The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-12-12
THE WARNING TO LIBERALS
Philadelphia Record)

'1f can't Hck ern, JOln em
 This crisp chunk of wisdom is attributed to that of Indiana.
 It sums up in a nutshell polimy being urged our ultra conservatives today.
 And it sounds warning to the liberals of America What courses lie open to the forces of reaction in the wake of the New Deals avalanche?
 There two:
 They can attempt to rebuild the Republican party into a formidable machine;
 Or they follow the prescription of Doctor Watson, join the New Deal and work it from within.
 That the latter course is far the more likely is dictated by cursory glance at American history. Jefferson, like Roosevelt, created popular party of invincible voting power But the reactionaries of the day soon went along, and the Democratic party grew and more conservative.
 Jackson blasted away at this conserva ttsrn and created new and powerful popular party. But soon the money power and the interests hopped on the band wagon and it wasn't long before they had the reins
 The process was repeated again in Iincons day. It Lincoln who organized liberal and other ee- mens of that time against the Democratic party gone conservative. But the conservative group as one commentator points out allied itself With the ment end maintained almost uninterruptedly for 79 years conservative control of the Government" And as this commentator adds if the conservatives go over to the New Deal take part in tas some already have-wllen the final showdown comes be- Itweenv the conservatives and the liberal group the latter would have 10 build the party, from he ground up whereas the momentum of tne New Deal party would carry for generation
 This a thoughtful picture which commands re- necron
 Il is particularly mpeing at time when of the major New Deal reforms are yet to be built permanently into national structure
 We have barely begun to tackle the social security problem We have been thrown out at first base by the Supreme Court wage and hour regulation prohibition of child labor the Guffey coal act, the A.A.A. and other vital New Deal readjustmentS in our economic machinery.
 And already on the horizon signs aplenty that the who fought the New Deal with every weapon they had fought with blows below the belt as well as above not at all to swift about-face Some like Hearst have made is already. Others, like James P Warburg, made it before election. And many more getting in line.
 The New Deal faces it's greatest danger So long the opposition was in the open it could be effectively combated. But boring from within is much more difficult to combat, particularly when 1t is engineered by wealth and power
 Roosevelt to be sure, has assured the nation that he is going expand the New Deal, not contract it. Praise be.
 But let no liberal rest his Let militant advocate of the New Deal go to bed with the notion that the battle is Let New Dealer neglect to remember that the number of ultra conservatives in Congress who within the Democratic party can- not be counted on the fingers of ones hands.
 Reaction right is disorganized But it isn't
  Watsons advice.
 Unable to lick the New Deal it moves to join it. There's the danger to liberalism. And here's our warning to liberals.
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