Evening star., 1932-05-17

to the welfare OF the Nation.
This Republican Senate Is to be
congratulated and its eminent leaders
to be put forth before the Nation as
worthy of all praise, due to the honor
able and patriotic public servant
1T will now be seen that had all
these things been done which public
condemna ton, quickly spurted out, had
demanded the country today would
have stood in chaos, its business in in
solvency and its people in confusion OF
riot. We would have been in the situation
that you have lately seen in France, the
fanatics killing her President; Japan
with equal fanatics Staying her Pre-
mier; with the unhappy conditions in
the Canadian provinces, as Newfound-
land, where the governor is driven from
his chair to the sea.
Justice to the Democracy.
"Then let us congratulate our coun-
trymen that our public servants in the
legislative halls, joining those public
servants who are the heads of the cab
met and their aides, find themselves
today that, though they lately met In
the internecine shock, now in well
baseeming ranks march all one way
And now 1 ask your attention to
what is justice to the democracy
That you recall that this administra-
ton has been in power three years;
that none of the measures which have
now been passed under the Democratic
House have even been presented for
three years, much less having been
passed for the relief of the people
You will note in all this time the in
creased conditions of hardship, misery
and depression were multiplied upon
the Republic. Day by day you were
told that everything would be all right
that your condition was but a matter
of psychology, miaSma of mind
that lust around the corner and
lust up the road were to be seen the
caravans of new commerce and on the
hills the palaces of promised pros
perity.
Let it be said that the President
and his administration must not be
charged with the full responsibility
they were misled equally by those who
encouraged the administration to con-
duct the policies in vogue, because II
was to the benefit of those who while
misleading the administration were pill
laying the people and we're withhold
ing the facts from the President and
his advisers while they deliberately
IdlSlIleQ 10 JIle puUllC dllu ulISleu JIlt
press to print their false prophecy and
their deceiving promises.
Il invite you to note that the ad-
ministration in power for these three
years finally sent in to the Govern
ment a demand for appropriations
eoualing four billions. or two billions
more in time of profound peace than
were exacted in 1918 or 1920 while
Immediately following the close of the
World War, with all of the war bur-
dens yet to bear Then the appropria-
tions were laid out to meet these eX-
acting, overwhelming and shoulder
crushing burdens.
Here we do justice to say the Presi-
dent and his administration must not
be charged with the responsibility Of
this crime upon the Republic-the mas
ter heads of industry. the political
leadership of the party, the trusted
advisers with schemes to enrich them
selves and those who were under cover
from identity succeeded In getting the
administration to plunge the country
into this Indebtedness for the benefit Of
those who are now capitalizing 1t. /
invite you to note that now with the
deficit exceeding two billion and threat
ening to be three million and with in
debtedness of five billion, this condition
has been caused by those who turned
the Government into the hands of the
large institutions and great political en-
terprises where the authors OF the ne
farious schemes could profit, though 1t
was to the pillage Of the people and
pollution of the Republic. We must not
forget that the President and his cab1-
net and the immediate officials OF his
were often far removed
from the master manipulators IN the
distant States of the Union and were
TO take reports and have no
other form of information upon which
they could rely The press from day to
day called upon to print with quick
ness, that the paper may be issued with
must also take that which
Is given them by those whom they adopt
and which they accept as truth from
those whom they believe reliable.
Calls for Patience.
"All of these Misrepresentation and
conduct have brought our
country to where we are today. We
have educated our Nation to trust those
in position with official power and the
officials in power have been educated to
trust the citizens who in high places
are supposed to report to the official in
power the truth, but who have taken
advantage of the privilege to benefit
and speculate on the public
of the Government, sending out
billions of its gold through favored
banking circles to be gifts to the nations
of South and Central America, bounties
to the nations Of Europe, favors to the
industry and commerce Of other coun-
tries opposing the United States or in
the sums reaching between 25 and 30
billions of money drained from the
possessions of America and paralyzing
the prospects of the future of her Ma
ton.
These crimes now uncovered to the
public have all been committed with
such sequence and under the plausi-
bility of patriotic finance and industry
that the Americans had no opportunity
to detect it, as they could not believe
they were. being betrayed by those
whom they trusted and who appeared
under the guise of friends of persons
in power as patriots to the party Of
the administrator. The Democrats,
though crying out against the wrong
through all the years day by day, were
denounced as falsifiers, sometimes as
traitors, as well as lacking in pa
triotism, because they would denounce
these objects and cry to the people to
stop them with some form of express
sion at the ballot box. Now, when
all these cries were ignored and the
public face to face with the disaster
brought on by these violations and vio-
lences, there is nothing to be done but
bemoan the situation and trust that
in the future our country, recognizing
the honest mistakes of those who have
deluded in the citizenship, their ad-
ministration deceased in its trust, the
Democracy defeated in its effort, leav-
ing whole Nation betrayed in its
hopes, helpless in its miseries. turning
in the last hour to the great people
of our country, beseeching that they
shall learn the truth and in the words
of the great prophet in the Holy Scrip
ture. feeling the relief in that know
ing the truth, the truth shall make you
free
The hour calls for the exercise Of
patience by the citizen and poise by
the political parties. Let us realize
au tho institutions Of Government