent dollar or a 61-cent dollar
that is, unless the business and in
dustrial world are handed the same
sort of dollars. Giving the farmer a
dollar which will purchase only 81
cents worth of goods is hardly just
when he has to pay out SLIT dollar
for everything he purchases.
Must Have Buying Power.
1t is plain now that the Recovery
program got off on the wrong foot
when the big business interests and
their supporters took advantage of
the situation and made 1t their main
purpose to boost prices, instead of
PultiLS POoPIS OoSh W WIN cAA~>
building the consuming power up
from the bottom. AS a leading Eng
lish economist has just pointed out.
it is impossible to raise wages unless
the goods can be sold. And 1t Is the
masses of the people-the farmers
and wage earners-who must buy the
products which are produced by mass
production in the factories. If this
buying power is absent, the entire
structure falls.
We may as we'll face the fact-and
the fact is that unless the gap be-
tween what the farmer sells and what
he has to buy is closed, there is
going to be very insistent demand
for positive initiation, of the old
"greenback" variety. Uncle Sam, by
passing out greenbacks freely-not to
those who don't need it but to those
who do need it-can raise the prices
of the things which the farmers sell
until there is real parity. Then the
farm dollar will be worth 100 cents
and the general commodity dollar the
same. The products of the two great
divisions of America-urban Amer
lea and rural America-will then be-
gin to flow freely and without inter-
ruption, for the exchange will be
based on fair valuation for the pro-
ducts of all concerned. So the Path
finder says just what it has so long
said-that "the grower must get
more" and the gap between the farm
dollar and the city mans dollar must
be closed up and kept closed.
Hope, Security, Prosperity Ahead.
President Roosevelt already has the
power to start the printing presses
on those "greenbacks." He doesn't
want to start them, for there are
lot of very good people who don't be-
lieve in printing press money"-but
he has given fair warning that he
will do it if he is forced to in order
to insure the forgotten man" fair
deal. The Pathfinder therefore says,
as solemnly as it can, with the weight
of national distress on us-that there
is hope and security and prosperity
ahead-not disaster.
We don't know just how we are
going to get there, and we don't have
to know-but we are going to get
there The farmer, who raises the
turkey, is not going to have to put up
with the neck. Nor is he going to be
assigned seat at the second table or
made to eat in the kitchen. If the
people who labor to produce the things
which business must have to live on
are not entitled to an honored and
well-paid position in the human fam
lily, then there is nobody who is.