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Show 7c wool, 3c beef, 2c mutton, $2.00 I sugar beets? Have we forgotten, bread lines in our cities, municipal soup kitch. ens, the haggard, destitute look on the laboring classes out of work, with hungering mouths to feed, fuel too scarce, without shoes Where was Willkie and Industry then? Have we forgotten, home owners in our own state being dispossessed, dispossess-ed, by Building & Loan Associations Associa-tions by Insurance companies, Dy ruthless mortgages? (the latter are today singing the hymns of hate against the administration). Farmers going into bankruptcy, farmers taking up rifles to hold off process serves? Their chattels sold at auction? Have we forgotten, the unemployed unem-ployed marching on Washington, to be met by the U. S. Army soldiers and driven from the city? Have we forgotten, the price of silver, so low no mine in, the state could operate, copper and lead prices, so low and listless that mine operators operated on about a 25 per cent production basis? Have we forgotten the closing of the banks by the thousands? Have we forgotten, the sad and sordid spectacle of Prohibition, the crimes committed, the rackateers, the Capones, etc.? Have we forgotten, the complete break-down of our municipal ,and county governments and local taxing tax-ing units? ; No funds for schools or teachers. No funds for aged or destitute. No funds for crippled children. No funds for blind. Have we forgotten, the millions swindled from poor and rich alike by the Insuls ruthless bankers on Wall street dealing in foreign bonds and stocks? Have we forgotten, how great industrialists in-dustrialists in 1933 cried "give Us Leadership." On bended knees they asked the government to aid For God's Sake Do Something? Have we forgotten, how our livestock industry in this state was practically bankrupt. Mines were shut down. Agriculture was in the depths of a price decline never suffered before in the 150 years of our countries history. Lumbering was at a stand still. No, we haven't forgotten! Today throughout the land there reigns a peace and quiet in the hearts of men in righteous thought we're doing all right. All the (conditions existing when this administration ad-ministration oame into power have been corrected or eliminated. Much has yet to be done. Says and Editorial in the Statesman; States-man; "Why do the New Dealers have to to go back to 1932?" It's since 1936 they should start." or to that effect. When the asinine editorial wri-i wri-i ters condemn a whole progressive period in our American history in ' one breath and then wish to halve it in another it certainly seems inconsistent to quibble about the fact wo should go back to 1932. Its painful to the Republicans because be-cause then and today, the Republican Repub-lican party is a party without lead, bership. It's a party without a program. pro-gram. Contributed. Name on file. . I STi This column is for the use of our readers as long as articles ar-ticles are not defamatory to private j individuals. This newspaper doesn't take sides with any of the views expressed. express-ed. Contributions are welcome. KNOW THE ISSUES In this campaign it behooves all those who would speak on the sub. ject of our Democracy to speak on the issue the personalities in this campaign on the side of the opposition oppo-sition are taking care of themselves. them-selves. By their words and acts you shall know them. Here in Idaho we are denied expression ex-pression in our- local press thru the editorial columns or the rea, son that practically 80 per cent of the press of the state is dominated by the Republican party. Few are the papers from out of the state that give a fair treatise of the real issues, so it's up to those who believe be-lieve in our treatise of the real Issues, Is-sues, so it's up to those who believe be-lieve in our great Democracy to defend it as would Crusaders let's not let the "red herring" of a third term or the fantastic promises prom-ises of an untried leadership stam pede us into, a false security or lull us to sleep. We have too much at stake. Let's carry the torch for Roosevelt, Our State and County-tickets County-tickets in this state, and Victory will be ours in November. You would believe from reading the editorial comment of our Press and the utterances of our opposition opposi-tion speakers that the last seven years was the greatest scourge that had ever befallen our country. Nothing could be further from the truth; for those who would challenge our progress during the last seven years under the administration admin-istration lead by Franklin D. Roosevelt, let us ask: Have we forgotten 23e wheat, |