Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-11-24


American system AM
of Constitutional
government-the two-party system
which assures ample protection for
the rights of the minorities, the main
tenance of the Constitution and the
continued operation of our democracy.
The rubber stamp" days are
ended. No longer will legislation be
written in the Executive Department
and sent to the Legislative Branch
under must" orders to pass it with
out debate under suspension of the
rules.
The results of the election are a
clear declaration on the part of the
people that while they want every
worthy economic and social objective
carried out, they do not want methods
which not only do not accomplish
those objects, but which lead this ma
ton in the opposite direction.
The results of this election were
laid in the days of the fight by the
New Deal Administration to pack
the Supreme Court and in the admin
iStration's attempts to force through
governmental reorganization plan
which would have given the Chief
Executive too much power.
America breathes easier, because
the suspected danger of trend to-
ward autocratic government by a po-
litical bureaucracy, operated under
the directions of one man-the Chief
Executive, has been averted, and that
threat has been met and conquered
Business has already begun to i'm
prove. Capital has regained its cour-
age. New jobs will appear and I'M
employment will begin to diminish
as result of this declaration on the
part of the people that the Consti-
tutional operations of our Republic
shall be maintained and continued
unimpaired.
No one can mistake the verdict
in this election. The American peo-
pie have emphatically condemned the
corrupt political use of public moneys
expended in relief, loans and grants
for political purposes. They have
called halt to the operations of a
political bureaucracy that was brazen-
ly moving to build an unbeatable
power by the wrongful use of public
funds.
One of the first things the next
Congress should do is to so strengthen
the Corrupt Practices Act that there
never again can be such spectacle
as has been offered our nation in
this election in the diversion of re-
lief funds to political purposes.
Taxation should be readjusted and
placed on sound and scientific eco
nomic basis. Old-age security should
be made to mean what it is intended
to mean. The farm problem should
be solved by expanding the domestic
markets for the American farmers,
by the use of agricultural products
in industry, instead of limiting pro-
duction of agricultural commodities
to restricted domestic market. This
can be done and it must be DONE
There must be an end to the foster
ing of class hatreds, class strife, re-
gional prejudices and sectional sus-
picions. Under better-balanced BIZ
party government in the Congress,
the United States will start its journey
upward toward that prosperity of
which this nation is capable and to
which its citizens are so richly en-
titled.
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There should be cooperation without
coercion between the Executive, the
Legislative and the Judiciary branch
es of the government, to the end that
the problems which face this nation
| be solved.
The American people had deep
fears of what the future held if the
trends under the New Deal admin
istration were continued. They voiced
| these fears at the ballot boxes, and the
result is a definite and unmistakable
declaration on the part of the cleo
torate that government by patronage
punishment and persuasion is to end
and government by discussion, de-
bate and compromise shall again
be restored.
The best thing that could possibly
have happened to the United States
has happened. The government is
not the master of the people. The
people are still the masters of the
government. Lincoln's government
of, for and by the people still lives
and is stronger than ever before.
More Trade Agreements.
The trade agreements with Great
Britain and Canada, which have been
in process of negotiation for many
months, were finally concluded last
week. While I have not yet had an
opportunity to study their full text,
it looks to me as though we have
again been Ollt-traded