Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-11-01
Roosevelt or Willkie?
an Editorial


that one thing clearly etched that all who not
blinded by propaganda may it. We know that the
great humanitarian program Of President Rooseves admin
isration threatened by coalition of ultra conservative
business unreconstruced Dixie rebels disgnted labor
dctaors and Negroes who have been ured into of
foolish thinking assertions by the familiar but elusive tin
kle of the Republican cowben
1t is difficult for to understand how many diver
gent interests which all less opposed to each
other have been able get together thing AS
something reactonary and barking back to the false pros
pery of 1929 and the dark days of the Hoover Admnist
ton. We realize that Mr. Roosevelt is neither god
superman but he who has heard the cry OF the
idle the homeless, the aged and the mnortes who
part nation His response to that has been in the
form of such tangible things work for youth
and adults decent housing for those who had previously
coughed up their lungs in ven ridden sus for
the aged the form of old assistance and insurance and
participation in government and policy making for racial and
religious minortes These last have been denied voice
under Republicans johnson Herbert Hoover
The President not 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
Thirteen Colonies to liberty from the yoke of England but
Washington the President of nation which held aoft
the torch of liberty with hand and in the other held the
shackes of slaves kidnapped from Africa Jefferson
concept of liberty and justice for ALL Even the great Lincoln
would have been content to keep the Union half slave and
half free, if it had been possible to do
Mr. Roosevelt assumed the helm of the nation at time
when faced the most awful crisis in history Genera
ons before oppressed people fled to this country because
land of freedom free speech being DESTROYED
Starvation in Europe had driven hores to shores in the
previous century, the children of these people form
ing bread lines windy street and gallant American
citizens making last ditch stand beside boxes OF apples
which they trying to sell to pennileSS public This
condition had about largely because reliable business
institutions had sold billions of dollars worth OF bonds on
worth the paper they were printed He followed the
heels of administration which had tear gassed bayoneted
f TSeoe Sonn Veterans few Years before had GONE 70
Europe fight for Democracy They had returned to
nom exploitation and racial persecution which at least
tolerated not actually inspired by the Republican Admins
tratiOn.
lowers saying that A Roosevelt has given Negroes is
the WPA and the worst of it is that they satisfied with
tee that his supporters will open the doors Of arpane fac
tories owned by his fellow Republicans that people
and Southern the Georgia Power Company will or
employ Negroes as engineers and tech
Americans believe that every has the right to work in
private industry We also believe that when private industry
either cannot will not supply him with work then 1t is up
government to to his aid We also would like to know
why it sinful to spend tax for WPA as
the present administration has done than to use as subs
dies for railroads and banks the Republican admnistra
tions have done?
business supposed possess if in a country still
erned by three branches of control all answerabe to the
American people, it is afraid to make investments because
OF one man IN the White House we raise ne question OF
how adequately would these interests which Mr. We
Is US dO 5oeg ga Zoe ed e great en- en-
imaginary bOogie Within what would they do real
menace knocked on our door from without?
Who these people opposing the reelection of Presi
dent Roosevelt? Sometimes they condemn him on the
anachronsm of the third term ISSUE sometimes the mat
of foreign policy, but usually generathat is very
principles They the scions of the Old South
like Carter Glass who knife in hand have always sought to
stab liberalism in the back because it would the end Of
culture already centuries deep in rot They the Negroes
who have talked about social reform and believed in it, until
they had to help 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
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 be made the strength of promssOry noe although
they have that the maker has the
intention to pay
These the people who form the nucleus of movements
like Democrats for Wlke ITO hell with Chicago Repub
cans" There many honest and intelligent people who
have spoken We and there many crooks who have
declared themselves for Roosevelt But these honest people
do control 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 but this fact is justification of either of these
international brgands There many socaed New Deal
who have betrayed the high purposes of Roosevelt but
there have been traitors and aboteurs in all of the worlds
great The Of Judas well known in Chris
tan religion and Benedict Arnold ctional character
in American History.
We have viewed the faults of the present administration