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had this to say: "An eminent journalist remarked to me in 1908
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                                                                that the two great parties were like two bottles. Each bore a label
                                                                denoting the kind of liquor it contained, but each was empty.
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                                                                erred . . . by neglecting to discover and work out any principles
                                                                capable of solving the problems which now perplex the country.
                   2                                            In a country so full of change and movement as America, new
                                                                questions are always coming up and must be answered. New
               Chances                                          troubles surround a Government and a way must be found to
                 to Win                                         escape from them; new diseases attack the nation, and have
                                                                to be cured. The duty of a great party is to face these, to fi nd

                                                                answers and remedies, applying to the facts of the hour the
                                                                doctrines it has lived by, so far as they are still applicable, and
                                                                when they have ceased to be applicable, thinking out new
                                                                doctrines conformable to the main principles and tendencies
                                                                which it represents."
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                                                                been a party of ideas rather than money, and it has always failed
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                                                                when it has only been one of two empty bottles.
               any member of the Marydel Lions Club or contact
                Wayne Voshell at wvoshell@wintransportinc.net; Lee   Yes, why should not we be frank with each other? The
              Voshell at leevoshell@gmail.com, 410-482-8510; or Terry   Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support
              Higgins at terryhiggins38@outlook.com, 302-363-5823  of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal
                                                                party. If it reverts to the situation of thirty or forty years ago,
                                                                which Lord Bryce described, it will fail.
                      Janet Dove, stylist                       As the leader of that party, I propose to try to keep it liberal.
                                                                As President of the United States, I conceive that course to be
                                                                in the best interests not only of Democrats but also of those
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                                        410-310-4586            other parties or with no party at all. And I have the right, in
                                                                sincerity and honesty, to make that statement in any state,
                                                                in any county and in any community of the United States of
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                                                                Increasingly during these past six years a common
                                                                understanding of what unity means has grown throughout the
             CUTS  •  COLOR  •  PERMS  •  HIGHLIGHTS            land. People have continued to ask their representatives, their
                                                                executive representatives, their representatives in Legislatures
            suggestion that was put forward by those who belonged to the   and the Congress, to be liberal, to take the initiative, to be
            liberal school of thought.                          positive forces in improving social and economic conditions.

                                                                That applies to farmers just as much as to industrial workers.
            "Mr. B," on the other hand, was the composite of a liberal. He
            not only agreed with "Mr. A" on the needs and the problems,   You who live on the farm or near the farm know well how
            but "Mr. B" put his shoulder under the load, he gave active study   farmers were exploited by those who controlled Government
            and active support to working out methods, in cooperation   from the end of the World War down to 1933—and by the
            with his Government, for the solving of the problems and the   monopolies they fostered which still give us trouble. But I

            filling of the needs. "Mr. B" did not claim that the remedies   think you realize also that for many long years industrial
            were perfect but he knew that we had to start with something   labor was exploited too. Farmers have come to realize that
            less than perfect in this imperfect world of ours.  unless industrial labor is prosperous it cannot buy the food
                                                                and the materials for clothing which are produced from the
            If we have a Government run by the "Mr. A's" of this life, it is   soil. Industrial labor has come to understand that unless the
            obvious that the Nation will slip behind once more in the march   farmers of the country are prosperous they cannot buy the
            of civilization—bump along from one 1929 crisis to another.   product of the factories.
            Yours is the choice of what kind of a Government you want.
            I ran across an interesting thing the other day. Lord Bryce, in the
            last edition of his great work on the American Commonwealth,                     (continued on next page)


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