Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-04-11
OLDFIELD DISCUSSES
THE TWO PARTIES
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of their own against any and all for
eign commercial competition, and
which secured them in their power to
continually pick the pockets of the A
merican people of billions of dollars
annually; not only this, but its accom-
plishment virtually destroyed u for
eign market for the surplus products
, of our agricultural interests, and in
truth and in fact the American farm
er should be thankful today that he
is in no worse condition than he is.
The mystery is that he has survived
at all. Oil men, potent with the adj
ministration got theirs; the sugar
men got theirs and are still getting
it; and so with the steel people and
the textile people, and numerous 9TH
er highly organized and politically
powerful industries, and all at the
expense of the great body of our cit
izenship; boards and commissions
created and established for the pro-
lection of the interests of all the
people were crippled and rendered i'm
potent and now are being further
crippled and rendered impotent for
the functions for which they were in
tended and which they had been per-
forming. Many things were done in
high-handed manner. Whatsoever
else the Harding Coolidge admins
trations have been, not in the least
have they been typical of the sort of
government for which Jefferson, Madi-
son, Jackson, Lincoln, Cleveland, and
Wilson gave the best that was in
them.
Democracy's defeat at the polls in
q general election may or may not be
serious. That depends largely upon
what follows within the ranks of de-
mccracy itself and upon the degree Of
severity with which anti-dmocratic
policies are applied by the victors.
They may be of direct application or
they may be of indirect application,
and when the direct application is in
judisious and dangerous the indirect
are the more likely to be invoked, and
especially so when virtually the same
end can be accomplished; and am
CLEARLY of the opinion that this is
precisely what is taking place today
in relation to some of the boards and
commissions which were established
in the interest of all our people under
the late Democratic administration.
While the Harding-Coolidge adj
ministrations have not dared to re-
Pc O. seriously modify the import
an and progressive enactments of the
W son administration which they
COZ dempned so viciously in 1920, they
ha resorted to the unfair and un-
VIC. thy process of rendering them i'm
poi emit and Intellectual by the exercise
of administrative power and admins
trs tive influence.
Why does this administration not
be frank with the American people
and say to them, eve do not want an
honest and fair-dealing Interstate
Commerce Commission; we do not
want an honest and fearless Federal
Trade Commission; we do not want
ar honest and conscientious Tariff
Commission, and we do not propose to
have them; We are going to have
these commissions so manned and con-
tro,led that they will function in &C.
ccrdance with our dictation, and not
otherwise" Why make the pretense
of favoring the ends of their existence
and at the same time seek to thwart
the accomplishment Of the purposes
for which they were created? Why
appropriate public money for their
maintenance when it is determined
that they shall not function in the
public interest. And, yet, my friends
is this not in strict keeping with the
Hamiltonian theory and Republican
principles and policies; and is it not
the very antithess of the Jefferson
ian theory and of Democratic princi-
Piles and policies?
Commenting upon the Hamiltoniar
theory, as it was defined by the late
Senator Lodge, some writer observes
that it is "a veritable school for graft
1t should not be matter of surprise
if spoilsmen gather in high places ir
party guided by a policy such as
this. Such policy is a cordial invi.
tation to all the unprincipled. The
direct appeal to the very lowest mo.
tive for serving ones country-fol
profits-not patriotism nor principles
of justice and fair dealing with thei1
countrymen. If this observation is
well founded, may 1 not inquire if il
does not apply with equal force tx
the happenings in our Federal affairs
since March 4, 1921?
Mr.. Speaker, it is not my purpose