The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1943-05-06


were altered to read "the New Deals
dead and the shows over" it would
describe with complete accuracy the
situation as it is generally viewed to-
day in Congress. The significance of
some of the things that recently have
happened there has not had the public
notice it deserves.
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For example, there was the House
! action last week in killing a large
part of those costly and radical eXper-
iments in RECOMMENDATION and regula-
ton which, in the early days of the
Roosevelt regime, it had enthusiastic
cally ndorsed. Perhaps it is the war,
but it is strange that more was not
made of the murderOus blow which
| fattenued out a whole flock of agen-
cies created when Vice-President Wal
lace was Secretary of Agriculture,
and his Under Secretary, the ebullient
DR.. Tugwell colorfully proclaimed the
New Deal intention "to make America
! over"
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The contrast between the Congress
which then swallowed with scarcely a
gulp an Administration philosophy
which ran contrary to common sense,
and this Congress, the popular branch
of which has just repudiated that
philosophy, is striking, indeed. That
| the Reputation was effected without
the least evidence Of public disap-
proval makes the whole business eX-
plainable only on the ground that the
| tide that ran so long in one direction
really is running now in the other 1t
! was an undoubted reflection of the
change in public sentiment wide
spread desire to be rid of amateur
refarmers and their dubious schemes
to circumvent natural economic laws.
What the House did was to slash
the Department of Agriculture's next
years budget $25O,O0O,O00 below the
Presidents recommendation, 1t did
this deliberately, we'll knowing and
we'll warned of the consequences.
Among these may be listed:
/. Under House action, about $79,-
100000 in direct payments and loans
which farmers otherwise have re-
ceived is now denied them.
2. The Farm Security Admins
tration, particularly dear to the Tug
wellian school and primarily estab-
lished to aid the down-and-out "share
cropper" of the South, about whom
so much has been written and spoken,
has been abandoned
3. The "crop insurance" idea, de-
signed when Mr.. Chester Davis was
AAA Administrator, to protect the
farmer against weather and reim-
} burse him for damage by drought,
has been abandoned
t. Various International, promo
, tional and inspirational programs
: have been ordered consolidated or
eliminated.
! OF all these things the outstanding
! piece of Reputation is that of the
Farm Securities Administration. This
was the most radical of all the New
, Deal agencies, strongly supported by
the CIO and often accused of Com
{ munstc and collectivist tenden-
cies A desperate Administration
= fight to preserve it was made and the
Y decisiveness with which it has been
e chopped down is measure of the re-
t volt.
, An effort to have the FSA re-
= stored in the Senate will be made, but
: the prospects are poor and the spirit
= of its defenders very damp. The sig
f nificant feature of all this is that the
e killing of these New Deal agencies
= was done neither by the Republicans
c nor by any combination of anti-New
d Deal Democrats and Republicans. 1t
: was done by the vote of Democrats
who, in the early days, had rubber
stamped every Administration pro-
:. posal-taken their White House or
c ders and gone straight down the line.
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i The change from complete Con-
: grcssional subserviency to an almost
: unprecedented independence Of the
V White House is very great. But what
n makes the rcvolt-and it is correct
t to call it rcvolt-reaIly remarkable
t is that it has nothing whatever to do
n with the war. The House support of
S Mr.. RooSevelt's war policies and for
c eign diplomacy is as strong as oppo-
: sition to his domestic policies is pro-
t nounced. Usually the House, COM
posed of 435 men never more than
eighteen months away from an cleo
= ton, either general or primary, is the
5 best barometer of popular opinion
f 1t is generally indicative of feeling
e in the country. If such is true of its
d present attitude toward the Admin
c istration's domestic policies, then, in
t deed, "the monkeys dead and the
= shows over"
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