US Presidency
1928

Let the future tell the story of who is right or who is wrong; who has stood for freedom and who has been willing to submit their fate industrially to the audit 4,770,558.4515,742,667.61 Less would amplify Mr. Gompers ' statement. The great body of Government employees which would be created by the proposals of our opponents would either comprise a political machine at the disposal of the party in power, or alternatively, to prevent this, the Government by stringent proportion rules must debar its employees from their full political rights as free men. It must limit them in the liberty to bargain for their own wages, for no Government employee can strike against his Government and thus against the whole people. It makes a legislative body with all its political currents their final employer and master. Their bargaining does not rest upon economic need or economic strength but on political potence. But what of those who are outside the bureaucracy? What is the effect upon their lives?