The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-01-21
PARTING SHOTS

dustry, says or does; but in view of the
outburst of panegyrics that marked
the farewell dinner given him last
week in Washington, it seems worth
while to quote a few of his parting
words-perhaps for the last time.
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They throw an Illuminating light
upon the effort to make him appear a
misunderstood and misrepresented
young man, driven from the public
service by brutal and INSCRIPTIONS
press. A more utterly nonsensical no
ton has not been promoted for long
while. The truth is that when the
whole Tugwell record is considered,
along with what his great influence
with the President has cost the people
of the United States, the nature of
experiments which, at vast public ex-
pense, he has promoted, and the char
acter of his written and spoken words,
it is clear that the press dealt kindly
with DR.. Tugwell.
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It really let him off lightly. Even
that foolish section which branded
him as a Communist, which he is not,
didn't do him much injustice. Had he
really been one he wouldn't have done
nearly as much damage. In the last
four years he probably contributed
more than any other individual to the
confusion, the cost and the futility
that marks the whole governmental
machinery, the extent of which can
not be grasped by the people because
it is hidden by propaganda and over
Swallowed by the popularity of the
President. There is the further fact
that it is difficult to see that DR.. Tug
we'll has not profited greatly by his
New Deal experience. He certainly
was better paid as Under Secretary of
Agriculture than he was as an asso-
ciate professor at Columbia. In addi-
ton, he commanded a more lucrative
market for magazine articles and
books than before. And now he joins
the molasses trust at good salary,
with handsome office in the very
heart of Wall Street against which
he so eloquently inveighed.
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Under the circumstances, it is dis
tinctly far-fetched to picture DIR.
Tugwell as a martyr forced out of
public life because of his convictions,
leaving Mr.. Roosevelt saddened and
regretful. Those who know the facts
are entirely aware that had Mr.. Roose-
welt been really DESTROYS of keeping
DR.. Tugwell he could easily have done
so. To suggest that he let go be-
cause he had become political liabil-
ity is absurd. That might have been a
reasonable idea before the election,
but the Roosevelt majority made it
clear that dozen Tugwells could not
have sunk him. The President, after
the election, was certainly in position
to laugh at all of his alleged political
liabilities. In his overwhelming in
dorsement by the voters there was at
least an implied Endorsement, or, any
how, tolerance of Tugwell.
Perhaps it is inaccurate to say that
rift had occurred between the Presi-
dent and his young Brain Trust friend,
but certainly there was not that close
harmony between them that existed
during the first four years. No better
evidence that they had ceased to be
soul mates could be given than that
supplied by DR.. Tugwell himself in his
speech at the testimonial dinner. "The
progressive and liberal leaders in
American Government today" he said,
"are far behind the people and unless
there is change the people will de-
mand new leaders. The new leaders
who will arise in the next four years
ought to be searching for the best
methods to assist the people. Unless
this is done the people will understand
that we are well meaning enough but
we are not getting anywhere"
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Quoting these words, Mr.. Arthur
Krock in the New York Times peril
nently asks, "To whom more than to
Mr.. Roosevelt can that complaint be
addressed?" That, if it is anything, is
an indication Of the New Deal from
the Tugwillian angle, an expression of
discomfort with the Roosevelt leader
ship. Some will see an even more
trenchment criticism in this reference
from DIR. Tugwell to the first four New
Deal years. II Think" he said, 1--WE
should have been tougher, but the
trouble always has been that we did
not know what to get tough about"
When that extraordinary remark is
fully digested it will seem a summing
up of the New Deal that might better
have come from foe than a friend.
These parting shots are not calculated
to cause Mr.. Roosevelt to regard DR..
TugwelPs departure as an irreparable
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