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stituents and must tell them at the
same time that he added to the tax
burden which they must pay.
Well, If that be true, how is Henry"
going to get the money? 1t will have
to be borrowed and 1t will have to be
borrowed on government bonds which
add up into an increasing government
deficit 1t means that instead of deficit
of around three billions in the next fis-
cal year, the treasury will be con-
fronted with deficit of more than five
billions and the public debt, in the
meantime, will have been correspond
ingly increased. 1t means, in addition,
that the banks Of the country will have
to pile more government bonds on top
of the government bonds they have
thus far absorbed in financing a policy
of spending our way out Of the depres-
sion.
The tragedy of the situation in con-
gress that brought about Senator
Bankheads remark of Its up to Hen
ry" is that it indicates that congress
has been looking upon the treasury as
a source of revenue. 1t is not and it
never has been. Government is nom
productive. 1t can get funds only by
taxation, by taking them away from
the people-or by borrowing and if 1t
borrows it has to pay back. In either
event, new taxation must come and II
congress doesn't have the nerve to pass
tax legislation in this session, it must
lay taxes in the next session.
The newspapers throughout the coun-
try have been full of reports concern
ing the early start of
Campaign the political cam
Starts Early paign. The Al Smith
speech, coming from
the man who made it, brought about
sudden expansion in the polit.
ical fire. It really opened up the fight
and henceforth we are due to be sur
feited with this claim or that, this
charge and that denial or counter
charge, as the various leaders marshal
their forces.
Thus far, in addition to President
Roosevelt's Jackson day speech to the
S50a-plate diners and Mr.. Smiths Lib
erty league dinner outburst, we have
had active campaigning by former
President Hoover, by Governor Tai
madge of Georgia, by Senator Borah.
the Idaho Republican; by Governor
Landon, the Kansas Republican, and
| by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the
Democratic leader in the senate, who
| spoke in reply to Mr.. Smith. Others
| are in the offing for the Republican
| and Democratic national committees
are engaging radio times in big way.
AS speeches and statements increase
| in number, and as fanfare grows loud
er, I find myself getting bit callous
| to them all. l have been wondering
| whether the American people have lost
| their sense of humor completely. be-
cause the situation really has humor-
Gus SIDE Unless the peoples sense
| of humor has been dreadfully scared
! it seems to me they ought to be highly
amused over ridiculous statements
| now being made on one side of the
fence or on the other. Take, for In.
stance, Mr.. Roosevelt's handwritten
bonus veto message. 1t presented
something bit unusual because in my
time in Washington it had happened
| only once before that a President We
toed a bill with a handwritten mes
sage to congress. Of course, it was
intended to be dramatic-and it was
But the point is this: A year age
when. congress passed the bonus the
President made a personal appearance
in the halls of congress and read his
own veto message. He made his vigor
Gus fight and he rallied his supporter!
in line to sustain his veto. There ha!
been so much talk around Washington
since the handwritten message wen
TO congress that the President reall!
was not vigorously opposing passage
of the bill over his veto that / am com
ing to believe that was true. In Othe
words, he thought that immediate pay
ment of the bonus was wrong but h,
had q weather eye out for the forth
coming campaign and the votes thu
bonus might bring.
Then consider the activity of Sena
tor Borah. believe the Idaho sena
tor is too smart to feel that he Cal
be the Republican nominee against MI
Roosevelt, but he is going through al
manner of gyrations just the same. H
has purposes and detectives in mint
obviously, but they are not the Reput
lican Presidential nomination as h
leads his various audiences to infel
It is to be recalled that Senator Bora
: has not at any time actually said
was candidate. We have also tn
circumstance of Senator Robinson RI
: plying to AL Smith over the same radi
and through substantially the sam
number of broadcasting stations. An.
one who knows Senator Robinson we
knows that his attack on Mr.. Smitl
with whom he ran as Vice Presidentis
+ candidate in 1928. was merely or
that he read-let me quote the LIN
used by the HeraldNews Of Passai
N. j.: "The voice on the radio Wa
: the voice of Senator Robinson but ii
I words were the words of Charlie NJ
: chelson. publicity director for the Der
$ ocratic national committee" I am vel
fond of Senator Robinson but belie'
D he slipped when he did not write h
] own speech. Mr.. Smiths attacks {
: the administration can he answert
and Senator Robinson can answer the
:, but he did not.
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