Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-08-06
AS WE SEE 1T
By MoNTCo

men to get keen insight into the
amazing workings of the American
form of politics. Although an Eng
lishman, he invariably discovered the
root of each and every governmental
difficulty. He would chuckle quite
audibly at the situation today when
we have the Republicans condemning
the Democratic administration for
favoring strong centralized govern
ment and the Democrats fiaying the
G. O. P. for aligning itself with the
Liberty League, Father Coughlin,
Pastor Smith, Publisher Hearst, and
DR.. Townsend. 1t all fits in SO nicely
with Bryce's picture of "The Great
American Commonwealth.
IT OCCURS TO NE that had the
Republicans been in power the past
three years we would have heard
nothing but paeans of praise from
men like Senators Hastings and Rep.
Dickinson. Borah, of course, would
have opposed every move made until
election time. The Republican press
would have abounded with illustrated
editorials depicting the growth of
prosperity and another term would
have been assured the lessee of the
White House. But alas, the shoe is
on the other foot. 1t all depends up
on whom is in power whether or not
our national affairs are being proper
ly administered.
1T is SURELY AN amazing situa-
ton. To see Republicans embracing
States Rights, Democrats turning
Federalistic, sons of wild jackasses
parading hand-in-hand with the Du-
Points and Morgans, publicity seek
ing Catholic priest in cahoots with a
Southern canebrake Protestant, an
old doctor, disillusioned, suffering
with bad dreams, aligned with his
blatant California neighbor-publisher
and an assorted bevy of paunchy in
dustrialists and soap-box spellbinders
all striving to protect every word in
the Constitution, which, more often
than not, they collectively and indi-
vidually confuse with the Ten Com
mandments.
IN MANY WAYS this campaign
will go down in history as the most
unusual and indicative we Americans
have ever witnessed. With man OF
the cloth hurting the lie in the teeth
OF a man who sits where once re-
clined George Washington, Abraham
Lincoln, Thomas jefferson and Grow
er Cleveland; with a wealthy news
paper tycoon, who has time and time
again been repudiated by the popu-
lace, seeking to stir up class hatred
with "right-hand" man occupying a
cabinet position accused of trying to
coerce state and national officials
with the Republican Old Guard
breathing its last and men like A
smith and Jim Reed taking walk
Is 1t any wonder that we look for any.
thing to happen between now and
next November?
AGAIN WE REITERATE, sit all
depends upon whom is in power" anC
Ior whom the Golden Rule is being
applied AS Secretary Ickes said re
Gently at the Institute of Public AT
iairS University of Virginia, ''It is
interesting to note that a certain
type OF citizen did not begin to trem'
Oie Tor the safety of our institutions
until there came into office in Wash
ngton a government that advanced
.ne Stocking theory that, taxes ought
70 De assessed in proportion to ability
70 pay. Then it was that the Am
erican Liberty League was organized
W those liberty-loving duPonts, theil
cOmpatriots and their satellites. Ac
'0ruing to them, the Constitution
was being jeopardized by a mar
whose supreme concern as President
"Ss oeen to equalize opportunities.
II President Roosevelt should yielc
:, !" inc lmportunate demands of Viii
nAm Randolph Hearst and his kline
ana substitute a general Fedora
oaies tax for all income, inheritance
",u gltt taxes, he would be acclaim
- the greatest patriot in the who'll
Saiendar of American patriots. TIL
Turonts would disband their Libert.
league over night.
Who are they who call Roosevelt
ucVator? Are the workers com
~ s@i1Insg Are the farmers afraid o
s, resident? Are the miners, tn
r r'se, workers, the factory and rail
n UsS employees, men and women in tn
professions and the vast white. allI
'siOns alarmed?