Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-09-27
FL. Candidates
on Speaking Tour
of Minnesota


Farmer-LabOr speakers at various
meetings throughout the southern part
of the state the past several days were
John T. Lyons of LeCenter. candidate
for state auditor; A. H. Hoffman of
Hibbing, candidate for state treas
urer, and Representative Hjalmar
Petersen of AskOv, candidate for lieu
tenant governor.
Mr.. Lyons urged that the abuses
perpetrated upon society by the cap
tains of industry and finance be cor
rected. He stated that those who
eulogize President Roosevelt and in
the same breath denOunce Governor
Olson are mOtivated by politics and
not principle. He enumerated many
of the accomplishments of the Farm
er-Labor administration and likened
them in a major degree to what is
being done in Washington under the
New Deal
PrOgressiveS Have Brought Progress.
Mr.. Hoffman. who was a candidate
in 1882, losing by the narrow margin of
about 1000 votes in a total of nearly
million, spoke about the need of
employment and the necessity for get
ting people back to work, not only
for economic but for moral reasons.
He said that we have mass produc-
ton and must have mass consump-
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the labor-saving machinery; make use
of it, let it take the drudgery out of
work, shorten the hours of labor, let
it serve humanity, and be help to
all. The speaker also pointed out
that the real progress in past history
has come through the progressives
and radicals like George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln,
and to mention a more modern rad
ical, Senator George w. Norris of Me-
braska, the word radical here being
used in its true sense, that of going to
the root of the evil. Take away what
has been advanced and accomplished
by and through the radicals in the past
and there would not be much to talk
ABOUT, SdlQ MT. hISIImdn.
Petersen Talks on Taxes.
Hjalmar Petersen, who fathered the
in the 1888 session of the State Legis-
lature, spoke principally on taxation,
pointing out the difference between
the net income and inheritance, gift
and estate taxes on the one hand,
and the sales, gross income and dol
lar turnover taxes on the other hand.
Rhe former group are taxes on
profits and large incomes based on the
ability to pay, while the latter are
on buying power-largely necessities
of life-and fall most heavily on the
masses. However, he maintained that
the unemployment situation is the
predominating problem confronting
the American public today. Be the
taxes ever so low, they cannot be paid
if folks have no income.
The state leasing of idle factories
and putting men back to work to
manufacture clothing and shoes and
other necessities for the home will
help materially. This would not be
in competition with private industry
as the goods would not enter into the
ordinary channels of trade but would
be distributed to the needy-those on
direct relief rolls. The consumption
of such manufactured articles would
greatly increase, it would make for q
better market for raw materials and
help the farmer, and Last but not
least would contribute to the building
of better morale. Great numbers of
people on the direct relief rolls is
bound to add to the tax burden and
they must be given work for the good
of the state and the nation, as we'll
as themselves, concluded Mr.. Peter
sen.
Congressional Candidates Also Spe ak.
FL. Congressional candidates in
the various districts where the three
state candidates have appeared have
also been on the speaking programs.
Otto Baudler of Austin, candidate in
the First district, accompanied the
group in that district as did Congress
man Henry Arens of Jordan, in the
Second, and Congressman Paul John
Kvale Of Benson, in the Seventh. Con-
gresham Magnus Johnson of Kim
ball, will speak with state candidates
in the Sixth district this week, Sept.
"a to 80.
Mr.. Baudler pointed out that the
purchasing power of the farmer, la
bOrer, and average business and pro-
fessional man has been destroyed on
account of concentration of wealth
and income in the hands of the few,
brought about by the enactment of
laws and policies advanced by selfish
interests. He maintained that by
establishing central government
bank of issue and credit and by a
wider application of the graduated net
income and inheritance tax, purchas-
ing power could again be restored to
the hands of the masses.
Congressman Arens said that
lower interest rate on money is nee
essary, and urged that a rate and
method to raise the money as pro-
vided in the original Frazier-Lemke
farm refinancing bill should be adopt
cd He also advOc acted tho Gradual