Evening star., 1934-07-05
Messages From Listeners
Commend His Criticism of
MonopoIistic Tendencies.
ASSAILS BUREAUCRATIC
CONTROL OF CITIZENS
Republican Leadership Is Also
Scored in National Radio
Forum Speech.
The tert of Senator Bordhs
radio forum address appears on
page Alb
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Senator william E. Borah of Idaho,
independent Republican, who last
night charged that the Roosevelt new
deal was fostering monopoly in private
business and Government control OF
American citizens, today received hun
dreds Of messages approving his radio
address
At the same time that the Idaho
Senator attacked the new deal he also
attacked the leadership Of the Repub-
lican party because it would not, ne
said, make an assault upon monopoly
the main issue in the coming cam
paign.
From neither the Democratic nor
the Republican national headquarters
here today was any official comment
forthcoming Oh the Borah speech.
The Republicans believe that the cam
paign which Senator Borah launched
against the new deal, and will con-
tinue this Summer and Fall. will be
effective in the congressional elections.
The Democrats. on the other hand,
were pleased with the scoring which
Senator Borah gave the G. o. P.
Address in Radio Forum.
Senator Borahs address was de-
livered in the National Radio Forum,
arranged by The Star and broadcast
by the National BroadcaSting Co. over
a network that carried the Senator S
voice to every part Of the United
States
Before he completed his address
Mr.. Borah demanded the repeal OF
some of the new deal legislation,
which he charged was breaking down
the liberties OF the American people.
He called upon President Roosevelt to
convene Congress in special session so
that the national recovery act, in so
far as it permits the suspension OF
the antitrust laws. be repealed, and
so that all the new deal Jaws COM
pelling reduction of farm crops be
repealed In this part of his address
he referred directly to the request OF
Senator Barkley of Kentucky, Demo-
crat, that Henry P. Fletcher, chair
man Of the Republican National Com
mittee. set forth what new deal laws
he would repeal, Senator Borah said:
Il can only speak for myself. I
would repeal the provision Of law
which would enforce these laws. 1t
would leave many a dime or quarter
in the pockets of the poorer people
with which to buy the neceSSarieS Of
life. l would repeal the cotton con-
troll bill and all laws by which pro-
duction can be enforced. I would
never force reduction Of food and
clothing in a world where millions
are in need Of food and clothing. "
Assails Bureaucracy.
The Idaho Senator slashed into the
new deal Of the Roosevelt admins
tration and the conservative leader
ship of the Republican party. He
insisted that under the new deal
the creeping paralysis of bureau
cracy" threatened the life and lib
erty of the American people
If the Government can take away
the right to grow cotton" said
Senator Borah, 'and force the grower
to plant according to some bureaus
Judgment and thereby force thousands
to the point Of starvation. it is only
question of time, and it has always
been so, until this creeping paralysis
of bureaucracy benumbs the hand Of
the editor. I do not call this Nazi-
ism. God forbid! I do not claim
it is FasciSm or Communism. 1t is
none Of these.
1T is simply that meddlesome, ir-
ritating, confusing, undermining,
destructive thing called bureaucracy.
1T is that form Of government
which steals away mans rights in the
name of public interest and taxes
him to death in the name of recovery.
OF all forms of government which has
ever been permitted to torture the
human family. the most burdensome,
the most expensive. the most de-
moralizing. the most devastating to
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