The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-15
TODAY & TOMORROW
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leg of the trousers, will let each
of them guess which leg he is
working on, and will then appoint
fourth tailor to coordinate the
trousers. But that Mr.. Roosevelt
knows American politics is not to
be denied.
If, then, this message is Mr..
Roosevelt's idea of a campaign
document, certain things follow:
Mr.. Roosevelt must think that the
great majority of the American
people would wish to do any sinsi-
BILE thing which they believe will
hasten the victory and will pre-
vent this war from ending, as all
other wars have ended, il chaos
of Unemployment and crazy prices
and bad money. He must think
that, painful as it now seems to
vote taxes, to hold down wages
and prices and profits, and to call
the voters for national service, by
next autumn it may be very awk-
ward, even politically dangerous,
for a public man not to have been
recorded in favor of these meas
ures. (This Congressman has col
leagues who are hoping that no
one will remember that over the
years they have rarely been re-
corded in favor of measures which
might have prevented this war, of
measures to be prepared for it.p
When the votes are cast next
autumn. they will express the feel
ings of the people not on what
routine politicians now think the
people think now but on what are
the conditions then. And by next
autumn, as the President and COM
mander in chief has better reason
to know than any one else the war
will be at its climax. Ten million
men will be in arms, and that ten
million will have behind them here
at home their families and their
friends; for all of them the quick
est, surest and least costly ending
of the war must outweigh any con-
sideration of money. of their civil
ian privileges, or of their personal
convenience. In short, when the
young manhood of the nation is
linvging dangerously and heroilly,
the best. part of the nation may
judge the politicians by what they
did to win the War, rather than by
what they did to cater to selfish
ness, laziness, and self-indulgence.
The usual rules of political be-
havior may not work at time
when so many Americans are do
ing such unusual things as storm
ing the coasts of Europe and fight.
ig in the jungles of New Guinea.
If the Cogressman is right that
this message is campaign docu-
ment, he ought then to ask himself
whether perchance it may not be
good campaign document. 1t
would not be the first time in this
war that program of victory by
blood, sweat, and tears has proved
to be better way of retaining tae
peoples confidence than menu OF
pap. applesauce, and eyeWash.
In any event now that the Con-
gresham has found out what is
Mr.. Roosevelt's campaign docu'
ment, it is time that he began play
ing the same kind of politics. He
might find that it is very good poll
tics. And he might also find a
certain satisfaction i'll 1.-THE sat-
isfaction, when the stakes are life
and death not money and votes
of not STOPPING to the meaner ma
lures of me but of doing his duty.
That might be durable satisfac-
ton to find in these days which
our descendants will remember
long after they have forgotten who
carried the twelfth Congressional
district.