| Show roosevelt will be reelected re elected writer feels pulse of people on trip no more kingfish coloring the news by EARL GODWIN ASHINGTON D G Q A trip washington wand halfway across the country and back impresses me with the idea that the people expect roosevelt to be reelected elected re reason no one better than roosevelt has been brought forward no constructive and alternative program has been offered along with the criticism of roosevelt people know that relief must continue in some form orm that the farm farci policies are acceptable to the farmers and they like Roosevel ts personality sona Son lity allty business men are interested in the statement that roosevelt will give business a breathing spell from further reform legislation and as business continues to improve the leaders of the opposition give as a reason this so called breathing spell actually business always shies at congress present business was scared of the congress just adjourned not roosevelt also remember that this administration has cleaned up one of the dirtiest corners in all business the crooked investment racket leading bankers will tell you that the securities and exchange commission has run the burglars and crooks out of the investment business business should send a letter of thanks to the white house for that one act business men have hare always wanted to clean up their own house and at the same alm have admitted their inability to drive out the 10 per cent of cheaters chiselers and crooks who bring disgrace upon the better element the government so far Is HIP only surefire sure fire policeman tor for business ard business should quit protesting when government comes alon along and does the job business men who go into politics are now contributing liberally to the republican national committee reason they dont like the new dew income and corporation taxes dei sl signed ned to shift the burden so as to put a little more pressure on the men who can stan stand it best and relieve some of the smaller fry now the republican senators and congressmen know full well that the governments bills mu must zt be paid and they will not repeal the tax laws but they speak glibly of broadening the tax base which Is a splendid phrase for speechmakers speech makers but tough on the little fellows down rear the so called broader base it indicates a republican desire to get down to the smallest incomes and tax them that broad lase idea would tax the fellow with a wife and twenty dollars a week I 1 try that on your republican congressman a 0 THE LAST KINGFISH who will take huey longs place answer nobody little men will wrestle each other for the smaller jobs in louisiana but there will be no kingfish now that hues hueys dead ills his following though Is important to whom or to what party will that big share the wealth society go they say huey had ten million followers and they combined with the townsend ml old ale age pensioners and father cou cough b lins social elal justice ju alce group could have manhandled man handled any political campaign had they all amalgamated and huey was the one real threat of a powerful third party these little proposed constitutional parties or conservative democrats or hat have you would be like an old ladles missionary society in contrast to the devastating strength that a man like the late senator long could have put into a whirlwind radical third party now the political leaders think that all danger of a third party Is over I 1 may be so b but ut at any rate he will i be a very much feared radical who manages to gain the long following it Is not likely though that we will see an immediate successor to long certainly none of his own crowd la 13 big enough nationally or interesting enough or powerful enough and ruthless enough to be the figure huey was our radicals and left wingers are all pint sizes in COD contrast to the kingfish senator bilbo of mississippi Is a firebrand but not a conflagration governor talmadge of georgia seems puny PUDY in contrast floyd olson of minnesota Is a juvenile as yet it if the tremendous radical following in the long camp has no real leader it way may make Roosevel ts path easier from now on lie ile might have found it hard sledding in the next campaign with hucy fluey harpooning him tho the tragic and startling death of the louisiana therefore not only removes a powerful piece from the political chessboard but makes the game simpler there must be a reason for the devotion which longs followers felt no such deo demotion tion comes without cause pia phd I 1 think that david stern of philadelphia a publisher of progressive and liberal neus newspapers papers explained it stern following a visit to the president at hyde park uttered the opinion that these great armies arales of radicals progressives progress ives liberals or whatever you would call them are attracted to lon long and coughlin Coughl ln because they can find no place tor for their thoughts in the overwhelmingly consecutive press preas of this ciu country I 1 am sure that dave stern Is partly right at least the bulwark 0 of conservatism anil and the laissez faire school of never do anything new la Is to be found in the editorial rooms of the greater city newspapers consequently the independent thinkers the people who sincerely