Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-07-26

While widely separated geographic
cally, Minnesota and California have
much in common in the coming cleo
ton, in that both states have with
them. the old, old bugaboo-the cry of
SOCIALISM,! Communism! BOlsheviSm!'
III the silly, child-like .harangues of
the old line, professional politicians.
who tell us how to vote and for whom
to vote, and for no other purpose than
that they may continue to exploit and
Cypress the men and women who must
earn their livelihood by their labor.
Thanks to an awakened public Opin-
ion, however, the masses are paying
little or no attention to these nightly
hobgOblin bedtime stories! Voters
have at Last begun to think for them
selves, and unless all signs go awry,
are going to demonstrate an unprece-
denied support for the candidates and
programs, offering the greatest good
to the greatest number"
In the words of Thomas Jefferson,
1.-The general spread of the light of
science has already l~d open to every
view the palpable truth, that the mass
of mankind has not been born with
saddles on their backs, nor a favored
few booted and spurred, ready to ride
them legitimately, by the grace of
God"
Should the voters again listen to
the politicians who jump at every
crack of the whip of special privilege,
the working men and women will con-
tinue to be booted and spurred" but
on the other hand if they heed the
warning of such men as Governor
Floyd B. Olson of Minnesota, and Up
ton Sinclair, Democratic candidate
for governor of California, and sup
port the tickets which they head, right
down the line to the last man, the
future path will not be quite so full of
thOrns and insurmountable obstacles.
Oh, yes, these candidates sponsored
by the regular" party machines and
money interests continue to feed us
up on promises, but, knowledge gained
by sad and expensive experience, tells
us there isn't Chinaman's chance of
ANY promise, except that made to the
persons with the latest purses, ever
being fulfilled.
All such office-seekers might well
heed the word of Our Savior, Who
said:
Woe unto you, scribes and Phari-
sees, hypOcrites! for We make clean
the outside of the cup and of the
platter, but within they are full of
eXtortion and excess.
THOU blind Pharisee, cleanse
first that WHICH is within the cup
and platter, that the outside of them
may be clean also" (Matthew %:
1926.
The outside of the special privilege
politicians cup and platter" appears
to be "clean," but experience has
taught us that, the inside reeks with
filth!
But
No doubt many readers have won
dered by this time, what prompted
this editorial by writer in Califor-
MIA, so a little explanation might not
be amiss. Here's the reason:
Under date of July II, the Los An
geles Examiner, a Hearst newspaper,
printed an interview with E. Richard
West, president of the Los Angeles
Junior Chamber of Commerce and re-
Gently elected president of the United
States National Junior Chamber of
Commerce, who "just returned from
the national convention of the group
at Miami, Fla. and a swing into the
Northwest on business of the Organi-
Zation.'
In the Examiner interview, Mr..
West is quoted as saying:
preservation and restoration of pri-
vate business will be the aim of $780,
900 members of the Junior Chambers
of Commerce throughout the United
States, and this group of the nations
young business men will crack down
OH propaganda of Reds, Communists,
Socialists and Farmer-Laborites."
Continuing, Mr.. West is quoted us
saying that, 1--WE are opposed to GER
tain panaceas foisted on the public
by the Farmer-LabOr party in the
Middle West, Upton Sinclair in Cali
fornia, and the Utopian Society group
and believe their propaganda is harm
| full :"
Thus, in the words of someone or
other, one might properly inquire,
$50 what?"
If Mr.. West, or any of the rest of
his ilk, said anything at all on the
subject of Messrs. Olson and Sinclair's
programs, there is none that lives who
would expect any comment but that
which Mr.. West made. The reason is
obvious: Carrying into effect the COM
nonsense platforms promulgated by
the Olson and Sinclair tickets-pro-
grams which will lift the heavy bur-
dens of the masses if given a fair
trial-would greatly "crimp the style"
OF those who would clamp the yoke
even more tightly around the necks
of the farmers and laborers.
Quoting from Mr.. Sinclair's book,
81, Governor of California" (heralded
as "a True Story of the Future,'O he
says:
q. ). Here in this Golden State are
most of the natural sources of wealth.
Here is land ready to produce al
most everything which humans need.
Here are machines of production, mar