The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-26
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
AS A CANADIAN SEES US

Gazing upon us across the border the editor of
the Globe & Mail of Toronto, Canada, studies the
policies of the Roosevelt administration and mar
wells at the popularity they have achieved.
! Expressing himself with force and vigor the
subject, he writes:
"A reader accuses us of immoderate language
in criticizing the New Deal. In extenuation we
plead that our moderate dictionary is used up.
Furthermore we insist that everything we have so
far said has been thoroughly justified, and that
only wish our command of language adequate
to the situation. Years ago we acted as nursemaid
to couple of dozen ornery mules in packtrain
service among the preciptous mountains of British
Columbia and believed then cultivated fair
amount OF emphatic explosives. But mules i'll
eiters were as nothing to this new threat to horse
sense.
1--WE arraign the New Deal and its sponsors for
the following reasons, among many others, and
raise our voice III the hope that Canada will escape
its pitfalls: 1t has been the most colossal spend
thrift in history and without results; it has welshed
upon it's platform promises of retrenchment; it is
souandering the money Of the people in partisan
propaganda; it has elevated many a political acct
dent to high office, including the Supreme Court;
it has badgered and impeded business big and
the producers of material wealth for party pur
poses; it has built up power by exploitation of the
misery of thirteen millions of unemployed, and has
accomplished nothing for the latter after five years
of glib promise and expenditure Of 20 billion; it
has Slapped the morale of the people by intoxicating
the idea that the government owes every one
living; it has adopted the policy of scarcity, pay
ing farmers for that which they did not raise, and
a DrOduc
tivity of the soil; it has murdered hundreds Of
thousands of pigs while human millions cried for
sustenance; it has encouraged class hatred by
abuse from high place; it has set capital against
labor and labor against capital; it has tacity sane
toned mob appropriation Of property, and 1t has
abridged personal freedom guaranteed by the Con-
stitution.
1--WE are tired to death of pink communism and
sick at heart that great nation, leading the world
in initiative and indviduasm should have been
brought perilously close to its knees by Pied
Piper of the fair fatuously futng in ragtime. Its
whole mistaken popularity has been based upon
the sob appeal that third of the nation is l-fed,
ill-cothed and ill-housed and the collateral idea
that the national sock is eVerlastngly stuffed FULL
No recent man. here or elsewhere, begrudgeS one
penny paid out for the aid and sutenance OF those
really in want. but the New Deal has squandered
billions in deliberate drunken sailor prodlgalty
and concealment of facts and intent.
Eve repeat the 'mmoderate language that
called forth the objection of our reader We be-
lieve the richest country the world has known IS
headed for New Deal catastrophe if halt be not
called at once; that its people, and there are none
finer, are being brought down to shameful misery
by the most colossal stupidity that political insanity
has yet devised for its own self-perpetuatmg ends
And we don't except even Alberta"
As Americans with open minds, we should De
willing to study what he has to say.
The Toronto editors opinions are those Of an
outsider, observing our affairs from detached
viewpoint And from such position, clarity of Vi
sion often is obtained.
Looking backward now, it is easy to see the
folly of Rome in its reckless and extravagant man.
ner Just before its downfall. Simple also IS 1t to
understand the forces that drove Germany into the
arms of Tyrant Hitler.
So it is that the Toronto editor is enabled to
appraise our problems and our methods in an ln-
partial manner. He is not in the midst of tie
maestrom He is on the ontside.-Soux City, s.
D., News-Argus.
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