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earnestly hopes that he may soon be re- t
stored completely to health ana I
strength. Governor Floyd B. Olson has +
won a distinguished place in politics c
and has maintained it with rare ability.
Even his most bitter political adver- S
saries would not wish that his lance be I
lowered by the blighting hand OF dis /
ease Friend and foe alike sincerely |
hope that he may soon be able, with /
health and vigor, completely to re- !
assume the duties and responsibilities l
of his high office and be fit to do battle Y
for that which he deems right and just.
POLITICALLY unforgivable" is the ap- s
pointment of Elmer A. Benson to be
United States senator, the Minnesota
Leader, Official organ of the farmer ,
labor party, declares. Not that the
Leader meant to admit it; it digged the
pit for the republicans and then fell
in it.
Discussing the appointment OF MI
Benson to fill out the unexpired term OF
Sen. Schall, the Leader explained, top
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could not be appointed to the place, be-
cause he would then be succeeded in the
office of lieutenant governor by Senator
William B. Richardson of Rochester,
president pro tenn of the state senate.
Leaders of the farmer-labor) party"
the Leader declared. "felt that to de-
| liberately permit republican to ascend
to the Office of lieutenant governor after
the people had elected farmer-laborite
to that Office, would be politically un- 4
forgivable.''
So absorbed was the Leader in laying
down the principle, convenient for its
use at the moment, that to elevate
deliberately to high office a partisan of
a political faith rejected by the people |
for that Office is politically unforgiv-
able'-so absorbed was the Leader in
this, that it completely forgot that its
Icriticism applied exactly to the action
of Governor Olson in naming farmer
laborite ito ascend" to the office to
which the people had elected re-
publican.
The farmer-labor party in Minnesota
thus finds itself in the position of a
certain famous sinner who was con-
demned out of his own mouth.
Back it up into a corner and the
Teachers Guild, radical organization
, embracing very small proportion of
Minnesota's twenty two thousand school
! teachers, will admit that the teachers
. tenure law was enacted by what it de-
> lights to call "reactionary legislature.
Parenthetically, all other progressive
legislation in Minnesota, of which the
state has far more than most states of
the Union, was also enacted by "re-
! dictionary" legislatures fact which the
f Teachers Guild, like all other radical
organizations of the state, ignores and
: conceals as much as possible.
The Teachers Guild is particularly
e Jealous in promoting and extending the
= teachers tenure act. The tenure act is
S a civil service law designed to protect
g public school teachers in their en-
= ployment and as such is a highly COM
mendable piece of legislation. The zeal
= of the guild in promoting the act also
0 seems commendable but of late some
}, have begun to wonder how much of its
Il enthusiasm for the teachers tenure act
e is due to the fact that quite number of
e its members are said to be double
e barreled" boys and girls.
e This term, "double-barreled," was en-
S ployed as term of reproach by an in
s. surging party in the early days of its
militancy in Minnesota and was applied
: to those persons who were feeding at
e the public trough and who also had a
= spouse feeding there. Four feet in the
d. public trough, they insisted was too
many for any public office holder. 1t
is now rumored that good many public
school teachers, who may or may not be
members of the Teachers Guild, are of
this "double-barreled" variety Men
,e ton is made in particular of one prin-
1T cipal of a public school who is drawing
A, down $4,000 per year while his wife also
enjoys a teachers position in the same
i. system at stipend of $4,000 per year.
C, Conspicuous-veryc conspicuous, in fact
among those who have achieved
double -barreled" success in the educa-
,d tional field is DR.. John GunderSor
es Rockwell, commissioner of education fol
of Minnesota. There does not seem to be
Il much question about the fact that DR.
m Rockwell draws a salary of 5000, les;
10 temporary reduction of 10 per cent
r from the State of Minnesota, or thai
d Mrs. Rockwell now, and has for severa
s. years been, a supervisor of case worl
n for the Ramsey Co. Child Welfare
a. Board at salary of $2,O40 per year
1t is not the purpose here to rail agains
DR.. and Mrs. Rockwell for their sue
n cess in wrangling two fat salaries from
the taxpayers of the state, but simpl,
nd to note that the political movement o
which they are proteges and activ
supporters has long held that parctic
ce. up to public scorn and contumely
Statisticians tell us:
"The total federal, state and local
governmental expenditures in the
United States for the five years
1929 to 1888 inclusive, amounted to
10 billion dollars more than the
he total net income of all corporations
rot and the total net income of all in
for dividuals with net incomes of $1,000
or more during that period"
M These two classes represent what
I'll popularity supposed to be the wealth {
the country and it is from them ths
M the money must come when we set OF
to soak the rich" The fact that til
total net income of these classes-tl
in so-called rich-was 10 billions less tina
mt. all governmental expenditures durir
the five year period named, ought