The Omaha guide., 1934-04-28
EDITORIAL
BEGINNING THEWAR ON ROOSEVELT

Inc new York Chamber of Commerce, the Hearst
newspapers, Alfred p. Smith join their opposition to the
1Satlohal recovery Administration. Five of the leading
lndustrlallStS of the nation. including Schab and Tooolo
have joined with Senator Carter Glass and the National
Press Association in opposing the methods and inouisi-
tons of the N. R. A.
The farmers of the west have backed up five of
their governors in bitter and solemn defence of the
pracuces ana provisions OF the Agricultural Adminstra-
lion, d Drancn OF the N. H.. A. From all sections of the
country the politicians have taken their tongues ont Of
their cheeks and have recovered their voices and are be-
ginning TO make common cause against the effort to re-
glment ana sov1et1se the American people. The Amer
lcan Legion has gone on record in opposing the recopni-
ton Of the soviet union by the Roosevelt Administration.
Inc catnollcs and jews of the country for religious rea-
sons are equally opposed to the dollar diplomacy of the adj
mlnlstration which offers recognition in return for the
trade OF the land of Lenin and Trotsky.
These things are significant. President Roosevelt
has reckoned with out the things spiritual and fundament-
al in the equation. On March fourth, we said that the
acid test of the New Deal would be it's honest. open chamn-
ionshlp OF the equality of colored America in the body
polite. Paliatives, the evasion of the issue not only will
not suffice. Theywill be bommerangs, we said.
We are not prepared to say, as have many institu-
lions and groups and individuals, that the New Deal has
not functioned for the real" forgotten man. of the nation
In as much as We have done it unto the least of these my
little ones, We have done it unto me. The New Deal has
aggravated the civic and industrial plight of a group of
twelve million loyal American Citizens. There can be no
peace, there can be no progress that will be permanent
until they are frankly and fearlessly taken into the scheme
of things. We make bold to say that the wave of lynch
law which, during the eight months of Roosevelts Ad-
minstration has exceeded both in number of victims and
in ferocity any similar period since Woodrow Wilson.
There are fewer colored wage earners employed
today than a year ago. They have become victims of the
minimum wage conditions imposed upon industry by the
N. R. A., and because the American industries have not
been forced by the N. R. A. to give equal work with equal
pay to them. We mention these outrages not because OF
their inherent injustices but because we believe that they
are providential warnings to the nation to let this people
go.
The cold calculations Of Washington to build Re-
covery without reckoning with the black, oaken pier be-
meath it, is like building a house upon shifting sand. The
winds of opposition and the rains of perversity have be-
gun to beat on the house and it will fall because it is built
upon the sands. We do not believe further that the Amer
lean government can run it's business, it can not finance
the business of the nation, it can not limit the production
or the consumption of the people in this free country. It
can only regulate the business and the industry to satisfy
it's own structure and for its own benefit.
We join with all other patriots in crying for relief.
We do not hesitate to declare that the appointment of one
or two supine individuals of color and of caucasian advi-
sors of rebel lineage are efforts to white wash the situa-
ton. We urge the N. r. A. to try another experiment.
since a policy of experimentation to bring back prosper
iy is the corner stone of the Roosevelt regime-shOuld be
tried. That policy should include a fortnight pronounce
ment from the President declaring specifically the colored
citizens in on the New Deal. That pronouncement must
Danish mob rule as a menacing evil of the nation. Let
Roosevelt speak out loud and bold and with equal boldness
execute the laws of the land or the murmurs of the masses
will turn into open war upon his policy and program at