The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-08-25

and dislcyal acts Of this admins
tration and the most pro-foreign
piece ct propaganda ever issued
with the stamp Of official approval.
Here we have over IL million
men and women out of work,
many OF them on relief and the
government assists the United
States Chamber Of Commerce and
the Port Of New York Authority in
putting out a booklet that is de-
signed to further increase con-
sumption Of foreign goods in this
country which, of course, will
further increase our employment.
Every government official who as
sisted in the preparation Of this un-
American propaganda should be
fired without delay.
! The American farmer is begin
ming to realize that one Of the rea-
sons for the present low price level,
which Is now lower than in 1882 be-
cause we then had 100 cent dob
lar as against SO cent dollar to-
day, Is the fact that the industries
down East are either shutting
down or running part time and as
a result the workers buying power
has either been destroyed or badly
impaired. They new know that
there can be no price recovery un-
I, til the buying power Of the unem.
ployed Is restored and until they
are given work at profitable wages.
Certainly, President Roosevelt and
his advisers cannot honestly be-
lieve that the way to bring back
prosperity to this country is to give
away the American market to the
foreign producer.
In q former letter called atten-
ton to q nationwide campaign
that Is now being conducted to
stimulate buying in order to make
more jobs. then said that the pro-
gram should be broadened so as
to specify BUY RIG AN
MADE GOODS because it is not
going to help our unemployed to
buy more goods from Japan and
other competing countries. Sooner
or later we will all have to awaken
to this fact and I hope that we will
do SO before it is altogether too
late.
While no one would advocate
that we build Chinese wall
around us and shut cut all foreign
trade, it should be self-evident that
we cannot permit import goods to
ruin the American market and de-
prive the American laborer OF
work and the farmer of an oppor-
tunity to sell his products at living
prices but that is precisely what is
now being done.
Uncle Sam A Big Tenant
In 1888, when its vast new build
dng program in Washington was
getting under way, the Govern
ment paid $4,000 for 1,191, 735
square feet of space in privately
owned office buildings. The rental
bill this year will be around $780,
600 for 3,244,775 square feet in pri-
vate buildings. Yet meanwhile a
multitude Of new government build
ings costing multi-millions of dol
lars. have been completed and oc-
cupied. They include a new SUI
preme Court building. new Fed
eral Reserve Board building, a
block-long extension to- the Agri-
culture building, and mammoth
piles of limestone to accommodate
the Departments Of Justice, Post
Office, Labor. Interior, the Gem
munications Commission, The In
terstate Commerce Commission,
the Federal Trade Commission and
the Archives.
Whenever a bureau or depart
ment moves into permanent gov
eminent quarters a dozen New
Deal agencies scramble for the old
quarters. The overflow continues
to swell, with the government ten
ants crowding the doctors and law
yers and lobbyists in the downtown
office buildings. Hotels and apart
ment houses have been taken over
for government services, and even
old garages, and mansions of the