The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-04-02
Mr.. BOrah Takes the New Deal
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Chicago Tribune)

ApdTC
Chicago Tribune)
Mr.. Borahs sharp criticism and
penetrating analysis Of the philosophy
and operation of the New Deal are
formidable for several reasons. He
10 an inimitable debater and will be
approached cautiously by any sup
porter Of the present government who
seeks to take issue with him. He is
of the independent. so-called liberal,
Republican tradition, with . reputa-
ton for defense Of what are called
human rights by such as think that
property has nothing to do with hu-
man welfare. He can't be regarded
as Tory politician doing the bidding
Of Wall Street and great corporation
interests. Mr.. Borah's accepted stand
ing is that Of defender Of the av-
erage man.
His challenge Of the New Deal is
formidable also because he Is logical,
and the New Deal falls to pieces
when it is examined for consistency
and congruity. The average person
who has been trusting blindly to what
he has been told was magic about
to accomplish wonders will find many
OF the doubts which he has sup
pressed in his own consciousness re-
v:ved by Mr.. Borah's high lighting
Of certain absurdities. The average
man may have accepted the brain
trust ideas on faith. but he will agree
with Mr.. Borah when he is brought
to observe the facts that when people
need clothing and are supposed to
be close to starvation the destruction
of food and the stopping Of produc-
ton, the raising of prices and the
substituting of idleness are not rem
edies which sanity would adopt.
No one else could tell the country
more wildly than Mr.. Borah that
when people are in need Of bread anc
meat the destruction of pigs and the
stopping Of grain growing are moi
the way to feed them. Likewise, they
will understand that If people are ir
need Of clothing it is strange pro-
cedure to p!ow up cotton. They viii
follow Mr.. Borah when he tells then
that in times when millions Of people
find it difficult to pay their bills i
is q policy Of bedlam to raise prices
artificially before the ability to pur
chase has been restored.
People cannot avoid taking q sec
ond thought of their enthusiasm
when Mr.. Borah calls their attention
to the fact that monopolies have re
ceived new impetus under govern
ment encouragement and that bust
ness men who have been having diff
ficulty in keeping their heads abov
water find government encourages
monopolies giving them the final pusl
downward. Mr.. Borah Is bound +
revive popular consideration Q
many Of the old tested doctrines upo
which American economy has bee
based, doctrines Of fair play, lal
prices and fair opportunities to wor
and make q living. The denial t
the individual Of the right to tax
his money to the best market he ca
find and buy in accordance with h
own planned economy has been
serious blow to the finances of man
a hard working and modest famil,
| WIldtCVCI uI0y VIC VAlO 1AVA uAOUAN AAoES
back Of the recovery program.
Mr.. Borah asserts. and many pee
pie are now willing to concede
proves his case, that the New De,
has been headed backwards. It n
verses everything that makes pros
perity and civilization. It reduc'
production, discourages ingenuity, sui
sidizes idleness, increases costs ar
merely hopes that by some mirac
all these errors and fallacies will prt
cuce the exact opposite Of the effec
o! which they are the natural cause
Mr.. Borah has 3 fine scorn for II
theory that by producing less Il
people will have more. that by d.
stroying goods they will enjoy Il
) use Of them, and that by making
more expensive to live. with increasl
idleness and decreased productio
everybody will have more and get
more easily.
. II an old line Republican had q
| rected his Scorn at such nonsense Il
people might have said that partisan
ship or vested interest was talkin
Mr.. Borah cannot be dismissed wi
: such comment. He Is presumably 81
. by repute as, much interested in T
welfare Of his fellow man and Is II
tie addicted to monopoly and pr
, ileee q the most radical New Deall
; In him the opposition to counsels
! despair, panic. socialism and infal
/ t.lism finds Q Spokesman who CO.
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