The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-10
Washington
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''WELL WARMED GENTLE
MEN" IN POLITICAL


EWELL WARMED GENTLE
MEN" IN POLITICAL
DRUBBTNG
Those whom the President des-
cribed as the gentlemen in we'll
warmed and well-stocked clubs"
are going to get lot Of verbal
drubbing from now on until cleo
tics. But they can take it.
The money-changers did not
mind being "driven from the
temple" in 1933-verbally. Bus
mess in their temple branch Of
fees did not suffer, but on the
contrary was generously subsi-
died to compensate for the poi
itical seedlings.
ATLANTA SPEECH
ELECTION KEYNOTE
Roosevelt's Atlanta speech was
said to set the keynote for the
election campaign. If so, it is a
note with an old and familiar
ring-lot's of sympathy, but little
else for the poor; for the rich
hard words, but also hard cash.
National surveys prove that
the average of our citizenship
lives today on what would be
called by the medical fraternity
a third-class diet" the president
said. He pointed out that "the
masses of the American people
have not got the purchasing power
to eat more and better food"
But on the same day the speech
was made, it was the well-armed
gentlemen, not the people on the
third class diet, who were given
comfort with the announcement
that federal direct relief had been
finally ended.
The effects Of this action were
Immediately felt in the District
of Columbia, where a Is per cent
cut in payments to all relief
, clients was ordered. In Novem
Der the average relief for a whole
family had been $50 a month; i
was now cut to $3.50.
: TO BE REDUCED TO
FOURTH CLASS DIET
| According the u. S. Bureau o.
: Agricultural Economies, the "ty
: pical" American family subsisti
on a third-class diet, D. G.. relic
( clients can't even afford this, ev
4 en- supposing they had no othe
living expenses than these i
e main foods. They were being re
}. duced to a fourth class diet o
e worse, on the same day they wer
receiving so much verbal symps
thy and attention.
In contrast the gentleme
whose diet is first-class, than
you, have done remarkably we
under the verbal persecution
they have suffered under tn
= New Deal.
y Statistics without end can /
: quoted from official and -banhn
= sources, to show how profits haV
d" outdistanced wages and emplo!
ment-even under measures sue
= as>the MAR which were adve
y tised as intended primarily to il
le crease purchasing power and en-
= ployment though possibly at Il
- expense of profits.
y Roosevelt himself tells how
- the spring of 1888 "many of Il
l. great bankers in the United Sta
\ es flocked to Washington. Tn,
! ~ had no objection to federal reli
= then-for themselves-and tn
% q did not go away empty-handed.
70 RICH GET MONEY
IN POOR GET SYMPATHY
s. They received billions of d.
nd lars to save their concerns frC
an insolvency. They had no quail
e. when Roosevelt told them tn
es the government would be CO.
PEELED to go heavily into debt
NJ. a few years to come" to mi
ry their needs.
IS, "Every one of these gentlem
of expressed to me the firm cow
of ton" the president said in
be, Atlanta speech, "that it was "
at worth the price and that tn
mt heartily agreed They were
oe, EN- willing to increase the natit
3D. al debt to between IS and 70
nil lion dollars in such worthy eau
er, according to Roosevelt.
ill
i'd OLD PARTIES DIFFER
,tt, ONLY IN DEGREE
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