Milford chronicle., 1932-07-15
MILLS
PLANS OUTLINED
BY YROOSEVELT
[C0niinned fran First Paae1

III
living has the qualifications of Pres
ident Hoover"
"Is this the time," he asked, "a
the very peak of the struggle, t
order the veterans to the rear an
to put raw recruits in charge?
think not"
The meeting was under the join
auspices of the Republican Nationa
Committee and the Massachusetts
State Committee. Others on tn
speaking program were Secretary o
the Navy Charles Francis Adams
and former Governor Alvan T. Full
Ter.
Challenges Roosevelt
Secretary Mills challenged Cover
nor Roosevelt instead of indulgins
in vague and unsupported attacks
to state specifically what the pres
ent administration has failed to dc
or has done in this emergency that
is open to fair criticism, and what
steps he would have taken that have
not been taken to meet the success
sive forces that have threatened to
undermine and to destroy our eco
nomic structure and to bring COM
plete disaster to our people,"
1--WE find" said Secretary Mills
regarding Roosevelt's relief pro-
gram, that, aside from the fact that
he would plant trees where his rum
ming mate would plant pOstoffices,
all Governor Roosevelt has to say is
that he favOrs the use of certain
types of public works and the issu-
ance of bonds. But he is not very
sure. for the works are, insofar as
possible, (whatever that may mean)
to be self-sustaining if they are to
be financed by the issuing of bonds
and no economic end is served if
we merely build without building
for a. necessary purpose"
AssailS Economy Pledge
OF the pledges of Governor Roose-
welt and his party for drastic eco
nOmy, abolition of useless offices
and consolidation of government
bureaus, Mills said the "expendi-
lures of the State of New York in
creased from 1929 to 1881 by more
than one-third;" that Democrats of
the House voted by large majority
for Gamers pork barrel measure"
and that they declined to give the
President the necessary authority
to abolish useless bureaus"
The declarations of Governor
Roosevelt and the Democratic plat
form for sound currency were met
by Mills with the assertion that
Democrats in the House within the
last two months voted 152 to so 3
to issue fiat currency"
Regarding the Democratic pledge
to maintain the national credit by
a Federal budget annually balanced,
Mills said the House Democrats "al-
ready voted to unbalance it by over
$3,000,000,000 this fiscal year, and
within the last four days the House
has passed a bill providing for
1922, 100000 of expenditures with no
revenue to cover them"
Questions Liberalism
Of Liberalism" Secretary Mills
said, 81 cannot detect evidence of
true Liberalism on either the Demo-
cratic candidate or in the Demo-
cratic party. Appeal to discomfort |
and a program designed to catch |
votes cannot be confused with a
bold leadership that stakes its all in |
a battle for the triumph of deep
seated principles.
Secretary Mills said Governor .
failure to clean
up his own party" in New York City
bars him definitely - honest, ami
able and attractive gentleman that
he is-from spiritual kinship with
such liberal statesmen as Woodrow
Wilson or Theodore Roosevelt, or
that independent rugged Democrat,
Grover Cleveland"
Answering Governor Roosevelt's
criticism of the administration
credit agreements, Mills cited the
of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, provisions for
additional credit for Federal land
banks and banks allied with agri-
,ulture.
Warns Of Dangers
"Of all the credit groups that he
Mills said, "the only
mes that have not been provided
or by the Federal government are
he states and municipalities. Are {
We to. understand from his criticism
hat he would make the credit of :
he United States Government avail
bile to 10000 municipalities? If so, .
say to him that if he ever gets |
he opportunity to carry out that :
purpose he will undermine the cred
t of the United States Government
tself."
Secretary Mills criticized Cover '
or Roosevelt's tariff utterances and
aid that when the latter went into :
ii, coal, lumber and ore sections
nd condemned the protective tariff
n those products he would "believe =
n the sincerity of his criticism of :
arbed-wire entanglements."
Hits Tariff Bargaining s
Governor Roosevelts plan to ZEN q
er into a series of bargaining tar
is according to the European prac- f
ice" met with Secretary Mills dis d
pproval He said the Republican
arty holds that the rates in our a
lriff laws are a purely domestic o
uestion to be determined by the E
of the United States with
ut consultation of foreign govern h
lents." O
"In any event." he said, 'is this 7
ne time to make our reduced pur- c.
hasing power fully available to for
ign manufacturers, rather than to N
reserve it in the interest of our d