Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-14

millions of voters have already lndl-
Gated they do not care about any
of these questions at all-they are
apparently satisfied to give blank
check to Mr.. Roosevelt. Whether
they are in the majority remains to
be seen on election day, but from
surface indications it IS evident that
national issues aren't important to
millions of voters-they just don't
care.
This impression has been sedu
lousy cultivated by the President
himself He has refused thus far
to debate the issues or tell the pub
lie the program he has in mind
for the four years. He has refused
to admit a single error or mistake
in administration or policy of the
last seven years or to indicate
whether he will revise his past poll
cies in any respect. He has used
military inspection trips as the os-
tensible reason for declining to dis
cuss domestic issues, but it begins
to look as if there is deeper reason.
1t is that Mr.. Roosevelt wants and
really hopes to receive what he can
interpret as do-aS-you-pleaSe
mandate on election day-to take
America into war, if he likes, and
to develop New Dealism into his
own form of Fascism when he
wishes.
Supreme Court Issue.
Back in November, 1886, Mr..
Roosevelt thought he received do
as-you-please mandate from the
American people and, though he
never mentioned the Supreme Court
in single campaign speech in 1886,
he proceeded to devote eight months,
from December, 1886, to an attack
on the court and laid the founda-
lions for the appointment of five
partisanS who now hold the ajority
rule in the court and who reveal
their partisanShip by voting as
unit on the same side of nearly
every fundamental question. 1t is
not political partisanship, but the
avowal Of New Deal war on prop
erty owners as proclaimed by the
President in his 1887 speeches
against the court. 1t is philosophy
that represents definite trend
toward conflscation of private prop
erty and the breaking down of man.
agement and business under the
system of private initiative as it
has been known for centuries. 1t
Is the first step toward the disinte-
grafton of democracy and the sub
stitution OF present-day European
collectivist systems in which the
existing administration party
or clique in power which uses public
funds and government influence
and propaganda to perpetuate itself
in ofice-becomes the true ruler.
A prominent journalist who was
In Berlin during the 80 days before
Hitler took power in 1888 says the
American mood TODAY definitely re-
sembles that very period The people
seem to have don't-care attitude
of mind. They appear ready to
acquiesce in one-man rule because
they do not see beyond the profess
sions of high purpose made by the
man who catches popular fancy.
Even the breaking Of the two-term
tradition of nearly $50 years already
seems to many people just minor"
incident. Other traditions can be
made to seem minor" too.
Over the week end. Henry Wal
lace, vice presidential nominee,
made it quite clear that the only
difference he sees between European
dictators and Roosevelt is that the
former are evil and the latter is
good. Mr. Wallace was referring to
his book in which he had spoken
of Lenin, Mussolirl and Hitler as
persons of comparable earneStness"
with the reformers of the 18th CEN
tury, and now the vice presidential
nominee says he means by earnest
'intent and direct Of purpose, zeal
GUS, fervent," and he adds:
There is no questioning the in