Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-09-03
CUSTOMS AND LAWS
kOV American:


In Samojede where the people live
from fishing and use fish for all pur-
poses, stranger arrived and tried
to live there without following the
Samojede customs. Instead of using
rancid fish oil to rub his body with,
he used Eau de Cologne"
While that was against the customs
of the Samojedes he had to appear
before the judge of public opinion
who has condemned him to allow ev-
cry conventional Samojede to take
the fish away from him he caught
and use the bones of the big fish
for bodily punishment on him.
He could stay and live with them,
but not live against the customs and
habits, not even then when he could
prove that his way of living was more
beneficial for body and health.
1t was not hard to live up with
the laws, but the customs and habits
were more severe than the laws in
Samojede.
Edward Dourves Decker, Hollands
"Cervantes," wrote this story to give
us an opinion of conventional narrow
mindedness.
The Samojede customs rule over all
the world.
Farmers and laborers are living by
the customs and habits of gentlemen.
They are compelled by this custom
to obey and provide those gentlemen
with life of comfort and leisure and
live a life themselves of a satisfied
Christian, wishing and hoping for
nothing here, but put it off until the
voyage on this earth is finished.
They are taught to sing and fight,
and have love for country where
they only share in hard labor for
small pay, where all fight for their
own interest is considered evil and
to fight and die for gentleman's
country is glory.
There is not such law that for
bids the working men to eat and wear
good things; not law that condemns
them to live in discomfort. But there
are few bad gentlemen customs that
put SO per cent of the people outside
modern conveniences. One of them is
to give the hard workers less pay
than those who serve on the easy end.
By custom and habit the worker him
self became convinced that these con-
ditions are what they ought to be.
Saw nothing wrong with being de-
nriuod Of oil fhinnc hn hn1
to produce.
By the same reason the gentleman
who idles his time away saw nothing
wrong in it to have all good things
which he never helped to produce.
The teachings in schools and church.
es are more responsible for this bad
custom than laws.
Imagine we had laws that pre-
vented the working people the use
of fancy products for the reason of
being hard, rough worker that he
was not allowed to have modern COM
fort. Who would think such a law
could exist?
1t was the church that prepared
stories to make the workers believe
that they were condemned to suffer
for the mistakes of their ancestors,
but forgot to tell them the pedigree
of the gentleman class by what rea-
son those are rewarded.
The law never has said that he who
owns the country owns also the peo-
pie, that these people have to give
their lives for the interest of others.
The school has taught us that we had
to fight any racketeer who comes
across the border, with the intention
to take away the property of those
who denied us the right of having
any. those who took rights and prop
erty away from us. For those the
school says we have to give our lives.
We have no laws to fight for some
thing that is not ours. The old con-
stitution says we have to fight for our
country for our rights for equal rights.
That equal right is the main cog in
the wheel, fight for that, and the
world will soon turn normal.