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Show aaaHHHBBBBHBBHHBH "BACK TO WORK QUICKER WITH DEWEY AND BRICKER" The Jfp? I I Trumpeter U(7r ) ; Ol Ii FUTURE UNDER THE NEW DEAL I J a Iviist week we invited the New Deal "Oti-Aim" " to forget Its Hiiu-iir csinnKiln and the issues J. of 1920 unci dLscu? the future problems that B fiu our ixile. It's latest Lssue convinces B us tltut we expecW too much. Wlii.stm Churchill once said, "All I have to offer Ls blood, toll, sweat and tears". The "Citizen" g mitfht well say, "All wo have to offer Ls mud, sarsism, ridicule and smears". We licllevn most people take if for wliat it Ls, and that our readers prefer tliat we do' not try to kw'p ui with "Tho Citizen" In a name-oallliu; contest. .We therefore trust that "Tho Citizen" will not feI too badly (or yell too loudly) if we just Ignore it m from hero on out and try to dLscuss what faces our people. What Ls our future under the New Deal? About tho only log the New Deal has to stand on is that we need the President to see us through the war and to write the M peace. Even mast New Dealers will admit that if it were not for this argument, the New Deal and the president would not stand a ghost of a chance to be elected. Is the president the only main who can see us through lihe war? We humbly do not tliliitk so. Tlio war is in the process of being g won. Even though it may take more months of time, more thousands of lives and more billions of dollars, there is no doubt about how it will nd. Our jyenorals and professional sol- tliors have mapped the strategy and are oarry- ing out the plans. If there is a change of S administration, there will be no let-up in g our prosecution of the war. It will not be side-tracked or slowed down. We all want to win the war; it is not a partisan issue. We believe Mr. Dewey will restore confidence in our govertnjmemt, create harmony, put new energy and enthusiasm into our national life I and hasten the end of the war. Is the president the only man who can negotiate the peace? Why should he be? He says he stands on his (record, and his record is a history of secret negotiations, of M taking advice from Harry Hopkins, of quar-, quar-, relling agencies at home and abroad, of debt g and waste and extravagance, of bickering and ia confusion and uncertainty. The Constitution ' provides that all treaties with other nations must be ratified and confirmed by two-thirds of the senate, but the president will not per- mit member of the senate to attend his se-H se-H oret meetings with the representatives of other a nations. He will not take advice and suggest- ions from the Senate. The only way he knows how to get along with them is to order them to do his bidding, and to scold and ridicule them when they hesitate. Even his "Dear 1 Albon" Borkley, Democratic leader in the sen-Jl sen-Jl ate, rose up in wrath a few months ago at Mj the president's bullying methods. Right now, and for many months past, a majority of the senate ore and have been hostile to the president and the New Deal. It is a certainty that a majority of the new senate will be 1 hostile. Do you know that 26 states now have g Republican governors, and that 23 of the people of our country live in those states? Isn't it fair to assume that those governors would get along better with a president they " were in harmony with? Doesn't the vote of M those 23 of our people indicate we would a change administrations if this were an ordin- ary election? Do you realize that the next president will take office in 1945 for a four-year term, B and that most of that term will be a peaces' peace-s' time period? When the New Dealers talk about having Roosevelt see us through the I war, they fail to mention that we must also have him, and all that his administration rep- resents, for several years of peace. We marvel that the President, after 12 years of the most crushing responsibility in the world, would even dream of trying to carry on for another four years. He is old and tired and irritable. Do you realize that if he is elected and cannot carry out his term of office, our country would be in the hands of Harry Truman? When President Roosevelt took office in H 1932, we needed certain reforms, and many good things were accomplished. Had he quit after his first or second term, he would no doubt have gone down in history as a great president. But our reform period is passed; Senator Johnson, a Democrat from Colorado, i has voiced the sentiments of many thinking M people! when he said that if President Roose- velt is elected for another term, that term will go down in history as a time of defeat and frustration, of friction and disunity. We believe that is true, because we think it means more trouble with Congress, more go- ing into debt, more leaf-raking projects, more a government control, more favors to the C. I. n O. and the Conimunists. How can we expect a continuation of what we have had for the