The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1936-03-19
A Reader Writes

kept right on raising wheat until
they had to raise hell.
Roosevelt thought he could do
a lot, but he put the remedy on
the wrong boil, cutting production
at home then let in imports, CIV
| ing farmer government check
for $1,000 then tax him about
81 500 in the future to help pay
the national Indebtedness that is
stacking up and if the people do
not wake up by November l they
should never have any doubts
about Barnum being right.
When you are rambling right
along in your old bus and it sud-
denly goes dead, the very first
thing that you do is to try and
find out why it failed, then apply
the wrench or screw driver on that
very part.
Any fool should be able to see
what caused the U. S. A. to go
dead in 1929-193O was too much
Indebtedness, so that is the very
place to apply the remedy, to get
US back to where people will have
money to spend for things besides
taxes, interest and old decisive
will never have prosperity until
this is done, it is still going on
slowly as it has the past six years,
as the old economic law always
works even while politicians are
dilly dallying and putting in their
time when there is want in a ma
ton when it is blessed with plen-
ty,then the Christian principles
are not practiced. We have many
laws that are mostly bunk, even
! the constitution of the United
States is man made. We ask for
cur daily food and get plenty for
all, and nature will forgive us our
trespasses against it just as we
forgive our debtors.
Ancient philosophers tried to
teach the right laws but were put
to death, so their successors were
forced upon threat of death to
change their interpretations until
at present they are so far from
the original that they are nothing
but mockery or cut and dried
Iformality.
If a man leads the right kind of
a life in regard to nature and his
fellow men he will live in a king
dom of happiness and will never
need to fear anything; but if he
leads a perfectly legal life and
lays up a lot of treasure or
wealth for himself, exploiting ma
ture and disregarding his fellow
men in doing it, he will live in
fear of kidnappers, thieves, fail
ures, etc. Or like everyone said
in the depression-ain't this hell!
Now days our modern philo-
sophers teach that if you follow a
certain formality on specified
| day every week although you for
get the covenant to nature, you
are good scout and will land in
happy place when you die, and
/ if not then the place will be a
trifle hot upon your arrival. AS
dead men tell no tales this works
fairly well but will never solve
the age old law.
One super wise philosopher
said about 10 centuries ago,
"Sell your possessions and give to
the poor" He was put to death.
Huey Long said "Share your
/ wealth"-no wonder those old an
cient laws were revised.
Statistics prove that the farm
ers in the United States easily
produce plenty for all in this ma
ton. in six years to carry over the
seventh year, but because they do
J not obey this divine law, they play
havoc with the land and get into
economic troubles at the same
time.
Much debt adjustment has been
accomplished and still more is to
be done. The largest difficulty
seems to be fact that every one
wants to rise with the prosperous
times, but our laws are such that
they fail to do justice on the
down grade. Just to illustrate
a farmer buys a farm in 1928 for
$4,000 and by 1882 he has $10,-
900 hard cash paid into that farm,
or in other words he owns half
interest in the farm, regardless Of
it's present value. If he cannot
make the grade, he is kicked off
with the compliments of the
sheriff. The mortgage holder
takes all, although morally he has
only half interest in the farm, but
property rights come first.
Would it not be fair and human
to give the debtor $4,000 to move
off-or cut the mortgage to
$4,000, give or take?
Our present tax system has
many good features, but few will
deny that there is still room for
improvements as long as there
will be no reduction in spending.
Farmers are now taxed on their
assets instead of their net worth.
A farmers net worth is a better
gauge of his ability to pay taxes,
than his assets.
There are many farmers in Red
wood county that have a net worth
of $4,000 or over that pay less
taxes than some that have a net
worth of naught.
The writer doubts very much if
there is a farmer in Redwood
county that would rather have a
net worth of naught and pay no
real estate or personal property
tax, in preference to being in a
farmers boots with a $4,000 net
worth and pay a tax of, lets says
$3.50.
After all is said and done, there
is still no substitute for Ameri-
canism.-A. L. GREWING.