The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1935-12-26
EDITORIAL
COMMENT
4 Rose BY Any Other Name, Etc.
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A Rose BY Any Other Name, Etc.
Three years ago in the national
political campaign, Franklin d.
Roosevelt made the welkins from
one end of the nation to the other
ring with the cry that the nation
must balance it's budget and must
operate more economically and
must eliminate waste and dupli-
cation by an elimination of all un-
necessary bureaus.
Then Mr.. Roosevelt was elected
President and for three years he
has unbalanced the budget to a
greater extent than at any other
peace time in history; he has spent
money at a rate that has made all
other presidents appear as misers
in comparison; he has broken all
records in the number of bureaus
he has set up and the number of
people he has put on the govern
ment payroll.
On his trip around the country
a few months ago he discovered
that people in all sections of Amer
lea are remembering his campaign
promises and are strenuously re-
senting his doing exactly the OPP
posite of his promises, so in a
speech at Atlanta on Nov. Goth, he
passed out this salve: Your gov
eminent says to you: You cannot
borrow your way out of debt; but
you can invest your way into a
sounder future"
Sounds fine, but the people who
will for the next generation or two
be paying bills Of the present ad-
ministration, if they consider the
spending Of the past three years an
investment, will feel just as the
thousands of poor suckers did who
invested in Foshay and insult
stocks-they won't be getting divi-
dends and will never again see
their capital investment.-St. Cloud
Sentinel.
Senator BOrah Speaks the Truth
Regardless of whether he is a
Republican or Democrat, Senator
Borah vigorously defends constitu-
tional government when he says:
when you propose to wipe out
state sovereignty you are not pro-
posing a mere change in our form
of government, but you are propos-
ing to destroy it. There can be no
such thing as great Federal I'M
ion without great Commemorative
upon which it may rest. When it
is proposed to curtail or limit the
rights of the citizen and control his
judgments as to how he shall direct
his business you are not changing
our form of government-you are
destroying it,"
Those are words which any Am
erican can understand and indorse,
as was Senator Borahs added state
ment that any legislation necessary
to bring re-employment at a fast
er rate can be enacted under the
Constitution without adding to the
bureaucracy in Washington.
When the Supreme Court knock
ed out the National Industrial Re-
covery Act, there were many who
saw in that ruling blow to recov-
cry. AS Senator Borah says, we
have now found that the courts
decision was distinctly in aid of re-
covery. In the same way it is more
than a possibility that history will
record that unemployment pro-
crossed to the extent that careless
experiments were supplanted by
sound doctrines based upon exper-
ience.-Alexandria Citizen-News.
When the police of Minneapolis
finally discovered the eyewitness to
the murder of Walter Liggett, they
forthwith slapped both the eyewit-
ness and his fiancee into Jail, so
that they would be safe from the
gangsters. Such procedure is an
acknowledgement that they can't
protect him. And if they can't pro-
tect him, why should any citizen of
Minneapolis testify against the
gangsters and racketeers if it's a
case of either go to Jail or be
bumped off. And the sorriest spec
tacle Of all is Governor Olson and
the Minneapolis authorities asking
the federal government to come in
and clean up Minneapolis. How
long would it stay clean after they