past two or three years to create unity at home, to inspire faith in the future, to gen-H gen-H erate the enthusiasm and cooperation of in- dustry ? And if we cannot expect those things, how can we eect a rising tide of employment, of good times, of jobs, of cooperation among all clas'ies of our people? Don't we have to g have those things? Can we possibly get them under another four years of the New Deal? If the president is elected for another g four years, it will demonstrate to many thoughtful people that our country has come to the point where any man who becomes president can, by virtue of being president, " wield such power and influence that, whether B we like it or not, he can be president as long as he wants to be. No one can deny a that if the president did not have the rabid ' support of groups like, the C. I. O. and the fervent following of the army of federal em- " ployees, he would be defeated. If any presi- dent can count on the support of such groups by putting them on the federal payroll, or by showing them special favors, regardless g of the harm it does to our country, and if the unorganized groups, the great mass of people who do not seek or receive special favors, are not fully awake to such .dangers, how can he ever be defeated? (Don't you think that another four years of the New Deal will put us firmly in the camp of the Communists and the Socialists? a For years we have been going down the road to one-man government, to more and more government control, to less liberty and freedom of the individual, to more debt, more bureaus, more government ownership, to more regulationand regimentation. The President has a lion by the tail, and he can't let go. a The Democratic party has been stolen by the radicals. Real Democrats have no choice but to fight the New Deal. . Another four years of the New Deal can m well mean an end to two-party government. We may have only one party, and it can perpetuate itself in power indefinitely. An- other four years of the New Deal, as we have a known it, will leave our country bankrupt, in chaos, infested with corruption, torn by dis-unity dis-unity and controlled by the Sidney Hillmans. The entire New Deal is centered around the President. The New Deal is whatever President Roosevelt says it is at the moment. When his ideas change, the New Deal changes. It has no fixed principles or policy, It is vacillating and uncertain and short- sighted, it appeases those who can bring enough pressure, it doe what seems most expedient at the moment, it pleases those who must be pleased at the time. What condition will the Democratic party be in when Roosevelt passes off the stage? Will there be such a thing as a Democratic party? What condition will our country be in? Can we gamble our future, everything u we hold dear, to follow the mirage of the indispensable man? Our country was not built that way. It can never be built that g way. Its strength lies in the cooperation of many men, of a change in administration often enough to keep the government close to the people. The German people chose the road the New Deal is asking us to take. They didn'4 do it all at once, but step by step. They were afraid and bewildered and g insecure, and when a Pied Piper played sweet music and offered them security in return for their freedom, they followed him. Before they realized it, it was too late. In our country, the time is" growing short, but it is not yet too late. Even if we grant p that Roosevelt doesn't want to be a Hitler, we must realize that the New Deal rep-resents rep-resents all the influences that take us down Hitler's road, and that we will be there m whether Roosevelt intended it or not. The issues really are too serious to be B passed off with sarcasm, ridicule and wise- D cracks. The president has no right to adopt q the attitude that he has nothing to explain. B He" has no right to become irritated and sarcastic and angry when his record is criticized, criti-cized, or when he is asked to tell us what B he proposes to do. The issues are so vital B that the people have every right to have them stated and discugsed and considered. g Patrick Henry cried: "The only way I can a judge the future is by the past". The only way we can judge the future under the New Deal is by what it has been in the past. It has no otfcer program, no other solution. That is why Governor Dewey's punches ore taken in sullen silence. In the remaining two issues of this column before election, we are going to give you g our view of the hope that lies in the Repub- lican party. May we plead with you, fellow citizens, to take the campaign most seriously, ser-iously, to vote your honest judgement, rather than your prejudices. This election offers a stirring challenge to all of us. May we prove equal to our grave responsibility! g ' (Paid Political ad by Washington County Republican Committee) "IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE." |