Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-02-18
demning this administration of being

demning this administration of being
extravagant in spending, but have no
check on their own collecting of lux
uries and comforts from people who
are on the charity lists of our govern
ment.
What is the use to shoot or murder
anybody who thinks Bibles, Constitu-
tiOns and flag poles should be trimmed
in order to get Instructions out
of the way to reach better living con-
ditiOns. 1, for instance. do not be-
lieve that the makers of the Consti
tuition and the Declaration of indie
rendence wanted us to be contented
with fatal system.
We need a change now and then.
Slavery was and can be defended with
the Bible, but liberals made an end
to that. Church fathers in early
days taught that women had no social
rights. Liberal church fathers de-
cided by ballot" that they had Lucky
are we that our mothers and sisters
have in many instances proved to
have good soul.
Strikes are necessary evil, | ad-
nit, but it is all in the game.
further admit that the salaries of
union labor leaders are too high;
$4,000 is too much for any man, but
is bagatelle compared to what the
General Motors Corporation bosses re-
ceive per year.
Whether the Shutdown" strike i'm
Detroit and Flint had anything to do
with private ownership rights | doubt
as the big systems are not privately
owned. They are institutions of cap
ital and labor. Money gets interest
and dividends whereas labor gets
wages. Some of the workers do not get
enough so call for a strike to improve
conditions. If they win it means an
improvement for all of them. In the
case of stockholders not receiving
enough interest CIR dividends, they APP
ply "Sit down" strike for more than
four years (depression), the same
method, shut the doors and wait until
the government helps them out
Show me the conscientious nom
striker who refused to accept the i'm
proved conditions in pay and working
hours gained by strikes. Did they
ever tell the boss: You Overpaid me;
| condemned that strike; ring the bell
an hour earlier for me to start and
an hour later to quit and do not in
crease my wages, because | do not
want to enrich myself by an unjust
method? Why not live up to the
principles after the strike as was
preached during the strike. Why get
chestnuts out of the fire with the
cats paw; why be hypocrite. dem
agogue, a renegade, scoundrel?
Nowadays people are made scared
of dictatorship and communism, and
do not realize that we never were
without it. 1t is here now and will
stay with us in the one form or an
other. For instance, my parents were
dictators and communistic at home.
We had everything in common,
clothes, food, shelter, no privileges,
strict rule of dictatorship.
Communism is very DID,, as old as
autocracy and aristOcracy and democ-
racy. Aristotle, over 800 years B. c.,
was opposed to communism and said,
Ito be all brothers is like having no
brothers at ALL" | am curious how
this answer will appeal to Christian
ideas. If it is true what Aristotle
says, it does not differ where we go
because being all devils is like haN-
ing no devil at ALL
After all, ballots are cast and the
people are duly represented as having
a form of government of the majority
whether right or wrong) which is
called democracy, and it needs a pres
ident's signature (Which is doubtful
democracy but how, when one SUI
preme Court Justice of the nine can
decide the democratic table and turn
it upside down?
l need better brains to understand
what democracy is. | give upa.
JOHN NIEBOER.