The Washington times., 1938-08-30

being traitor to his class. This keeps coming,
with fury undminshed though
F. u. II. Is In Mr. Roosevelt is we'll along in his
ronL Co,,r~,u,, second term from members of the
class he is said to have betrayed.
To forsake the traditions of Groton and Harvard
to line up with the have-nos against the haves-that
is apparently the one unforgvabe sin aristocrat
commit.
If it's any consolation to the betrayed haves, Mr..
Roosevelt is not the first in history who did
such thing. We don't necessarily world history,
either, with its julius Caesars, Suas, Gracious
brothers. Mrabeaus, Lafayettes and Kropotkins. The
United States has had plenty of these TRAITORS in its
own history.
For one, there was George Washington. We regard
Washington today something of national saint;
austere figure wearing silk stockings and knee breeches
and uttering on vthe noblest and most
Some More prudent thoughts
MT:4o, Washington born into the
wealthy Colonial aristocracy; no ques-
tion of that. But when he leading a ragged mob
of hoboes through the Valley Forge winter while Cen
era Howe threw parties for Tories in Philadelphia the
rest of the aristocrats in general lined up with the
British, and they considered Washington low species
of snake. He had proved disloyal to his class.
Thomas jefferson another landed aristocrat yet
politically he was the peoples side his life
long.
Alexander Hamiltons case was the of Wash
ington's and Jefferson's. Hamilton poor waf
from the West Indies, of uncertain parentage He
fought on the colonies side but after
ANA StW the Revolution he became blue
c~~.n Mn~o stocking minded as to feel that Your
people, sir, is great beast"
There Hamilton episodes, indeed than there
Washington and jefferson episodes Worker after
worker pulls himself to industrial power by his own
boostraps only to become tougher driver of labor
than most executives born to power
Plenty of people, of course remain true to the class
into which they are born. Andrew Jackson up
from among the leathernecked pioneers Of the Tennes
see frontier and he remained peoples champion to
the day he died regretng that he hadn't hanged aristo
cratic John c. Calhoun Lincoln true to his pioneer
stock
But against Lincoln and Jackson must be balanced
the two RooseveltS, Theodore and Franklin D-both
members of ancient aristocratic and fairly wealthy
American family and both warriors against excessive
privileges cornered by members of their class,
What we wonder is how the Socialists and Communists
square these conflicting phenomena with their theory of
economic determnism-the theory that self-nterest
controls mans actions, with
"ECOnOmLC alleged ideals, generosity and
no4ou.;,,;o,.,U on as very minor factors in human
DeteT"'N"'Sm conduct,
We imagine one MARKHAM explanation of Franklin
D. Roosevelt would be that his folks having something
under $1,OOOOOO all told, he grew jealous of people
who had $5,O0OOOO $5O,OOO,OOO and determined to
cut them down to his financial size if he could But
doubt that How about the innumerable small rich
who cuddle up interminably to the big rich?
These economic determnists explanations to us
to explain too well-just psychoanaysts explana-
tons do. psychoanalyst dope it out that flag
pole sitter flashy prize fighter believing
major general is only trying to inferiorty
complex-but he also dope it out that shrinking
soul who trembes like leaf at his mother-n-law has
inferority complex.
We believe there is something in the heart that drives
many to betray his class for what he conceives to
be the general good of sociey-hat plenty of these
aristocratic fighters for the common people really
mean it.
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