The Sauk Centre herald., 1932-12-01
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BEVERLY HILLS - Well all
know is just what read in the
papers or what I see as I aprowl
hither and thither. With the cleo
ton over everybody seems to have
settled down to steady argument.
The old Hide Bound" Republi-
cans still think the world is just
on the verge of coming to an end
and you can kinder see their angle
at that for they have been running
things all these years.
You would think a lot of folks
would have their passage booked
to some foreign land till the next
election when they could get these
Democrats back among the unem-
ployed. Why they was in for
eight years here not so long ago,
from 1912 to 20. Course 7 was
just a boy and cant remember
back that far but have heard my
dear old Dad say there was some
mighty good times including a war
thrown in for good measure.
Personally I never could see
much difference in the two Gangs.
They used to be divided by the
Tariff. The Tariff was originally
supposed to aid the man that man.
ufactured things. Well the Demo
Gratis of those days dident manu-
facture anything but arguments,
so they was against the Tariff, but
the South woke up one day and
saw some spinning looms adver-
tised in a Montgomery Ward menu
card, so they sent and got some
and started spinning their own
cotton.
Well they had cheap water pow
er, cheap coal, cheap labor and
the Yankees started moving their
shops down from the North. Well
the Democrats woke up on another
morning with a Tariff problem on
their hands. The South had gone
industrial in a big way. Well they
started talking about Tariff in
bigger words than the North, so
now that the South has got em
some smoke stacks where they
only used to have some mule sheds,
why they are just Tarriffing them
selves to death. So that left the
principal dividing line between the
two parties shot to pieces. You cant
tell one from the other now. OF
course the last few years under
Mr.. Coolidge and Mr.. Hoover there
had grown the old original idea
of the Republican Party that it
was the Party Of the rich.
I think the general run OF folks
had kinder got wise to that. In the
old days they could get away with
it, but of late years the rich had
diminished till their voting power
wasent enough to keep minority
vote gong. This last election was
a revulsion of feeling that went
back long way ahead of the hard
times.
Why after that twentyeight cleo
ton there was no holding EN-.
They really did think they had
Hard Times" cornered once and
for all. Merger on top of merger.
Get two non-paying things merged
and then issue more stock to the
Public. Consultations and Hold
ing Companies. Those are the
Inventions" that every voter that
had bought during the Cuckoo"
days were cunning for at this last
election.
Saying that all the big vote was
just against hard times Is not all
so. They was voting against not
being advised that all these foreign
loans was not too solid. They was
voting because they had never been
told or warned to the contrary that
every big consolidation might not
be just the best investment. You
know the people kinder look on our
government to tell EN- and kinder
advise EN-. And many an old bird
really got sore at Coolidge, but
could only take it out on Hoover.
Big business sure got big, but it
got big by selling its stocks and not
by selling its products. No scheme
was halted by the government as
long as somebody would buy the
stock. It could have been a plan
to deepen the Atlantic ocean and it
would have had the Endorsement of
the proper department in Wash
ington, and the stocks would have
gone on the market
This election was lost four and
five years ago and not this year.
They did not start thinking of the
old common fellow till just as they
started out on the election tour.
The money was all appropriated for
the top in the hopes that it would
trickle down to the needy. Mr..
Hoover was an engineer. He knew
that water trickled down. Put it
uphill and let it go and it will reach
the dryest little spot. But he did
not know that money trickled up.
Give it to the people at the bottom
and the people at the top win have
1t before night anyhow. But it will
at least have passed through the
poor fellows hands. They saved
the big banks but the little ones
went up the fiue.
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