The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-27
ROOSEVELT WRONG AGAIN

I'm his recent speech at hOahOke isI"iio
in this State President Roosevelt MADE the
text of his remarks the use OF LORD Mac
aulay as a horrible example OF IorylSm'
endeavoring thereby to justify his own
views and actions. In doing so the PreSi-
dent evidenced little knowledge OF the
facts of the life of Macaulay, who was not
born an aristocrat, and who was not Ill
politics a Tory. AS matter OF fact, LORD
Macaulay was Wing in politics; and the
Wings in his day composed that great
English liberal political party which &C
complished many of the progressive re-
forms of the age.
Dorothy Thompson, commenting on the
Presidents reference to the life of LORD
Macaulay, calls his statement an "historl-
cal perversion," saying: .
st is extremely significant that the president
sets up British historian, Lord Macaulay, as the
target at which to aim his darts He represents
Lord Macaulay as a British Tory, advocating class
rule. This is in itself an historical perversion
Lord Macaulay was not Tory but a leader of the
Wings the great liberal British party of the eight
eenth and nineteenth centuries. He was not
feudal baron but the son of poor civil servant
ennobled late in life for his literary eminence. He
made his first public speech in favor of the abo-
ton of slavery He made his first speech in the
House of Commons in favor of the removal OF
Jewish disabilities He was strong an abolition
list that he resigned his office rather than vote for
modified slavery. He was the great vndicator OF
the liberty of the press and maintained the equal
ity of Europeans and natives before the law. He
believed as Mr.. Roosevelt processes to do, in pri-
vate property as basis of individual liberty. And
he also believed that unchecked majority rule
would lead to the appropriation of all private prop
erty by fiat.
"But the interesting question to ask is why the
president quotes Lord Macaulay as the historic
opponent of unchecked majority rule? Why did
he turn to an Englishman? Why did he not quote
John Jay, or James Madison or even Thomas JEFF
ferson himself? One can only surmise that ne did
not do so because it is popular to attack
dead Englishman who can be represented as feu-
dial lord than to attack the men who furnished
the basic ideas of American democracy. None of
these men believed in the presidents philosophy
of government. 1t is interesting that while he
quotes Macaulay verbally against Jefferson he does
not quote Jefferson in answer-beeause Jefferson,
though he could have answered and did, did not
give the same answer as President Roosevelt"
A significant comment by Dorothy
Thompson in the foregoing, and something
it will be well for the people of this coun-
try to constantly bear in mind, is that the
fathers and founders of the Republic did
not believe in the philosophy of govern
ment professed and advocated by Roose-
welt.
Roosevelt's philosophy of government is
as foreign to the principles and faith of
the fathers as their philosophy of govern
ment is to Communism or Fascism.
AS long as majority of the American
people fail to understand and grasp the
meaning of the foregoing statement, and
are governed in their political attitude and
actions by their present beclouded appre-
hension of this absolutely vital fact, the
American system of government will re-
main in grave danger from the paramount
political movement in this country.