Evening star., 1934-05-08
MOLEY DECLARES
NEW DEAL SOUND
Urges Dismissal of Fear and
Spectre of Communism
in Address.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May 8.-Raymond
Moley, former Assistant Secretary OF
State and adviser to President Roose-
welt, pleaded last night for dismiss
ing mythology and fears and the
spectre of communism and all the
rest of the hobgoblins of this Win
ter of discomfort" and Ito get down
10 the issue" of the administrations
new deal"
Speaking at the National Public
Housing Conference annual dinner,
Moley declared that basic ideas for
the Roosevelt policies were derived
from American business and agricul-
ture and not the doctrinaire views
OF Russia or Italy
Il have recently pointed out, and
the President of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States has
verified my recollection Moley said,
that the essential strands of PreSl-
dent Roosevelt's Industrial and agri-
cultural policy came not from pro-
fessors, not from doctrinaires. not
from Russia, not from Italy, but from
the enlightened experience OF Ameri-
can business as represented by the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States, and from the best ideas OF
organized agriculture.
Cites Basis for Criticism.
Moley expressed the view that criti-
ciSm OF administration policies lis
not a question of the form of the
new deal, or its promise. or its threat.
The real thing that troubles many
people is the question of who is run
ming it and in whose interest it is
being run"
Il cannot conceive" Moley con-
tinued. "of a man like Mr.. Silas
StraWn harbOring any fear of the
N R. A. if, perchance, the President
of the United States were Calvin
Coolidge or Herbert Hoover This is
the challenge that goes to the essence
of democracy"
Turning to a discussion of critics
"hobgoblns," Moley added
Fundamentally, the new deal is
based upon a recognition of the dem
ocratic principles. Fascism and COM
munism have at their roots the mega
ton of popular control The real is
sue is whether the new deal threat
ems to destroy the right of the people
to control government.
Has there been any authentic
proof of this Administrations purpose
to limit that right in any way, shape
or form?
The essential democratic process
has remained unquestioned. and no
true exponent of the new deal fears
an appeal to this democratic process
for a justification for every measure
that has been enacted.
1T is only minority who fear
above all things that in the restora-
ton of general Well-being their own
political ambitions may be stifled. The
majority, 1 believe, see in the new
deal the fulfilment of an essential
American tradition"
Moley cited writings of George
Washington, Alexander Hamilton and
James Madison in a historical defense
of whether it is a proper and ira
ditional function of the Federal Gov
ernment to concern itself extensively
with economic affairs"
Continuing, Moley said:
Those who speak of the new deal
as RECOMMENDATION forget the essential
lines of that great debate between
Wilson's new freedom which, in
essence, advocated the use of govern
mental authority to enforce a COM
petitive system, and the new nation
alism of Theodore Roosevelt. which
was a frank recognition Of the con-
centration of industrial power with
an equally frank recognition of the
supreme authority of government over
this concentration.
Appeal to Best in Both.
THE new deal can appeal to the
best in both these points of view
which were so thoroughly and vividly
expressed by these great leaders. a
When Franklin D. Roosevelt in
1882, called for a return to the public
interest forgotten in the years of
reaction. there was merely brought
to life the two principles of public
interest exemplified in the progressive
ism of l912-on the one side the
regulation of competition, and on
the other. the regulation of monopoly.
He recognized the essential fact
that neither of these rules applied
to the whole of business; that with
some kinds of business there was
needed the regulation Of competition,
with others there was needed the
regulation of monopoly. The
task of the new deal was to merge
these two in a logical whole
And so the N. R. A. and A. A. A.
came into being"