Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-07

congress
Harlan j. Bushfied of South Dakota told the Senate:
Think of it! And know nothing whatsoever
about it. Congress has not been advised of the steps
agreed upon The people have not been told"
COMMUNISM: On Sept. 80 1886, speaking before
the Democratic state convention at Syracuse N. Y, Mr.
Roosevelt said
81 have not sought, do not seek, repudate the sup
port of advocate of communism or of any other ism
which would by fair foul change American
democracy That my position II always has been my
HouO DeH has this promise been kept? Has Mr..
Roosevelt Cup to this ne) repudiated the Communist
their candidate for is years of dictatorship America?
THE BUDGET On Oct. g. 1887, in speech at Havre,
Mont, Mr. Roosevelt said
"As a matter of fact the treasury is all right and
are balancing the budget-yOu needn't worry"
Has Mr.. Roosevelt kept that promise? Did he keep
it eUen in 1887?
CCORDING to the annual statements of the treasury
n department receipts of the U. S. government in
1887 Fiscal year, S. $40 237 and EXPENDI-
terms, the government took in $4093 per capita and
SPENT S6269 per capita. The treasury statistics
reveal that in NOT ONE of the socaled peace years.
of the Roosevelt administration 1882 through 1899
the budget in balance-or even close!@
THE POWER OF CONGRESS: On March 81, 1888,
at Warm Springs, Ca in statement in support of the
reorganization BILL and denying that he had any nclna
ton to be dictator Mr. Roosevelt said:
II can think of where the president would
not gladly yield to clear expression OF congressional
opinion"
Has Mr.. Roosevelt chung to this promise of yielding
to a "ciear expression of congressional opinion?"
The 1914 revenue bill clear expression of
gressonal opinion. 1t adopted by the House, 238(
101 and by the Senate without even roll call vote
Yet Mr. Roosevelt, vetong that measure, in
temperate in his chastisement of Congress that his
staunch personal friend his majority leader in the Senate
Alben Barley of kentucky attacked him the Senate
floor and resigned the leadership to his self
respect and keep the approval Of his conscience
RIGHTS OF THE ST AFES= On March 2, 1880,
Mr. Roosevelt. then governor of New York, said
THE doctrine of regulation and legislation by mas
ter N
gladly and quietly acquesce has been too glaringly APP
parent at Washington during these last 10 IRE
member, this IS the Roosevelt of 1880 NOT i944.1
-. To bring about government by oligarchy mas
gueradng democracy ii is fundamentally essential that
practically all authority and control be centralized i'm
national government. The individual sovereignty of
states must first be destroyed except in minor mat
tiers of legislation We safe from the danger Of
such departure from the principles which this country
was founded just so long the INDIVIDUAL HOME
RULE OF THE STATES is SCRUPULOUsIY PRE-
SERVED AND FOUGHT FOR WHENEVER THEY
How has Mr. Roosevelt kept to this implied
promise and adhered to this principle?
TODAY the states battling back, under resurgent
Republican leadership in 26 of the As. But the ratio
of federal civilian employees to state civilian employees
TO l. The states Of have been invaded
by the New Dea federal government Through the
extension of the New Dea subsidy and the New DeaD
federal grant the functions the states have been
usurped and the bureaus commissions and agencies of
the centralized New Dea) federal administration have
taken In only ONE state in the union West Virginia
II federal employees for every ONE employee
and in Georgia there 13 for every
FOREIGN ALLIANCES: On Jan. 3 1910. in his mes
sage to the Congress. Mr. Roosevelt said
THE first president of the United States warned
against entangng foreign alliances The present presi-
dent of the United States subscrbes to and follows that
precept"
Did Mr.. Roosevelt keep that promise?
F. HE HAD kept it, the United States would not see
itself today embarrassed and Inundated before the
world Joseph Stain of Soviet Russia shreds
the so-caled Atlantic Charter which Mr. Roosevelt
without constitutional authority, without the
of the Senate-approved and in company with Mr..
Churchill of the United Kingdom early August 1871,
somewhere the Atlantic declared to be unalter-
able policy
Somewhere in the Atlantic that policy deeply buried
without even flowers scattered over its watery grave.
ONE MAN GOVERNMENT: On Nov s. 1892 closing
his campaign in Madison Square Garden. Mr. Roosevelt
said:
IL still know that the fate of America cannot depend
on any one man !, for one, shall Dtmember that
president"
On Nov 2, 1910 at Cleveland Mr. Roosevelt assert
ing that the great storm raging in the world the
true reason why he would like to stick BY these people