Montana labor news., 1936-09-10
A League of Hate
Omitted Mine Workers Journal)

Omitted Mine Workers Journal
More and more as time goes on, the real char
acter of the opposition to President Roosevelt
becomes clear. That opposition is based upon
hate, actual, black, bitter hate on the part of
what is commonly called the upper class of Soc
iety. Wealthy men and women indulge in the
most explosive kind of language to express their
positive hatred for Roosevelt. Big bankers and
big business hate the President SO bitterly that
they do not hesitate to say SO in public and in
private. This league of hate is continually
spreading its venom over the country in the
hope that it may destroy President Roosevelt.
Those who indulge in such diabolical tactics do
not hesitate to tell the most outlandish false
hoods about Roosevelt and his family. High
finance, high society and big pushes hate
Roosevelt because, they say, he comes OF a
wealthy family himself and that he has desert
ed his own class to fight for the common people.
They say he should look out for the interests Of
the rich and let the poor take care of themsel-
YES. At their big receptions and parties and
over their expensive cocktail glasses they de-
nounce Roosevelt and declare their hate. II
million Americans are out of work, and as these
high and mighty society folks sip their high
priced champagne in all the luxury of their pal
atial homes they bitterly attack Roosevelt be-
cause he is feeding these twelve million helpless
people. This attitude on the part of these apost-
les of malice is the most un-American instance
of setting up class against class that the nation
has ever seen in all of its history.
There is no room, and there should not be
any room, for class distinction in America, but
these vituperative Roosevelt-haters apparently
do not agree with that ~priciple. They think
this country was made for the rich alone. They
take the position that high finance, stock specu-
lators and big business should run the country
to suit themselves. The fact that twelve mil
lion people are out of work means nothing to
them. Aristocrats whose incomes shrank dur
ing the depression from 100000 to $4,000 a
year howl their heads off and attack Roosevelt.
Only a few days ago one rich woman in New
England went into court and complained that
she and her husband could not get along on
$81, 900 a year. 1t is such people who regard
Roosevelt as obnoxious because he feeds Il mil
lion people who have no incomes at all.
This bitter hatred against Roosevelt is SO
deep-rooted and open in some parts of the east,
especially the financial c%enters, that it became
the subject of a scathing article in Harper's Ma
gazine, as well as in the Readers Digest.
Everyone knows that in President Roosevelt
the common people of this country have a tried
and true friend. They know that he and his
administration have done everything in their
power to bring relief to the unfortunate mil
ions That is why these highhat aristocrats
hate him and would defeat and destroy him.
That is why they are trying to line up the
wealthy people against him - the kind of peo-
pie who live on incomes from interest and divi-
dends rather than from honest toll. They are
deliberately trying to array class against class
= the very thing that every American should
avoid. They are embarking upon a dangerous
enterprise, for if they succeed in their effort to
pit class against class they will find that the
common people outnumber the aristocrats a
hundred to one.
And the common people of this country be-
lieve in President Roosevelt and intend to re-
elect him next November.