The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-19
IF HOOVER HAD BEEN ELECTED.

Ignoring all of the events that have transpired since the national election of 1892 former Clerk of Court John H. Dunn advised the Gastineau Channel Republican Club to turn its face backward in it's effort to rehablitate the shattered ranks of Alaskas G. O. P If the had reelected Hoover instead of electing Franklin D. Roosevelt the country would now be almost back a normal basis, he declared to ringing applause from the 37 present That ton almost as foolish as his declaration that the stand of President Roosevelt in favor of col lective bargaining is responsible for the labor troubles the country is experiencing For the latter assertion he was challenged by Alaskas former Delegate to Congress-Judge James Wickersham
 The premise that the United States would have emerged from the greatest depths of depression it has ever known if the regime were continued in power under which the catastrophe had occurred and which had not only demonstrated it's helpless ness to combat but also its complete inability to comprehend is just much empty bombast. It is however, typical of the G. o. P organization from the National Committee to the weakest State organization. It is full of emptiness that it is hard to avoid grin when the scarecrow squad begins to trot out its specters of fascism com munism, revolution, dictatorship and what have you
 It has remained for MT. Dunn to erect the latest scarecrow-colective bargaining And when it is dragged out of the ghost closet of the Republicans the grin becomes horse laugh Trade unionism
  raising the status of Americas laboring men and women. Without it, their lot would be pitful indeed. It has been bulwark Of Democracy Ii is to labor what manufacturers associations are to industry It's only effective weapon is the right of collective bargaining Politicians who condemn it those who applaud its condemnation out of partisan zeal, must live in into which no nforma- tion ever penetrates
 The Democratic Party has sponsored by law the right of labor to organize and bargain collectively The Democratic Party in Alaska has formally en- dorsed that policy. They will be glad to accept the issue that the Republican Club here last Tuesday raised when it charged that President Roosevelt's favor of the system is i-advised, unsound and at the bottom of present labor difficulties The major ity of Alaskan workers probably are not affiliated with unions, but undoubtedly most of them are strongly pro-union. We are certain they will not knowingly cast their lot with any political organiza- tion, no matter what it is labeled, nor their votes for it's candidates.
 Collective bargaining, however is but one phase of the existing regime. The great difference between MT Roosevelt's conception of the duty of govern ment and his performance of that duty and MT Hoover's concept and acts is that the former holds that the Government of te United States is directly responsible for the physical wel-being of it's citizens while the latter held this to be the duty of the
 
 willing to give aid to great financial transportation and industrial corporations but none to the indi- vidual He so stated plainly. The community, he declared responsible first and if it failed then the county State had to the charge And under him the Federal Government did not do or pretend to do anything.
 How different. from President Roosevelt In his own words his program consisted of three related steps, the first and most vital of which relief: Because the primary concern of any government dominated by the humane ideals of democracy is the simple principle that in land of vast resources should be permitted to starve. Relief was and continues to be first consideration
 And it made necessary by that very period that MT. Dunn characterizes "normalcy." It was the period of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. The depicted aptly by MT. Roosevelt that unfortunate decade characterized by a mad chase for unearned riches and unwillngness of leaders in almost every walk of life to look beyond their own schemes and speculations.' We very certain that the voters of the United States. and that includes the voters of Alaska well, will not be frightened by the ghost chasers into recalling those leaders to power that they restore the system which produced what the Republicans bndly hail as "normalcy."