The Redwood gazette., 1934-11-01

Very little has been said during this campaign
about the amendments which will be voted upon
Tuesday Readers will find explanation Of each
in this issue of The Gazette and urged to study it
carefully Not voting the amendment ballot counts
the same voting against the proposals
Notes on the Farmer-Labor Meeting
Governor Olson may be headed for certain defeat
November as his opponents fondly hope but ne still
packs them in and can keep them standing and quiet
through his long and interesting speeches.
John Hines couldn't resist taking crack at Leon
H. Brown even from the dignifed position OF chair
man of the meeting. With the honor OF introducing
the governor about be his, we thought John could
have forgone that bit of slander.
r. Kleffman of Hibbing made his first plea
for votes in his opponents home town. he IS good
speaker However, Redwood Falls and this section
of the state have found Julius A. Schmah real
friend on any number of occasions and regardless OF
partv and prejudice should vote overwhelmingly to
keep him as state treasurer George Barnes, Richard
Cook or any county commissioner who has had any
thing to do with relief roads other affairs involving
the county will back up on this statement.
AS usual the governor is harping the power
trusts, the meat packers, mining interests and this
year he has added the book trusts the scarecrow
of the campaign. We wonder how many persons who
heard his voice realized that they to the meeting
in cars perfected and manufactured by these trusts
after eating for dinner foods manufactured and sold
through "trusts" shipped here railroad trusts"
Vicious things, these trusts"
The governor blamed the capitalistic system for
bringing on the conditions prevalent in 1882 and de-
clared must change the system such conditions
will right back He did not call attention to the
fact that under captalistc system this country
developed from prairie to rich farming territory with
great industries at central points. He did not men
tion that states socalistically inclined, like the
Dakotas, have had the depression, just hard
we've had it.
The governors explanation of the increased tax
rate and his claim that legislature appropriations
lower sounded quite adequate. Neither, however,
touch the deficit Minnesota faces or the increase in
Indebtedness. They were not mentioned
Farmer-Labor speakers like to mention Columbus,
Lincoln, even Christ in the same breath with Floyd
B. Olson, nferrng that he, too, has ideas too ad-
vanced for his generation In the three examples CIV
en- the advanced beliefs proved true. Thousands of
others with ideas peculiar to their have since been
discredited. Socialism is already dscredted in many
places where it has been tried.
Changes the governor proposes to make in the
present system not even outlined. His speech
devoted to answering his opponents, rather IMAM
discussing the Farmer-Labor platform the real issue
in this campaign.
We don't know what his politics is but it is evil
dent that professional pickpocket is capitazng on
the governors ability to call crowds and is living high
on the enthusiastic listeners Hardly had the Gazetes
story of his activities here been written when the
Fairmont Sentinel with accounts of pocket pick
ing at an Olson meeting there the night before. At
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