The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-12

ldW, StdtcWiuS III ilS sCOp0 anu contributory in character. We should not, however, delude our selves into thinking that the old age pension is a solution for the problem of old age dependence.
 Uncmployment Insurance
 On the question of unemplcy- ment insurance there can be no definite statement made by party which intends to keep its promises. We have no experience in this country to guide us. We should move slowly. make a careful study of England,s years of experience with unemployment insurance with its contrfbutory features, Eng lands experience would seem to show that this method may be of much assistance during periods of not too severe unemployment It is. however, no real solution of the problem which cuts much deeper into the whole question of the in- dustrial organization of society. The full measure of relief will made during periods of prosper ity. Anything attempted during a depression can only be in the na- ture of palliative.
 Liquor Control
 I was absent from the state dur ing the last session of the Legisla- ture, but from reading the papers, gather that not all Of the laws it placed upon it's statute books have met with popular approval. There is the Liquor Control Law, widely heralded by its chief sponsor, the present. Governor. as the best liq- uor law in the land. It has proved satisfactory to no one. It will have to be rewritten and we trust that when this Is done, in keeping with our cherished Connecticut tradi- tions, a large measure of freedom will be given to the cities and towns to determine what shall and what shall not be permitted within their several communities.
 MIX Control
 Then there is the Milk Control Act, passed primarily for the pur- pose of raising the price paid to the farmer for milk. It has not brought the expected results. It has caused much dissatisfaction amongst the farmers. How much of this might have been avoided had two of the three members of the Milk Board been bona fide milk producers, as contemplated in the law, I do not know. Ger tain it is that the dictatorial "crack down. methods of the board, borrowed from Washington, did violence to the deepest in- stincts of the independent, free dom-loving Connecticut farmers. The ruling of that board whereby the enterprising farmers who had developed their own milk routes woud, if it had continued in force for one year, have required them to give up. under penalty of loss of license, $600,000 in order. that it might be handed over to those less enterprising. Very fortunately, the rules and regulations of this board did not, like those of the Federal bureaucrats have the force and effect of law. The administra- tors of this act did not have con- ferred upon them legislative and judicial, as we'll as executive pow CTS. An appeal to the courts was possible, adn justice prevailed.
 Pledges Forgotten.
 The Democratic Party in carefree forgetfulness of it's solemn platform pledge to reduce bureaticracies, has added 55 new agencies.
 This is not liberalism. This is not Q progressive policy, but one truly reactionary, a reversior to a type of government that has been often tried and always failed.
 Freedom
 There are many other subjects which should have liked to dwell upon had time permitted. These will come up for full discussion in the course of the campaign. Know ing my fellow citizens of Connecti. cut as I do, knowing their devo- ton to freedom, their deep-seated faith in the homely virtues of thrift and self-reliance, their rev. erence for the constitution and for the free representative government which it set up, I have no doubt whatever that when election day comes, they will overwhelmingly repudiate those governmental her esies which are being encouraged in Washington, and which threat