Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26

denim the extravaganza OF tho
Farm Board, its disastrous action
which made the Government q
speculator Of farm products, and
the unsound policy Of restricting
agricultural products to the de-
mand of domestic markets"
Listen. I'll let you in on some
thing. This hasn't leaked out yet.
SO kinda keep it to yourself until
you get the news. On the LIST OF
February we are going to own a.
DOS, 900 bales OF cotton. It cost
100000.
Cotton Cost More
Than Market Price.
And we have been such brilliant
spectators that We are paying l3
cents a pound for it, when you add
storage and carrying charges. and
it can be bought at any one of the
10 cotton markets Of the South to-
day for 50-some speculatorsl
What about the restriction of our
agricultural products and the de-
mands of the market? Why, the
fact about that is that We shut
out entirely the farm market, and
by blowing under corn and wheat
and the destruction Of foodstuffs,
food from foreign countries has
been pouring into our American
markets-food that should have
been purchased by US from our own
farmers.
In other words. while some OF the
countries Of the Old World were at
tempting to drive the wolf Of hun
ger from the doormat, the United
States few In the face Of Gods
bounty and destroyed its own food
stuffs. There can be no question
about that.
Now I could go on indefinitely
with some of the other planks.
They are unimportant and the ra-
dio time will not permit it. But
just let me sum up this way.
Regulation of the Stock Exchange
and the repeal Of the eighteenth
amendment, plus one or two minor
planks Of the platform that in no
way touch the daily life Of our
people, have been carried out, but
the balance of the platform was
thrown in the waste basket. About
that there can be no question.
Let's see how it was carried out.
Make test for yourselves. Just
get the platform Of the Democratic
party. and get the platform of the
Socialist party, and lay them down
on your dining room table, side by
side, and get heavy lead pencil
and scratch out the word Demo-
cratic" and scratch out the word
Socialist and let the two plat
forms lay there.
Then study the record OF the
present administration up to date.
After you have done that. make
your mind up to pick up the plat
form that more nearly squares with
the record, and you will put your
hand on the Socialist platform.
You don't dare touch the Demo-
cratic platform.
Livery Of Church
Stolen for Devil.
And incidentally, let me say that
1t is not the first time in recorded
history that a group Of men have
stolen the livery of the church to
do the work Of the devil.
Now. after studying this whole
situation, you will find that that is
at the bottom of all of our troubles.
This country was organized on the
principles of representative de-
mocracy. and you can't mix social
ism or communism with that.
They are just like oil and water;
they refuse to mix.
And, incidentally, let me say to
you, that is the reason why the
United States Supreme Court is
working overtime throwing the
alphabet out of the window, three
letters at q time.
Now I am going to let you in
on something else. How do you
suppose all this happened?
Here is the way 1t happened.
The young brain trusters caught
the Socialists In swimming and
they ran away with their clothes.
Now, it is all right with me. It Is
all right with me If they want to
disguise themselves as Norman
Thomas or Karl Max, or Lenin. or
any Of the rest of that bunch, but
what / won't stand for is to let
them march under the banner Of
Jefferson, Jackson or Cleveland.
Now what is worrying me: Where
does that leave me as Democrat?
My mind is now fixed upon the
convention in June, in Philadel-
phia.
The Committee on Resolutions
Is about to report, and the preamble
to the platform Is: I'VE, the repre-
sentatives OF the Democratic party
in convention assembled, heartily
indorse the Democratic admins
tration
What happens to the disciples Of
Jefferson and Jackson and Cleve-
land when that resolution Is read
cut?
Why, for us 1t Is . washout.
Thsrs u only one o. two things ws