The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-28
"DIG INTERESTS" BEING PROTECTED, NOT AMERICAN
 PEOPLE ~
December a, 1887

December 99, 1897 " Editor Waterbury Democrat;
 Recently some of our higher gov' Nrnment officials went Into variouS stages of excitement and uproar be' cause 2ia members Of the House of Representatives signed z petition to discharge the Rules Colnimltteo from confederation Of tho Ludlow bill.
 rho Ludlow bill proposes c Con: Atitutionai Amendment which would require c direct popular feferendum vote before the United States could 90 to war, except in tho ease of on actual invasion. ...
 TsThe petition signed by 2i0 repre- sentatives will give the house an op. portunity to vote on the Ludlow Amendment: and that is the reason our high government officials were 10 much exercised the other day.
 President Roosevelt himself at' tackled the idea Of tho Ludlow Amendment, because, no said. v was inconsistent with tho theory Of "rep' rrSentativd" government. Ili this morning dispatches w0 read that Mr. fandon heartily supports his f0riii' or opponent Roosevelt cn this iiiat' ter
 Presldent Roosevelt went 50 for aa te discourage any talk about the Ludlow Amendment. B no afraid that tho idea viii gain momentum aa soon as people find out what it " all aboutP IA our great liberal pfeBs ident worried lest our people diA" cover that # this atfiendrnent posSos' tho people will have tho power 70 prevent u8 fro ingeing t0 war2
 fn this mornings papers also. the President Waa quoted aS making statements about our taking q strong hand in China. f8 there any cen' i,NGtion between the pFegldent8 0p' position to C popular Feferatiduii1 0n war, and his sudden deEiFe t0 "pf0s teet our interests" iii tho Fer East,Y
 What Ara these "InteFeGtk" Of the United States in China for which our liberal president ia ready to take strong meaguFeG7 Whose vessels was our gunboat "Panay" conveying when she was sunk by japanese bombs' They were Standard OH tankGrs.
 it is the interests Of Standard 0ii, Chase National Bank and the Na. tional City Bank Of New York that our liberal president wants 70 DC free to protect by force Of Amer. iGan arms in the Far East. ft is tic interests of Big Business which Afe a0 vital in tho eyes of the great New Dealer that ne wants t0 keep tho people from expressing their eSs sential opposition to and hatred Tor war,
 As c result of these and similar aetlohA and 6xpFeebions 0f the pres. Ident favorable to Big Business Aiid tho financial interests in the past few weeks, C great miany Of us who voted for '"F. D. RH gre beginning E0 wonder fl the Hoover in him Y just coming Co the surface aftef alI these years, flo certainly is no long. CT the champion Of tile oppressed and the f0e Of vested interests tbat no was when h6 Was returned 70 eiiiee by sweeping fnajofities " 1886.
 IsoosaveiCs failure to take active measures to meet the present terrific slump ifi business afld indilstfy, aiid hls persistence in talking abolit "fe.s. storing the confidence Of bilsinegg" arc on exact parallel t0 tie d0si0s thing tactics Of Herbert Hoover from 1929 t0 1898. Thinking people afe amazed that the president should faii into the old errors which tie WaA elected to correct, and which he once corrected with New DeaI spending policies.
 ThG latest move Of MF, Roosevelt that Of "taking . strong gta1d" in China, seems GuapiCl0ugiy Ike ube teclinIqle Of Hitler and Mtiss0llfii, WtO keep their peoples attention from problems at home by taiking about or actually carrying 0ii a Waf abroad, Does Brother Roosevelt hops 10 distract 0slr attention from pFesss ing economic isstlee at home bT WaV~ lng tic American fAg over Chiiia, end making fll6iiaeing gegtuf6e t0- waFd Japan7 u go, h6 Y sadly flis' taken, Nfe
 Thc American pe0pje gre tnaitgg1 nbIy opposed t0 Waf, We dFeed tlie I~~SS. - xasN NsnNvmM&aaN MaaN eAnAaa Af1N