Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-04-22

is impossible for government to pro-
vide for me if 1 insist on providing
for myself, as such insistence breaks
up the entire scheme of this dream
state. My incarceration in a con-
centration camp or my removal by
firing squad, as practiced in the
dictatOr-ruled nations today, becomes
matter of necessity.
Thus, personal liberty, even the
right to life, becomes a dead letter.
1t does not matter what brand of
Socialism we examine and there are
many, Communism included, we will
find that they all come to this; that
the personal right to property is re-
linquished by the individual to gov
eminent.
The Stiffness of this dream is not
important. The important thing is
that the world is adopting it, Why?
Simply because the hopeless worker
finds it easier to slip into this dream
state than to ascertain the cause of
constantly increasing poverty in the
midst of plenty, and to make an eff
fort to remove the cause.
When the enemy is at the city gate
we turn over all personal rights to
captain whom we follow blindly
even unto death We are afraid. And
so with that more hideous enemy,
poverty. We fear it so that we read
lily relinquish the cherished ideas of
individual liberty-for which thou
sands of lives have been sacrificed
throughout the centuries-and look
to government to save us from the
monster. An empty stomach OBJ
Structs reason And so we have
doles, and so-called social insurance
plans, and public works projects and
RECOMMENDATION, and more government
and still more government. And the
individual becomes a slave to society
If we don't learn to understand
the cause, how and why our natural
resources flow to the few, and if we
don't stop that flow and give free
(the earth) on and of which human
ity is dependent for life, the human
mind bending under the pressure
OF economic slavery, finds a rest in
the dream about Socialism in a SINH
lar way as practically all religions
in fear of hell dream about Heaven.
Nobody can solve humanity's prob
lens without having a true under
standing of what a human being
really is. The moment we have an
unbiased conception of this it is clear
that people are not created for the
sake of the State-but the state only
is one of the institutions whose goal
should be to protect the weak against
abuse from the strong
We can describe our age as moral
chaos. We have cut our anchor
cable from past ages based on fear
and superstition, but have hardly yet
got our boat ready to sail under the
flag high over natural human right.
1t is a troublesome period in which
we live at present, a strong torrent
through which we must pass from
past ages of religious dogmas to an
acknowledged human right and own
ership to life and the earth on which
we live.
The word, "Godfearing," is con-
Trajectory in itself If there is a
God He can be nothing but good. It's
in the name as l understand it, We
cannot both fear and love a God or
any other being-either the one or
the other. If we believe a God to
be all-good and almighty then 1
can not believe in hell after death.
What is hell? 1 imagine we ex-
perience hell every time we have
broken the moral, humane and nat
ural law.
LUDWIG MOSBEK.
ASkQN- Mimi a nril IL 1927