Evening star., 1940-11-02
Democracy in U. s. Threatened
BY New Unholy Alliance.

Democracy In U. s. Threatened
BY New Unholy Alliance.
No elements in American pub
lie life have made such vicious
attacks upon each other in re-
cent years as have the members
Of this new unholy alliance
against each other.
I do not think that some of
the men, even some of the lead
ers, who have been drawn into
this unholy alliance realize what
a threat that sort Of an alliance
may bring to the future of
democracy in this country.
I am certain that the rank and
file OF patriotic Republicans do
not realize the nature of this
threat.
They should remember, and we
must remember, what the COL
laborative understanding be-
tween Communism and Nazi-ism
has done to the processes of
democracy abroad.
Something evil is happening in
this country when a full page
advertisement against this ad-
ministration, paid for by Repub-
hcan supporters, appears-where,
of all places?-in the Daily
Worker, the newspaper Of the
Communist party.
Something evil is happening in
this country when vast quanti-
ties of Republican campaign lit
erature are distributed by or
CARNATIONS which make no Sc
cret of their admiration for the
dictatorship form of government.
These forces hate democracy
and Christianity as two phases
of the same civilization. They
oppose democracy because it is
Christian. They oppose Chris
stianity because it breaches de-
mocracy.
Their objective is to prevent
democracy from becoming strong
and purposeful We are strong
and purposeful now, and intend
to remain so.
Few Stopped to Think OF
Direction of Their Efforts.
In the years after the last
World War, Americans worked
and built many things, but few of
our people stopped to think why
they were working and why they
were building and whittier they
were tending.
Those were the days when
prosperity was measured only by
the stock ticker.
There were the factory workers
forced to labor long hours at low
wages in sweat-shop conditions.
They could look forward to no
security in their old age. They
could look forward to no insur-
ance during periods of unem-
ployment.
There were the farmers of the
Nation, overburdened with debt
and with farm surpluSes, their
income vanishing, their farms
threatened with foreclosure.
There were the natural re-
sources Of the land being
wasted-soil, forests, minerals,
water power.
There were millions of work.
erS, unable to organize to pro-
tect their livelihoods, unable to
form trade unions.
There we're the small busi-
nesses of the Nation, threatened
by the monopolies of concen-
trated wealth.
The savings of the many were
intrusted to supposedly great
f1nanciers, who were to lose these
savings in fantastic adventures
OF giant holding companies and
giant investment trusts.
The crash came as it had to
come. And then for three years
the American people waited and
suffered. For three years the
American Government did moth
ing to help.
In 1888, the American people
began to stir themselves. They
had come to learn that inaction
offered no escape from the prob
lens of a troubled and changing
world.
The American people de-
termined then and there that
what could not be done by in
dividual effort could be done
through joint effort; that what
the industrial and financial
leaders could not, or would not
do, a Democratic government
could do, and would do!