The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-29
Goss Renominated Deplores Nation s Defense Forces Good From NRA

important in the history Of our country since the Civil war. Re-
 gardless of my own candidacy l
 hope you will return men of ex- perience to Washington. Much
 of the legislation that has al- ready been enacted upon a tenn
 porary basis because of de-
 clared emergency will come be- fore the next Congress to be
 made permanent. All of this
 ought to be carefully considered. Those with experience know how these temporary acts have
 worked out and will be in a poe sition to give the Senate and the house their weli-informed views. New members of Congress are apt, through inexperience, to act only as rubber stamps. In these critical times, clear think ing is needed.
 There has been criticism that republican candidates have at- tackled the policies of the pres- ent administration without sub- mitting the plan designed to bet- ter accomplish the difficult prob- lem of complete recovery. find much to commend in some of the plans for recovery put into ef- feet by the present administra- tion. The continued operation of the Reconstruction Finance corporation, in principle at least, has contributed to the relief of the burden cast upon our banks, railroads, and insurance com panies by the depression. The operation of the Home Owners Loan corporation has relieved property owners in a substantial way from the loss of property and homes. MIRA has brought about much good in eliminating child labor, stabilizing produc- ton costs. and establishing bet- ter and more uniform standards for labor, although its adminis- tration has been inefficient 1t has in some measure caused injury to some industries, and it has contributed to destructive labor disputes.
 Through excessive cost of op- eration it has increased the cost of goods to the consumer and thus reduced the consumption of goods where increased consunp- tion was necessary. As a mem. Der of Congress I supported the principle involved in this legis- lation but the administration of these plans has been wasteful, inefficient, and harmful and 1 am opposed to the present in- efficient methods of edministra- ton.
 Wasteful Spending Condemned.
 ''The wasteful expenditure of the peoples money l condemn. The extravagance and frightful waste which have accomplished the administrators relief pro- gram cannot be approved by any citizen. This waste and ex- travagance you and I have witt messed. Relief, intelligently ad- ministered, is desirable; waste and extravagance is a criminal waste of the peoples money. The time has come when the brakes must be applied if the financial integrity of this nation of ours is to be preserved. I believe that every one of us has been ifn- pressed by the slovenly admin tstration and the total lack of coordination in carrying out the relief plans and the inability of the administration to administer the peoples money for relief purposes.
 "The treatment of our cur rency; the tariff legislation; the inefficient a d m nistration of MIRA; the total Jack of reason able control over waste and ex- travagance; the failure to bal- ance our budget; the lamentable failure of the agricultural pro- gram; the lack of any definite known plan of future action; and the failure to mark by prop CT signposts the road we are go- ing to travel has so shaken the confidence in this country that finance, business, and industry cannot make definite plans for future development and expan- sion, and it is this expansion in the form of easy and available credit, the rehabilitating of our industries and business, the crea. tion of new enterprises, the ex- pansion of existing facilities for industry and business, the order ly expansion through the sale of securities, and the restoration of the market value of the billions of dollars of stocks and bonds, in the hands of our people and their banks and insurance com panies that is so vitally neces- sary to the continued improve ment in our condition. No man or woman can face the future with any feeling of assurance, or success, because while the ad- is un it's way neither the administration, it's brain trusters, or any other hue man being knows where it is going or how to get there.
 ''If the farmer, manufacturer, the banker, the business man, the insurance company, or the investor is to expand business and Is to make plans for future progress, he must have confl- dence in the future and have some assurance that some intel iectua1 visionary, who has no practical experience, 10 not going to dictate our financial, agricui- tural, Industrial, and business future.
 Everyone Up in the Air.
 tour president states that tho people of this country have their feet on the ground. Tho actual and the condition with which everyone is familiar, is that everyone is up in the air. And it is because every farmer,