The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-03
Liberal Viewpoint
by DIR. HARRY ELMER BARNES =

by DR.. HARRY ELMER BARNES
A CCOMPANYING the Writ flop comes an
"a other boomerang which is a typical product
of reactionary imbecility.
The Edmondson Economic Analysis Barom-
eter Service has just sent out broadside en-
titled The Deadly Parallel: Counsel Of Ex-
pertinent Versus Experience-A Graphic Patr1-
otto Picture of Political and Economic Com
parison."
The sheet proceeds to list one column Of
Americans who are described as famous prac-
teal Americans Who under constitutional de-
mocracy's individual reward system, helped to
build United States prestige and wealth from
zero to unequaled pre-enlinence."
In parallel column it sets down list Of
professors, doctrinaries, ct al prominent ma
tional administrators and advisers, mostly
credited in the public press with favoring pol
icies antagonistic to American traditions"
While fulsomely praising the outstanding
individuals who are alleged to have brought the
country from obscurity and poverty to paradise
and international domination, Mr.. Edmondson
fails to mention the fact that W. w. Atterburys
labor policies have been exceedingly reaction
airy; that it is John w. Davis mind which has
been behind much of the corporate and fnan-
cial structure that has all but ruined the coun-
try; that Charles G. Dawes has always been
the playboy of the predatory financial interests
and could only keep his own banks open through
a vast loan from the federal government; that
spectacle last June than any of the bankers
under investigation, and that E. G. Grace's
Bethlehem bonuses have long been national
scandal.
A LSO mentioned with these gentlemen are
"A H l. Hartman, who once approved the
NRA and has been more recently demanding
the revival of the very policies which brought on
the depression; j. P Morgan and Andrew Mellon
who are the most conspicuous representatives of
that finance capitalism which has brought
America to the brink of ruin and seems likely
to go through with the job; also overlooked is
that not a single constructive proposal of any
merit can be traced to Governor A. G. Ritchie,
however charming dinner companion he may
be; that Charley Schwab has been for years the
chief Happiness boy" Of the old line American
capitalism; that Owen D. Young's record to
financial craftsmanship is far from impregnable;
and that James w. Wadsworth is perhaps the
most distinguished representative of the Amer
lean political Bourbons whose policies would put
the country in the hands of the Fascists within
two years.
Who are the dangerous man, mostly foreigners,
who are about to throw the country to the dogs
They are Adolf A. Bere, perhaps the most bril-
liant mind in American public life today, whose
profound studies have thoroughly exposed the
devious and disastrous methods of our Specula-
tive pirates; Justice Louis D. BrandeiS whose
dissenting decisions have played leading part
Frankfurter, better qualified than any other
American to be the recipient of Brandeis' man
tle Sidney Hillnan the outstanding labor leader
which the United States has produced.
A LSO Henry Hunt who showed that that
n great American city could be administered
with decency and economy; Harold L. Ickes,
by common consent the strongest figure in the
Roosevelt cabinet; Raymond Moley, who first
made it possible for the United States to get
expert advice on large scale; Ferdinand Pc
cora, who was eminently successful in expos
ing and discrediting the chief enemies of the
republic; Donald Richberg, devoted friend of
social justice and dealism; James Harvey
Rogers, whose monetary theories may we'll be
contrasted to those of Mr.. Morgan and Mr.
Mellon; Rexford G. Tugwell, who has surprised
even his friends by proving as much of states
man as an economist; Samuel Unterlnyer arch
enemy of the speculative mogulS, whose labors
back in 1912 exposed the money trust and might
have saved the country from it's present I'M
happy experience, and Leo Wolman one of the
worlds best informed experts on labor and
chiefly to be criticised for his increasing con-
ServatiSm
Just to compare these lists is quite enough
to lead any informed and civilized American
to thank God for Roosevelt. And let us not
forget that "the unequaled pre-eminence of
prestige and wealth. to which Morgan, Mellon,
ct al. raised us was BLACK Friday" March 8,
1888.