Milford chronicle., 1949-03-11

of the bench and the back room,
permanently accepting the degraded +
status of the minority" the Re-
publican party is nowhere any !
better than the corruption on which /
it lives.
1t would be just that kind of
party on the national scale, and
DeWey's proposal that it adopt as
its permanent program a cheap
paraphrase of the Democratic ism
proves that he has given all he
ever had, which will not boil down
to much. and is too selfish to get
out and give the party a decent
chance.
AS an auxiliary Of the Demo
cratic party the Republican
party never could hope to win.
But that is all it could hope to
be under the plan which he pro-
poses.
Here is a tWice-beaten candidate,
who did his best neither time and
was licked the second time by a
preliminary boy so forlorn that he
carried his own bucket, asking a
great political institution to become
a mere imitation and aecomplce
of Roosevelts venture into national
socialism.
When / describe
Tempted these sensuous para.
BY sites as continental
Nr.:..o.. lists ] do so so as tt
include not onl,
those who were born in Europe anC
never quit looking longingly bacI
over their shoulders, but nativ,
Americans who forgot that tn,
American system meant independ
ence and individuality by contras
with dependence and the concep
of man in the mass.
There were both kinds in Roose
velt's New Deal There were. The
immigrants such as Frankfurtel
and Wagner, and the native des
pondents who, in sport, would be
called gutless.
They included a sOrdid crew
of academic buns from the ivy
league and the Ieaky roof
hutches Of the western stretch.
They got a taste Of high life in
Washington, got divorced and
stole from the public files all
the material that nobody else
had stolen already, suitable for
hlackmail or other uIteriOr use
in the private practice Of law.
The whole pack of them too
charge of Roosevelt in his fir:
year and got him to revoke ever
promise and principle that he ha
uttered in his campaign. Th
shock of this audacity was so gre;
that few patriotic citizens had tn
presence of mind to appreciate tn
enormity of his defiance. A
Landon was one Of them. Toda
few of the old voters, and none b,
low the age of 30. realize that an
such episode ever occurred.
Having no principle, Rooseve
found it not even inconvenient, fl
less immoral, to reverse his car
e paign without notice and become &
: imitation of Adolf Hitler but usir
g Hitler as his dirty dog while Hitlt
used Stain for his.
While Hitler
/ Reign Brown Shirts. und
). of license from D
& To.ro, Fuehrer. attack'
bewildered and u
offending Jews, Roosevelt's goor
under similar license and organic
l. ton, set upon whole communities
Of innocent Americans and spre
J. terror organizing the c. I. o. T
r c. / o. is today an enormous par
80 auxiliary with unlimited powers
= taxation. strangulation. intimic
~ ton and eorruptio an
p uses them ord ng
pc political need. Here again Q
in government follows the plan of /
tional socialism in Germany.
- Mr.. Dewey has often thrown |
lacious winks at this concern. NJ
III he makes wolf-calls.
II was not an original dis
- cOvery of Roosevelt that thu
IN intelligence Of the people is
ar political figure of speech eveI
st In a country which arbitrariI.
ne inflictS education on the mol
et Iusk, measuring it by a mathe
-. matical unit like the erg. Blu
y not even Hitler himself wa
u quicker to exploit their weak
elr ness.
~ Even Dewey, who got his sta
ne ard portion at the University
ng Michigan and a little smitch
seconds at Columbia. now seems
dumb to understand that nob'
will buy an imitation when
W. original is still to be had.
up
on P,,eee Move On