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The Millor -WOIIN Lumber Go. MANUFACTURERS AND WHO:LE SALERS 75O Iferriner Eccles* Washington* D C PROSPECT AVENUE , OHIO Dec 2a. 1938 Dear Eccles: Your reply to Byrd seems intellectually dishonest to me* You favor various rights for the people but suggest no means by which they may be permanently earned. They must eat and work and gain character and self respect and be properly housed—all of these are rights in your use of which you make or take cheap political advantage of in the very dogmatic declaration made* You well understand that people by millions are wholly depending upon the balance of us for support, supi and your administration is making no headway in relieving this deplorable situation. You continue to make speeches and replies to deceive the poor people whose favor you are seeking, for you know that sometime those working are going to rebel at feeding millions of loafers who have been petted and spiritually destroyed by political office holders* % men like you wh0 are so rotten mentally they stink to high heaven* Lose our democracy * sure, we are bound to if our people are not permitted to work and earn their keep, and they do not do this through government channels-—— when government policies are such that they work against private industry, and private employment of course private employment cannot increasef 1 e PWA wages at 55 cts per hour when private employers cannot afford over 35 cts, this is one sample. Our form of ogvernment is slowly being undermined; may be it will survive, I am not especially alarmed, but things must change greatly in Washington common sense must prevail. I think 95 % of official Washington today is intellectually dishonest, may be less may be more-—- I mean this, that most of the new dealers know better-— they were not raised in a dream world; they are mature men most of whom worked and earned their rights to which you have referredso what are they in supporting this rotten, contemptible childishness of Roosevelt; this dishonesty to keep in public officeyou know better* Ickes knows bettert Jones knows better, Hopkins knows better; I doubt if Roosevelt does* but you fellows cannot be excused* You are betrayers* traitors, rats in the opinion of many of us to destroy the most wonderful Nation on eartix is a serious matter, to destroy a fine lot of poor people by cheating them, I M n g to them is a terrible t h i n g — and of this you are concurrently guilty* Sincerely, Clovd W Miller Mineral Citvf Okie
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