Evening star., 1934-07-05
A New Campaign Begins.

A New Campaign Begins.
The Senator from Idaho has al
wavs loved the role of rugged indl-
vidualist. Third parties, new party
movements, kicking over party traces
en- bloc. have held for him no attrac-
ton. He has worn his toga as 6. Re-
publican, but the conventions of party
regularity have never bound him as
an individual.
1t was the rugged individualist who
addressed a Fourth of July Grafton
to the American people last night in
The stars Radio Forum. Partisan
ship was left outside. AS for parties
"a plague on both your houses! 1t
was the Democratic party at Chicago
which correctly denounced the Re-
publicans for fostering the merger
Of competitive business into monop-
oly," but this same Democratic party,
once in power, made it its business,
as one of its first acts, Ito suspend
the antitrust laws and monopoly was
never more unreStrained or more
ruthless than at the present time. "
But have the Republicans taken the
cue? They have not. For, nov the
defeated party, looking about for
issues, seems wholly unwilling to
touch this vital issue. Neither i'll the
statement at Chicago, nor in recent
statements, has there been the slight
est reference to an issue which affects
every home in the United States.
With small business struggling for eX-
istence against fostered and protected
monopoly, with the consumers feeling
more and more the eXtortiOnate
weight Of monopoly, party leaders are
dumb"
But not Senator Borah. The So
called party leaders of the great
parties may believe they can smother
this issue in this campaign. But they
were never more mistaken in their
lives. If I can get the radio about
the middle of October"-and, of
course, the Senator can get it any
time he wants to get it shall
report progress on this issue"
But this issue-monopoly and mo-
nopolistic trends-is. in the Senator S
opinion, merely the accompaniment
OF another. In the new deal he
discovers the growing nucleus of
bureaucracy-''me 'meddlesome, irritating,
confusing, undermining, destructive
thing called bureaucracy" The gov
ernment which can take away the
right to grow cotton can also say
that there are too many newspapers;
the government that can force the
cotton grower to plant according to
"some bureaus judgment" can also
benumb "the hand OF the editor, and
"a free press in a country where each
and every citizen is not equally free
to choose his calling or profession, and
within general law to pursue it; Sc
lect his industry or business, plant,
SOW and reap according to his .udg-
ment, free from the tickle, arbitrary
hand of bureaucracy, is only tempo
rary delusion."
There are other chiselers than those
whom Gen. johnson loves to berate,
There are other forms of chiseling
than cheating under the Blue Eagle.
The American people have heard
much Of the former. Senator Borah
proposes to introduce those, to whom
it is a stranger, to another. The rights
of the average man and woman,
the toilers, the producers of the re-
spective nations are being
constantly chiseled away in
Europe under relationships and i'll de-
mocracies under bureaucracies."
And as between relationships and
bureaucracies, the Senator leaves lit
tie doubt as to his choice of the worse
Of two evils, for:
OF all forms of government which
have ever been permitted to torture
the human family, the most burden
some, the most expensive, the most
demoralizing, the most devastating to
human happiness and the most de-
structive of human values is a bu-
reaucracy. 1t has destroyed every civ
ilization upon which it has fastened
its lecherous grip.
OF those things which the present
administration has sought to do to
correct some of the causes of the de-
pression-the Senator mentions the
causes-Senator Borah approves and
defends. But the effort to fasten a
stranglehold system of bureaucracy
upon the people generally
shall oppose in every way know"
Senator Borah has spoken as all in
dividual and launched a new cam
paign which he proposes to wage sin
gle-handed, if necessary. He may
have chosen the psychological time to
proclaim leadership of movement
which, with many followers ready,
has only been awaiting the leader.