The Washington times., 1936-08-08
Must Not Be Used to Build
Political Machines
Relief Is a Plain Duty; Keep 1t Free
from Exploiters, Governor Urges

In extending help, however, WE Will
HANDLE THE PUBLIC FUNDS AS A PUBLIC
TRUST.
We will recognize that all citizens, rre'Peet.
i've Of color, race, creed or party attiIIaon' have
On equal right to this protection.
We would consider it base beyond words
TO make loyalty service to party condition
upon which the needy unemployed might obtain
THOSE WHO USE PUBLIC FUNDS TO
BUILD THEIR POLITICAL MACHINES FORFEIT
ALL RIGHT TO POLITICAL CONSIDERATION
FROM TRUE AMERICANS.
Let me emphasize that, while we propose
to follow q policy Of economy in government
expenditures, those who need relief will get it.
We will NOT take our economies out OF
the aIIotments to the unemployed: u,n-e
WE WILL TAKE THEM OUT OF THE HIDES
OF THE POLITICAL ExPLoi 7anGcn. .Deech nc-
ceptinq the Republican Presidential nomination.
Topeka, July %, 1886.
When Governor Landon says relief is plain
duty, he says what every humane Ahlerlo"n
KNOWS. ,o 10.
Relief must be given to the farmer who has
hoo, Iictinoized bv world market conditions or by
drought or flood. :. bs
been made jobless by world economic a1
There IS no argument on that, anywhere, any
time 49,, ILL., ,,,ooon
But when an Administration takes the N, money G7e
e,,o;obod bv the American people FOR RELIEF
and uses it FOR REELECTION, then that Aon MN
istration-as Governor Landon bluntly I0lG Gn1s
country months ago-DOES AN lNDEFENSLbAEI
THING.
r. might be possible to condone many OF the
mistakes of this Administration, it they had Oeen
made honestly. 4:, xd
It might be possible to excuse t9e stuplu nr
costly destruction of crops while people were starV-
inc or the million-dolar checks to great sugar COM
NAMES for NOT raising sugar, if these insane eco
nomics had been ION the level"
Rut while the Raw Deal professors were carry
ing on these programs in the name OF RELIEf' tne
Raw Deal politicians we're urging Cnen on Ill 'n0
name of REELECTION.
And both with Mr.. Roosevelts knowledge.
Both with Mr. Roosevelt's consent
Both, apparently, with Mr.. Roose7elt's BLESS
Mr.. Roosevelt is no economist. He is not eUen
n business man. One might understand hOU gen.
tIeuan of his type, born to the purple ana neUer
cOmpeNed to earn living, could be n1lSIed INTO un
sound or crackpOt ventures by stGrry-eyed en-
thuSiGStS ..
But Mr.. Roosevelt IS one of the abLest politicians
of this centmy practitioner of the art for thirty
years. an expert WhO has forgotten more IMAM most
politicians will eUer learn.
To maintain that he has not been fully aware
Of the political advantages of raining checks over
Republican farm States, of pouring relief money
nv the millions into towns and cities where 1t would
do the most good"-to maintain that is to maintain
an absurdity.
True. Mr. Farley has been the manager In charge
of these very practical politics.
But who put Mr.. Farley in charge, and who
keeps him in charge, Of this brazen attempt to IN
fluence voting with the taxpayers money! =,
Not Mr. Frankfurter Mr.. Tugweu nor Mr.
Ickes nor Mr. Wallace nor Mr.. Hopkins nor Madame
Perkins.
None of those powerful thinkers or professional
forward-lookers. :.
No. It is Franklin Delano Roosevelt himself,
sand don't let anyone tell you differently"
It is disillusioning story-the story told by
the pictures on this page
DisiIIusionins indeed one studies the debt
which in 1885 was almost double that OF 1880; as
one notes the cynical frankness Of SPoilsmaster
General Farley on Raw Deal patronage; as one reads
Of men and women relief threatened with the
loss Of their pitifuI incomes UNLESS THEY VOTE
RIGHT.
But "disillusioning," after ALL is not the word
for it.