Evening star., 1938-08-27
Letters to The Star
Seeks Reason for
Roosevelt Popularity.

Seeks Reason for
Roosevelt Popularity.
To the Editor OF The Star:
EOR five years have been reading
about President Roosevelt's great
popularity with the masses and have been
trying to figure out why he Is popular
with the American people. His 300-odd
taxpayer-paid press agents to the con-
trary notwithstanding. I have never
been able to find any one thing he has
done for the people.
do not consider developing Nation
of mendicants and beggars doing any
thing for the people. I do not consider
sitting business with spiteful and screwy
economic policies and throwing millions
of honest. sincere citizens out OF work
thereby. doing anything for the people.
His first ma jor act on taking office was
to cut quarter OF billion dollars from
the compensation of disabled war veter-
ans with one of the most hypocritical
specious pleas for economy the world
has ever heard.
His next act was to foist on the Ma
ton the N. r. A.. which set us back in
recovery two years, drove thousands OF
small business men to the wall and made
business bigger and better for chain
stores and the monopolies he now pro-
fesses to hate.
His next act was the A. A. A., designed
to buy the farmer vote with public doles
The A. A. A. has not done the farmers
one iota of good. On the contrary, it
has ruined our Southern cotton markets
by encouraging nations with pauper la
Dor to increase their acreage and under
bid our export trade.
The President and his rubber stamps
in Congress killed the only real effort at
farm relief-the Simpson cost-of-pro-
duction amendments-in order that the
grain gamblers of La Sale street might
continue their racket of specializing in
foodstuffs. The Simpson plan would
have added from four to six billion dol
lars a year to the farmers purchasing
power, according to one Henry Wallace,
who later became Secretary of Agricul-
ture and helped kill this plan for MAX
ing the Nation prosperous again.
As to labor, he has given them the
Wagner Act and the wage-hour bill.
The Wagner Act has benefited no one
but the communistic G. I. o. It has
taken away from organized labor its
me-honored and never-before denied
right to collective bargaining by giving
the N. r. l.. B. the power to determine
the makeup of this unit. And the pres
ent board has been gratuitously check
ing this power to the communistic C. I. o.
The wage-hour bill was another gold
brick for labor. In only one State (South
Cardinal is the average rate for COM
mon labor under 40 cents. At least,
that's what figures of the United States
Bureau of Labor Statistics show. The
net effect can only be to give employers
who want to an excuse to cut wages to
the floor set by the bill.
He promised us social security. In
fact. he has made many people believe
we really do have social security. The
1887 Treasury Department reports show
that 1,755,OO3 destitute old people were
paid $68, ,688, ,45l Sian average of $6.47
per month each. Is $6.47 q month social
security and, If SO, what kind of security?
But the Treasury reports also record
the fact that in the same six-month pc
riod $286 900 951 so was collected from
employers and employees of the country,
and the balance, SPIT, All 500, put in the
general fund to be used in financing
brain trust" experiments and Alice in
Wonderland" government, an immoral
If not actually illegal diversion of ear
marked public funds.
We read in the newspapers that the
"moneyed interests hate Roosevelt"
What moneyed interests? The Rookie
feller interests, whose bank director takes
Mr.. Roosevelt to ride on his 5000, 900
yacht? Or who at least did until the
Roosevelt advisers suddenly woke up and
discovered it might disillusion the masses
Of the people If he continued it.
Surely not the Morgan interests? Five
Morgan partners contributed heavily to
the Roosevelt campaigns. according to
the sworn report OF the Democratic Ma
tional Committee to the House of Repre-
sentatives. Surely not the Du Pont in
terests. one OF whose daughters has mar
ried into the White House, who seek the
same kind of big Navy that Franklin
D. is always advocating.
what nnoneyed interests, them