believe that a better day can be had bad by progressive politics and new ideas never find a hint of promise in their dally daily papers to a large extent hence they have flocked to long and coughlin Coughl ln in droves hence long was a tremendous power say what you will hence coughlin Coughl ln Is a power COLORING THE NEWS in my judgment the conservative press Is bringing sorrow and tribulation on its following by colorin coloring 9 the news example of this occurred when Roosevel ts highest powered and highest priced political foes the A american M erl liberty league staged a show in washington to explain the tact fact that 58 53 lawyers of big business aggregations have declared the new deals labor legislation unconstitutional labor lawyers have worked tor for months to evolve a federal labor tribunal and a policy whereby labor has a right under federal law to organize but be that as it may large industrial corporations pay millions of dollars in tees fees to law years with prominent names to declare these efforts of labor illegal and by the mere weight of social and bustness business influence these arbitrary pronouncements pronouncement no noun cements manage to carry weight and gain ominous and solemn city paper headlines now the liberty league got the big business lawyers together men representing such organizations ni as th the e U S steel corporation and the weirton steel company bitter foes of the new deal and of labor and induced them to bring in a legal report knocking the life out of the wagner connery act and labors victory under the new deal whereby every working man has the right to organize or to join a labor union regardless of his employers attitude there a Chin amans chance of their making anything but a perfect score against the new deal they claimed to be impartial but if these men had ever given the new deal an even break or declared any of the disputed new deal laws legal under the constitution they would have one and all been led into the captains office and fired with that background the fifty or more newspaper correspondents present at jouett Sho uses press conference when lie he let loose alonse this big bustness business blast against labor and the new deal began to pry into the facts and uncovered plenty they found that none but big business conservatives it ves had bad been asked to serve on the committee they found that no labor organization lawyers had been invited invite they found that the league had covered up everything except the one sided legal opinion against the new deal written by attorneys for two huge steel corporations which have been bitter enemies of labor unions for more than 25 years they learned that the attorneys for large corporations are advising their clients not to obey federal laws it if their attorneys declare these laws unconstitutional this latter disclosure should have been the big news because it Is no doubt a species of sullen anarchy which it adopted by the labor unions would result in a call tor for the militia gut but the conservative press distributed to its readers an account of that frame up so presented that millions of readers gained the opinion that the leagues one sided anti new deal legal opinion was a serious and impartial attempt to do something constructive POTATO CONTROL on the last night of congress tho the late senator huey long talked so much that tie he prevented the passage of 0 an appropriation bill carrying money for a variety of enforcement objects among these was the potato control act and in so doing the late kingfish appears to have done the democratic politicians a lot of good although the big potato boys from maine and some of the southern states are disappointed potato growers in states where potato farming is on a huge commercial basis yearned to get in under the control of the AAA and experience the same improvement reported by the wheat cotton corn and peanut growers who had reduced their acreage and prevented the deadly surplus which annually has defeated high farm prices well tile the AAA boys like henry wallace secretary of agriculture and chester davis AAA administrator did not want potatoes under AAA but they stop it and a headlong head lons congress rigged up a potato control which Is almost ludicrous in some of its features one penalty Is a tax of three fourths of a cent a pound on all potatoes grown in excess of the allotment handed you by the AAA furthermore it if you have not grown any potatoes for the last three bear but you want to raise a garden patch full nest year under the terms of 0 this drastic law you are a criminal it if you attempt it now this act Is plainly an act 0 of f insanity and it was forced upon the administration in one of those whirlwind moments in congress but the democrats who are now suffering because of tills this law declare that F staunch republican senators of michigan hale of maine and borah of idaho were strong forces behind the passage republican politicians endeavoring to make votes against the new deal are going to run up and down alie the land and shake this insane I 1 law aw in front of the face of every for farmers wife with a kitchen garden containing as much as a hill bill of potatoes hut but nobody Is going to jail because the law will III not be enforced C newspaper union |
