The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-25

Editor, The Times-News:
| quite agree with what Benz.
R. Clayton says in his splendid
letter published in Fridays issue
of The Times-News. What / can
not understand, however, is why
Mr.. Clayton, or any other intelii-
gent citizen, should take seriously
anything President Roosevelt says.
For is this not the same man who
in the presidential campaign OF
1882 said that we had far too
many bureaus and commissions
and that if he was elected he
would drastically reduce them? Is
he not the same man who told US
in that campaign that if we elect
ed him he would promptly balance
our national budget? Is he not
the same man who told us in that
campaign that if we elected HIM
he would reduce the running eX-
pense of our national government
25 per cent. Is he not the same
man who told us that if we elect
ed him he would see to it that the
government expenses were kept
within the government income? Is
not this the same man who with
hand on the Holy Bible, and call
ing upon High Heaven to witness
his solemn and presumably bind
ing obligation, solemnly swore be-
fore God and man to protect, de-
fend and support the Constitution
of the United States? Is he not
the same man who won his cleo
ton as the Democratic nominee
of a great party, and then be-
trayed and destroyed that great
party upon which he had ascend
ed to greatness GU
Why should anyone possessing
an ounce of intelligence pay any
attention to the spoken or written
word of man who so ignobly and
utterly failed to keep single one
of his promises and pledges made
the American people, save alone
his promise to give them beer and
whisky? Why should we even
tune in our radios to listen to the
claptrap, humbug, falsehoods and
deception of such a man even tho
he be clothed with little brief
authority obtained from a free
people, under false pretenses?
! have the greatest respect for
the office of the president of the
United States Of America,-the
highest and most honorable civil
office on earth; but when the oc-
cupant of that high office wanton-
ly wastes and squanders the peo-
pies substance, and mortgages
generations yet to be; when he
deliberately and boldly ignores his
promises and pledges made a con-
fding, and | fear too gullible cleo
torate; when he thrusts at the vi
tails of our government and her
institutions, and ruthlessly at
tempts to tear down her pillars of
justice and trample her Constitu-
ton in the dirt and mire of dema-
goguery, it is high time for rug
ged American citizens who revere
their noble ancestry and prize
their liberty won with the blood
Of their forefathers, to speak out
boldly against usurpation and tyr
amy in government.
1t is said, "Whom the gods
would destroy, they first make
mad" Franklin d. pot only be-
came "mad" but was frantically
beyond the pale of a reason when
he appointed the VIGOROUSLY unfit
Hugo Black to the supreme court
bench. Instead Of being our great
president" he showed himself to
be our "small" president when he
made this appointment through
personal malice at those patriotic
senators who thwarted him in his
attempt to destroy our supreme
court. 1t might be charitable for
US to extend this madness. to
time antecedent to his appoint
ment of Black, and to time when
he was slaughtering 100000 pigs
and brood sows and throwing their
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