The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-09

We have seen our farmers and our iaborers and our business men and our veterans knock ct her door that in hand-When their trouser pockets bulged with more than her purse would ever hold.
 . We have watched others follow that example-saying afterwards .|"Well, she gave 1t to them, we thought Wc might as well get ours while the getting was good"
 There has been no shame In tho American people as 0 whole. Only in isolated instances--g as the Yer. mont stand against the skyline highway, and the Maine potato growers stand against the AAA, and the refusal In ct least one New Eng. land town to accept certain WPA schoolhouse funds-have our people recognized that assistance from an over.tired and over.Wcrked Mother was not the kind of assistance they wanted -. or would take. For the most part, we have held closely to the attitude that because Mother bore us, she could have the pleasure of supplying our every Whinl and fancy--oven though it did kill her.
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 Our country--courag As Bhe may Do ct present in her pretenceB of "nothing Wrong"-faces times ahead that, in the opinion of many, may mako 1881 seem c passing Bulli- nor shower. We have killed our hogs and dumped our wheat, and restricted our crops until the price of food is such that the working man ct his current wages can not buy 1t or # he can buy 1t hos to do without other equally sleces- sary purchases for his family. We have bedeviiled and iaaiigned and "soaked" anyone with white col- lar to c point that even If he has . few dollars and some good will left, he Is afraid to reveal them. We nave cut off gradually, the heads of oil our ieAders--except one.
 Pacing c world condition in 1917 which endangered this country's existence then, for less than our in. terior condition endangers 1t now, it was not too much to ask that men should give their lives in France. It did not take political banners then to enroll our ghipyard and farm workers in the work of keeping this country whole. Nor will 1t require political banners to enroll us in that cause today.
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 Wherever 1t is, being as small as we are, wo will undoubtedly Do pushed there and no matter what we say, we shall probably Do pushed there just tho same. How. ever, we hope 1t won't be back to the horse and buggy days--as much better as those were Gin certain re- Spects) than those of today. Wc hope 1t won't Do down tho river with . bunch of half.baked ideas that will deprive Americans of the freedom and liberty which iS their right. And # the Republican Party iS to Dc just another name for the same crowd that h now living off our country, we certainly hope we will not have to 60 along with them.
 Forward rather, we say, with shirt sleeves ,ip and coats off with ail American people who will have no political, iiidustrial, agricultural. or labor group favored ct the expense of any other group--who will draw no class distinctions of any kind iil Q land where class distinctions have no place-aiid whose chief concern ig that the economic, industrial, ag. ricultuTal, end cultural life of this country remains iH the hands Of private enterprise and individuals except iii cases whore the reg. ulatien Of dishonesty end unfair practices Is iieceasary (. and can Do assumed by government from without. Forward, we say, with those who will insist on not only . balanced budget but ( smaller ono each year afid with these who will sec to it that no one, under this system of things, shall stArve or freeze or 20 uncIothod--ag their own .aild not the governments /. personal obligation. Forward, we say, with these Americans who wifi be willing to fcreg0 the luxury of living off Mother 90 inst she may Tecoup the energy end strength she gO badly needs.
 Forward, we gay, in all these tiiings, if the faith that Americans, ae individuals ifi the sight of uod, cati and have and will make good. ) That'g whefe ss yankse.