Askov American., 1936-07-16

is evidence of the way the peoples
natural resources are stolen from
them and the spoils divided among
thieves.
They have repeatedly shown con-
temptible disregard for the Constitu.
tion of the United States by lax en-
forcement of its provisions and enact
ment of conflicting legislation. The
Espionage Act violated the right oi
free speech and free press and the
scheme to set up industrial courts
and to govern by injunction is fur
ther proof of their attempt to intim'
idate the workers and to perpetuate
a virtual state of wage slavery.
They engineered the 1929 stock
market crash that wiped out the life
savings of millions.
They brought about the most wide
spread and calamitous depression OF
all time.
They turned more than ten million
of our workers into the streets tc
starve, beg or steal. Millions are
homeless and hungry.
They gave millions Of dollars In
fat contracts to the makers of war
, supplies thereby adding to the bur-
dens of the people and the Fastening
of future wars.
Results of Wealth Concentration.
They have denuded our forests, ap-
propriated our oil and mineral lands,
pauperized our railroads, closed our
factories, crushed our merchants,
broken our banks by the thousands
and through high taxes have de-
stroyed property values and robbed
the people of their farms and homes
from one end of this country to the
other. Suicides in numbers never be-
fore equalled have followed as the
natural consequence of the crimes
committed by the Wall Street gang
ster-led Republican and Democratic
party machines.
Such is but a part of their quarter
century crime record. They have
committed every crime under the sun
from highway robbery to rape and
murder. Their poisonous fangs sink
deep into our moral, spiritual, educa-
tional, industrial, economic and social
life They are a blight and a curse
upon this nation and their power must
be crushed.
Wealth Enough for All.
The late Congressman Charles A.
Lindbergh, who was legislative chair
man of the World Peace Association
had these political shysters in mind
when he wrote the book why Is
Your Country at War;" in which he
said: Heretofore the false economy
of things have been executed on a
more gradual scale-each succeeding
year the wealth-grabbers have dug
deeper into our earnings-but it was
all done in such an adroit and slick
fashion--that there was never enough
of us at any one time that realized
it was done to make us act simultane-
ously to relieve ourselves of 1t. 1t
is perfectly apparent to us all now that
when there is so much waste as the
(World) war has shown-that there
would be wealth for us all if we man
aged properly"
Due to the lifelong efforts of Con-
gresham Lindbergh who helped to
lay the foundation on which the broad
principles and platform of the Farm
er-Labor party rests today the Wall
Street gangster leaders of the old Re-
publican and Democratic party ma
chimes have a new power to deal with
and that power is the clean, honor
able and thinking men and women
of this state who have banded them
selves together in the Farmer-LabOr
party. Today the state, nation and
world pay homage to this mans son.
the noted flyer, but the day is coming
when the state, nation and world will
pay homage due the memory of
Charles A. Lndbergh, Sr., one of the
founders of the Farmer-Labor party
and a great statesman and human
itarian.
FL. Has Good Program.
The Farmer-Labor party platform
which was approved and adopted by
hundreds of delegates attending the
Farmer-Labor party convention and
representing every county in the state
is one of the most outstanding polit-
ical documents that has ever been
written in this country. 1t is notice
served on the exploiters of this state
that the people of Minnesota refuse
/ to be further exploited and that they
are determined to finish the job of
scrapping the old political machines
and to drive all political gangsters
from the state.
To the platform and policy of the
Farmer-Labor party every believer in
better world order should give their
complete endorsement and whole
hearted support. The party is earn
estly working to advance the welfare
of all mankind and each and every
reader of this message should unite
in doing everything that can be done
/ to make the Farmer-Labor party VIC
tory in the November 3rd general