Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-11-01

during his two hour speech a few
weeks back He pulled the same
gag which his party tried to pull
during the presidential campaign,
namely, trying to frighten the peo-
pie into a panic of fear of the loss
of their liberties which our fore
fathers died to give us; of the coun-
try going Bolshevik; of scrapping
the constitution. and so-o-o-o-on
and so-o-o-o-on. We would advise
the public that it is true that the
American people have lost the Glib
erty" to hire children at low pay,
instead of adults at higher pay.
Bankers have lost the liberty 10
use the depositors' funds to specu-
late in stocks through securities af-
filiates. Securities sellers have lost
the ''liberty" to use falsehood and
concealment to unload worthless
bonds and stocks on an innocent
and unsuspecting public Specula-
tors have been deprived of much of
their ''Iiberty'' to rig the market
and otherwise defraud honest in
vestors. The Big Shot Industrial
lists have lost the "liberty'' to work
employees long hours at little pay.
There are a few of the liberties
which we Democrats agree with Ed
itor Lamson have been lost, and
THANK God" These and other
"liberties'' of the same sort have
been curtailed, and there are more
which will be curtailed, if the com
mon people of this nation have
brains enough to keep Roosevelt in
power But, we wonder if they
have? Of course, only the tory has
regarded these as s'liberties.' We
Democrats regard them as privi-
leges abused. And it is significant
to note that the country editor ig-
nored the fact that all the yelling"
about lost liberties-comes from po-
litical stump speakers, the hired
henchmen of selfish interests who
have in one way or another. been
brought to book. There's an old
saying, "a stuck pig always
squeals.' 1t isn't the working man
on the streets who yells about lost
liberty The honest man knows that
the public in general, the man on
the street has more liberties if any
thing. He has the liberty of being
protected in his right to "nn honest
days pay, for an honest days
work. His home and farm are al
so protected, and are not being sold
on the government auction block
as under the Old Deal. The coun-
try editor, as he styled himself, got
his terms crossed trying to explain
the difference between a law and a
statute. Evidently the country gen.
tleman does not understand the
definition of synonym. If he will
take the trouble to look in any
standard dictionary, he will find the
word statute defined as follows:
"Statute: An ordinance or law pass
ed by duly authorized law-making
body" So evidently this definition
of the statute knocks his explana-
tion into cooked hat.
What is needed in the world to-
day is a cessation Of anemic rea-
soning on the part of men who
think that they think, and who
know Just enough not to know how
little they know, and get up and
make fools out Of themselves be-
fore an audience, trying to talk
about things, when they don't know
what they are talking about.
The country editor ventured into
Bible history in his ramblings, say
ing: "People looked upon Roosevelt
as modern Moses " and continues
the country editor, "Moses was lost
in the wilderness for forty years. T"
But the country gentleman forgot to
tell his audience that Moses led his
people from out of the bondage of
Egyptian slavery, even though he
got lost in the desert. He talked
about joining a revolution if Roose-
welt sent one of his agents to him
telling him "he had to do this
ask the country gentleman "where
were he and all these great de-
tenders of the constitution two and
three years ago, when over 400
farms a day were being sold on the
auction block by modern Simon
Legrees, under the philosophy of
the Old Deal?
Next, the country editor turned
"Prince Ali Bendo," and little
Hughie took the part of Andrew H.
Brown. The "Prince" borrowed a
five spot from Andi, then got out
his "kistal glazer," and tried to be
funny. The performance was pitt
! able, for surely nothing is more bor-
ing to an audience than somebody
! trying to be comedian, when he
would make a better undertaken. 1t
was simply nauseating. Immediate
ly following this performance, many
got up and left. Eek Humphries
tried to cover things up by laughing
50 loud that an old deaf woman who
lives up near the commons thinking
| that his loud OUTLAWS" was some
one knocking at the door, straight