I got this cartoon from Joe S. It appeared in the Chicago Tribune on 4/21/1934.
It is a dire warning about the dangers of the socialist path the Roosevelt administration was advocating but in the 75 years since then the US and the worlds economy have boomed. We are all better off today than we were in 1934. Apparently some of what Roosevelt and the “young pinkies” were doing worked out pretty well. So do we have to conclude that Orr, the cartoonist, was wrong. No in a constitutional democracy like ours we need advocates for both sides. It may be that the concerns of the right about the death of the “sound government” tempered the actions of the left and the middle course was the one that worked. We shall see.
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