Evening star., 1932-10-28

said about it. Not a single line was
penned about it. Why? Because the
administration was living in the hope
that things would rectify themselves.
And II you study that expression to its
last and final analysis, it is the whole
story of the present Republican admin
istration-living constantly in the hope
that things would take care of them
tervene and that there would be no oc-
casion for anything forthcoming from
the Government.
That was all right. They got away
with it-nobody knew anything about
it-uhtil you come to the following
Fall of 1881, when the 1892 budget was
being prepared, and there was an addi-
tional billion dollars of defcit. Then
it was that the administration sud-
denly woke up to the necessity for new
and additional forms of taxation, and
consequently in the Spring OF this
year. at a time when the people could
least bear it, at time when taxation
was q great hardship, at a time when
and economic recovery, when all OF
the new and additional and burden
some and so-called nuisance taxes
were imposed upon the American
people-gasoline. the additional penny
when you mail q letter, taxes on
amusements-every form Of taxation
calculated to annoy and distress the
people-imposed upon them at time
when they were least able to bear 1t.
Says Promises UnfulRlled.
In the meantime. with every oppor-
tunity at hand, absolutely nothing was
done by the Republican administration
to curtail the cost Of Government, al
though from the platform of 1920,
right up to the platform of 1928. they
struction Of the Federal Government
in order to cut out overlapping and
waste and duplication of effort, look
ing not only to efficiency. but to a
greater economy in the conduct Of the
Nations business.
Worse than that was the incom-
petent handling Of the proposed sources
of taxation and the revenue that may
flow from them. And all this. mind
you. in the hands of the party that
deliberately and discreetly tells the
American people that they have all the
brains, that they are the people that
know how to run the Government,
that we are just a mob. and that We
have not intelligent leadership, we
have not constructive suggestions, we
are not able to do it.
They are the ones that have all the
brains and all the ability And they
get that over with the American people
unfortunately. because that have con-
trolled this country for SO many years,
since the Civil War, and have repre-
sented it abroad during an equal
period.
The proud boast of the only party
fit to govern! I picked up the paper
the other day and my eye accidentally
fell upon an article that shows that the
forecast for this fiscal year beginning
on the 1st of July is half a million
deficit in the revenues proposed under
the new forms Of taxation. What did
say? A half a million? Oh, meant
half q billion A half q million?
Chicken feed! Small change! 1t Is
half q billion.
Praises Governors.
"If this contention that the best
brains are in the Republican party is
SO. let us take a look. at the States of
this Union. While we are seated here
in this auditorium tonight We can recall
to our minds with accuracy that so
per cent Of the Governors Of the States
of the Union are Democrats. And let
us remember that the governorship is
the primary school for the production
of our Presidents. Every successful and
progressive President of the United
States during my time has been for
mer Governor of a State. Cleveland,
Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson
and Calvin Coolidge I'm talking about
successful Presidents. I would love to
have some comparison made with their
record and the records of some OF our
Governors. We had a
couple Of them from Indiana. But you
know where to go to look for them.
They are in place where they cannot
get out.
Nov. let us take look at that De-
troit speech. The President in that