Evening star., 1934-07-11
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The Old Order.

In these days Of the new deal many
harsh things have been said about the
old order. At last. however, the old
order, as distinguished from the new
deal, is having its day In court. An
other defender OF the system Of gov
eminent and of industry and finance
under which the United States waxed
great in other days came forward at
the Virginia Institute in Charlottes-
vile last night No less a person
than John w Davis, the Democratic
presidential candidate in 1924, for
mer member of the House, former
distinguished Solicitor General Of the
United States and a former Ambas-
sador to Great Britain, was this de-
fender Of the old order. According
TO Mr.. Davis. II was not the old order
that failed the American people, but
the men who ran it. Particularly did
he single out capitalism and the cap
itaHstic system in his discussion Of
the old order, the capitalism which
has been charged with all the eco
nomic ills which have beset us.
The trouble lay, Mr.. Davis said, not
with the system but with the men
and the conditions which they created
and under which men drunk With
the desire for easy money cast of all
restraint and forgot the rules Of pru-
dence and some of the demands OF
honor also" He added that to lay
the blame for resulting financial and
economic crash at the door Of the
capitalistic system was "to blame the
automobile for the collision instead Of
the man who drove it," There is so
much truth in this remark Of Mr..
Davis that the wonder is it has not
been heralded before.
The former Democratic presidential
candidate warned the country that
no socialistic collectivist or regimental
state can rest on anything but force.
Asquiesence in such state may be
purchased from the people tempo
rarily, for a day. with money or
promises, but in the long reach force
alone can compel human beings to
accept the slavery of such regime"
he said.
The new deal Congress surrendered
Internationally" its legislative func-
tions to the administration, Mr.. Davis
asserted. Representative democracy,
under such a system, fails, And he
added that If representative democ-
racy must die 1t could meet nobler
death 'in the lightning and thunder
than in the slow strangulation of an
engirdling bureaucracy" Constitu-
tional restraints, he said, have been
found to be "insufferable obstacles to
progress when those who are infused
with a righteous desire for service,
and conscious of their own superior
rectitude, set out to organize society"
The speech of Mr.. Davis may well
serve to tighten the brakes further
against the easy and ever Fastening
descent Of the American people to-
ward Government control and direc-
tion of all their activities in the name
Of the new deal and of public welfare.
How far the country has been moving
along such lines is only now beginning
to sink into the consciousness of the
people, and perhaps of some of their
leaders. The threat to American
liberty and to the institutions which
make for that liberty has been aptly
described by Mr.. Davik. And he has
truly said that the American people
will never accept RECOMMENDATION unless
they are compelled by force to do so.
A society and state that rests upon
force alone to support them are not
new. II is a system that has been
tried again and again. 1t is a system
that is being tried now in many
foreign lands under many different
names. 1t is system that is abSo-
lutely antagonistic TO the representa-
tive democracy and freedom which
have been Americas in the past. 1t
is system by which those IN power
compel the obedience of the whole
people,