The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-08-26
MONDAY, August %

ton, the machine! That the ma
chiiiriiies" has made "overpirooduc:tii,o,,n,
for those who are able to buy"
and rendered unemployable mil
lions who need to. but can't, con-
sumo, because they cannot be en-
ployed and because they cannot
be employed are unable to buy.
One of the greatest thinkers III
the world today-author of "Man
and the Machine"-says: "The
machine was intended to liberatc
man from slavery to nature, to
tighten his burdens of labor, but
instead it has enslaved man ancw
and cursed him with unemploy-
ment." The same writer declare /
"the necessity for some regulation
of capitalism is universally recOG-
nized as URGENT, since unregu-
lated capitalism has brought the
country to the verge Of catastro-
ply" And this statement is con-
firmed by the greatest economists
and sociologists throughout tn
civilized world today. The fact is
that they are all agreed that chaos
is the alternative.
Nearly half a century ago 4
brilliant student Of the rapidly
advancing chronological age fore
cast that the acknowledgement
ployment riddle, unless solved b.
some means of balancing produc-
ton against distribution and con-
sumption not then in sight, "woul,i
cleave the human race into two
great classes, cursed by mutual
fear and hate, and of whose need
and greed wealth and want viii
yet be born totanic Reign Of
Terror that will sweep civilization
back a thousand years on tn
crimson crest Of a wave of blood
and flame , 1t is to the solution
of this riddle that the government
at Washington is bending every
effort.
Mr.. H. G. Wells, known in
every country under the sun, from
"Greenland's icy mountains to In
dia's corral strand,' recently de-
clared President Roosevelt to be a
"great Anglo-Saxon leader" Mr..
Wells is historian and phllosc-
pher to whom the world instantly
turns listening ear whenever and
wherever he speaks. Against his
opinion we have your assertion
that the president is the chief Of
gang of "Raw Dealers bent
upon bankrupting the nation and
ending constitutional government.
What have you had to say about
the industrial freebooters and pi-
rates like Hopson Of the Power
Trust. who testified before a con-
gressional investigation committee
that he and his associates had
spent eight hundred thousand dol
liars in propaganda to defeat the
bill to rid the country Of the pred
atory holding companies while ne
and his family pocketed thirteen
millions of dollars of the graft
squeezed from the gullible public
and consumers in general? About
that you have kept as still as pri-
meval silence. 1t was not the divl-
dends to their vastly water-logged
stockholders that worried HopsoN
and his ilk into spending 100000
of their money to defeat the bill.
1t was the impending end Of Their
power to exploit and rob the suck
ers and consumers to swell Their
own ovcr-grown fortunes that I'M
PEELED them to forge the names II
countless hundreds Of people, liV-
ing and dead, to kilograms to con
gress to kill the bill designed to
prevent further exploitation OF
the people. That is the sort u
business that threatens constltu-
tional government in this country.
That is the Gang in Washington
we need to fear! That is the
crowd that has made the word
Farming synonym for "pov-
erty."
And what do you know about
what acts of congress are or are
not constitutional? Many of the
best lawyers in the country are
divided on such questions. During
his administration President Taft