The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-01-04
WHY SUCH A REGIME IN WASHINGTON?


Much of the New Deals popularity has long rest
ed upon common prejudice and narrow-minded pas
sionS
And much of these prejudices and passions are
focused against wealth.
No political regime is to be censured for being
friendly to the masses.
The poor and underprivileged are as much en-
titled to governmental benefactons as the rich and
the powerful. Democracy guarantees that
Eve have always believed in and applauded the
humantariansm of the present president and sin
cerely continue to acclaim it as noble and inspiring
But we hold exactly no respect for any political
administration that goes out of its way to ingrati-
ate itself in the sanctions and affections of the poor
by the kalley technique of shifting the rich and
the privileged.
Nor an administration that seeks to keep itself
in power upon the sheer emotionasm of arousing
class frictions and social distempers.
Nor for political hierarchy that would seek to
build up any class by the strangely grotesque pro-
cess of pulling down some other class.
We may as we'll get down to the bottom of this
matter-burrow through the smoke screens of pas
sion and bitterness which some of these embttered
demagogues in Washington are sending out to OBJ
scure the logic and the facts and the simple COM
mon sense of the situation.
No new legislation is needed to protect the
masses against brutal and greedy Big Business nor
to take good care of the interests of the working
people of America when these interests are OPP
posed or exploited by wealthy individuals OF corpo-
rations-even by the 80 famihes
There are laws on the books against precisely
the kind of buccaneering practices and attitudes
which seem to furnish the impulse for these late
vicious attacks by crusadng New Dealers.
Why doesn't the New Deal administer those laws
instead of ignoring them, and then going out be-
fore the people if to hold its hands in abJect
helplessness against the invasions of puny little
coterie of the immensely rich?
If Mr. Jackson, assistant attorney general, and
Secretary Ickes have the evidence that big corpo-
rations or the 90 families banding themselves
together in restraint of trade Juggling prices and
values and otherwise trying to take dominant
charge of the political and economic order of
America why are they talking over the radio with
their wrathful vaporings instead of attending to
their official business of prosecuting these men and
interests?
The Sherman antitrust laws were made precisely
for the purpose of getting at such diabolisms as
they would have the American people believe are
being practiced.
And Mr.. Jackson is the ranking executive OF the
department of justice, right up next to the top
man of that portfolio-why doesn't he put his fed
eral statute books down, acquant himself with the
laws already devised call the officers and send al
ter those boys in order to prosecute and properly
punish them?
That's his business.
He is sworn to perform that duty.
That's what the tax payers of the country en-
pect him to do in return for the emoluments OF his
4Lo,,., bats
They arc not interested in paying him to hear
embttered, frenzied frothy and fear-inspiring
speeches from his tongue nor even to tell jokes.
They are comedians who will do this at no OK
pense at all to the taxpayers.
Time has come in America when courage and
patriotism and simple intelligence are required on
the part of the public to answer in swelling syla-
bles these sophistres of vituperatve politicians and
officeholders sitting in soft and palatial place III
Washington.
There is something far more vital and destiny
making to the American people than the mainten-
ance of any given political administration in power
or the enthronement of its clever shbbolethS to
attract the faith and devotion of the people.
The social unity of America is vastly more I'M
portant than the perpetuation of some partisan
regime in Washington OF it's endless experimental
tions with the economic order.
1t is even better for the people of this country
to be at PEACE among themselves than it is to be
PROSPEROUS ...
And no peace is possible nor prosperity conceiv-
able long as bitterness and animosities, social
frictions and class prejudices are being aroused
and the people encouraged and coaxed into spite
and envy, and hatefulness toward each other.
Nothing is more imminently vital to the present
well-being and the future happiness of American
citizens, of every degree and condition and race
and color those of the so families or those of the
120,000,000 others, alike than the re-estabshment
in Washington of practical loyalty to and express
sion of the simple democraces.
And it is never the part of authority in the de-
mocracies to tear people asunder and embitter with
into social belligereney. That's major part of
the tyrannies, of relationships The Charlotte OBJ
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