Evening star., 1934-01-07
DICKINSON SCORES
DEMOCRAT RECORD
Speech Before Ohio G. O. P.
Group Likens 1t to Plat
form of Socialists.
BY the Associated Press.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, January g.
Senator Dickinson, Republican, Of
Iowa, in a speech before the League of
Republican Clubs Of Cuyahoga County
tonight, drew parallel between the
Socialist platform in the last presiden-
tial campaign and the Democratic rec
ord since.
Pointing to Socialist planks, including
cree .icn Of boards for util. .Zation of
rural land complete acquisition of the
Federal Reserve banks by the Gov
eminent and operation CT the power
industry by administrative boards,
Dickinson asserted the 22,000,000 who
marked the Democratic ticket did not
vote for these.
Those governing us today" he said,
were not elected to office. johnson
(Hugh S. johnson, recovery admins
trator) was not elected by the vote OF
the business men. nor Davis (Chester
c. DAVIS, farm administrator by the
vote Of the farmers.
Problems of Individual"
"Tha Democratic legislative program
may be an experimental program, but
one experiment may lead to another
until no retreat is possible. Most OF
the problems now confronting US are
the problems Of the individual and of
the State and It's subdivisions. Yet we
ask the Government to plant cur gar
dens, to plow our fields, to control our
industries and run our stores. The
sooner we regain the self-consciousneSs
that these are the problems OF the In
dividual and not the Government, the
quicker a safe road to recovery Will
appear in the foreground"
Dickinson challenged the assumption
that a political social control would
remedy the economic situation.
Let us examine the record" he said,
turning to railroads and banks as ex-
amples of businesses that had been
unoer Government supervision.
The railroads have had govern
mental supervision for q great many
years." he said This supervision has
the same plight as practically every
other business in the country.
Regimentation Protested.
IT might also suggest that the bank
ing business has been supervised by
the Government. Probably no busi-
ness has been more mismanaged and
suffered keener loss or more in prestige
than the banking business Of the coun-
try. But the banking business is reg
ulated. We have bank examiners; we
have a controller of currency, We have
a Federal Reserve Board.
NO one ever dreamed of putting
either industry or commerce under so
strict regulations as have heretofore
been imposed on the finances of the
country"
Protesting what he described as ten
denotes toward RECOMMENDATION of eco
nomic life, Dickinson said:
once the Government begins the
task of controlling economic relation
ships, it must continue. One commit
ment leads to the next. American cap
italism in its present faltering expert
ment with State control Is playing with
the buzz-saw."
Burden on Consumer.
The ultimate burden Of the admins
trations program. he continued. falls
on the consumer and the taxpayer.
"One group fixes wages, profits and
prices" he said. Another must pay
the bill One group sells his produce
to the Government in the form of a
loan: another must pay the price
Dickinson asserted a heavy respon-
sibility fell upon the opposition party
II revolutionary and socialistic change
in our form Of government" was to be
resisted.
I'VE should remember and deeply
realize" he added. that. regardless of
all the socialist schemes that have been
tried in the world. in the end nearly
every one has to work for living after
ALL"