Milford chronicle., 1934-08-24
Business and Politics
BY JULIAN MASON
Vice President National Republican
Builders

ness. The reaction to the President
first post-Eacation speech on hi
policies, that made at Green Bay
Wisconsin, shows this.
What about Business, Why didn'
| you say something that would he'll
Business?
Those were the questions tha
leading newspapers of the West ar
suddenly banging at Mr.. Roosevelt
in reply to a speech that showed al
the old adroitness in avoiding issues
and all the old showmanship il
painting pretty pictures. For thu
first time, the things that he saiC
failed to satisfy even his own sup
porters; the things that he did moi
say they sternly asked him about.
The Cleveland plain Dealer" al
aren't supporter of the New Deal
specifically demanded that the Pres
ident declare his policies on the
monetary situation, on the budget
on profits, on wages and labor and
on restriction of production. These
it said, "are questions which must
be answered before private enter
prise can reasonably make the
commitments that are essential to
recovery of the kind that has fol-
lowed depressiOns in the past"
The Chicago Daily News" Re-
publican newspaper which has al
ways maintained a strong personal
| friendship for Mr.. Roosevelt, asked
questions almost identical with
those of the plain Dealers" II ac-
cused him of not dealing with the
realities which grim-faced people
are confronting everywhere" 1t
went on: "You told us frankly you
would experiment, and, when con-
vinced a policy was wrong, you
would change TO another policy. God
has taken crop reduction off your
hands viii you change that policy
| now? Reducing the gold policy of
the dollar has done none of the
things which you were assured it
would do Will you, accordingly, an
nOunce definitely that there are TO
be no more changes. that the dollar
is to be stabilized? The n. r. A. is
terrible mess. Win you not reduce
the S1SlCHl u ACl nhANh
will insure. against child labor,
sweat shop wages and excessively
long hours-and. for the rest, take
business out of chains?" On this
final note Mr.. Hearst has again
started an editorial campaign
against the administration hOstil-
ity to Business.
There is clearly sudden tighten
ing of the general situation. The
pessimism of Business as to next
winter, Mayor La Guardia's warn
ing that the relief problem will then
come to a head, the threat TO the
nations credit that begins to appear
in the market for government bonds,
the continued uncertainty, the delay
IT, natural recOvery-all these and
other factors are combining to-
bring the battle to a head. 1t is as
if the people were saying that they
granted the necessity for some
change, that they were willing TO
give the eXperimentalists a chance,
but that now the hard facts of ex-
istence must take first place. The
opposing theories of RECOMMENDATION
and Individual Initiative have been
discussed on the national forum so
that the people have some idea of
the philosophic background for the
fight. think that the National Re-
publican Builders and all other or
ganizations who have had hand .
in this educative work have done
real job of National service. They
have prepared the people to ask,
How are these Brain Trust theOr-
les working out?
The people are asking it. They
are asking whether they aren't pay
ing too high a price for Roosevelt,
the reformer. They want to know
whether Reconstruction is going to
nut off indefinitely the Business Re-
cOvery for which they have been
praying since 1929. Once this issue
is framed, the other issues will fall
into place around it. The establish
ment of a great bureaucracy, its tre-
mendous cost, the Tammanyization
of it by Farley, government by ediot
and other impairments of our con-
system will fit into a pic
ture which the voters can at last
and take into the poll
ing booths with them. Mr.. ROOse-
welt, | believe, is in the tightest
corner that he has found since his
election. And justly so. Somehow.
he must face what Carter
Glass has called pay day" 1t is
nearer than most observers would
have believed possible before the
presidential speech
at Green Bay.
In carrying on the record kept in
this column of the appearance of
publications, it should
be set down that the National Re-
publican Club, 54 West 40th Street,
New York City, has this week pub
ished the first copy of The Ma
.iOnal Republican Club Review"
The main article in its four we'll
Dritned pages is devoted to sweep
ng review of Government Under
he New Deal" OF the new bureau
,racy" the Review" says: There
S one excellent measure of its
quality of the genial
Postmaster General Jim Farley. s
Ir. Farley's quality is strictly pO- !
itical. President Roosevelt's right
land knOweth not what his left hand
Ioeth His right hand has put sev- J
,ral hundred learned gentlemen at s
he ton of our government. there to
ccupy themselves high-mindedly Y