Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-01-13
FOR COOPERATIVE
COMMONWEALTH
Editor ASkov American:

tOlIOT ASkOV American.
During 1887 over $50 1000 was spent
on 14-year old Gloria Laura Wander
bilt. AT the age of six years Bar
bara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Re-
ventlow spent annually $1,000; at
nine years, $4,000; at thirteen, $685.
900; at sixteen, 100000; at twenty,
$5OO,OOO! In the meantime millions
of Americans were starving and freez-
ing because they had no jobs, no
income, no food and no clothing.
On December 20, 1920, Daniel
Webster said: "The freest govern
ment, if it could exist, would not be
long acceptable if the tendencies of
the law were to create a rapid ac-
emulation of property in few hands
and to render the great mass of the
population dependent and penniless. ~
Abraham Lincoln said: "Inasmuch as
most good things are produced by
labor, it follows that all such things
of right belong to those whose labor
has produced them. But it has so
happened in all ages of the world
that some have labored and others
have without labor enjoyed large
proportion of the fruits. This. is
wrong and should not continue. TIC
secure to each laborer the whole pro-
duct of his labor, or as nearly as
possible, is worthy subject of any
good government" James Madison
the father of the Constitution, said
eve are free today substantially, but
the day will come when our Republic
will be an impossibility. It will
be an impossibility because wealth
will be concentrated in the hands
of few. A republic cannot stand
upon bayonets, and when that day
comes we must rely upon the wisdom
of the best elements in the country
to adjust the laws of the nation to the
changed conditions"
Today about so families control
all the wealth of our rich land, and
the great mass of the population is
i'll housed, ill fed and ill clothed
In his speech in Atlanta in the early
days of his candidacy, Franklin D.
are in want will not stand by silently
forever while the things to satisfy
their needs are within easy reach"
We elected new president, because
we had lost faith in the old. Then
followed years of intense fighting be-
tween the high lords of our land
and the sincere although often mis-
directed forces of the New Deal At
times it seemed that the depression
was licked, but noW-Ah! it's not so.
Millions of men are again walking
the streets searching for work. More
men are laid off every day. Factories
are closing. And a thick pail of
gloom hangs over the United States
of America! What is to come b..
God alone knows.
The sinister forces of Fascism and
Communism are working overtime
and to make cause for a revolution.
The New Deal is fighting high seas
that threaten to engulf it and to swal-
low the entire machine and the entire
crew along with the good captain,
Franklin Roosevelt. In four long
years much has been attempted and
little accomplished, and now the peo-
pie are losing their faith in the New
Deal and are turning to leaders more
radical in their ways.
But through the pail of gloom
shines a brilliant ray of hope, the
cooperative commonwealth! Honest,
sincere American patriots who are
neither Fascists or Communists, are
working hard building up an or
ganization which will fight for a
Newer Deal and which will succeed
where the Roosevelt machine failed
If we had cooperative common
wealth, there would be no huge
fortunes controlled by few, and no
starving, freezing unemployed men
and women and their undernourished
children. We would not have Bar
bara Huttons, Gloria Vanderbilts and
John D. Rockefellers, nor would we
have men who have lost their minds
because of hunger and cold and in
tense suffering. Then we would have
Republic "Where every man is a