The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-08-04
VOTERS IN WRIGHT COUNTY. B!

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| proposal to construct a new courthouse
| which would have been financed in part by a
| As per cent PWA grant from the govern
| ment. While Buffalo, where the building
would have been built, went overwhelming
ly for the project, 62 voters there baked on
the proposal and in other communities of the
county sentiment varied from strongly for
to just as strongly against. .... .. j.
The Buffalo Journal-Press, edited by J..
P. Mcdonnell of taxpayer association prom
inence, gave several reasons for the defeat.
Among them: l. Resentment against re-
newed federal spending on large scale and,
2. Belief that PWA projects cost too much.
While the Buffalo matter is no concern
of ours except as it may have political signi-
fcance, one wonders if some of the voters
opposed the proposition largely because they
were jealous of any credit the Democrats
might get for the project. There is, we
have noticed, some such short-sighted feel
ing in some towns. A postoffce, whether in
Republican or Democratic administration,
certainly should be equally welcome in the
fortunate city which gets it. Our partly fed
eral-financed school provides facilities for
the children of parents of all parties beyond
what we could otherwise have afforded.
We do not believe in undertaking COM
munity projects far beyond the need of the
community solely because the government
will help and there is grave danger in some
instances of getting public white elephants
costly to maintain but where there is a need
or will be one within short period, any COM
munity is wise to investigate the opportuni-
ty for government help and weigh the mat
ter non-politically.
ABE HARRIS, WHOSE NAME SHOWS
up in this column almost every week as we
undertake to straighten out some of his
Capitol News Review CID blurps, profess
ed in his letter this week to have just dis
covered that the impetus for the Scandina-
Wan liberalism he so often lauds-came
from America. Ingrid Gaustad of Oslo, Nor
way, who is here studying our progressive
ways, convinced Mr.. Harris on that score.
J. d. Gilpin, widely Travelled editor of
the Tracy Headlight Herald, last week ex-
planned the why of Sweden's progress in an
editorial which, we hope the FL scribe read
and digested. ~e ..rs. IS aA .r-r
We quote some of Mr.. Gilpin's COM
ments:
With all due respect to Sweden's achieve
ments' in democratic government, let us not
forget they have long way to go yet before
the average citizen there enjoys the advant-
ages and progress that Americans do.
America, remains, even for Sweden, the goal
of foreign dreams in human accomplishment.
In no other country in the world is the
mon man paid so much for his labor and
joys the modern improvements that he does in
America
But it has recorded some advances, mark
ed ones, in the relations between capital and
labor. We have far to go in that respect, and
the present course must be changed else we
never will attain such state In Sweden
there are few strikes because capital and
labor have sought to understand each other
and work together
To begin with under Swedish law a labor
union is held responsible for its acts the
any other corporation. Their labor
favors good profits since it has learned that
without profits no business pay wages
who creates the job and the worker who holds
the job
In this country we have been going in just
the opposite direction creating antagonists
between capital and labor Of late years re-
sponsible government heads have had no
small part in this campaign The fault has
been largely with capital, and of course ir-
responsible labor leaders Labor in Sweden
has not been made chattel of ambitious
labor leaders. Swedish capital prefers to
work with strong labor unions, because the
/ stronger they are the more responsible they
know they must be.
THE ST. CLOUD TIMES URGES ITS
readers not to get too wrought up over the
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