Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1936-06-04
PRAISE FOR ROOSEVELT

der for SO, which will pay our SUBJ
scription up to April II, 1888, and
at the end of that time, if we are
still living, the Democrat will have
been weekly visitor at our home
for about 81 years. Not such bad
record, and I am still Jefferson,
Jackson and Roosevelt Democrat,
very much so. Maybe l am little
too ardent, but can't see how any
one of ordinary intelligence can vote
against Roosevelt, not even my good
friend Wilbur Matson, and | will
say that should friend Matson Or
any other Republican see fit to vote
for F. D. r., never to hide their
faces in shame, for they cast their
vote for a man that saved their ba-
con- He took the wheel when the
ship of state was headed for the
rocks and we were very dangerously
near them. He said that the people
wanted action and not words, and
he gave them just that Before his
election at Boston where the manu-
facturers were complaining that
there was no market for their goods,
this is what he told them. Give
those men work and they will buy
your goods Could anything De
more true that that? Men cannot
buy if they haven't got work.
We see by the Columbus Evening
Dispatch that the banks Of Colum-
bus are in the finest condition of
history, and they also say that the
merchants of our city are doing
better than they have since 1880,
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merchants of this city, it must be
likewise true of other cities, and
they tell us that the NRA and AAA
and WPA and all the other AS are
no good. Why? Because Demo-
crat president and congress conceiv-
ed and passed them and they did
the work People began to have
money, the farmer began to get a
price for his products, hogs, wool,
wheat and corn, and this in turn
started the factories and mills
wheels which had been idle. The
people know which side of their
bread is buttered and when election
day rolls around F. D. r. will be
swept back into the White House
on wave of gratitude for what he
has done for the people and coun-
try and will do more in four more
years because he has something to
guide him now, which he did not
have before.
have wondered when we hear
the New Deal assailed by all the Re-
publican speakers, when they tell us
of all the failures of the New Deal,
whether the people who still re-
member the struggling and suffering
of only three and one-half years ago
would like to step back to those
dark days of 81 and '32 under Her
bert Hoover, who told us that pros
perity was just around the corner,
but we have learned since that it
was a round house and had no cor
ners. Just such bull as that was all
the suffering people got, and that
was his doom. Beaten the worst of
any man who ever ran and justly
so, for he did nothing but use words
and that was what Roosevelt meant
when he said 1.-The people want ac-
ton, not words" Will we bite the
hand that has fed US and has done
for us what others should have
done, but failed us in the hour when
we needed it badly? There is an
old adage and very true one too
that a friend in the time of need
is friend indeed. Such a friend
has been Franklin D. Roosevelt who
saw the suffering of the people and
came to their relief and just in the
nick of time too. When you ask
them and there are very few of
them, what is wrong, Oh! they say
he is spending all the money, he is
robbing the government. Well, if
he is, who is the government that
they talk of being robbed? Do they
mean the Morgans, MELONS, Du-
points, Rockefellers and Fords? Are
they the government that are so
deeply interested, or is it the mil
lions of common people? If it is this
class, more power to him and the
more money he spends the more the
people that need it will have and
they will spend it and it will even
tually return to the treasury of the
United States. The other class, if
they meant were the government,
have been hogging the big end long
enough and do not need it, and
would not spend it when they got
it, The money was put into a horn
with the big end up and the little
end into some millionaire's pocket,
but Franklin D. Roosevelt turned
the thing upside down and the mon
ey was put in at the little end and
when it came out at the bottom it
was scattered all over the United
States. All the people of the United
States got Il whack at that money,
not just few of the rich, and that
is just what is hurting so much
now. 1t isn't how much or how lit
tie he is spending, but who is get
ting it.
Now just few words about our
e-President, Mr. Hoover. He tells
us that he has three or a five
point plan now for chasing that
pesky prosperity from around the
corner. Well he had four years in
the White House and has been out
three years, that makes seven years
it has taken him to think out plan
to get himself back in the White
House. Whether it helped the coun-
try or not, if he has that plan now
why didn't he conceive it then when
the people were pleading for him to
do something? 1t only took Roose-
welt a few hours to set in motion
the things that would help the peo-
pie and save the country from pos
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