National Affairs: Who Sold Out?
Few old-fashioned Democrats has the New Deal called to its defense, because on few old-fashioned Democratic Policies has the New Deal placed reliance. Last week, however, the one member of the Cabinet who has never been labeled a New Dealer was ordered to the stump in defense of the Administration. Obediently Secretary of State Cordell Hull, a Democratic classicist from Tennessee, packed his bag, boarded a Pullman headed for Minneapolis to speak from the very platform where Alf Landon spoke a fortnight earlier, to answer the attack which that Republican Nominee leveled at President Roosevelt’s reciprocal trade agreements. Though Oldster Hull is proud of having negotiated these tariff treaties, few New Dealers envied him his Minneapolis job, because the reciprocal trade agreements are admittedly unpopular along the Canadian border. NRA, AAA, WPA, PWA, the Wagner Labor Relations Act, the Guffey Coal Act, the Social Security Act have given or promised cash or privileges to some particular
