Evening star., 1936-06-24

Of puppet satellites in official positions
in Washington under the guise of
popular government, the liberty of long
pampered interests to use the forms of
law to fasten their teeth in the vitals
of American economic life, the liberty
of power and utility combinations to
strangle while they rob alike investors
and consumers, the liberty Of organ
lied crime to flaunt its black flags in
the face of State and Federal statutes
and we have destroyed the liberty Of
any powerful or selfish group any
where in this Nation to claim that the
capital of the United States is located
anywhere on this continent except In
the city Of Washington, in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Farmer and Home Owner
Not Against New Deal.
Who are those who raise their
strident voices against the objectives
of the New Deal?
Not the American former, whose in
creased income under it has lifted him
out of the economic basement.
Not the American home owner, who
still dwells under his own roof and
asks a heavenly benediction upon it
Not the laboring man, whose long
hours have been shortened and his
rewards increased. Not the worker
whom we have rescued from the status
of wandering mandicant.
Not the honest investor for whom
we have provided information and pro-
lection. Not the working woman,
whose tender and immortal functions,
over the dead body of monstrous greed,
we have sought to save and beautify.
Not the child whose eyes until now
beheld the doors of school room as
a mirage which yanishes upon ap-
proach.
Not the workless millions left by the
Hoover administration as helpless
derelicts of an economic and indus
trial tornado, for whom We have pro-
vided work and shelter and attempted
security for the future.
The Republican platform denounces
the constructive step which we have
taken in behalf Of the unemployed,
the aged and the infirm.
During the IL long years Of night
in which the Republican party con-
trolled the Nation, no attempt was
made even to deal with this prob
lem. All they hold out now Is q
vague and impossible promise de-
signed to deceive and thwart the
hopes of 100000 aged people
throughout the Nation and countless
millions who will become aged in the
years Of the future.
Who opposes this new fight for
democracy today? Who throws across
the pathway of real liberty lighted by
Thomas Jefferson and re-lighted by
jackson and Lincoln and Woodrow
Wilson the impediments of falsity
and the tangled timbers of deception?
Who seeks to divert the masses of
men from the trail which leads to
real and not a spurious freedom? ?
Who pours into the faces of our peo-
pie the poison gas of doubt and fear
and suspicion?
Not the more than a million and a
half young men from every State
and town who have been offered a
haven from idleness and possible
crime.
| Needs of Towns and Cities
Have Been Gratified.
Not the thousands of towns and
cities throughout America whose needs
for better living advantages have
been gratifed.
Not the anxious fathers and moth
ers of the Nation from whose hearts
has been removed the fear of the
kidnaper and the gangster.
Not the millions of school children
whose facilities for the enjoyment OF
learning have been increased.
Not the millions of sufferers of tor
rental and devastating floods whose