Evening star., 1935-10-06

gram. The first step Is a sound fiscal
policy.
This flood of spending is but one of
the many realities of the New Deal.
1t Is your duty to examine them all
with the torch Of common sense end
appraise them in the sole light of the
future OF America. And you should
examine them with open mind. You
Will fnd some that you should COM
mend. You will find some of right
objective and wrong method, such as
the acts regulating securities, the old
age pensions and unemployment in
surance. You will find many that are
destructive Of every ideal and aspira-
ton Of American life and will destroy
the value Of all the acts that are
good-and more.
And there is but one test you should
apply-will these measures restore the
prosperity Of America? Will they
restore agriculture? Will they give
real jobs instead of the dole? Will
they maintain personal liberty? Will
they make America happier. better
place In which to live?
Halls American System.
In dealing with these great problems
you need to remember that the shocks
we have received from the war and
the depression have created great
despair and great discomfort with rep
resentative government and individual
freedom. Our system has faults, but
these faults are but marginal. They
must be constantly corrected. Special
privilege, exploitation of labor, the
consumer, or the investor, have no
right or part in it. But the soil of
the American heritage of liberty Is
still fertile with vast harvest of human
security and human betterment.
Alert opposition and incisive criti-
cism and debate are the safeguards
Of Republic. But that is not enough.
The vast revolution in the powers Of
science and technology has placed
within our grasp future and a Sc
curity never hitherto glimpsed by
mankind. The people hunger for the
comfort, the security, and the free
dom of spirit which we know they
may bring But we would have but
an empty husk should they come at
the sacrifice of liberty. Those Sc
curities will come if we do not stife
and handcud the productive genius
which alone thrives in freedom. In
the large, our problem is to stimu-
late and utilize the great productive
capacity Of our people. Herein is the
great constructive programme find
the road by which we may attain the
vast enrichments Of science and
technology within the province Of
private enterprise and personal lib
erty. Therein we must add the new
upon the structure of the old-for
therein lie the foundations of CEN
turles OF human effort. It will sue
ceed not through vast generalizations
but through human sympathy, de-
tailed policies, hard common sense,
and political realism. That is the
greatest opportunity of statesman
ship in two generations
In the coming months the Repub-
lican Party will meet in convention
with the responsibility Of determin-
ing its policies 1t will be the most
vital convention since 1860. That
convention should comprise the
thousand best men of the Republican
Party. Theirs is the duty to enun-
ciate great principles. They should
be inspired to determine a program
of policies to solve great issues. Minor
issues, petty opposition, sectional in
terest. group ideas, and every shred
Of personal ambition must be dumped,
that this great responsibility, this
great spiritual purpose may be ac-
complished. None of these things
must count in the fate of the Nation.
Upon the wisdom and courage Of these
men will depend the future of
America.