The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-08-08
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JEFFERSON AND HAMILTON


political scene has changed to sort
Of game of prisoners base" The
Republicans have nominated
Democrat of such characteristic col
or that Thomas Jefferson would rec
ognize him as kindred spirit long
before he could ever distinguish Mr..
Roosevelt from Alexander Hamilton.
Mr.. Roosevelt has held up to the
yeomen, as Prince Of Wales, Mr..
Wallace, a Republican by heredity
and long conviction, who says that
he turned his political coat only be-
cause the Republicans hadn't done
enough for agriculture.
There is more in both Democratic
and Republican principle than is
dreamt of in that philosophy.
In the Presidents cabinet there
are only two indubitable Democrats
Hull and Farley. There are now
four Republicans-Stimson, Knox,
Wallace and Ickes-two Socialists or
something-Hopkins and Perkins
and couple of no pronounced po-
litical parentage, Jackson and Nor
u.
AS for Jeffersonian policy-decen-
tralization of government = states
rights - government by laws, not
men-no personalized power-rota-
ton in office-federal economy-as
little government as is consistent
with keeping men from injuring
each other-Mr. Roosevelt opposes
every one.
Whether Mr.. Willkie will be re-
garded as a reborn Republican or
Democrat nominated on the Repub-
lican ticket, his whole philosophy is
as faithfully Jeffersonian as Mr..
Roosevelt's is the reverse of that.
In the traditional American politi-
cal sense it is far more difficult
to see how a Democrat could sup
port Mr. Roosevelt, than to wonder
how he could fail to support Mr..
Willkie.
Alexander Hamilton didn't think
men could be trusted to govern
themselves except through self
perpetuating beneficent despotism.
Mr.. Jefferson asked, if man couldn't
govern himself had he found angels
to govern him? Plainly Mr.. Roose-
welt concurs with Hamilton and has
practically uttered and surely acted
the belief that both the Amounted
governor and his successor have
been found.
Many sincerely believe and faith
fully follow the President on this old
Federalist theory, which is their
right. But that hardly justifes the
President in castigating as party
renegadeS" all those Democrats who
don't.
If it were not for the bondage of
the South to bitter memories of the
Civil war, no southern Democrat
could possibly follow Mr.. Roosevelt.
He has taken away from them
protection of the two-thirds conven-
ton rule, ruined the export market
for their principal crop, cotton, neg
lected to recognize the discrimina-
ton against them in freight rates
and their competitive necessity for
differentials in wage rates. No
great political power since Thaddeus
Stevens has been more unsympa-
thetic toward their problems.
Southern Democratic leaders who
have opposed this have been con-
demned as "feudalists." Great
southern congressman such as Gar
ner, Robinson, Barley, Byrnes,
Clark, both Bankheads, Rayburn,
Doughton and Marvin Jones have
simply had to swallow it in the
name of party loyalty, but it was so
brutally inconsiderate that it could
have left little room for love and
loyalty.
These great political shifts take
time to reveal themselves but it be-
comes clearer daily that Mr.. Roose-
welt heads new party which Harry
Hopkins once described as the
''have-nots against the HAYES"
TWADDLE
This campaign will be no pillow
fight. Ex-senator Reed was pun
ished by the President for taking
walk by being called sweat-shop.
The President padded Johnny Hane
and Lew Douglas by saying they
think more of dollars than humanity.
I can't get excited about any of
this. Jim Reed isn't sweat-shop.
An attractive lady in Kansas City
named Nellie Donnelly got the idea
of applying automobile quantity
production methods to the manufac-
ture of women's dresses. This made
them at low cost and high excel
lence. Accordingly, she began to
make so much money that gang
kidnapped her. Jim was her lawyer.
This made him so mad that he
swore to rescue her without a ran
som and to Jail her abductors. This
he duly did and his righteous wrath
carried him over into romance. He
married the gal.
But that doesn't make Jim
sweat-shop. I studied that case per-
sonally in MIRA. Wages and work
ing conditions in Nellie's factories
were by so far the best in that in
dustry that her code competitors
principal complaint was that she
was setting standards too high for
them to equal
Lew Douglas and Johnny Hane
may care something about dollars,
and who doesn't. But neither of
them has been nearly as successful
in corralling dollars as the Presi-
dents own family-after, but never
before, his election in 1882.
Thus, most of the fighting wise
cracks on that side of the argu-