Evening star., 1934-04-01

ranny" OF the Bureau OF Animal In
dustry? And who almost simultaneously
passed the grain-futures act for sub
jecting the Chicago Board of Trade
to the totally new tyranny" of the
new Grain Futures Administration in
the Department of Agriculture?
Why, the Republican party under that
great Communist, President Warren
Gamaliel Harding.
Their One Opportunity.
The fact is that when the poor
Democrats came into power this time
there was just about only one thing
left over in this country for them to
regulate and that was securities. So
they started in to do it through the
securities act and the proposed Stock
Exchange control act. Can you blame
them? They have to be at least as
regulatory" as the Republicans.
But want to suggest to them that
there is one last opportunity that they
are overlooking. They should make it
all unanimous and complete by regu-
lating all the electric light and power
rates of this country whenever those
rates are on electric current entering
interstate commerce. And why
should they do this? Because it was
recommended over and over again
by that ardent Communist sympa-
thizer. President Herbert Hoover.
And the Republicans will do it when
they get back into power unless the
Democrats beat them to it now.
Surely. seriously, there Is nothing
Communist in the mere "regula-
ton" of private business. Com
munism abolishes private business.
Regulation increases its chances of
life on this planet by curing its
abuses. Naturally, there can be over
regulation But. naturally. also. the
people and the Congress can reduce
that "over-regulation" when thought
needful. Meanwhile private business
persists. Which is contrary to COM
munism.
Should Consult BOrah.
I could 60 over all the other fea-
lures of the administration and prove
equally. 1 think. that they are all
capitai1stic. even if erroneous. and
not communistic in any essential
sense whatsoever. I thereupon con-
clude that if the opposition party
wants advice on how to attack the
Roosevelt revolution" it should con-
suit Senator Borah.
l really wonder how it is that others
than Borah, including some of my
dearest friends in the press gallery,
take it upon themselves to find
formula for the opposition We have
only one real tried true continuous
never-failing oppositionist among US.
That's Borah.
Who first smelled out the League of
Nations issue as the death warrant
of the Wilson administration? Borah.
Of course
Who. within few days after
Hoover was inaugurated. picked upon
the agricultural issue and the tariff
issue as the funeral bells for Hoover?
Borah, naturally.
Leave it to Borah. Trust him.
That's what I would say to Senator
Hastings and Senator Metcalf and
Senator Walcott and Representative
Smell and the other cuStodians of the
citadel Of Republicanism. And what
does Senator Borah say? He finds
the new deal too-too-eapitalisti
Vigorous Opposition.
He says that the administration.
through the N. r. A, is showing too
much favor to the plutocrats 1t is
enabling them to enlarge their big
businesses and to freeze out the little
businesses more and more. His
speech on this point the other night
on the radio was as vigorous and as
calculated to arouse public emotion
as any Of the speeches that he made
against the League of Nations dur
ing and after the great war.
He calls upon the opposition to de-
fend the little fellow" against the
assaults upon him by the big fellow"
in alliance with the N. R. A. code
authorities" He maintainS-contrary
to the administration and contrary to
the restriction Of factory time and of
factory output now practiced by GER
tain code authorities-that the in
dustrial greatness of this country, in
swelling volume of production and in
swelling volume of consumption. is
yet to come. He sounds a note of
hope in the future and wishes to
abolish all output restrictions and all
price fixations (both A. A. A. and N.
R. A. in favor of opportunity for ali
and in favor of illimitable develop
ment.
Fights "Regimenting.'
So he calls upon his fellow Repub-
licanS to strike down the regiment
ing" features of the new deal. This
ought to be easy for them. Now that
they have almost all gone over in
Congress to the cause of the poor vet
eran and to the cause of the poor
Government employe, it ought to be
easy for them to go over to the cause
of The little fellow" in business, TAX
ing their big campaign contributors
with them, or not. That would in
deed be revolution" worth seeing.
But, finally, and right down fiat to
the ground, wouldn't 1t be wonderful
If the election next Fall could be con-
Quoted without any of those stale.
dead epithets. progressive" "reac-
tionary," radical" 100 per cent
American" Communist" and "Jeffer-
sonian"? Wouldn't it be wonderful
if the administration would simply
say:
Our policies, though derived large
ly from antiquity, make sense and
are good and helpful"
And wouldn't it be wonderful if the
opposition would simply say:
I'VE admit that your policies have
their precedents-or, at least. their
germs-in the whole capitalistic his
tory of our beloved country, but we
maintain that in the form you have
given them they do not. as a whole,
make sense and are bad and HARM
full"
Wouldn't it be wonderful. in other
words. if a campaign could be con-
Quoted, not on the labels of the bot
ties. but on the contents? Yes. it
would be wonderful-and impossible.
p. S.-When, and If, the Republican
train comes into the station again,
Borah will arrive half an hour ahead
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