Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-12
The Democratic Viewpoint
EDITED BY
The Democratic County Central
Committee

Justus c. Craemer chairman OF the Califor-
MIA Republican Central committee i'll very
critical attack on the Roosevelt administration,
makes this assertion: "CafornianS and all
thinking People today challenged by the
threat against fundamental principles of gov
ernment which have guided the United States
for $50 years.
OF course the challenge which Mr. Craemer
is talking about is the New Deal. His article
contains long list of eharges-all expressed in
the same general terms which other Republicans
using in this campaign.
Reading Craemers TRADE against the Roose-
Welt administration. one wonders if he has clear
" in mind just what those fundamental
principles he is discussing. They are defined
quite clearly in the Constitution. Briefly stated
they
Cd To perfect more perfect union.
(2) Establish justice.
80 Insure domestic tranquility
(4 Provide for common defense.
t5) Promote general welfare.
t6) Secure the blessings of liberty.
1t is both interesting and enlightenng to
compare the state of the union with respect to
these fundamentals, on March B. laS3-the last
day of the l2-year Republican regn-With to-
day.
Assuredly no one can say that the union
in a very high state of perfection at a time
when long bread lines occupied the city streets,
when farmers were resisting the efforts of the
sheriff 10 foreeloSe their mortgages, when H.
100000 working people We're out Of jobs and
only the rich had any degree OF security insofar
their daily bread was concerned. No one will
deny that the has been vast improvement in
these conditions during the 312 years since
March 1888.
The Constitution demands iustice-another OF
the fundamentals. This means economic jus
tce as we'll as justice before the law. Justice
implies the right to work and to eat. Hasn't
Mr. Roosevelt made valiant effort to bring
about this kind of justice? He has borrowed
vast sums of money it is true-but no more than
borrowed 10 carry on a in Europe,
and only a fraction of the increased wealth
which has accrued to the owners of farm lands
and stocks and bonds and other forms of hold
ings during the period he has been in office
Domestic tranquility and general welfare are
two of the fundamentals named in the ConStl-
tuition. What greater threat to the tranquility
a condition in which millions are jobless and
hungry in land of plenty? 1t is but short
step from such state of affairs to Communism
and anarchy The tide was setting strongly in
that direction four years ago. But not today
The economic royalists complaining, to be
sure, but not the masses of American citizens.
Finally, the Constitution guarantees the bless
ings of liberty A man whose job rests on the
gyratons of the New York stock market is not
mortgaged before the task is done. Liberty and
economic slavery cannot exist together. The
individual citizen has liberty only when there
is also certain degree of sacurity-securlty
against the failure Of banks, protection from
the manipulations of ruthless stock promoters,
and from the aYarica Of greedy employers and
the fiekleness of a gamblers market. These
are the things that President Roosevelt has
sought with all the power at his command to
give to Americans.
The Republicans had their chance, and fail
ed And now they would prevent MIR. Roosevelt
from completing the job which they were too
blind or too stupid to do.