The Nome nugget., 1934-03-31
COMMUNICATIONS

Editors Note: All Communi- cations that are not of a libelous ra'urc are welcomed for thit col- pmn). e'S
 To, the Editor of the Nome Mug get
 Dear Sir: Those of you who arc frequent readers of outside mag azines, periodicals and newspapers have become more or less tam iliar with the national, political and economic situation. h4ve Attempted in my somewhat lim- fted way in former letters to ex- plain briefly the essence of the Presidents New Deal.
 It is peculiar thing but it seems that as long as human be- ings walk the earth, just so long do we have to be ever watchful and vigilant. There is "a certain breed that, irrespective of the pitiful depths of squalor and pow arty into which our great middle and working classes have sunk, still think it to be their right to rule.
 A man who will stand beside Lincoln and Washington in the years to come as one of our great. est presidents arose from the well ter of suffering humanity like another Moses, to give to us who were about to succumb in a mor- ass of greed and gain. another book of rules based on the school book maxim that you all know the golden rule. He likened us to one big family and asked us to live and let live; to be neighbor- ly; to give the finer instincts that exist in all of us a chance to function; to uplift the down-trod- den and reduee to their proper level the opfFessors of the life. liberty and happiness on which our constitution was founded. And what do we see?
 Creeping insidiously into these magazines. periodicals and news papers from time to time is the cry that our president is swerv- ing from democracy and embrac- ing socialism; that he is surround ed by group of professorial ad- Visors who are foisting their soc ialistic theories on the citizens of our republic through their domin- ation of the president--and so on. My friends, I will quote you some figures issued by the Departments of Commerce and Labor, that were compiled during the Repub- lican administration. From 1923 to 1929 industrial production in the United States increased nine billion dollars. During this per iod wages increased but four hum hundred thousand. For every eighteen dollars this industrial machine received labor was per mitted to keep one dollar. In 1929 the net income of five hum dred and four men in our republic was more than the combined -in- come of two million three hun dred thousand farmers who raised all the wheat and cotton of the nation. Tn 1921 salaried workers and wage earners received fifty five percent of the national in- come. By 1928 th:s had shrunk to thirty-six percent of the nation al income. The enormous differ ence between the returns to the few and the returns to the many was one of the major reasons for the depression of the past four years. If correcting a condition of th.s kind be socialism, then let's have more of 1t. Senator Y Borah of Idaho pointed out that the wealth of this nation might be compared to five apples and the population to one hundred people. As currently distributed, four very rich people have one apple apiece, while the remaining ninety-six Gpeople have one apple amongst the ninety six. This is approximately the percentage of the former distribution of wealth