Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-01
AN EDITORIAL
HAVE WE FORGOTTEN?

holding national election without the influence and
leadership of Franklin d. Roosevelt
Despite the conspicuous lack of leadership in both
major parties the issues which confronting the work
and plain people today numerous, real and
menacing those which faced them when Franklin ID.
Roosevelt to the presidency by remembering the for
gotten
Today, despite the claims of the Republicans who
trying make believe that they hold the key to
future prosperity of the nation facing situation
which bascally differs very little from that which pro-
ceeded the election of Herbert Hoover. This is Hard
ing era, except in Republican minds.
We faced with the onward rush of blind
big business intent upon unlimited profits aided and
abetted by Republican congressman who ignorant
and vena or both
We are faced with situation in which both parties
having depression conscious the very
real threat of notsOdistan economic breakdown to in
duce the voters to give them the power to prevent it.
We faced with situation which involves not so
much who holds individual congressional post but of
bread and butter housing and security for millions whose
only economic safeguard is job.
We are faced with a situation where big businessmen
without much effort have convinced themselves and
majority of the members of Congress that the cure for
all the economic ills of the country lies in automatic
alism and the law of supply and demand without taking
into consideration the urgent necessity of creating parity
between wages and prices
We are faced with situation, which, depending
the wisdom of the voters in Tuesdays election
lead to destruction of the Wagner Act and all the bene
fits and gains that have to labor throughout the
past Ia years.
We are faced with situation in which economic
collapse is not bogey but terrible possibility toward
which not drifting, but flying with all the speed
of which the atomic age is capable.
Upon decision of next Tuesday depends the fu-
welfare of the of the people of this country
If we forgotten lessons of the past shall be
able to give the Republicans the they desire to
their current campaign slogan questiOn-Have You Had
Enough?"
Upon our decision of next Tuesday on the men who
going Congress depends the shape
of things to come.
Surely we have not forgotten the days of the last
Republican prosperity in which soup kitchens bread lines
and apple selling became in cities that
they attracted but little attention from the casual
by
Certainly cannot have forgotten the bitter opposi
on of the Republican party to the establishing of public
works to take the unemployment and give people an
opportunity to live by work rather than by charity
Nor forget that it the reactiOnaries in
Congress- mostly ReubcanS, who took all the meat out
of the full employment bill which guaranteed jobs to
American workers. until the only guarantee have
is that look for job and perhaps than
think under the sponsorship of the Greedy Old Party
Can forget the eviconS the heatless houses, the
foreclosures hungry children the bitter despair the hope
lessnesS of millions of Americans while the wealth of the
nation produced by the workers of the nation piled
high shelves and counters awaiting sale to people who
could not buy?..
Do need to remember the past with its economic
insanity and blindness when observe all sides the
of the grasping for unlimited profits
which today is preparing the way for bigger and
serious breakdown?
Only we, the people, we who remember and who will
not forget ourselves from the fOIies which lie
close to hand We do it by voting next Tuesday
We do it by voting for James Huffman for United
States Senator for Michael w. Disable for United States
Representative for Frank Mohn for State Senator and
for Michael j. Damas and John Oac Thompson for State
Representatives
Do not be deceived by straw votes Vote your cOnvic-
tions. And above ALL don't forget that the Republican
party has always been and still is the party reaction
in part of the country.