Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1934-09-27
Liberty League Buncombe

One must view the new socalled American Iiber
ty League as just another big bad wolf in disguise TO
wreck the Roosevelt administration-if it can. The
roster of extinguished names should be proof of this
contention: Al Smith and his sidekick, John J. Ras-
kob. Jouett Shouse. standpat candidate for the presi-
dency two years ago in opposition to Roosevelt, Re-
publican Standpat James w. Wadsworth and the No
party duPonts of Delaware, whose interest in politics
Is profuse and diverse financially; the duPonts are in
politics for what there is in it, for the duPonts.
These are some of the big mits in the American Lib
erty League. We marvel Andrew Mellon and ]. Pier
pont Morgan are not included in the League propon-
ents-perhaps they are, under cover.
This galaxy. of political highbinders and business
big mits are banded together for the ayowed purpose
OF fighting radicalsm and protecting property;
whose property? If there are any property owners In
Montana linked with this new movement TO sabotage
the Roosevelt administration. we doubt they will come
out IN the open. We doubt there is a single individ-
uaf in the state would cooperate with, or be known
as, collaborators or e~onfidants OF wet smacks such as
Al Smith, Raskob, Shouse or Wadsworth. all discred-
tied political pirates. The du-Ponts ct al are merely
of the Big Rich who seek prey wherever they can find
it in their mad pursuit OF more and more wealth.
Business pirates.
One maryels at their lack OF perspicacity: their
ignorance OF the present situation that calls for hui
manitarism and solictude over the plight OF several
million unemployed; lack of philanthropic impulse to
correct abuses brought on by their own predatory
state of mind under the illusion that they are of the
Amounted. Single-handed, President Roosevelt won
two years ago on his promise a New Deal would sue
coed our heretofore Rotten Deal in special privilege
accorded the favored few, but these obtuse politicians
who serve the business big-wigs refuse to accept the
peoples mandate. they choose to believe they can be-
fiddle and confuse the nations electorate by covert
attack of the Roosevelt policies that do not hesitate
to feed the unemployed and i~nstigate agricultural bet
teIment- The American Liberty Leagues principal
concern is who is going to foot the bill when 1t comes
to settlement for the huge sums spent for human
relief.
Beyond doubt the answer is those who have. Our
own posterity may have to reckon with this problem,
but even so, who 'cares2 Each of us to an extent must
reckon with the future on this count, but we will ven
ture the assertion that we are practically a unit In de
termination the poor and unfortunate must be provid-
ed for in this emergency distress. cost what 1t will In
the future. The late President Hoover was adamant
IN opposition to what he termed the DOLE what we
now designate as human relief He lost I'm one OF the
great political turnovers in American history. Yet the
socalled American Liberty League is fatuous enough
to attempt a return to Hooyerism. And exposes how
our socalled political wiseacres are Simple Simons
under the Yeneeri