Askov American., 1939-03-23

sure tnat l did not get that from
Russia, but from Norway. wonder
how Knutson would like to have our
mail service and school system turned
over to privates as it was at first.
At that time it rightfully belonged
to privates. Other business can just
as well be run by the government,
but Knutson says: eff there are any
private activities running wild, am
pie provisions can be made for their
regulation"
When private activities have run
so wild that small minority of the
people are the owners of nearly
everything and millions of people
are in need, and it is claimed that
too much of that they need is the
cause of it, then 1 should think it
is time for the government to re-
verse such action. We have ac-
cepted the doctrine of jefferson, but
neglected to practice it, The condi-
ton which the mass of the people
are in is proof of it.
Our government has long enough
been government by the capitalists,
with the result that some years ago
five percent of the people were the
owners of 80 percent of the wealth,
so 95 percent of the people had only
10 percent of the wealth, and it must
be worse now after so long period
of hard times. Many people when
reading such as the above statement,
neglect to think about what it really
means, so l will give an explanation
For instance, 100 poor people are
gathered who have nothing to eat
when good man comes along and
asks them why they are standing
there, and they tell him. He gives
them $100 in $40 bills and tells
them to go and get something to eat.
Five of them take the nine $40 bills,
so only one $40 bill is left for the 95
persons. Then the five persons had
$18 each, and the 95 persons had
about 1012 cents each. In that pro-
portion the wealth of the United
States is held by its inhabitants.
Millions of the people in the rich
United States are having nothing,
while others are very rich, which
has been accomplished by business
where privates had it in position.
That is the system the conserva-
tives are fighting to conserve. They
don't want the people as a whole
to have a thing or have thing to
say about it; they shall be duped
and misled by the profiteers' propa-
gandists, who are talking friendly
to them about reform, but are strictly
opposed to real reform.
During the time of the two old
parties regime, the producing classes
have gone deeper into the mire where
they cannot look across it, and there
is no other way out of it than to
turn right around, and get out of it
by going in the opposite direction,
and that is to check the profit system,
as it is that system which brought
us into the mire.
The private business has taken
so great profit, so small percent
age of the people have taken nearly
everything. That is what the con-
servatives are working for to keep
going in the same direction.
Some people are wondering how
one can be so impudent as to work
for system which has brought the
nation into such a bad condition, so
a few of the people are having nearly
everything, and the mass of the peo-
pie who have produced it having
next to nothing.
To sensible people it looks bad;
but think of it when the capitalists
demagogues have so successfully
duped the mass of the people, so
they believe that it IS the right way
to have it; why should they then
be shameful? Why should they care
for what the few sensible people
think about them, when they Chem
selves) are we'll paid for it?
The aim by the sensible people
must be to hold the facts up in the
daylight, so to show such people
who have been misled by demagogues,
that the only way out of the mire is
to turn around and get out of it.
Keep on trying one kind of patching
after another when the garment is
so rotten it cannot hold patches, is
of no use.
Let everyone get what he works
for and let every one work for what
he gets, but not figure it out of
others work; but whoever is getting
more in profit than he needs, let him
pay that in the form of taxes, so idle
and disabled people can get living
out of that.
Talk about that everybody shall
have work is out of reason when one
with machines can produce enough
for 10.
One trouble is, there shall be sold
enough products to pay interest on
all debts, public and private, and such
debts are nearly as much as can be
borrowed on the property. All that
interest money goes to the capital
lists, or at least the most of it, and
there it lies to be lent to draw
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