Evening star., 1934-02-18

SENATOR VANDENBERG.
by the Democracy to another chosen
leader a short while back. It ridi-
culed and scuttled his commissions.
Now they are a reborn and multiplied
litter"
Senator Vandenberg said the Re-
publican party would facilitate but
not repeal the national economic laws.
And referring to the huge expendi-
lures Of the Government today, he
added: Artificial respiration cannot
sustain human life or national life
indefinitely. The Government cannot
remain forever in an oxygen tent. The
Republican ideal-yeah. the ideal of
the Republics not the regimenta-
ton of men, but the cooperation of
free men"
Opportunity for Business.
Artificial employment is necessary
for the emergency, Senator vanden-
berg said, but the final need is the
restoration of opportunity for pri-
vate business. The president of the
American Federation of Labor, he
said, when he reports on unemploy-
ment, takes pains to say that 1885,
900 still have no work in industry.
He does not deduct artificially Great
ed employment and in that, Senator
Vandenberg said, he is right.
Turning to the subject of bu-
reaucracy and the dangers of perma-
nent dictatorship, Senator Vanden-
berg said the amazing concentration
Of power in the hands of the Presi-
dent may be necessary at the moment.
Il warn my countrymen," he con-
tinued, that this gigantic bureaucracy
must not permanently swallow UP the
freedoms and the liberties which are
the genius of our institutions. Is
there danger of perpetuation? There
always Is in such situations. I give
you one symptom: When the enor-
nous new Commerce Building was
completed in Washington it was ridi-
culed as an extravagant folly be-
cause of its staggering size. 1t was
expected to satisfy all Government
expansions for Is years. Yet, the new
bureaucracy battalions in Washington
already are so thick that plans were
revealed on January 80 for a new
and still larger building for one of
the frontified departments to accom-
modate the new army of satraps and
oVerlords. Why a permanent build
ing, bigger even than the monumental
Commerce Building, unless ts.s army
hopes to occupy the Capital for
keeps?"
Wider Distribution,
Giving his own conception Of what
the Republican party should do.
Senator Vandenberg said:
I'VE owe the American people a
wider and fairer distribution of pros
perity when it is reclaimed. We owe
the American people effective protec-
t1on against their exploiteers. We owe
labor and agriculture the square deal,
and the full economic partnership
which originated in the philosophy
Of an earlier Roosevelt. We owe our
common citizenship the renewed
stabilities of larger economic life.
But underlying all we owe the Con-
stitution an answering fidelity. and
we eve representative institutions the
full protection Of our embattled
force"
Chairman Sanders in his address
to the Republicans in st. Louis pic
tured the Roosevelt recovery program
as an absolute failure. Agriculture
is worse off today than it was before
the new-deal policies were written into
the law, he said. Industry has not
recovered and except for the employ
ment given by the Government itself
under the G. w. A. there has been
comparatively little increase in en-
ployment. Under the N. r. A., he
said. II was q matter OF common
knowledge that in every community
the little fellow is being driven out
OF business. Instead OF reducing gov
ernmental expenditures, he said, the
administration has increased them
enormously, with prospective S9,0OO,-
100000 excess Of expenditures over
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expected public debt of $4,000, ,0OO,-
600. He pictured the tremendous tax
burdens now borne by the people of
Europe and predicted that under the
present plan of Government expendi-
lures Americans would have to bear
similar taxation.
Payment Held Certain.
1.-THE people are being led to be-
leve," said Mr.. Sanders. that In
some miraculous way they are never
going to be compelled to pay the bills
of this administration. Yet nothing
is more certain.
The c. w. A. Is irrefutable proof
of the lack Of general prosperity and
OF the failure of the economic pro-
gram of this administration. When
on the 18th of June last year the
President signed the act carrying an
appropriation of $3,30o,000,0OO for
public works, he stated it would give
employment to a million men by Oc-
tober l. BY October there were
only $4,000 employees on Federal pub
lie construction. As a makeshift, to
furnish employment Of any kind to
millions of idle workmen, the C. w.
A. was created"
Mr.. Sanders said that an effort was
being made ito lull the average cit
izen into feeling of security by a
species of political flattery." They
are being told, he said, that the COM
munity, the employer and the en-
ploye, the farmer and the business
man have been taken into partner
ship with the Government. The
Government, he said, has at least 81
per cent "of the say-so as to how
things should be run. The fatal
weakness of this partnership is the
fact that the Government end of it
boasts it runs the business by
lunches, by trial and error by ex-
periments."