The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-06-28
CONGRESS GETS A BIG ORDER FROM
THE RADICALS .......

Frank r. Kent, in the Charlotte Observ-
er, presents this interesting picture relat-
ing to the bomb pitched into the midst OF
Congress by Roosevelt's "soak-the-rich'
taxing scheme. Democratic leaders in Con-
gress were not consulted about the pro-
posal; it was cOncocted by coterie of the
Presidents radical advisers, cooked up and
sent to Congress with instructions to make
it the law of the land in short order. Kent
saws of these so-called Democratic leaders
in Congress:
1t isn't pleasant position in which these
leaders are put. They not only have to follow
in a direction they do not want to CO. but neces-
sty compels them to conceal all trace of resent
ment and look as if they liked it. If those In
position to know can be relied upon the real ad-
visers of Mr.. Roosevelt in this tax message were
Dr. Felix Frankfurter who has furnished most
of the brains for the Brain Trust and had more
to do with shaping. Administration policies than
is generally realized; Mr.. Mariner Eccles, the
young Utah banker, now head of the Federal
Reserve Board, and the gentleman who believes,
among other unorthodox things, that deficits are
BLESSINGS in disguise;' Mr.. MOrgenthau, Jr.,
who, until ne became Secretary of the Treasury,
was a tree specialist, and Professor Moley, whose
closeness to the President is hard to exaggerate
There may have been others, but these are
believed to have been the Presidents chief coun-
selors Not a Democratic leader in the House or
Senate was consulted, the Presidents Business Adj
visory Committee of Fifty knew nothing until it
was printed in the papers. Exactly what keeps
that committee from resigRing is hard to say.
Pretty soon it will be the recognized outstand-
ing joke, a synonym for sucker. Not even a
Democratic Senate leader is treated less serious
w. What the President has really done is take
the soak-the-rich program, long cherished by the
Progressive group, and thrown it into the lap OF
Congress with orders to. put it through.
The details will be determined largely by the
LaFollettes, because theirs is the real ardor and
they will force the fighting. This tax plan IS
their baby, but they never expected to see 1t
adopted by President in the White House. How
far they go to extremes with it depends entirely
upon how far they can push and persuade the
President into letting them go. Of only two
thing is there now any surety. One rs that the
new program will be passed at this session. 1t
is merely a question. of detail The opposition to
the bin as a whole will be negligible. The other
is that it completely ends talk of an anti-Roose-
welt radical third party in 1886 Whatever the
effect economically politically it should solidify
the radicals behind him. The step is long one
in their direction. !. as, -... .-..-.
What a spectacle this and numerou
other developments in Washington presen
to the country. AS the Charlotte Observe
has suggested, it is nauseating Congress
has completely abdicated and is nothinl
but a rubber stamp for the eountry's So
cialist dictators. Representative govern
ment, is a farce: 1t is worse than that, it
tragedy. a..
Roosevelt, Frankfurther, Morgenthar
and the other radicals are in the saddl
and they are certainly riding hard-crasf
ing roughshod over the, cringing represer
tatives of the people, who are demonstra
ing that in the entire Senate and Hous
there is hardly enough of the stuff of whic
men are made to outfit dozen upstandin
legislators.
Who can blame the radicals, however
This is their opportunity-thei first big OF
portunity they have ever had 30, knock OF
the American system of government an
substitute in its place radical Socialism.