The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-02
PATRIOT CALLS
ROOSEVELT
MARKHAM
By JOHN B. TREVOR,
President OF the American Coalition OF
Patriotic Societies


paign for reelection with a fight
ing speech dramatically delivered
but as replete with speciouS state
ments and intellectual dishonesty
as any utterance he has broad
cast since he became a national
figure.
His professions of devotion to
the basic principles of American
democracy will not stand critical
examination. They are belied by a
series of decisions of the Supreme
Court Of the United States.
AS for the Presidents repudia.
ton of the Communist trend OF
his Administration, let us study it
honestly.
Lifted From Marx"
The fact that Mr.. Roosevelt
surrounded himself from the be-
ginning of his Administration
with PROFESSIONAL nonentitieS and
adroit legal advisers imbued with
the alien political PHILOSOPHERS he
so vehemently denounced at SYRIA
cuSe cannot be denied. That these
advisers framed for him a pro-
gram lifted almost bodily from
the Communist manifesto Of Marx
and EngelS seems to me readily
demonStrable.
"Of course, in the beginning"
says the bible of communism.
"this" appropriation of capitaD
cannot be effected except by
means of deSpotic inroadS on the
rights of property, and on the con-
ditionS of bourgeois production:
by means of measures, therefore,
which appear economically insult
ficient and untenable, but which,
in the course of the movement,
outStrip themselves. neceSSitating
further inroadS upon the old social
order, and are unavoidable as
means of entirely revolutionizing
the mode of production.
If the American people are so
dumb, or, so blind and deaf to the
iniquitieS perpetrated under NRA,
AAA, IVA, and other alphabetical
atrocities, as to be unable to ap-
preciate the fact that these meas
ures were a synthesis of the dogma
set forth by Karl Marx and his
coadjutor, Engels, God cannot help
democracy in these United States.
Different Means
"These measures" the Commun-
iSt manifesto goes on to state will
of course be different in different
countries"
The authors then set forth 10
propositions which they hold are
generally applicable to advanced
countries. Seven of these PROPOSE
tons have been, or are being. un,
less. we are misinformed. embodied
in whole, or, in part, in the RooSe-
welt Administration program.
This is by no means the whole
story!
The Presidents acceptance
speech in effect, if not by inten-
ton. unquestionably adopted the
Communist thesis of class an
tagonism. His conception OF the
evolution of society is closely par
allelled in the opening paragraph
of the Communist manifesto, and
his reference to the difference be-
tween the American Revolution
and the social revolution he now
heads might almost be taken from
a book on communism by an out
standing representative of Moscow
in the United States. AS matter
of fact, the issue raised by Mr..
Roosevelt at Syracuse is hardly
arguable.
Former Senator James A. Reed,
a. lifelong and outstanding Demo
Graf N an address delivered on
February IL, 1886, quotes the
Presidents intimate associate, ad-
wiser and Brain Truster, DR.. Rex
ford Guy TugWell, UnderSecretary
of Agriculture, as follows:
"Planning will necessarily be-
come a function of the Federal
Government, either that or the
planning agencies will SuperSede
that Government Business
will logically be required to dis
appear. This is not an over
statement for the sake of en-
phasiS, it is literally meant.
The essence of business in its
free venture profits is an I'M
regulated economy. Planning
implies guidance of capital
uses Adjustment of pro-
duction to consumption
New industries will not just
happen as the automobile in
duStry did; they will have to
be fOreseen, to be argued for,
or seem probably desirable fea-
lures of the whole economy be-
fore they can be entered upon
The future is becoming
visible in Russia Perhaps
our statesmen will give way or
be more or less gently re-
moved Perhaps our Con-
stitutiOn and statutes will be re-
viSed Perhaps our vested
interests will submit to control
without too violent resistance.
Yet the new kind of economic
machinery we have in prospect
cannot function in our present
economy"
"BOLSHEVISTIC!"
Commenting on this statement,
Senator Reed added:
"That language is nothing
more nor less than the indOrSe-
ment of the basic principles of
BOlShevistic Russia coupled with
. threat of revolution by force"
Has this speech ever been re-
pudiated? No!