, 1943-08-19
BY LEWIS BOOTH

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BY LEWIS BOOTH
saEERE CONGRESSMAN Harry F. Jeffrey and the Republican
WTories thinking of the plain people of the nation when
they promoted an unholy alliance with the poll-tax
Democrats and began a Big Business Bltz to cripple or sack
every hopeful achievement of the New Deal?
Were Congressman Harry P. Jeffrey and the Republican
reactionaries and the pon-taxers thinking OF the plain people
of America, or of the wealthy vested interests, when they
removed the Presidents limitation on large salaries, adam
antly refused to limit high incomes, did nothing to raise the
oppressive ceiling on workers wages?
Such needful agencies as the National Youth Admins
tration with it's war industries training program, Home
Owners Loan Corporation, Farm Security Administration,
War Manpower Commission, United States Employment
Service, Securities Exchange Commission regulating the pro
motion and sales of stocks, bonds and other securities, Ma
tional Resources Planning Board engaged in important post
war studies, Federal Communications Commission, Federal
Trade Commission, and many other brakes which the New
Deal had placed on giant business, were wrecked or ravaged
by MIR. Jeffrey and his unconscionable freebooters.
Were Harry P. jeffrey and the Republican reactionaries
the almost universal demands for democratic grade labelling
and a roll-back of prices to decent levels? When they ignored
on ability to pay? When they voted in support of the Ruml
plan, which certainly was the slimiest tax fund every at
league with the southern poll-tax bloc, succeeded in turn
ing the miserable George plan into a tax law, which, only
slightly less poisonous than the Ruml plan, favors large in
comes all out of proportion to moderate and small incomes?
What of the Office of War Information and the Office Of
Price Administration into which Mr.. Jeffrey & Co. sank
their fangs, drained them of their likelihood by cutting
appropriations to the bone? After Gripping the agencies SO
they must function on one wing, Mr.. Jeffrey and his vampire
men now delight in kicking them while they are PROSTATE, at
the same time noisily drawing attention to the fact that OPA
and w are operating with diminishing effectiveness.
Were MIR. Jeffrey and the Republican party thinking
of the plain people of America when they railroaded the
Hobbs bill through the House tit got lost in Senate judiciary
%committee), and managed to put across the infamous Smith
Connaly bill, now a law which deliberately provokes strikes?
Or are Mr.. Jeffrey and his cohorts incapable of thinking
where the plain people are concerned.
Obviously, the Lincolnian principles in Mr.. Jeffreys
party are dead. They have been dead some thirty years.
Republicanism has become the right arm of high finance.
1t belongs to the cartel kings of Wall Street, Wilmington,
Dearborn and San Simeon. Obviously, Mr.. Jeffreys party
is as unconcerned with human values as is its %benighted
counterpart, the Democratic poll-tax party in the South.
When the giant monopolies, the NAM, the Chamber of
Commerce, so much as flick their collective whip, Mr.. Jeff
reyis party obediently jumps through the hoop.
Mr.. Jeffreys party also is the party of Senator Taft and
Governor Bricker. It is the party of the big business farm
bloc, and it is what the farm bloc demands-not what the
small worker farmer needs-that inspires a sizeable share
Of its activities.
MIR. Jeffreys party is the sitfight party. It is the anti
people party. It clngs to the status quo at any cost to the
hunanities. Well, democracy is not static. 1t goes forward
or it drops backward. And each time in the past thirty years
that the party of MIR. Taft and Mr.. Jeffrey has stolen the
balance of power, our democratic processes have fallen back.
Harry P. Jeffrey and the Republican party have betrayed
the plain people of America. That's you and l. Any person
NOT in the $4,000 (upwards) income brackets, who votes
for MIR. Jeffrey or other incumbents in his party, should have
his head examined.
Knowing this, why don't we, the plain people, do some
thing about it? We can And we will AT the polls. Our
first job is to register. Our next job is to VOTE!