Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-12-29
EXPLAINS DIFFERENCE
Editor ASkOV American:


There has been said SO much about
radicalism, conservatism and liberal
ism until some people are so dis
turbed they do not know what to
think about it, and have no under
standing of the real meaning of the
words used They ask: When my
income is below my obligations, which
group do 1 belong to? and which
group should I belong to?
The statement that one cannot full
fill his obligations is no indication OF
which group he belongs to but it is
plain that he has not studied the
problem. If he had, he would not
ask such a question, but he must
either be conservative or liberal
will use comparison to explain
the situation.
The conservatives stick to the old
way of figuring, saying 2 and 8 are 6
(that is as sensible as their arguments
as rule, are in defending the old
way of government).
Then comes the radicals who say:
We must come down to-. plain facts
that and are g. Then comes the
liberals to say: You must not be SO
strict; we can never get to an agree
ment that way; each of you must
give in little and 60 a middle way
and I will be with you. According
to that middle way will be 21a and
are 6.
The liberal (the middle man) is
sitting on the fence ready to drop to
either side which he happens to
think will be the best for him. He
has no principles, so will say: Adopt
the principle of coming down to real
facts, as we are having radical evil
to deal with which requires a radical
treatment
Ever since the Civil war, this coun-
try has been governed by the two
conservative parties anc
Democrats. Industry has been rea
progressive, but the governing ha:
not kept step with the industry, 81
the conservatives are what consider
reactionaries; they hold on to out
grown conditions of things. The
United States is rich in natural re-
sources, willing workers, machine
and power; so why shall millions o
people be in need? The only answe
is: We are having the reactionar.
people to contend with, and as long a
the profiteers can keep them suffici
emily ignorant there can be no re
form. A little patchwork of sucl
kinds as is pleasing to the profiteer
surely will be kept up, but the in
ventions of labor-saving machine
and the use of them, has taken tn,
work away from the people, so Their
is too little money paid for work, ST
all the s-production can not b.
sold. Then we are with plenty o
what people need, but no buying
power. That is in the possession o
the small minority of rich people; s.
people shall be in need in the middl
of plenty of what they need. That i
the evil we are having to deal with
1 challenge any one to tell us
way to combat with that evil if Their
is any other way than an incom
tax on net incomes at a rising seal
to give a living to the sidetracke,
workers. Until somebody shows m
that am wrong, I think am right
. Come out you conservatives, ant
tell us.
We must come down to plain fact
and cut the root of the evil, or
will keep on growing worse. W.
can not export all that for which Their
is no buying power here at home OF
account of our prices being highe
than the prices in other countrie
where we should export it to, and al
countries will sell. AS long as W.
are having as much export as import
we are on sound basis because NJ
country can stand to have more i'm
; port than export any more than
private man can buy for large
sum than his income will pay fol
So the talk of producing for expor
is out of reason.
ANDREW RASMUSSEN.
5000 West River Blvd, Minneapolis