The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-05-16

In his recent address to the Young
Democrats, dining in honor of the
birthday of Thomas Jefferson, Presi-
| dent Roosevelt struck his usual typi-
cal holier- than-thou partisan note of
finding the New Deal wholly good and
those who criticise it wholly bad.
Incidentally, he found nothing in,
consistent between this birthday Gel
ebration and the fact that the New
Deal Administration has been a mega
ton of most of the political philosophy
of Thomas Jefferson. But we pass that
over, for consistency has never been
a Rosseveltian virtue.
Mr.. Roosevelt was most insistent
that the Democrats must nominate a
liberal pair of candidates, running on
g liberal and forward-looking plat
form" Indeed, he found all liberal
ism" to be of Democratic Party ORR
gin, and, of course, he left no doubt
that its chief apostle was none other
than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On
the other hand, Mr.. Roosevelt found
the Republican Party to be devoted
entirely to "do-nothing-c conservatism"
New Deal Strangely Liberal
Mr.. Roosevelt and his New Deal I'M
questionably are authorities on Glib.
crafty" But it is not the liberalism of
Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lin
coin or, for that matter, of a large
number of disillusioned Democrats in
and out of office.
The New Deal has been prohigately
"liberap in it's expenditure of the
taxpayers money. Under its auspices
the cost of the Federal Government
has more than doubled; taxes are
twice as heavy as they were under
previous Republican Administrations
and still the national debt has been
doubled. That is the Rooseveltian idea
of being "liberal"!
The New Deal has been more than
liberal to foreign governments in
the payment of exorbitant prices for
foreign gold and silver.
1t has been equally liberal" to for
eign governments in the negotiation
of trade treaties that have discrimi-
mated in their favor and against Amer
lean farm and industrial products.
1t has been excessively "liberal" in
creating thousands of well-paid jobs
for deserving New Deal Democrats
other kinds of Democrats, of course,
are purged.
New Deal "Eberalism" likewise has
been made evident through the estab-
lishment of huge army of bureau
Gratis who sit in daily Judgment on la
Dor, business and agriculture. Under
its liberalism" the New Jersey pants
presser was tossed into Jail because
he was willing to charge few cents
less than a Washington bureaucrat
thought he should. And, then, there
was the appointment of Ku KluXer
to the Supreme Court.
F. d. r. Little Myopic.
So much for Mr.. Roosevelt's per-
fume of liberalism" In spleen he thea
turnd his guns on his critics. He found
nothing but iniquities in the history of
Republican Administrations. He was
extremely farsighted in discovering Re-
publican misdeeds as far back as the
Civil War, but he was myopic in dis
corning any scandals attaching to his
New Deal regime.
Particularly ironicaI, to quote from
the Presidents address, were his OBJ
servations that "this Administration
is striving to uphold the integrity of
the morals of our democracy"
moral integrity" undoubtedly has
been advanced by the Roosevelt Adj
minstration through its unconsciona-
BILE use of W.P.A. and relief rolls to
build political machine, financed in
part by public funds and in part by
contributions exacted under threat of
dismissal from those constituting
these rolls. So nauseating were the
revelations in this regard two years
ago that committee of Senate Dem
ocrats severely denounced this prosti-
tition of relief money for political pur-
poses and Congress overwhelmingly
enacted the Hatch Act.
Not one word of denunciation on
this score, however, has come from
Mr.. Roosevelt. Instead he promoted
the man in charge of Federal relief,