The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-06-30
THURSDAY, JUNE 80, 1888.
Editorial
From The Baltimore Sun Demo
cratic), Monday, June &c

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had great sport.
He set up figure which he said rep
resented the increase in the national
debt under Mr. Roosevelt. He set up a
figure which he said represented those
who have incomes. He divided the
former figure by the latter in order to
ascertain individual responsibility for
the increased debt. By the time he had
finished dividing, Mr.. Lewis had dis
covered that if 50,0O0,00O persons paid
$1.58 a month for twenty-five years,
they would pay off the increase in debt
plus three per cent interest.
He asked how many workmen out of
jobs would be glad to undertake these
payments if guaranteed steady work.
We shall undertake to answer Mr..
Lewis question. There is no doubt
about the answer. Every last unfortu-
nate workman would be glad to pay
$1.58 a month if guaranteed job.
But now we should like to ask Mr..
Lewis a question. Who is going to
guarantee these unemployed workmen
steady jobs? Does Mr.. Lewis rely
upon President Roosevelt to give the
guarantee? In that case, we should
like to ask Mr.. Lewis who is to guar
antee the Presidents guarantee? He
has been in office five years. He has
possessed a popular following and a
political power such as no other Pres
ident of modern times has enjoyed. HC
has been able to work his will in re-
shaping the economic organism of
this nation as no other President ever
has been permitted to dream of doing.
And he never has been able to remove
the great pool of unemployment. To-
day the total of unemployment is stu
pendous
Who gives your guarantee Of steady
work, Mr.. Lewis? Are you asking the
people of this country to accept Mr..
Roosevelt's guarantee? If you are,
you will need to use your talents in
statistics to argue away the vast
army of men and women who today
plod our streets in vain quest of jobs.
At Cumberland, Mr.. Lewis also
sought to make comparison Of losses
under the Rooseveltian New Deal and
losses under the Harding Coolidge
Hoover Old Deal. He recognized no
alternative to the New Deal other
than the Old Deal. He left his hearers
to believe that it was Roosevelt and
chronically unbalanced budgets and
stupendous debts and vast armies OF
jobless men and women, or else a
reversion to the policies of those who
were in power when the crash of 1929
came upon us.
Mr. Lewis knows this is not the fact.
If there were no choice other than
Roosevelt's New Deal or Hoover's Old
Deal, the clear record of the Secretary
of State in the Roosevelt Administra
ton, Cordell Hull, would not be in
existence. Mr.. Lewis knows that Mr..
Hull was one of the principal authors
of the Democratic platform Of 1882.
Mr.. Lewis knows that the 1882 plat
form was not an acceptance of the
Hoover Old Deal. 1t was the pro-
nouncement of the Democratic liber-
alism. 1t was the antithesis of the Old
Deal 1t was a proposed body of rene
dies for the Old Deal. And, as Mr..
Lewis well knows, neither was that
1882 platform the New Deal. Mr..
Roosevelt scrapped the 1882 platform
when he instituted the New Deal.
Mr.. Lewis knows that Secretary
Hull attempted to carry out the 1882
platform. Mr.. Lewis knows that, par
allel with emergency measures to
which all agreed in March and April,
of 1888, Mr.. Hull undertook broad
program in which he emphasized trade
and money adjustments in the interna-
tional field as a means of reversing
the cutthroat nationalism that was de-
stroying business and destroying
peace throughout the world. Mr.. Lewis
knows that Mr.. Roosevelt first sup
ported Mr.. Hull and brought the lead