Evening star., 1938-07-03

Isn't it curious that all the progressive sentiment that
Chairman Hamilton has discovered in the Republican
party should have been unsuspected long period?
Isn't it amazing that the Liberty League which took
charge OF the Republican campaign in 1885, should have
poured ont all the money and all the eloquence that was
expended in trying make the county believe that
President Roosevelts program meant onv the destruction
Of American enterprise and the substitution of reign
OF Communism in the United States?
BY Their Votes Ye Shall Know Them
Isn't it surprising that the farm BILL for example
all but nve Of the Republican members Of the Senate
voted against it, and that the House Representatives
all the Republicans except handful from the granger
States likewise voted No?
So with the wages and hours bill large ma jority
among the Republican members of the House opposed the
On the relief BILL the G. O. p Senators voted about
2 to against the measure.
We might go back further in the record and might
find that the Republican members Of the National Iegsla
furnished backbone opposition to the
New Deal measures.
Not all the members of his party appear approve of
either Mr.. Hamilton himself of his policy for on the
same day that the chairman's statement printed
Representative Hamilton Fish announced that the
tonal chairman had lost the confidence of members Of
Congress and the public. Mr. Fish also said the
Republican National Committee would turn some of
the thousand dollars day which it is spending MOTH
ing to the Senatorial and Congressional Committees
could elect 10 Republican Senators and at least
additional Representatives in Congress this fall"
These things bound to happen in a party that has
no policy no leader, and clear idea beyond railing
whatever the party IN does. In all the miles of
campaign literature that have been issued by Liberty
League under its various aliases and in all the flood of
words from the spokesmen of the minority party
yet to hear constructive suggestion whole point
OF this argument is merely that they could do the job
much better than Franklin D. Roosevelt
Col Knox takes another tack in voicng his dsesteen
Tor the Presidents resde chat He objects the
dents ngures which recounted the gain of 600
IN the national income since think most people
Will agree that the President the United States in
better position to give correct figures than mournfu
Cncaeo colonel who was the tail of the Republican kite
Two years ago. COL Knox also blames the President be-
cause Congress did not pass the and hours bill
the agricultural bill until this year. this
sation nts in with the reiterated
minority party that the National Legislature had de-
graded into an aggregation Of rubber stamps very
clear Congress, and everybody else in the country
knew that the President wanted and striving
thls legislation from the time the Supreme nval
dated the first efforts to accomplish what these bills
were aimed at.
When In Doubt Blame the President
However, party that does know what its own pro-
gram to be has got to blame the President for every
tnng 1t held him responsible when stocks went down.
AS TINS letter written stocks have been going stead
y Tor week. so that particular barrage has discon
tinueo LOT the moment If the upward trend continues,
we Shall hear explanation that the rise in spite of
tne PRESIDENTS measures, and the upward trend is
halted, it will of course be his fault.
Now, in the past have had many ups and downs of
the stock market some of them resulting from
manipulation some of them simple industrial causes
because OF war threats of war; but do not recall
mat any OF them attributed to the President of the
United States. True, during the 1882 campaign, Mr..
Hoover the Republican bannerbearer, gravey told us
that the measures passed during his administration
were nuified, grass would grow in streets Nobody
took him seriously of Anybody today take
seriously the assumption that present period any
way comparable to the panic conditions Of five six
years ago. We may not be well OF as We year
ago. but we are immeasurably better on than
five years ago.
All one has to do to realize the difference IS to look at
any bank in the country comfortably doing business
calmly receiving the deposits Of its customers, sereney
paying dividends to its stockholders. Then think back
on the frightened crowds which stored same banks
seeking to get their money back into their hands,
with faith in financial institution; great business
houses topping from coast to coast.
Eighty thousand people paid big prices to see a prize
fight the other day Every Dragging about
the number Of patrons; the theaters doing . big
business That does not look much like the Hailtonian
Knoxic pictures Of the awful state u6 our Nation