Those in America who later read hhis "speech felt. that. their country had been liven a stab in the back.
was bad enough tha Mr, Lewis who had been deferred to by the New Deal Administration should show no gratitude and present a gloomy picture of Government failure, it was oven worse that he should' cast doubt on the ability of democracy to meet the worlds press ing problems or provide an existence of reasonable comfort for those who supported It, "Hundreds of thousands of the: people of this nation have for years on years been exploited, oppressed and denied the exercise of those rights guaranteed to them under our Constitution. They have been little more than' industrial sorts. They have keen unable to raise their wages, to ameliorate their working conditions, to assure themselves of It was no picture to present to. Europe as an example of what Democracy could do for them. Moreover it was unfair in its Implications, Long before Mr. Lewis became a prominent public figure the Americ: working man drove in his own aul mobile to his factory or his mine and his waxes were the highest in the world. If the American standard of living wag that of a serf than the word serf needs a new definition.
Huge Number of Unemployed thirteen million Americans are said Mr. ing, as the nation drifts with territy-{ng'sureness to the never, never realm of financial bankruptey, economic collapse and human tragedy. If that is what happens in a democracy, then democracies Federal Congress, _tueking adequate oF competent leadership, in continuous session for months past, thas failed ta devise or enact: sing statute that would cause a grimmer hope to penetrate the minds of millions of "despairing Americans. Cavilling and contusion. prevails: population suffers and a ereopi paralysis progressively impairs Its The opposition to the President is niost noticeable in Congress but Cor ress is a political barometer responsive to pressures from the general ublic. I is reasserting itself because Its members sense that such a, movement is not unpopular "back home." They can therefore reinstate Congress to its full membership in the triple partnership established by the Constitution of executive, legis-Tature and judiciary. The time when the executive was all powerful and overshadowed the other two branches thas past.
This new confidence can be seen In the attitude taken to almost every Dill. Tt should not perhaps be called "new for its roots can be traced back to the fight over the Supreme Court, The same nucleons of opposition. was found to exist when the pecial session was called at the end of lost year and the President Yeform programme suffered accordingly. It stilt exists and has forced nvodifications in the general programme requested this session, 'The' changes made in particular measures are, however, fant than the fact. which - underlies the present situation. In an election year, when the New Deal will once more be made an issue at the pol the President and his leaders fin themselves" faced with battle at every turn. The full membership the House and one third of the membership of the Senate who must seck the renewed confidence of the voters in November have evidently decided that they must stand upon their own, feet.
Fate of "Coat-tail Ride As Senator Wheeler remarked dur~ ing the bitter Court ght, those who came into office riding the coatetalls of the President are likely to yo out office clinging to the same coal tells. The average Congressmen begins to fect that he must re-establish himaselt in his home district as an Individual and not merely as a cox in the New Deal mach The ferment in of Main Street." able until a year ayo to reduce the opposition, for rhetorical purposes, I was fortunate that the miserable population of America were not Histening {0 this graphic browdeast or the rowers of sun awe caused them, "in with Welleestablished medical precedents, really to feel as wretched as it was agzerted they were. They know there a depression, they are anxious once again about their jobs and—a face which might justify some of Mr. Lewis's slatements—more concerned with intangible economic foes. than external threats or possible foran enemies.
Even as. late ministration spokesmen could attempt to still-up support by aatlack= ing the Sixty "Families, "but the Fenetion was not good. There were too many people who had themselves come to the conclusion that some-hing was wrong.
They knew that all "opposition was} not due to Wall Street influence or to a small band of Bourbons, princes privilege, "economic royalists raulays. Babbitt, dis abroad they are merely confirm that healthy "norma feeling which has existed in every! well-established country since Paul! of Tarsus was able to boast proudly "1am a citizen of no mean city."
Reasoning Faculties 'They have possibly not yet reached that' their own coming out of He was not mediately affected by many of the 'Aéministration measures, more parti-Jcularly the schemes for taxing money Which big corporations laid aside as reserve instewl of distributing in the form of dividends to the share-
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