The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-15

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 tening to walls and meanings that infiation was about to descend upon the nation. What Germany went through immediately after the Great War was nothing conn pared to what we have been told was in store for us if the Demo- cratic national administration dio not call a halt ih its mad career. Eggs would be ten dollars apiece, ham would be Q thousand dollars Q slice and ham and eggs would be @ dish which only the most bloated plutocrat could afford At the breakfast table. It was all nonsense of course but when the House of Representatives buried the Frazier-Lenke measure by a vote of 235 to l42 1t became on- vious that the Democratic regime was not quite as lunatic as we have been led to believe. The ghost of imitation, which never had any real existence, has been laid to rest definitely and the I1e- cessity now arises for the g.o.p. to create another bugaboo. Even If the bill had passed theA House there wasn't the well known Chi- naman's chance for 1t to get by the Senate and if the senatorial toga wearers had gone momen- tarily haywire 1t was foregone conclusion that the President would have turned thumbs down on Q piece of legislation which was loaded with economic dyna- mite. But neither the Democrats nor the President will get any credit for what has taken place. The walloping administered to the brain child of Republican Senator Frazier and Republican Congress- man Lemke will be attributed to something or someone quite for- eign to Democratic common sense.
 
 Mistake
 In view of what happened 1t is apparent that refusal to report the bill out of committee was Q serious mistake because 1t fur- nished the enemies of the admin istration with Q certain amount of ammunition. Everyone, and par ticularly those who although not farmers are cursed with mortgage, obligations, sympathize with the plight of the agriculturalists. But to ask and get the government to use three billion dollars to alle- viate the distress of one class of the people was to invite Q flood Of measures for the financial relief of other classes equally distressed. At the same time 1t was silly not to bring the bill onto the floor of the House for full and quick dis- cussion on its merits or demerits. Once It's implications and possi- bilities were made plain the Frazier-Lemke bill was doomed. It did not need the cracking of the presidential whip, that imple- ment of force about which we have been told so much by Repub- lican spokesmen, to bring the House into line. Neither, as the New York Times headline puts 1t, was the opposition of the Exec- utive Council of the American Federation of Labor needed to "help save the day" The plain truth is thGt as much as those who voted against the measure wished to do something to help the farmers they realized the irrl- possibility of doing 1t to the tune of three billion dollars. There IS not money available to do the job without having recourse to the deadly dangerous remedy of infia- ton or to the cure of increased taxation. Under the circumstances 1t was the duty of the members of the House to lay political con- alterations aside and cast their votes not as the needs of their particular constituencies impelled, but as the good of the whole country demanded. It is to it's credit that the congressional dele gation from this state, voted to a man against the bill. I suppose 1t is too much to expect that MT. E. Kent Hubbard of the Connecti- cut Manufacturer Association will in the light of their action, revise his estimate that they-meaning the Democrats-are a lot Of morons.
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