Nogales international., 1930-09-30
Editorials &
Republican Audacity

vi all the audacity, the nerve the Jnu1itigated
gan that 1t has ever been our misfortune encounter
that republican IN Washington who calls himself sec
retary OF state Henry L. Stimson the right-haud
propagandist Of President Hoover himself Certainly
surpasseth all understanding.
IN the lace OF what every business man in this
country knows has been the most far-reaching busi-
ness depression since the Civil Wa-when almost un
heard-of failures were everyday occurrance over
period OF months when unemployment presented
most serious aspect-When business in all lines has
Deen retrenchlng and ecOnOmZng almost to the point
OF Self-eXhnctlOn for more than year-when this
country has been going through all Of that-and
more that brazen republican politician comes out
with the glad tdngs that the activities of the Hoov
er administration had held ''the ship of business
steady following the stock market crash last fall
And that it was the first time such leadership had
been exercised by any of presidents in similar
crisis -'''-
What wonderful flow of LANGUAGE but what
ridiculous, meaningless rot Really If we didn't know
Secretary StimsOn we do we would swear he was
a humorst
But that gang in Washington is not given to
cracking jokes. No indeed. They feed the public mind
with this sort of political mush with the THOUGHT that
the people will eat it and like it and come Back for
more We often wonder if those republicans don't
talk nls stuff so much that they have begun to be-
1eVe 1t themselves. And yet for even thew to believe
the recent utterances of Secretary Stimson seems in
conceivable unless they half conscious of what
has been happening since about the middle of 1929.
ana get this one, as Secretary Stimson continues:
i
ened In the Autumn of 1929 and to date throughout
long ana worldwide STRAIN tits still holding the la
Der and lndustryof the United States in situation
Wnch IS favoraby compared with that in other coun
tIleS, ana III this country in other times
~ just what Secretary Stimson means by the word
II we have no way of knowing but if he refers to
PRESIDENT Hoover we are inclined to think that the
speaker said something but didn't realize it. Republi
cans have way Of doing that, you know COOLIDGE for
instance ~
,,, This his country is fed up on this sort of political
bunk Ihe people, and especially the Southern people,
are tired OF it, and if that republican gang in Wash
lngton doesn't believe it. just let them watch the re-
turns In the next presidential election They won't
have another chance to split the "solid south" by
spreading that Infamous propaganda of religious pre-
Jqohce coupled with the prohibition question and
tn? od' fme-Won backbone of all republican cam
palgns, "Republican Prosperity"
Southem democrats were beautifully "taken for
ride and it has cost thcm with the rest Of the conn.,
try: untold suffering and hardship recovery from
"fllch Will take years of time patience and hard work
we have no concern to what the democrats will !
Go at the next presidential election but the tactics
rfs4Efea @ M to by that crowd at Washington in the face
OF the factS that every reasonably intelligent
knows, are beyond our comprehension Their audactv
Is uneQualled in history