The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-05-08
FOOLING THE PUBLIC
BY LEvERNE HAMILTON

AAo OOOAA0 TO congress and
even had Congress been unwilling
(Which it was not) the force of
public opinion would have conpelI-
ed congress to yield to RooseveIt's
demand. Had he taken that stem.
the tlrst necessary to the restora-
ton to Congress of it's constitu-
tlonal rights to "coin money and
regulate the value thereof. he
would have placed a halter up0n
the Wall Street financial power
which had ruined the nation, and
retained the lead rope in his own
hands. Failing, either through
ignorance or deliberate intent he
placed the faith and credit of the
nation behind the tottering bank
ing structure, put the banks again
on a temporarily sound footing.
and the halter is now upon Roose-
welt with Wall Street financiers
holding the lead rope. AS evidence
of this fact it is only necessary to
state that at any time the fl
nancial powers desire to do so thew
have only to refuse to subscribe to
any OF the issues of government
bonds and thereby create the i'm
preston that the national credit
is impaired, thus Tightening the
halter upon the neck of the ad-
ministration.
So much for the first "wiggle"
of the Roosevelt fan dance which
up to the present has consisted Of
one step to the left, two steps to
he right, and a prodigious leap
straight into the air.
The next "wiggle" in the Roose-
welt fan dance, which can be ade-
quately described only by likening
it to similar exhibition which
could be seen in the sideshows of
most circuses, consisted of a ges,
ture of invitation toward the la
Dor group, and which was given
the aptly feminine name of MIRA.
In this particular "wiggle," rep
resentatives of labor and industrial
groups were invited to get to-
gether and establish "codes" of
''fair competition" Get that if
you please FAIR COMPETITION.
Shades of Noah Webster! Who
ever heard of such thing as fair
competition in industry. There
are things which are fair and
things which are competitive, but
industry there is no such thing as
FAIR competition. The two terms
just do not go together.
Under the MIRA "wiggle" how
ever, industrialists were supposed
to get together amicably and pre-
scribe certain "codes" of "FAIR
COMPETITION under which thev
would be permitted to cut each
others financial throats. The
assumption being that this finan-
cial mayhem was perfectly right
and proper so long as it was done
according to code.
Laboring groups also were in
vited to get together and draft
certain codes for the guidance of
their employers, the assumption in
this case being that so long as the
employer of one labor group fol-
lowed the codes, his employees
would render him fealtv and assist
ance in his attempt to cut the fl
nancial throat of his competitor,
| while the competitors employees
would in turn render HIM assist
ance in his attempt to commit fl
nancial mayhem upon the first en-
ployer. Could anything sillier
exist outside of a bughouse'? Had
the public not been entirely under
the hypnotic spell, it could have
discovered at once that the only
thing of value offered to labor in
| the whole MIRA Set-up was the
section called (a) which was sup
posed to outlaw the "yellow-dog
contract" and this was inserted
onlv by the untiring efforts on the
| part Of Norris of Nebraska, So
called radical" Senator.
After two years Of financial
assault and battery regulated by
code. employers began to find that
section 7(a) was of greater po-
tential harm to them than the en-
tire value of codes Of financial
Notwithstanding, so the Supreme
Court was prevailed upon to dis
cover what most students of the
constitution already knew thai
Congress could not delegate legls,
lative powers to the President ano
MIRA passed into the torgotIen
limbo of 'wiggles" that did moi