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also might be called In connection with
the IVA to the fact that 1t will per-
NIT little or no competition in the
areas where It operates. and II 1t fails
to make expenses the taxpayers of the
whole country share the burden.
Mr.. Roosevelt's monetary plans, his
projected devaluation of the dollar are
radical, and yet they have had the sup
port of some Of the conservatives, with
sharp criticism coming at the same
time from the ranks Of radicals. For
example, Senator McAdoo, of Califor-
MIA, one of the chief supporters of the
Roosevelt candidacy and man of rec
ognized radical leanings, was one of
the main critics against the Presi-
dents program of selling the gold
held by the federal reserve banks.
Senator McAdoo is a former secretary
of the treasury, and stood solidly with
Senator Glass, a Virginia Democrat
and also former secretary Of the treas
ury, in fighting that provision of the
bill.
Then, we have seen the spectacle Of
Senator Arthur Robinson, an Indiana
Republican, who cannot be called con-
sentative by anybody. in the role of
broadcasting a warning that Mr..
Roosevelt wants to be a dictator like
Mussolini of Italy, and Hitler. of Ger
many. The Indiana Robinson has as
sailed President Roosevelt in vicious
fashion. During these same days
when the Indiana Robinson was point
ing out how he could see the Presi-
dent moving towards dictatorship,
there was Senator Joe T. Robinson of
Arkansas, an old-time, conservative
Democrat. serving valiantly as the
Presidents leader in the senate. The
Arkansas Robinson has managed all
RodSeveltian maneuvers In the senate.
whether they led to the right or the
left. He has jumped on the Indiana
Robinson for his attacks on the Pres
ident's plans that were held by the
Indianan to he leading directly to die
tatorship, and in the same breath has
avowed his conservatism.
And so It is in the house Of repre-
sentatives. There is Speaker Rainey
of Illinois, always known as a Demo-
crat Of radical leanings. Along side
him is working Representative Byrns
Of Tennessee. as Democratic leader In
the house. Mr. Byrns has been cata-
logued as conservative through his
long term of service. Among the house
and senate committee chairmen. the
same mixture may be seen.
One may carry the ANALYSIS into the
cabinet and find much the same cir
cumstance. Secre-
As to the tary Wallace, Of ag-
Cabinet riculture. son of a,
former Republican
secretary of agriculture, is Of the left
wing, but he cannot go along with the
radical ideas Of '-flation. He says
that won't solve the problems of the
farmer. There is "Big jim Farley.
the postmaster general. a conservative
in training and in belief. and Cordell
Hull, secretary of state, who was new
er incli. I'd to any Of the new untried
schemes or dreams of the left wing of
his party.
Secretary Ickes, of the Interior de
partment, was a campaigner for Theo-
dore Roosevelt as bull moose candi-
date His wife is Republican men,
Der Of the Illinois legislature. But de-
spite his previously accepted left-lean-
ing. Secretary Ickes Is regarded in
Washington as conservative in most
respects. So is Secretary Perkins.
head of the Labor department and the
only woman in the cabinet. although
on labor questions she has been more
to the left than to the right. Secre-
tary Morgenthau, now In the treasury,
cannot be catalogued otherwise than
a left winger. Mr.. Morgenthau's own
philosophy. however, is quite subordi-
mated, since the Presidents chief inter
est in recent months has been on lines
of monetary revision and the treasury
secretary simply carries out orders
Going further among the Presidents
advisers, we find Lewis douglas, direc-
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magnate, almost directly tied In with
.Wall Street." as New York's finan-
cial interests are termed, and Jesse
Jones, Of Texas, chairman of the gi-
gantic Reconstruction Finance corpor-
alton, banker, a big business man. a
conservative in almost every sense.
Then, when you get into the list Of
professors who have been influential
In administration affairs. you face a
flock. of left-wing adherents. Profess
sor Tugwell, an assistant secretary Of
agriculture, actually would remake our
economic structure along his own pro-
fessorial lines: Professor Warren. who
has stood closer to the President than
any other, although not In an official
post, is credited with being RESPONSE
BILE for the monetary revision policy
the 6O-cent dollar, which is now upon
us. and DIR. William l. Meyers Of Cor
nell. now head Of farm credit admins
tration, has been Of the left wing for
years.
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