The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-10-08
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radio audience was another of his cal
culated attempts to inf1ame class
hatred. The opposition to him and his
administration, he said, consisted of
nothing more than a handful of
bloated plutocrats. To be sure, he ad-
mitted, they have their millions of fol-
lowers, but this following is made up
of stooges and dupes.
This is his answer to the indication
of the Literary Digest poll that two
thirds of the voters in the United
States are eager for the opportunity
to vote him and his addle-brained adj
ministration out of Office. The mil
lions who have come to distrust and
fear him, so he says, don't know what
it is all about. Mr.. Roosevelt pre-
tends that taxpayers don't know what
he is costing them; that housewives
don't know that the cost of living has
gone up and up; that stockholders
who have organized for self-protec-
ton by the hundreds of thousands
have no reason to fear his program of
spoliation; that owners of insurance
policies and savings accounty feel I'M
der obligations to him for jeopardiz-
ing the security they had bought and
paid for.
If Mr.. Roosevelt thinks he can get
away with that his conceit matches
his hypocrisy.
He talks of bloated plutocrats, he
who was born to great wealth and
never had to earn his living! Mr..
Roosevelt is a far richer man, and
his wife is far richer woman, than
all but a few of his opponents. His
intimates, like Vincent Aston, are all
rich men.
He talks of "unscrupulous money
changers" and conveniently forgets
that he ran a neat little pool in Ger
man marks when the exchange rates
were running wild.
He speaks with justified contempt
of "the manipulations of dishonest
Spectators" conveniently forgetting
those stock peddling circulars of only
a few years ago which bore his name.
Mr.. Roosevelt, who lent his name and
his reputation to the fiotation of
Cameo, one of the widest of the
boom-time promotions, now dares to
denounce stock jobbery! The suckers
who placed faith in the business
competence and integrity of Franklin
D. Roosevelt, director of the Con-
solidated Automatic Vending Machine
company, do not speak over nation
wide hookups, but they have not
forgotten.
The same Roosevelt who now de-
nounces the "rulers of the exchanges
of mankind's goods" is the same
Roosevelt who, as governor of New
York, took no steps to regulate the
greatest of all the exchanges. The
New York Stock exchange and the
New York Curb exchange, around
which clustered most of the financial
abuses of the boom era, were under
the Roosevelt thumb during the boom
era. The speculator in German marks
and the director of Cameo did moth
ing to protect the innocent investor
when he most needed protection. 1t
is curious that Mr.. Roosevelt over
looked that fact the other night when
he was shouting that he and he alone
had the will and the competence to
protect the little fellow from the plu-
tocrats who "rule the exchange"
Mr.. Roosevelt, the stump speaker
had much to say about the sins Of
big business, but he neglected to note
that he is himself large stakeholder
in one of the biggest of them-Gen.
eral Electric-and perhaps in many
others as well. General Electric has
made lot of money these last few