The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-17
All Wrong!


 All Wrong!
 The roar of the approving ban Queteers which must have shat tered the midnight dreams Of the slumhering Tuclahoevians was as the gentle whisper of Q faidslIi1- iner breeze compared to the hcWl- ing of the Republican newspaper wolves when they took up MT. Farley's trail Wednesday morn ing. The speech was described as nothing more than Q repetition oE the clamor for blood delivered be- fore the tribunes of the French Revolution. Its. utterance was uia- dignified, lingentlemanly, unwor. thy of Q cabinet officer, and the sort of table manners which have been outlawed by Mrs. Emily Post. Tn the name of elegance how could MT. Farley cell Our Best People "unprincipled brigands" and the foes of the Democratic admins. tration the "gangsters of Big Busi. nessl" Such designations smack of uprearing in the Aaverstraw briclyards rather than he exalted sphere In which the planets ot American finance, business, ano industry twinkle In icy alooiness to the world around them. The only explanation Is that MT: Far lev hes the bad habit Of calling Q spade Q spade and, when put to 1t, of describing that necessary i'm" plement of garden equipment as . biankety-b -blank shovel. He has ap- parently the more deplorable 50" cial attitude of thinking that it is a far greater otfense to commit q crime than 1t is to call attention to 1t. With this department MT. Farley's type of speech Is the pees wax, Those who hate President Roosevelt want to return to early American rugged individualism but they cannot stomach the TO" turn of rugged American speech They may admit, of the record, that everything MT. Farley Said is true but he should not have Saio it just that way. He should nave swaddled his unpleasant truths in aich n mass of cotton-Wadding words that they could neither DO heard nor felt. The newspapers which have no scruple about di- recting the most vitriol!c attack on the chief executive of the nation dispiay tho most amazing and lu. dicrous saueamishness when any friend of his has the effrontery 70 reply in language whose only fault is that 1t uses plain, everyday terms which the people of the lana understand, The American DupeS (short for duPonts) League, The Republican National Oommsttee' the Republican.cont pressS; tho Crusaders, and the Unlteo states Chamber of Commerce 'siay throw up their collective and in- diyidual hands in outraged horror at MT. Farley's table talk, put lt was right down the alley Of the electorate. They love 1t.
 
 Mlsrepresented
 Right after President Roosevelt delivered his message to the Con. Rress, Harper sibley, Rocnester capitalist and president or tne United States Chamber of com rnerce. resented the larruping zen. trenched greed" received on snat cccasion, Said MT. Sibley:
 Business men generally have
 worked for the welfare Of tno country and they should not pe attacked because they are mot
 uIlanlmously In favOr 0s nll the
 Ineasures of the New DeRL"
 Who attacked business meil "eenerally"p Certainly MT. Reese. yelt did not. Ile explicitly ana more than once made his mean ii1g clear: Tt is but Q minority of business and finance that woMla gang up against the peoples nn. ertles": the government Of the United states seeks to pFotect thena (the greater part of business mon. ii1dustriaiists; and other eiss- ployers) and to save them from being ploughed under by the smeI Ininority Of business men ana fl1anciers against whom snAh continue to wage war."
 Tn misrepresenting President Rooaeyeit's words and thought MT. gibley may have been Interpreting the hopes of the United States Chamber of Commerce. he was not st,eaking for "business men generally0 but for "a small iniiiog. ityU. Mr. Farley and his meat axe viii take care Of that group. And ~i,y time its edge sets dull know one oerson who will he glad tC contribute Q whststone. .--by way cf 1aA AaFf1a IfNHt 8tffl