Evening star., 1934-05-19
NEW DEAL IS HELD
DISCUSSING STEPS
|. FOR REG|MENT|NC
Mills Charges Government
Control of Industry
is Objective.
LOSS OF INDIVIDUAL
LIBERTY is F0RESEEN
Ex-Treasury Secretary Singles
Out Tugwell as Author of
Underlying Philosophy.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, May 10
Ogden Mills, Secretary of the Treas
ury in Hoover'S cabinet, charged today
that the new deal disguised measures
constituting definite steps in a major
program" for Government control of
industry and regimentation of the
people.
"A study of the writings end
| speeches of the most Influential group
! in the administration" he said, to-
gether with the events that have
taken place since the 4th of March,
1888, present an almost conclusive
case.
1T is equally true that this revolu-
tionary process must end in the de-
struction of individual liberty, for
individual liberty cannot long sur
viye the death of economic freedom"
Attacks New Deal Policies.
Appearing before the Association Of
New York State Young Republican
| Clubs. Mills cast the Republican party
| IN the role of preserver of the prin-
cipleS upon which the Union was
founded" and said there must be no
repetition of the 1882 campaign, when
the true purposes Of the present
administration were concealed in OBJ
scure and equivocal language"
Attacking impartially the policies
and means adopted in the new deal,
Mills singled out ReXford G.. TugWeIl,
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
and advisor to the President, as the
man who undoubtedly furnished its
underlying philosophy"
Quoting from Tugwen's writings,
Mills said "he whole-heartedly advo-
Gates complete Government control"
The professor foresees that legal
and administrative difficulties are
/ likely to prove embarrassing, but he
is equal to the task of overcoming
these obstacles" continued the former
| Secretary of the Treasury
We must set up therefore, he says.
| devices of a sort to which business
men will at first voluntarily agree, and
which at the same time, contain no
threat to the public
Business Fell for Code"
"The amazing thing is that by set
ting up the bait of the temporary sus-
pension of the Sherman act, business
men fell for the code device just as he
had foreseen. A resourceful man,
Mr.. Tugwell'
Tugwell would achieve a system of
| economic planning, Mills said,
through control of prices, wages, pro-
| duction and flow of capital.
| THE N. r. A, the A. A. A., the
securities act and the stock exchange
bill, taken together and supplemented
by the Governments fiscal program.
have already placed control in the
hands of Government" he declared
| The moose is over our head. Are
| We to permit it to be drawn"
Calling Government by executive
decree tyranny" and Government
| of men rather than laws" he re-
] called cancellation of the airmail con-
tracts, the ''indefensible Mellon per-
secution." and the case of the New
Jersey tailor jailed for N. R. A vio-
| lations.
Regeneration ThrOttles Progress"
to be tolerated, individual liberty
will be but an empty phrase. without
life or substance" he declared.
II believe" he said, that dis
guised in the new deal are measures
not intended to be either recovery
measures or of a temporary charac-
ter. but constituting definite steps in
major program looking to ultimate
setting up of a system of economic
planning by the Government on Ma
tion-wide scale, accompanied by con-
troll of industry and the RECOMMENDATION
| of the American people.
! where are innumerable examples
of Government RECOMMENDATION
throughout history. Invariably it has
represSed the creative instincts of
mankind and throttled progress. 1t
has never worked, it isn't working in
the United States today"