Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Volume IX, Number 29, 27 October 1936 — NEW YORK TIMES, UNITED STATES' GREATEST DAILY, SUPPORTS F. D. ROOSEVELT [ARTICLE]

NEW YORK TIMES, UNITED STATES' GREATEST DAILY, SUPPORTS F. D. ROOSEVELT

In its stirring appeāl for the re-electiori of President Roosevelt, oinder a leading editorial entitled "A. Reasoned Ohoiee," The New York Times reminds its readērs that it "has !ong been known as an Independent Dem-oc-ratic newspaper and plaeed chief emphasis on the world 'Independent/ never having followed in blind faith any politica,l "leader o'r party.' "R,oosevelt and Landon," it continues, "stand as party leaders today, free of all political mummery. If the Republic£tns originally intended to attaek the Administration and all its works, they' have since dropped that strategy. Gov. Landon would" use every dollar of Federal money necessai7 to eare for the needy. He finds fault wiih the Administration's farm poliey mainly on the ground that it does not go so far, or spend so mueh money, as he proposes to do Other adaptions or continuations of the Roosevelt p o 1 i e y he quietly makes his own. "JBut the Republicans .. , would make protective tariffs more prohlbltive of foreign trade than ever before. They would at onee abrogate the existing reciprocal trade agreements, and repeal the j very law whieh gives the Presi-1 dent power to negotiate these agreerneiits—a law long endorsed by ,eminent Repiibllcaiis." After thus proposing to do all in their power by Icgislation to shut foreigners out of dur markets, the Republicans proceed to the piteh of absurdity and effrontery by demandmg that foreign natiohs pav us the debt i while depriving them of the means of paying. All this policy leaves the advantage on international issues distinctly with the Democrats. "Weighing what has been aecomplished, what is now proposed ana what uncertalnties stili lie ahead, The New York Xirues> a conservative Newspa-! per in its own spliere, i>elicves ■ that the public welfare will best be served this year by eontinuanee of the Demoeratie partv jn power and by the re-election of the President. Thrce consi(lcrations whieh we regard as dominant have led.to this eonslusion: 1 "First, we believe that Mr. Roosevelt is a keen enough iudge of public opinion to matee his second administration more eon- ] servative than his first, in he ] sense that conservatism means consolidating : ground aiready ■ gained and perfectxng measuresi hastily enacted. Second, not on!y do we believe | t h a t forces now operating ! strongly will tend to make the j next Roosevelt Administration' more conservative, in the sense | of conserving the best of what \ has been accomplished since 1933; we also believe thatln a very fundam,ental way the President's re-eiection wil! provide insurance against radicalism of the sort whieh the United States has most to fear. We say this for sevetal reasons. "It would be blind not to rec-

Ggnize the necessity of adapting and ameiiorating aur polilieal and eeohomie structure to the changing circumstances of the modern world, and equally blind n°t to appreciate' at full value, and to wish conserve for the uncertain years whieh lie immediately uhead, the unquestioned confidence whieh Mr. Roosevelt enjoys among the distressed masses 'who have been the worst victims of the depression. "These masses stiil acutely rem'ember' their disillusionment in public leadersliip in 1932, and ha .'e with reason feit that the President has tried to restorc hope, equalize opportunt.y and pre?ent the excesses of the recent past. ' "We prefer to have in Washington, during the still eritical periocl whieh , lies immediate!y ahead, a Governmenl united in all its branches, with power to take instantly action whieh may heeome necessary in any emergency whieh may arise. "The Republican party caitf|ot l give us such a Government. Even if Mr. Landon should be elected j and the Republicans should carry the House of Representatives, the Senate will remain Democratic, because its present majority is too large to be reversed in 1936. A divided Congress during the next two years would threaten the country witii precisely the same contradiction of purposc and paralysis of will whieh proved to be so diastrous in 1931 and i932. "We do not believe that the social and dOmestic measures pursued by the Democratic party should be placed in other hands at the behest of those who have not been the real and chief victims of the malady and who evolved or supported the policies whieh lie at the roots of its cause. "Reform shoui<4 be administered by those who vigorofusly and successfully proposed it and the Democratic party stanc\s in that reiation to tr»e public. ... "Flnally, we believe that the na,rrow nationalism for whieh the Republican party stands today is in itself a policy, if put into force, Would earry us rapidly in the direction both of 'regimentation' ahd 'radicalism.' "It was the loss of fqreign markets for our surplus farm commodities that was specifically responsible for the demand for cfop control and a 'planned economy' for agriculture. It is a loss of foreign markets for our factories that is responsibīe in large part for the industrial unempk>yment that still persists.

"The best antidote to both regimentation and discontent. is a revival of international trade, and the reciprocal treaties sponsored by the Presldent and negotiated by his able Secretary of State lead step by step in that direction, That way lies hope. The other leads to eeonomie suicide behind a Hawley-Smoot tariff."