The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-01-09

riod fifteen billions of dollars were | sent out of this country for foreign | bonds, the most of which are worth | less. The Republicans were in power | for three and one-half years after the great stock crash of 1929 Which | started the depression, but they | never did anything to relieve the | situation. We were told to have pa- tience, that everything would come | out all right, that prosperity was just around the corner. And the peo pie were patient, but, finding there ] was no leadership in the Republican party capable of handling this great | emergency, they gathered behind the banner of Franklin D. Roosevelt who l soon showed the country the way back to prosperity.
 You didn't see him peeping around any corners, he laid down program and in a short time the bread lines vanished, the soup kitch- ems were all closed, and he never | stopped until he pulled. the last man ! out of the last ditch and put food | in his stomach, clothes on his back | and put him to work. He never over- looked a soul The industrialists. the | bankers, the farmers, the business man, the laborer, every soul in our country was benefited by his con- structive program.
 Driven From Temple
 But, my friends, he did this with out the consent or advise of the | money barons, and now that they find that they are driven out of the temple they are at loss as to how to get back in. They have no leader, they have no program so the only cry [ they can make is that the President | is spending too much money and | also that he is trying to wreck the ! Constitution.
 Let us see how far they can get with those contentious. The income | of the farmers was three billions of ! dollars more in 1885 than in 1892. | dollars more in 1885 than in 1892. i Listed securities were 20- billions of dollars more in 1885 than in 1892. 1 Weekly payrolls in industry were one hundred and twenty-two millions of 1 dollars more in 1885 than in 1882. | Factory employment jumped to over ! 5,000000 men and women more in i 1885 than in 1892. And our national | income in 1885 was 50 billions of dol lars compared to 38 billions in 1882 |
 Answer to Calamity HOwlers
 "These figures are the answer to the calamity howlers and the money barons who are crying about the country that we are spending too much money. They tell you that we will bankrupt the country Our na- tlonal indebtedness amounts to $238 per capita while England's national indebtedness amounts to $717 per per capita. Our indebtedness would | have to be 75 billion to equal the per capita debt of England. They tell us that we are wrecking the | Constitution. You would think by | their wailing that the Democratic party had a monopoly on unconsti- tutional laws. When we look at the record we find that 67 laws were de- clared unconstitutional during 14S | years of our national life. Forty-two | Of those were passed by Republican Congresses, twenty of them were passed by Democratic Congresses. four of them were passed by mixed l Congresses and one was passed by | the first Congress which was non- partisan. Ten of those acts were | passed during President Grants ad- | ministration, seven of them during President Lincoln's administration and six of them were passed under President Theodore Roosevelts ad- | ministration. Is there any one of | those calamity howlers wno would l have the temerity to say that Presi- dents Lincoln, Grant or Theodore | Roosevelt were trying to wreck the Constitution? No! But it makes q | great difference whose OK is gored. |
 Business Interference
 They are gathering in bands all over the country bowling against the government interfering with bus- mess. I wonder if they are sincere about this. According to the record of one of themT doubt it. It sounds like propaganda to me. Govern.r Landon, of Kansas, who is seriously mentioned as a. candidate TOT the Republican nomination for Presi- dent, in message to Congressman William P. Cole, chairman of the House of Representatives oil investi- gating committee on November 13, 1884, stated that national and local benefits secured through cooperation of the Federal Government with oil producing states and industry have been one of the largest factors to- ward increasing the purchasing pow CT of the entire southwest during the past year, encouraging general busi- ness improvements, enlarging pay rolls, and providing that progress to- ward recovery can be made by hon. est coordinated efforts of states and (