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

local strike news on the west coast,
even the tnunderous speeches of uen-
eraI hugh Johnson on the MIA weie
muItled by the cutlery from ot. Paul.
All the way to Seattle we recelveu
iadiO bulletins describing the macon
tent. Inc Intensity OF the meIee in
creased, all the papers carried head
lines about il, Oh arriving at Mime
apOlis the noise became ueafeninS.
What was the source or all tnio-lt
was nothing else than great gov
ernOr, Floyd b. Olson, of the great
state or minnesota tor the first time
in history OF mankind had called out
troops to protect lire ana property oil
ali peOpie-nOt Just the property.
Tne IeactiOnarleS OF Minnesota
could not conceive OF a National
Guard for any other purpose than to
NOW down strikers and innocent by
ISLANDERS by machine gun fire. The
idea that the National Guard could
be used to protect all people in tEei.
rights as well as repulse invaders was
uncomfortable. A new precedent had
been set which TO-DAY is common
throughout the country.
The very political and feature
writer's of the newspapers of the Twin
Cities who less than three years ago
lambasted the late Governor Olson
most cruelty. today are gushing i'll
their eulogy of him. This to all true
admirers of the great Governor must
be as repulsive as the tongue lickings
of snake would be.
For the benefit of those sincere lib
erals who think that fusion is pos
sible with the reactionaries of Min
nesota, it may be well to point out
what happened to the labor party of
England few years when MacDOn-
aid, the labor premier of England,
i'm a movement of weakness and stress
conceived or accel ted the idea of a
composite cabinet. The de adeEt
aristocracy accepted this as weak
ness which it was, swallowed up the
labor patty of England. drove Mae
Donald out of the cabinet and offset
the life work of Macdonald and set
a generation in England. The less on
OF life teaches one that it is i'm
possible to carry water on both shout
ders.' If a person can learn any
thing he can't fail to come to that
conclusion.
With the one exception the political
writer's of the Twin Cities seem to
imply that such a thing as the PeO-
pies Lobby is new; that people. the
common people | mean from Mime
sofa have not before gone to st. Paul
and tried to impress their elected REP
desires. This had been done before
and in all probabilities will be done
again. So why the unjust attempt
to try to pin any misconduct of the
crowd on any one man. 1t is an at
tempt of course to retard the pro-
gressive legislative program of the
head of the state.
Everytime some little mistake is
made the reactionaries of the coun-
try and this state cry for show
down. Let us hope that this show
down shall never come. No right
person wants showdown.
IL may be out of the way to point
cut what happened to the powers
that were. when the showdown in
France. Russia, Spain and many other
countries happened. The aristociaty
did not fare so well. The bourbOns
should think little before they de-
mand a showdown. The United States
is the only country in the world which
is advancing and has no bloodshed
and for this it has the liberals to
thank. If the reactionaries had been
kept in power the showdown would
have been in session in all probable
tiles.
s. ]. SIMONSEN.
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