Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-11-15
by
Clayton
Rusch
Chairman
Political Action Committee

This is understandable. If the
people of this nation had re.
allied the issues at stake or
Nov. 5th, it is inconceivable
that the Republican party
would have been given the
stamp of approval at the polls,
The policy which the voters
approved" on Nov. 5th, and
which the Republicans will
now carry out is simply free
hand for big business and the
wealthy interests to do as they
please.
When Franklin D. Roosevelt
took office in 1888, the people
recognized the need for gov
ernmental regulation and con-
troll to guarantee that human
rights would supercede prop
erty rights, and the need for
intelligent planning to over
come unemployment and de-
preston.
OF course, during the war
government regulations were
also necessary and the people
accepted them.
F. ID. RS FIGHT
President Roosevelt did not
spare himself in his fight a
gainst Fascism, poverty and
reaction, even to the point of
neglecting his health and ov-
ertaxing his strength. AS a
result, the founder of the
movement to make the gov
ernment responsible for the
welfare of it's people, died
with his self-imposed task un-
completed.
All too few people under
stood the basic program be-
hind Roosevelt's policies. His
program was simply this, that
the government must accept
the responsibility of guaran-
teeing full employment and
adequate social security mea-
SureS.
After VI day the backlog
of demand for consumer goods
plus a little stored up pur-
chasing power resulted in a
situation which appeared to
be a healthy and stable pros
perity, but which is actually
only a small boom proceeding
the coming economic collapse.
The price of goods in rela-
tion to wages, plus the fact
that our economy, due to use
of chronological methods, pro-
duces goods much faster than
they can be consumed, makes
a new and worse depression
practically inevitable.
The only thing which could
possibly prevent the coming
economic collapse would be
governmental planning to as
sure equality of economic op-
portunity to all the people,
full employment with shorter
hours to avoid overproduction
and high enough wages to in
sure effective purchasing
power.
TRAGIC FACT
Tragically, and it is indeed
a tragedy, the IN erican
people do not clearly under
stand these basic facts.
Weary of restraints and
controls, and mistaking the
temporary squirt of business
which follows in the wake of
every modern war for perm
anent prosperity, the people
voted full power to a political
party whose basic. philosophy
is, that government should not
interfere with business. They
call it liberty"
The Republican party, like
the Bourbons of 10Th century
France, have learned nothing
and forgotten nothing in the
last IA years. They admitted
ly do not consider social leg
islation part of governments
responsibility.
At least one good thing will
come out of the Nov. 5th cleo
tion. The coming years will
prove beyond shadow of a
doubt, that the Republican
party has no program.
On behalf of the PAC, /
wish to assure the PAC en-
dorsed candidates that the
peoples loss is greater than
theirs. Those who voted our
way can take consolation
from the fact that the conse-
quences of Nov. 5th Is no
fault of theirs. Those who
voted for the Republicans can
take consolation from the fact
that, whatever comes, they
asked for it.
When the collapse comes, as
it inevitably will, the Repub-
licans will be blamed for TAX
ing over the reins during
prosperity and plunging the
nation into chaos. The Re-
publicans should remember
when it comes, and it will
come (because they are eco
nomic ignorami,) that they too
asked for it.