St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-11-01
Roosevelt or Willkie?
An Editorial

great humanitarian program of President Rooseve admin
business men, unreconstruced Dixie rebels dsgrned labor
dctaors and Negroes who have been ured into moras OF
foolish thinking assertions by the tamar out elusive Tin
kle of the Republican cowben.
It is difficult for understand how many diver
gent interests which are all more less opposed each
other been able get together thing AS
might be expected however they could only get togehef on
something reaconary ana barking PACK to the tase pros
ton We realize that Mr. Roosevelt is neither god nor
superman but he man who has heard the cry OF ene
part nation His to that has been IN the
form of such tangible things work for youth
and adults decent housing for those who had previously
coughed their lungs in vermn ridden sum for
the aged the form of old assistance and insurance and
participation in and policy making for racial and
religious minorites These last have been denied voice
under Republicans Andrew Johnson to Herbert Hoover
The President is perfect but he is the nearest
approach the deasm of this nation that have had in
any President We honor Washington because he led the
Washington was the President of nation which held aoft
the torch liberty with hand and the other held the
great LIBERAL but he steered the nation the rues
concept of liberty and justice for all Even the great Lincoln
would have been content to keep the Union hall slave ano
half free, if it had been possible to do So: .
Mr. Roosevelt assumed the helm of the nation at time
when faced the awful crisis in history Genera
tons BEFORE oppressed people fled to this country because
land of freedom free speech was beng destroyed
Starvation Europe had driven horde to shores IN the
previous century, yet the children of these people were form
ing bread lines windy street and gallant
citizens were making last ditch stand boxes 81 aPR
condition had about largely because reliable business
institutions had sold billions of dollars worth OF bonds on
South American European investments which not
worth the paper they printed He followed on the
heels of administration which had tear gassed
battered American veterans the Streets OF Washing
ton These veterans few before had gone to
Europe fight for Democracy They had returned to eco
exploitation and racial persecution which at least
tolerated not actually inspired by the Republican Admins
tration.
The Republican candidate is quoted by of his fol
lowers saying that Cali Roosevelt has given Negroes is
the WPA and the worst of it is that they satisfied with
it." We ask Mr. Wiie whether he give us guaran-
tee that his supporters will the doors OF aane FAC
tories owned by his fellow Republicans that our people
may work in them? We ask him whether the Commonwealth
and Southern the Georgia Power Company will
employ Negroes engineers senographersand tech
ncans So far as the WPA we like other real
Americans believe that every has the right to work in
private industry We also believe that when private industry
either cannot or will not supply him with work then
to to come his aid would like to know
why it sinful to spend tax money TOR WA wages as
dies for railroads and banks the Republican admnstra
Where is the bold and pioneering spirit which
business supposed possess if in country still
by three branches of CONTROL all ansWerabe to the
American people it IS AFRAID to MAKE M because
how adequately would these interests which Mr. Wikie
Is e~ u SdUg under their beds because Of an
imaginary boogie within, what would they DO II real
menace knocked door from without?
Who these people opposing the reelection OF Pres
dent Roosevelt? Sometimes they condemn him on the
anachronsm of the third term ISSUE sometimes the mat
ter foreign policy, but usually generathat very
Observation-Disclosures They the scions of the Old South
like Carter who knife hand have always sought to
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culture already centuries deep in rot They the Negroes
who have talked about social reform and believed in it, until
they had help pay for it. They the wildcat spectators
who exhausted the soil of nation hacked down for
ests built fortunes fake utilities and tore the hearts from
our working people, They the labor leaders who with
decisions of grandeur followers from Moscow would place
labor the block to be sold to the highest bidder This sale
would the strength of proissory note although
they that the maker has the
intention to pay.
These the people who form the nucleus of movements
like Democrats for Wike "To hell with Chicago Repub
leans There honest and intelligent people who
spoken for We and there crooks who have
declared themselves for Roosevelt But these honest people
do the Republican machine and the crooks do not
represent the life and soul of the Roosevelt Administration
Both Stain and Hitler have honest and intelligent fol-
lowers this fact is justification of either of these
international brgands There many socaled New Deal
who have betrayed the high purposes of Roosevelt but
there traitors and saboteurs in all of the worlds
great The of Judas is well known in Chris
tan religion and Benedict Arnold cona character
in American History.
We have viewed the faults of the present