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I V ■ 7 : W • i Jm t ■ I j » August 11, 1934 Hk Aiswer Later “I’d prefer to do my buying in Minneapolis,” said a small country merchant the other day, “because I can get better prices there than in St. Paul. But I’m all through. I can at least drive into St. Paul without being held up and called down by ‘peace ful pickets’ or forced to secure a military permit which gives me no protection from those same pickets. My father came to Minnesota before I was born. This is my home and if I can’t travel the highways I have help ed build, if I can’t purchase stock for my small store where I choose, I’m going to try and find out the reason why. This isn’t Russia! Or is it ? ” I couldn’t answer his ques tion. I’m as thoroughly puz zled as he. And there are tens of thousands today who are ask ing that same question. It will be answered at the polls in No vember. We’ve allowed our selves to stray off the old trail our Daddy’s hewed and blazed for us, but we’re going back in November! The “second massacre vic tim” eh? 'Well, no one asked him to act as short-stop in a buck-shot barrage. He had a constitutional right to stay home and attend to his own business. Too bad, of course. But! And to think I once spoke of the daily papers as the “kept press!” I thought I knew my radical journalistic onions, but I didn’t. I was chewing punk and thought It was beefsteak! ARE THERE 1000 AMERICANS IN MINNEAPOLIS? If there is, I’m going to to find it out! If there is, there’ll be two thousand extra copies of Saturday Pre»s sold on new stands THIS WEEK! I’m not asking for donations. I’m merely asking the American citizens of Minneapolis to WAKE UP BEFORE COMMUNISM BLOWS THEM UP! I’m asking YOU to take a ten cent interest in yourself and your city, Is that too much? If it is, snore on. I’m not asking you to agree with everything I write, but I AM asking you to wake up! There are several publications in the city, in the twin cities—and not a single one except this small tabloid DARES tell the truth about com munism. The daily papers are NEWS PAPERS. They cannot devote their columns to anti-communism matter. The “Labor” papers brazenly flaunt the “red” of communism, insolently and in defiance of decency and good gov ernment. YOU support them—and then call yourselves AMERICAN CITI ZENS! If you don’t like my style of writing, CONTRIBUTE SOME OF YOUR OWN STYLE. I’ll print it and gladly. But LET S GET GOING! Let’s quit rotting it our tracks! Buy two copies of SATURDAY PRESS this week. Give one to a friend. Tell him to do likewise, ISN’T YOUR STOCK OF AMERICANISM WORTH TEN CENTS? PH go the limit. WILL YOU go a dime’s worth? Don’t make it fifty cents, because 1 couldn’t stand the shock! Let’s start telling OUR people What COMMUNISM IS! The communists boast they have twenty three thousand party members in Minneapolis, ARE THERE ONE THOUSAND AMERICAN CITIZENS IN TOWN? I’m going to find out! Where do YOU stand, brother? Are YOU an American citizen or a communist? J. M. Near, editor THE SATURDAY PRESS The Wage QuestiH Our good governor seems very much agitated over the fact that Minneapolis officials made an effort to keep the streets open to the public, and, as usual, with his kind, he re fers to the wage question as though that justifies the defi ance of all law and order. Twelve dollars a week is more than double the amount real ized by each of thirty million farmers, who work fifteen hours or more each day, and would probably serve if the political barnacles were not taking twenty-five per cent of all wealth produced, as taxes, and dividing it among themselves. The present condition in Min neapolis fairly illustrates what the far m e r-labor platform would mean, if put in practice. Obviously Hitler has nothing on our governor. -J. E. W. —The Journal. Bill Brown and his commu nist pals declare that if the fed eral injunction is allowed, mili tiamen will be replaced by * ‘ militant pickets. ’ ’ Is our gov ernment to be changed to read “By the grace of Bill Brown, etal?” The governor squirms when served with an injunction. He should permit his memory to hark back to a November day in 1927. “The Old Man” took it in the chin, Floyd, and you didn’t hear him whine. ■v. *.* *4