The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1936-02-14
Nl"st Save Liberty ngaid 81

As Linooln's heart beats urged
him t'rwaE to save the union and
the constitution on which it rested,
so The call in 1886 is to the Repub-
lican party to save the constitution
and with j: Individual liberty, and
the light 10 work, TO earn, to save.
TO have and hold. TO be happy. to
continue free.
IT I read tho signs OF tbs times
conviction has succeeded the hope,
that in November the United States
will take a great stride In progress,
humanitarian ism. freedom for bust
ness. industry and individual effort.
by placing gor eminent in tho hands
or wise craftsmanship and sound
administrators.
Tho High Issue In 1880
It'you will permit me I desire to
say that the high issue this year is
the New Deal. Those for it must
swallow all tho conglomer alton of
policies 1t stands for. Those against
1t VIII oppose it root and branch.
spurred on b. the fear Of what it Is
capable Of doing IL given four more
years ot power. Republicans COM
not win with candidates who try to
embrace a part of the New Deal
theories. or try to carry water on
both shoulders.
What's In New Deal
we hear the claim That there is
goou IN the New Deal. That may be
right. according 20 The old saying
that there is sOod il everything, but
it is certainly lime to dispel all
doubts aud get down to real basic
economic principles. If it. is possible
to drink our selves sober, spend our
selves back "a attluence, restrict the
acres 20 az 10 raise more. and pay
more Tor erery hing We buy so a.;
Il ha>s more money IN our pockets.
leave our lands failow and our fac
tories die - as TO make g. market
| Tor foreign raised food and foreign
m.dC commodities while American
! labor loafS ard hungers-then there
/ Is some basis TO the claim. but if We
consult reason and human and eco.
monte experience The, New Deal is
| like Il forty-leven ring circus in
which every actor, except the ring
| master, is @ clown.
/ And Sell lou 4hat the American
people are awakening from their
apathy and are being cured of their
emotionalism, and Dy November will
! Franklin"
The deepest dreamer knows we'll
wh"n no oYhles. Reality calls more
SHARPLY 'her .bdn aver before, and
| Wien the good citizen and the
worker ard he business man and
| the farmer, nose who must live
| Dy their own energy and industry,
and the lovers of individual liberty
ana equal opportunity awake to the
stern realities Of the great national
| dent. The ever increasing load o.
| taxes. the tragedy that must follow
the wild orgy OF spending, the en-.
enlargement OF the idea that the
| government was made TO live on, the
drift towards collectivism and bu-
| reacuracy and the other ism-wccds
| that have never before grown in
! American soil until nurtured by the
present administration, / have no
| doubt OF the result.
Bureaucratic SubyersiOn
While the people OF this country
were striving and struggling to
overcome the depression. while they
were working and rearing their
families. educating their children.
performing their duties as good citi-
zcns. their country-its assurances
| or life, liberty ard the pursuit of
! happincss-wds being surrcptitious-
" and bv Diece-meal taken away
from them by bureaucratic design.
The Record OF Failures
What is the record OF the New
Deal party?
Since March 4, 1893. there has
scarcely been day that it did not
breathe every breath in violation ~
the Democratic platform of 1892
that solemn covenant it made with
the people.
1t hyiacked the platform OF the
Socialist party. practiced its isms
and blended It's theories into the
New Deal.
No piece OF major recovery legis-
l2tion has been passed by the pres
ent congress that was in accord wit.
the spirit and letter OF the constitl.
ION.