Montana labor news., 1933-06-08
Timely and Untimely
Observations
AMBASSADOR ADAM LOOKS
AHEAD
BY ADAM coALDIGGER

again. Duuuy nau INTENDED making
the trip all by his lonesome, but
changed his mind and asked me to
come along. This is a good thing all
around, for when Buddy changes his
mind it's usually for the worse, and
there never was time when Wash
ington needed me more than right
now.
The first call | made after hitting
the burg was at the White House as
usual However, the hired girl who
answered my ring told me there was
nobody at home at the White House.
| told her that was perfectly true
while poor Herbert was still living
there, but that judging from all the
commotion coming from the place, |
had expected company.
Anyhow, / didn't get to see the
president, which is a great pity for
if anyone ever needed the counsel of
first class mind it's him. BY this
! don't mean that there are no good
heads among his counselors. There
are. But they all hail from Man
haitian Island, the capital of the cred
itor nation that stretches from Bal
timore, Md, to Boston, Mass, while
Pm the ambassador of the great debt
or nation back of the Jersey hills.
In other words, Pm representing the
American what's been bled white by
way of lower Manhattan Island.
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When all is said and done, there is
only one job before Franklin and
that is to bring about more equal
distribution of wealth in the coun-
try and the only way to do that is
by taking it from those who have
nothing but appetite.
So far the president has done his
level best trying to live up to the
divine injunction, at is more pleas
ant to give than to take" without
hurting the feelings of the reluctant
givers, which is a tough job, take it
from me. For instance, he gave four
hundred millions to the United States
treasury by reducing veterans com
pensation by that amount. This
noble deed evoked considerable ap-
plause in the House of Have and
Hold for what the have-and-holders
want is to see the budget balanced
without reducing their bank balances.
But the veterans claim they didn't
bleed and die to make Wall Street
safe from budget-balancers and there
are millions of them with votes in
their pockets and daggers in their
hearts.
Saving a few hundred millions more
by bouncing federal employees and re-
ducing salaries is all well and good
as far as the deserving rich are con-
cerned, but how about the poor devils
who had wages bobbed, or what is
worse still, are drafted into the grand
army of unemployed?
All this is in line with the policies
of the forgotten man Herbert Hoover.
In fact, Brother Roosevelt went even
deeper into the dismal swamp of
economy, as government parsimony is
called in polite language, for while
Herbert refused to give relief to the
unemployed, Franklin is making more
unemployed to relieve people who
neither need relief nor employment.
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Moreover what this country needs
now and above everything else is in
creased consumption. Cutting down
expenditures under the present cir
cumstances is like saving water while
the town is afire. And by consump-
tion | mean anything that gets rid
of the good things that are smoth-
ering this great and intelligent ma
! tion under a mountain of blessings
Nor does it matter how or in what
manner consumption is stimulated.
A bumper crop of boil weevils will
do more toward pulling the cotton
states out of the nine hole than a
bumper crop of cotton or saving the
salaries of all the postmasters and
mail carriers between the Potomac
and the Gulf. An epidemic of hog
cholera will put more shekels into
the Sow Belt than the hanging of
all the judges and sheriffs would
save between now and doomsday. BY
the same token, chinch bugs in Kan
sas coupled with life-sized war in
Europe or Asia, assisted by tidal
wave in Florida and an earthquake
in California would bestow greater
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