Evening star., 1937-12-31

New York in 1898 David r.v,.,..
and then to bring
about an alliance with the American
Democratic National Convention in
1910 where only q majority and not
two-thirds of the delegates is required
for nomination.
The "build-up" of Mr.. Jackson has
been going on for several weeks. Him
self good speaker and skillful user
of invective and attack, the Assistant
Attorney General has delivered a series
of nine speeches before national farm.
business and consumer organizations.
In each of these speeches. Mr. jack
son has been growing progressively
more bitter against business and
against all opponents of the admins
tration. His thesis ranges all the way
from his first declaration that Mr.
Roosevelt has scared the Supreme
Court and the judiciary into deciding
things his way to the proposition late
ly advanced that the present recession
is conspiracy on the part of Amer
lean business men to put the admins
tration in a hole.
Editorial Is Cited.
As climax to all these speeches
comes an editorial in Washington
newspaper written by a friend of Mr..
jackson and transmitted nationally
to otner newspapers by the United
Press. The editorial says Mr.. Jackson
has been speaking for the President
on antitrust and monopoly and then
puts an ultimatum squarely before Mr.
Roosevelt thus as to the governorship
Of New York in 1898:
The quicker Roosevelt lets it be
known publicly what he has already
indicated privately-that Jackson is
his man-the healthier it will be for
New Deal politics in the largest of all
electoral States, and the one provid-
ing the best springboard to the presi-
dency.
jackson has the advantage Of being
an upstate New Yorker. therefore,
able to pull votes west of the Hudson.
At the same time he and the La
Guardia forces in New York City all
belong to the mutual admira ton club.
They will pull together. Thus. through
Jackson, the President has q chance
build up a new Democratic organi-
zation in New York City and bring
into it all the progressives who went
with La Guardia last November, includ-
ing the Little Flower himself"
That Mr.. Jackson is tracting the
attention of Republicans may be
cleaned from the fact that Senator
Townsend of Delaware. Republican
chairman Of the Congressional Cam
paig1 Committee. inserted in the
Congressional Record the other day
an editorial from the home town paper
Of Mr.. Jackson, the Jamestown IN. "
journal. In that editorial, the Journal
says:
Many jamestown friends of Robert
H. Jackson, who has risen to Assistant
Attorney General in the New Deal
administration. read of his address on
the current business recession in
Mondays Journal with interest, coupled
with disgust. That there has been
such reaction among his former neigh
bors and friends is apparent in the
many comments to representatives
of the Journal, some Of whom have
even suggested that an effort be made
to challenge Mr.. Jackson's statement
or to make apparent to him the feeling
back home.
Mr.. Jackson's Friends.
ITO those who have known Mr..
jackson for several years and have
had an admiration for his personal
qualities, the spectacle Of him resort
ing to such unintelligent demagogy is
q distinct disappoir tment. With q
knowledge of his earlier views on busi-
ness and Government, his past keen
conception of problems, his friends
are hard-pressed to believe that he
has sincerely concluded that big busi-
ness is cutting off its nose to spite its
face by prosecuting campaign to
bring about this recession and that
some increases in prices have not been
of the effect upon volume of business,
but necessarily to meet rising costs
in which both increased taxes and
labor have had their part.
we wonder how long this concerted
effort to arouse class feeling-to align
class against class by charging busi-
ness leaders with working against the
interests of the Nation--is going to
be continued by the Roosevelt admin
istration. Particularly do we wonder
how long our old neighbor who
achieved such standing in this COM
munity is going to play this game with
Roosevelt.
The President should know by now,
and 50 should Mr.. jackson, that one of
the chief obstacles in the path of eco
nomic progress for all is the lack of a
stable and reasonable tax policy and
reasonable policy of regulation that
does not restrict and restrain to the
point of conflscation and dictation.
When the administration abandons its
punitive attitude toward business and
gives a definite and lasting assurance
OF stability, business men will take new
courage and the enterprise and initia-
tive Of the American people that has
brought this Nation to its world leader
ship and high standard Of living will
carry the United States to new
heights"
There has been much discussion in
the last few days in the corridors of
Congress regarding the Jackson
speeches Now that Secretary Ickes,
In . radio speech, has backed up Mr..
jackson, it is taken for granted that
the left wing campaign to cause Mr..
Roosevelt to renounce third term and
help nominate . radical Is in full
swing. This is an interesting way to
divert attention and pu. up smoke
screen against the growing list of un-
employed and the breakdown in busi-
ness volume and purchasing power,
but 1t Is q question whether the Ameri-
can people and particularly the middle
elass which holds the balance Of politt-
a