The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-07-15
The G. o. P. Boo.
(New York World-Telegram.)

The long expected national Republican attack on the Roosevelt Administration has begun. Represen- tative Snel Republican leader in the House, has opened the offensive-doubtless after long consul tation with the other Republican generals.
 MT Shell objects to the deal. He says it costs too much government money and he says it has set up system of bureaucratic dictaton in some respects equal to that of Russia"
 In charging that the administration has not balanced the budget he does not deny that it has virtually balanced the operating budget But he objects to separate extraordinary budget covering |capital expenditures Far from being tricky book keeping, he charges, this system is used by most corporations
 The fault is not in having emergency budget, but in the failure, during fat years, to lay by surplus for the lean years The blame for this rests with the Republican administrations which re- duced taxes of the rich during prosperity and failed to build up an emergency reserve fund, this news paper pointed out repeatedly during the Mellon Hoover reign.
 Emergency expenditures must be made during times of depression even though the are low, as the Hoover Administration discovered with
 it's fiveand- billion dollar deficit The chief difference is that MT. Hoover, MT. Shell ct al poured Government money in from the top-n the form of higher tariffs and Reconstruction Finance Corporation loans to Big Business-whie the Roose- welt Administration is seeking to put money in at the bottom to help the little fellow and to revive business by creating a mass purchasing power There is no longer room for arguments to which is the more effective method Three years of the Hoover method left the depression at its lowest level not only depriving millions of jobs but wreck ing companies and banks. Three months of the Roosevelt method has produced a strong and steady rise in business activity and employment. To be sure, there is absolute guarantee that the new deal will succeed permanenty-the future may force even more fundamental change the price of survival But whatever happens to the new deal, the old deal smashed itself so completely that it never be put together again by all the Shells in the nation.
 There remains the Republican charge that the new deal sets up dictatorship lin some respects equal to that of Russia" The idea that MT. Baruch, General Johnson, President Hartman of Swope and other packers of the national Industrial Recovery Act Bolsheviks is too funny for serious discussion.
 And the notion that Congress, in delegating to the President executive powers similar to those long exercised by American city managers, has transformed our democracy into an American Soviet indicates ignorance of affairs either in Washington or Moscow
 But the main thing MT. Shell and his fellow Republican campaign strateglsts have to learn is that the American public is longer frightened works as well as during the last three months MT. Shell can shout Socialism, Communism, Fascism, Anarchism, Amosandsm any other rrelevancy without provoking from the American public more than satisfied grin.