Glacier County chief., 1940-09-13
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PLENTY OF ISSUES

loneerlnB 10 say IneTe is no issue
IN this campaign-that Mr.. Willkie
has endorsed all of Mr.. Roosevelt's
principal policies, and that the only
remaining question is, who can deal
| The New Deal better.
There is first and foremost the is
sue of whether in direct defiance of
one Of the oldest and most respected
F Of American traditions one man can
use the taxing and spending and
Borrowing powers of this republic
first to expand those powers out of
al recognizable semblance to them
selves and then to perpetuate him.
self as President.
Out Of the sole excuse given for
hat, grows the greatest issue. The
excuse is that Mr.. Roosevelt must
become perpetual President because
his great abilities and perform
snces make him the one and only
Indispensable American in the crit
eal hour. The questions at issue
are what abilities? What perform
nees?" Mr.. Roosevelt's principal
duties and policies lie in the fields
| d agriculture, labor, industry,
american finances, foreign relations
and, more recently, national defense.
His performance in each field is a
heap of complete and utter wreck
age.
Billions have been spent on the
farm problem. The basic situation
as to surplus, price and income and,
except as to refinanced farm debt,
Is much worse than it was even I'M
der Hoover. Federal refinancing of
.arm debt was not a New Deal dis
covery.
Unemployment of labor has not
materially declined and while it will
Do so because Of CONSUMPTION and re-
armament, Mr.. Roosevelt will GER
iainly want to claim no credit for
threatening war situation.
Industrial recovery has come to
only few large industrial corpora
tons The condition of the bulk of
little business men is worse than
ever.
Federal finances are the worst
ness Of all. Debt has reached
mountainous heights, taxes-mostly
On the poor-are unbearably heavy
and will increase. We are en-
aarked on spending program that
cannot possibly be financed except
By doubling our debt.
Our foreign relations have been
% Numbered that, except for Great
Britain, we have not a friend on
earth and those with Britain are be-
!ng pushed as rapidly as the New
Deal dares into an alliance and par
hcipation in an overseas war.
The utter neglect of adequate de-
Tense until it was too late to make
anything but a hodge-podge slap
Dash panicky rush at the effort
which is at this moment hopelessly
logged down.
These are a few of the issues.
Ihey are as great as any ever pre-
ented to the American people.
Out of them grows one greater
man any of these separately. 1t is:
How can we continue an admin.
lstration with a record of such invari-
able tragic and dangerous failure?"
The indispensable man. is also
making the greatest issue of all just
as fast as, in the face of public opin-
!on, he dares to go. He went most of
ne distance when he sold part |
u our navy. He is making the awful
sSue of peace and war. It is the
taglc issue of complete adjourn
nent of our democracy for a war
relationship in which men who have
ldden hell-bent for centralized per-
presidential power for al
most eight years will realize their
Widest dreams.
No issues? It is true that this
hpudent sloganeering has gone so
ar as to cause Henry Wallace to
inmate that if you state these real
'sues you are "giving aid and COM
'rt to Hitler" If Hitler is an en-
my, these are the constitutional
'ords describing treason. We have
arely departed far from our democ-
aey ALREADY II people Will stand for
lis kind of campaign.
LABOR AND WAR WORK
It seems to be a part of Demo-
,atic campaign strategy to assure
Dor that, no matter what may
me in this war situation, workers
III lose none of the social advan-
ges" of the past few years. It is
SO a part of extreme New Deal
rategy to tell labor that the Re-
lblican party intends to use any
ar crisis that may come to deprive
Dor Of all its hard-gotten gains.
As matter Of cold fact, the dis
ssion is probably academic. The
eatest gain that labor could have
,uld be full and continuous en-
oyment at good wages and much
creased income.
II we get into full war effort
ost of the unions will enjoy boom.