Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-08
It's News
To Me
By o. ]. Pecmd
WE CHANGE

Change Is the most inevitable thing in the world.
Thus speaketh old Pecord the sage of Martha Ave,
he sadly the results of last Tuesdays election
mind piping up saying that Pecord is
plagast admits opening change
isn't original nevertheless this premise the old bases
this essay
you're going get the Greedy Party like bald
headed barber who sells hairestoer
doesn't tell you the entire truth.
Change according Republican party for peepul
but for the Republicans
And isn't because the Republicans party mob
opposed change merely they
how changes because they changed they
have forgotten how change and because they do not want
learn how to change.
YOUR REACTION
Any Republican a member of the party not by con-
viction but for strictly maeralc reasons that the
Republican party didn't win last Tuesdays election because Of
its reaconary reaction the
people who swung their pencils the voting booths of America
This previous presupposes that the Republican
who is Republican is either an intelligent cync relative
reaction nobody Republican for
long without becoming infected with the highly contagious virus
of reaction
AS matter of fact the Republicans didn't even win VIC
tory merely that lot of good American
thought they had to make choice between at e5
etcetera, and the Democrats.
What the American people Tuesday has, of course
been completely misunderstood by the Republican party which
fancies 1t has mandate" from people
merely stop the clock, but
and try and pick up the threads of phony prosperity"
has been lost upon the leaders the Republican party
licking their chops anticipation of getting their belly
securely against the public trough and sng the economic
goodies which will be stopped golden
profits which are about to be magnited many times
STILL BLIND
These are the thoughts of that old pesms Pecord as he
gazes upon Republican party drunk with what ondy be-
eves to be outstanding victory while forgetting that times
change and we must change with them"
thoughts many others who recognize
In the Republican win the ingredients which brought
nation the brink of disaster under Republican auspices
iS thaN Byabc
he conducted his front porch campaign after World War and
the business and industrial community was happy.
This is the business philosophy Coolidge
ana the permanent prosperity line OF the fat engineer who
carried on the Republican myth that the party the
elusive and unique of all the knowledge
bring about torrent of golden prosperity
And this the party the party of Harding Coolidge and
Hoover whom people them into the promised
land of abundance effective demand high wags prices
This is the party which still fancies that
to the problem of world peace and international amty while
girdng its ons forth and legislative and economic
warfare the people who said they change
(They hoped for the better)
This is the party, which, you may has never
changed since Abraham Lincoln assassnaed after the Civil
War the party whose policies have only changed degree
not in kind which s by thinking John
Smith economic ouoded even as he wrote
his book Wealth OF Nations
Maybe old man Pecord the elephant instead of the Re-
publcans but he is old enough to remember only well
old days of Republican prosperity when Herbert Hoover said
that there shall be suffering"
and meaningless phrases.
lot of who have memories can remember and lot
of fearful think see on the horzon-a
tiny cloud which may and until last find
selves in the midst of another storm
oh WE'LL the of painting picture black in
advance when the Republican party much better qualified by
past experience and present inclination doing job much
effectively
friends fellow sufferers fellow Republicans and indie
pendnts hold hats for the shower of golden
the Republicans stocking your Shelves saving money
in the bowl deny yourselves and wait for the climax We
entering of prosperity golden
age of stupidity with minds conditioned by ringing Republican
espousal OF free enterprise and liberty"