Evening star., 1936-02-24
All Other States and Canada.
Member of the Associated Press.
Roosevelt Prosperity.

"Jim" Farley, chairman of the Demo-
cratic National Committee, went out to
Kansas Saturday to take pot-shot at
the Republicans and other opponents of
President Roosevelt. 1t was Washing
tons birthday anniversary. In his open
ing paragraph the Democratic chair
man said: 1T is a pleasure to have one
national hero whose patriotism and vir-
tues we may honor and revere without
thought of party ties And he said he
was glad to join the people of Kansas in
observing the anniversary of Washing
tons birth. For the remainder OF his
address Mr.. Farley was strictly partisan.
He reviled Herbert Hoover and the Re-
publicans. He tore the American Liberty
League to shreds. He eXtolled Franklin
D. Roosevelt as the greatest living Ameri-
can. Take it by and large the Farley
address was mastery, from political
point of view. Roosevelt prosperity was
a principal theme.
Mr.. Farley carried the fight for the re-
election of the President into the heart
of the great agricultural region of the
country. He told the Kansas farmers and
the farmers of the country generally how
much the New Deal had done for them
The picture he drew was one OF abun-
dant prosperity, latter the lean years
through which you passed under Re-
publican rule" He did not mention the
fact that agricultural importations from
foreign countries have mounted high
during the Roosevelt administration and
the operation of the now defunct A. A. A.
Nor did he speak of the lessening of
foreign markets for American farm
produce. Mainly, he laid stress upon
the Federal money which had been sent
into Kansas and all the other farm States
in the form of benefit payments for the
curtailment of wheat, corn and hog
crops, and upon an increase in prices
' for these products, as compared to the
days of 1881 and 1882.
Kansas has it's candidate for the Re-
publican presidential nomination in Gov.
Alt M. Landon. Landon is being put
JOrWdTQ
a man who is saving of both words and
money. He has managed to keep the
State budget balanced. Mr.. Farley did
not mention the Governor by name.
But he made an attack upon his fru-
eality. He endeavored to hit the Kansas
Governor at a spot which he probably
considered most Vulnerable, the pairing
down of salaries of school teachers and
college professors. He expressed his re-
gret that this had been done, declaring
that it had been the policy of the Roose-
Welt administration to save the schools
of the Nation wherever possible
Mr.. Farley spoke several times of the
Roosevelt prosperity as well rounded,
well balanced and well adjusted. He did
not mention that there are still some
nine to eleven million workers out Of
Jobs and that several millions of those
who are back at work are being paid
out of the Federal Treasury today as
a kind of dole. He made no mention
of the fact that much of the prosperity
that exists today comes as result OF
pouring out billions Of dollars raised
from the taxpayers-of which billions
of dollars are still to be raised from
more taxation. That is all another side
Of the picture.
American farmers, along with other
Americans, have become somewhat ap-
prehensive because of the mounting
public debt and the huge deficits each
year in the Federal Treasury. Mr.. Far
ley complained rather bitterly because
Republican speakers, among them Mr..
Hoover, are calling attention to the
financial situation of the country and
the Government. The Roosevelt phi
losophy, viewed from any angle, has
been to spend the way to prosperity.
American farmers, along with other tax
payers may become conscious of the
fact that in the end:
Money to spend and nothing to save
May make you happy, but leads to the
grave.