The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-02

1 desire at the outset to thank
the National Coalition of Amer
lean Women for this opportun.
ity to address their organization
and their guests here in New
York city.
Before l get started I want
to deal very briefly with one
of the chief characteristics of
the New Deal. That character
iStic is, be sure that you heap
plenty of abuse on anybody that
happens to disagree with you.
Unless you subscribe to the
New Deal and sign your name
on the dotted line, you are
tory, you are a reaCtionary or
you are an economic royaliSt.
Breeds Class Hatred
My dear ladies, bear in mind
nobody escapes that and you
can be ready for your share to-
morrow morning. The smear
department, the national COM
mittee, will be working over
time tonight to see if it is pos
sible to tie you up to the preda-
tory interests. the oppreSSorS.
That can be taken lightly and
we can pass over it with
Smile-but, nevertheless, to my
way of thinking, it is rather
serious in the country for this
reason. 1t tends to breed class
hatred.
1t tends to set up one class
of our people against another,
and that is not healthy in this
country. and real Democrats do
everything they possibly can to
escape it.
Now let use see what we
should really be. The President
was speaking at Rawlins College
in Florida on the tWenty-third
of last month and he voiced a
very beautiful sentiment, your
neighbor" and this is what
he said:
'The good neighbOr is not
Just the man who lives next
door to you, but is the people
who live in the same block. And
to the future of our nation it
must be said that the good
neighbOr is the citizen who lives
in all States and not in regions
that make up the nation"
Attitude Changes
This is a beautiful sentiment
of brotherly love.
That promotes the natural in
stinct of love for neighbor, but
when the President reported to
Congress on the state of the ma
ton, as he is required to do by
the Constitution, he had some
different things to say about his
neighborS in the nation and in
the course of his long report on
the state of the union, he used
the following:
"Hatred of the entrenched,
INSCRIPTIONS money changers.
Their own stubbOrnness and
their own incompetence could
hardly cloak the enSlaverS of
the public malefactiOn that is
being spread. / am confident
that Congress is ready and
willing to wage increasing war
fare"
There is a neighborly spirit
for you! Well, I don't want
to give my opinion about it.
if I can get an opinion that
suits the situation better. 1
think I ought to give this to
you, so I'll give you the opin-
ion of General Johnson. Gen.
eral Johnson is supporting the
New Deal in the columns of
the metropolitan newspapers,
but Immediately following that
report on the State of the
Union, over his own signature,
this is what he said about it:
"a rabble rOuser. A DELHI
crate appeal to passion. The
joy of every advocate of class
hatred here and in Russia,
makes him chief of the faction
of discomfort"
am in complete favor in
taking the Generals explanation
of it.
In January last I made a
speech in Washington. 1t was
not put in general terms and
I invited criticism. In the
event that I may put it wrong
with respect to the record I
took the Democratic platform
as adopted plank by plank and
read it to the assembly. I
pointed to the record. If 1
was wrong. why it was per-
fectly easy for the New Deal
to take up the platform and
point to the accomplishment
of different things by legislation
or executive.
None Challenged
Well, did anybody attempt
that?
They did not, but one of the
Democratic leaders undertook
to make reply to it, and what
was the reply-Well, the reply
was, "Al'S gone high hat"
1t is perfectly good excuse
for diSregarding the promises
given to the people in 1882.
Another mistake about it is if
I have the high hat, so has
every other man going to
wedding or funeral; but l also
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