Show I I I Shades of Statecraft I By Bv RICHARD WOOTTON T ON ONI j I i 0 APPOSITION is to the political mai mavy ma- ma vy chiner of a nation what the brake is to an automobile le Both can be applied when hen the mechanism is heading heading- in iii a dangerous dangerous dan dan- or undesirable direction However an ara objection to our political rr machinery is that the brakes rakes are applied trot not so much when the need arises raises as when en the fourth year approaches Governor Laudon recently added his voice to the cry of those who vho assert that the lie Constitution is imperiled by the Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic administration This is not unusual such such has been an opposition warning yarning against every progressive American ad- ad ministration tion Such a warning opposed the administration of Washington Yashin ton Jefferson I I I J Jackson ackson Lincoln Teddy Ro Roosevelt s anci and I. I Wilson 1 All of these dictators were vere re returned re- re turned to office by electorates who vho heard re-I re dire admonitions concerning the fate of the Constitution ion if these these despots were lere reelect reelected cd Yet the Constitution is still the fundamental T. Ja When Governor Landon says says that the present administration jeopardizes jeopardizes jeo jeo- jeopardizes the document he may be as inaccurate inaccurate inaccurate in in- accurate as those who rho similarly crit criticized previous progressive administrations BUT B UT WHEN MIEN he lie says that the Constitution Constitution tion Lion is in h danger he is absolutely cor cor- However the danger is not where he sees it He is like a man Ulan warning yarning pedestrians pedestrians pedestrians that an airplane might Inight hit them One lOne might Inight but hut something else is more likely to It is s similar to the charge that the he Constitution might Inight be injured by the I New Nev Deal It might Inight but it is is more likely to be injured by demagogues capitalizing I on the opportunity presented by the pen peri- Continued on Page 7 Ics of Statecraft from page G 6 disasters known as is ns unscrupulous Fascist or st leader ever takes ado adof ad- ad o jf of the ridden panic-ridden try depression psychology e C will lIl be no peril to the theion ion there ion there will be nothing i period of economic disc dis- dis c 1 period of danger to our government Demagogues support by appealing to which do not express s 5 in times of prosperity ity mar mary mart aims o of the present presentation are first to mic s stability at a pros- pros el vel and second to re- re 5 1 of capitalism which ag- ag These two courses lead to greater security institution The brakes of I as far as the question institution is concerned applied not Because of out but because of the date Landon attacks the op- op ement not the vital one criticizes the New Deal Bering gering the Constitution |