Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-07-22
Like Night And Day

1OlhS W Out
that Communism and democracy
are closely allied. About all
that the two have in common is
to whip Hitler today
Russia, under the car, needed
a change badly with 70 per cent
illiteracy. Communism m d e
some improvements, but under
Stain the dictatorship is as COM
plete as before. They have their
inside clique like the car had,
and the masses fare little better
than formerly. Certainly we do
not want that dictatorship in
America With collectiveiSm
there must be both political and
economic democracy or we have
totalitarianism.
When the Communists here in
America can embrace Boss Hague
of New Jersey, who uses tactics
that are anything but democratic,
that ought to be enough for lib
erals.
Under the title, "Hague-ism Is
A Matter Of Taste" The Call,
Socialist party organ, published
an editorial which is here re-
produced:
Sometimes well-meaning folk
write in to us asking why we oppose
or poke fun at the Communists.
(These people sign their names. We
also get anonymous notes from not
so-well-meaning folks saying the
same things in different language.
why not make common cause
with these 'lefts'?" some letters say
"After ali, you both stand for the
same thing
Time and again we've tried to ex-
plain, in personal letters and ir
articles, how we differ from the
Communists and why we must con-
tinue to oppose them; how the con-
clusion has been forced upon us by
many years of bitter experience al
over the world that we do not stand
for the same thing: We who engage
In steady, unrelenting fight fol
democratic socialism; we who believe
IN the establishment of the coopera.
tive commonwealth; we who oppose
dictatorship and totalitarianism
Must we repeat again that the re.
sistance of the Russian workers ano
soldiers, fighting for their homeland
as the Czarist Russians did in Napo.
leans time, and fighting only wher
invaded-not to "aid democracies
anywhere else-no matter how brave
and gallant and successful, canno
alter our opinion of bolshevism anc
of totalitarianism, any more than thu
bravery of German or the fanaticisn
of Japenese soldiers can affect oul
attitude toward their philosophy ane
form of government?
Every now and then things happier
on the national or the world aren;
which-we fondly believe-ought t.
convince well-meaning folk of tina
once and for all.
During the Nazi-Soviet honeymoon
period, when Stain was proclaimin,
that the ties between Nazis and Boil
sheviks were sealed in blood ant
would never be severed, Molotof
uttered that famous dictum: "Afte
all, fascism is matter of taste"
Now we have the American coun
terpart:
after all, Haugeism is a matte
of taste"
Arch-reactionary Boss ague
Democratic fuehrer of New Jersey
bar-room politician extraordinary
and incidentally perennial Mayor Q
Jersey City, member of the Demo
cratic party national committee an
friend and confidant of Presiden
Roosevelt-Hague target of labor an
liberals and radicals for many years
has been given the accolade of ap
proval by the Communist party Q
New Jersey-and the Communis
party everywhere, since the o.
appears in large prominently dis
played stories in The Daily Worker
official Stalintern sheet.
Those who attack him are them
selves attacked as defeatists and iso
1ationists and appeasers-yea, even a
Hitlerites and Trotzkyites, if they 6
so far as to favor formation of
labor party in the state of New Jer
sey. Since Communists are battlin
an attempt to form labor part
there as well as in Michigan, al
though aiming at control of tn
Tabor party" in New York state.
The reason? Win the war
What far cry from the time nc
so long ago when the crimes Of Mayo
Hague against democracy stank