The Washington times., 1932-01-30
Which's S Which?


1t is possible that the two parties will differ
thing much important than assertions about the
cause of our hardships We may have hard money
school and soft money school, defators and infators,
natonalists and nternationasts, hardheaded and
Softhearted men; but tradition is against it. Outsiders
have repeatedly asked to distinguish party from
the other and in days when both parties wobbe the
tariff their question has seemed deliberately unfriendy
act. We try to say that theoretically the Democratic
party is more favorable to the farmer and the poor
facts Or that the Republicans the party of pros
perity-but that answers itself
Exclusively Redheads
1t occurs to me that division might be made.
The two parties do not anything specific enough
You find in each rich and poor Protesants, Jews
and Catholics white men and negroes; even Northern
Democrats and Southern Republicans exist. What am
looking for is party which can say "All men of
certain kind are in party and the opposition has
of this kind" AS, for instance if all red-headed
men Democrats and all Democrats red
headed. If this offered merely for the fun of
going into politics. red headedness would be suff
clent dividing line. But a practical purpose exists.
am suggesting that political parties back to first
princpesthat they devote themselves to the welbeng
of the citizens And it seems to me that body of
citizens has interest which other body has, That
body is composed of the parents of small children
What Parents Want
The parents of small children, to begin with, less
interested in immediate wealth and interested in
security Most of them not clamorng for the
turn of the and prices the standard of exrava
gance OF three years ago. most OF them are concerned
dren at the present level with being able to afford
schools and colleges. Most of them hoping that if
war has to come, it will come now, when they
themselves old enough to escape active service and
their children too young to be drafted. All of
them deeply and violently outraged at the thought
that nothing is being done to prevent fifteen to
twenty years from Most of them hate the idea of
riots and revoution few of them are actually keen
on Communist state, if it comes quietly.
For the Long Pull
suggest that and of thirty-five to forty
five, who have children whose parents are either
dead prosperous have quite different attitude of
mind. Communism may rob them of little; revolution
may give them excitement; fifteen years from
would be pleasant spectacle in which they would
have no private interest; and they might prefer ten
years OF splurge to twenty of moderate pros
perty.
The parents may be rich poor; natural-born Demo-
Gratis or detected Republicans. They have been so
accustomed to political stmuants that they really be-
lieve themselves personally concerned in the tariff
Actually their abiding interest lies in the far future
1t is quite true that they want to keep their jobs want
prosperity, and may have specific views about the
Government in business but they cannot stop with
looking sixty days ahead four years ahead. They
may not want their children to live in the kind of
country the politicians intend to create. And they
haven't, without political party, any way of max
ing their wants known.
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