Evening star., 1936-01-05
Nations Comment on Presidents Message
Editors Over Country Divide Chiefly Party
Lines in Interpreting Talk.

Excerpts from editorial comment
in newspapers from all parts of the
United States on President Roosevelt S
message to Congress Friday night fol-
low. They were gathered by the
Associated Press:
New York Herald Tribune
(Republican).
The unconscious irony of the mes
sage lay in the sharp contrast between
its devotion to peace abroad and its
incitement to hatred at home.
In this message he for the first time
made the fomenting of hatred among
Americans his open goal.
New York Times (Democratic).
His defense of his own administra-
ton was, as had been indicated in
advance, challenge to his political
enemies and a rallying summons to
his supporters. But the grave
and weighty words which he employs
with regard to international affairs
give to his address an importance
which will be instantly recognized.
New York Post independent
LiberaD.
The Presidents message was a chal-
lenge to autocracy. Last night
Mr.. Roosevelt was in fighting mood
To morally and politically
bankrupt, although, highly vocal Tory
opposition, he threw down the gauntlet
of combat Despite Tory clamor
he has the overwhelming Majority
of the American people whole
heartedly behind him.
New York World Telegram
independently.
Swinging from an attack on au-
tocracy abroad he describes what he
conceives to be the danger of a re-
vived autocracy at home-the au-
tocracy of a ''power-seeking minority -
domination Of Government by finan.
cial and industrial groups,
You don't have to stop and tell the
story of the one-eyed man in the
poker game to indicate whom the
President of these United States is
talking about
Hartford Conn, Courant
Republican,.
What the President gave was q
stump speech designed less for the
members of the Congress than for the
country.
New Haven (Conn.) Journal Courier
independently.
We heard, in essence, a political
oration, not a report of stewardship,
which, doubtless, Us what the occasion,
arranged less by constitutional pre-
scription than campaign strategy, re-
quired.
New Haven (Conn.) Register.
independently
While he specified only vaguely the
measures to be taken to preserve this
country's neutrality and its role of the
good neighbor, the principles enunci-
ated are unquestionably widely ac-
cepted at home. There the
Presidents stand was forward-looking
and aggressive Turning to domestic
affairs, he was clearly on the defen-
sive.
Hartford (Conn.1 Times independent
Democrat.
If the President departed from the
usual form of executive messages to
Congress and emphatically he
did, it was because he wished to rally
public opinion iE behalf of what he
believes necessary and wise policies Of
government to perpetuate its efforts
to champion the cause of American
democracy.
Binghamton IN. ~ Press
independently.
While it was not at all a message
on the state of the Nation" as such
have been established in gen.
eral concept through the years. it was
certainly q message on the state of
the nations, in the largest and most
significant sense. And on that predi-
cate Mr.. Roosevelt drew his analogy
for the purpose of domestic political
delineation.
Buffalo IN. " Times Democratic) .
Swinging from an attack on autoc-
racy, he described what he conceives
as the danger of a revived autocracy
at home-the autocracy of power
seeking minority"
Baltimore (Md.) Sun tDemocratic).
The Presidents attack reaches the
point, politically. For big
business did not resist his policies in
1888. And the Republican party sur
to all intents and purposes,
in 1888. His foes must first cleanse
themselves.
Philadelphia Bulletin independent
Republican,
President Roosevelt made "cork-
ing" campaign speech. - The de-