The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-12

s- equally blind not to appreciate at full value and to wish to conserve for the uncertain years which lie immediately ahead, the mquestioned confidence which MT. Roosevelt enjoys among the distressed masses who have been the worst victims of the depression. These masses still acutey remember their disillusionment in pub lie leadership in 1882 and have with reason felt that the President has tried to restore hope equalize opportunity and prevent the excesses of the recent past We believe that MT Roosevelts defeat at the polls would enable the more radical elements within the Demo- cratic party to unite under irresponsible leadership which the force and ability of the President have hitherto helped to check and counterbalance These Radical elements would thereby be strengthened in their appeal to the masses.
 In this connection we prefer to have in Washington during the still critical period which lies immediately ahead a Government united in all its branches, with power to take instantly action which may become necessary in any emergency which may arise The Re- publican party cannot give us such Govern ment. Even if MT. Landon should be elected and the Republicans should carry the House of Representatives, the Senate will remain Democratic because it's present majority is too large to be reversed in 1886 A divided Con- greSs during the next two years would threaten the country with precisely the same contra dction of purpose and paralysis of will which proved to be so disastrous in 1881 and 1882
 A further assurance against radicalism is the effectiveness of the social and economic measures pursued by the Democratic party, though often with fundamental error and raw materialism. We do not believe that these measures should be placed in other hands at the behest of those who have not been the real victims Of tha Tor nd mhn evolved or supported the policies which lie at the roots of its cause. Reform should be ad- ministered by those who vigorously and suc- ceSSfully proposed it. and the Democratic party stands in that relation to the public In the administration of reform and the res toration of the normal processes of an Ameri- can Government, there is urgent need for the restraining influence of the partys conserva- tive wing. This, if the President is reelected, will be more than ever active in the next Con- gress, where the Democratic membership in the House will probably be cut down.
 Finally, we believe that the narrow nation alism for which the Republican party stands today is in itself policy which, if put into force, would carry us rapidly in the direction both of "regimentation" and "radicalism" It was the loss of foreign markets for our sur plus farm commodities that was specifically responsible for the demand for crop control ana planned economy Tor agriculture. It is a loss of foreign markets for our factories that is responsible in large part for the indus trial unemployment which still persists The best antidote to both regimentation and dis content is a revival of international trade, and the reciprocal treaties sponsored by the Presi- dent and negotiated by his able Secretary of State lead step by step in that direction That way lies hope. The other leads to economic suicide behind Hawley- y-Smoot tariff.