Evening star., 1935-03-23
HOOVER LETTER
SCORES NEW DEAL
SAYS Administration Policy
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OF the selfish interest Of any group.
That organization will be the stronger
If. like your own sessions, 1t springs
from the people who believe in these
principles.
3. 1t is well that the young men and
women Of the Republican party should
meet and give attention to this drift
from national mooringS. Some OF the
concrete results of these policies are
already apparent. The most solemn
Government obligations have been
repudiated. The Nation Is faced with
the greatest debt ever known to our
country. The currency has been rem
dered uncertain. The Government
has been centralized under an enor-
nous bureaucracy in Washington
which has dictated and limited the
production of our industries, increas-
ing the costs and prices of their
products with inevitable decreased
consumption. MonopoliStic practices
have been organized on a gigantic
scale. Small business men have been
disabled and crushed. Glass conflicts
have been created and embittered.
The Government has gone into busi-
ness in competition with its citizens.
Citizens have been coerced, threatened
and penaliZed for offenses unknown
to all our concepts Of liberty. The
courts are proclaiming repeated vio-
lations Of the Constitution.
Food Being Imported.
Because Of food destruction and
restraint on farm production. foreign
food is pouring into our ports, pur-
chase Of which should have been
made from cur farmers. The cost Of
living is steadily advancing. More
people are depending upon the Gov
ernment for relief than ever before.
Recovery Is still delayed. The pro-
ductive genius of our people. which
is the sole road to recovery and to
increased standards of living. is be-
ing Stifled, the Nation impoverished
instead Of enriched. The theories Of
this administration do not work. They
are no longer a propagandized mil
lenium: Jhny are Self-eXpoSed.
4. The people have a right to an
to change these policies.
1t is the duty of the Republican party
to offer that opportunity. And be-
yond insiStence upon American foun-
dations of government, it is the duty
of the party to insist upon realistic
methods of recovery, real jobs for
labor and real markets for the farmer.
Those methods lie in removing the
shackles and uncertainties from enter
prise. After nearly six years of de-
preston, liquidation, restriction OF sll
manner of purchases and improve
mentS, We stand on the threshold of a
great forward, economic movement,
If only the paralyzing effects Of mis-
taken governmental policies and ac-
tivities may be removed.
Production Theory Upheld.
The present conception of a ma
tional economy based upon scarcity
must in all common sense be reversed
to an economy based upon production.
or workman, farmer and business man
alike are defeated. Surely economic
life advances only through increas-
ing production by use of every inStru-
ment science gave to us, through low
ering Of costs and prices with conse-
quent increase in consumption, and
through higher real wages to the
worker and real return to the farmer.
Effective reform Of abuses in business
and finance must be undertaken
through regulation and not through
bureaucratic dictation or Government
operation. Protection to individual
enterprise from monopolies must be
established whereby the smaller
businesses may live. Sitting uncer-
tainties OF currency manipulation
must be removed. Government ex-
penditures which, If continued on
the present scale, can create only
bankruptcy or calamitous imitation,
must be curtailed. The effective par
ticipation of the States and local
governments in relief under non-par-
tiSan administrators must be re-eStab-
hShed SO that waste, extravaganza and
politics may be eliminated and
the people better served. Great So
cial problems of better safeguards
to the individual against the dislo-
cations of advancing industry. ma
tional calamity and old age must be
discovered. But these problems Of
business, agriculture and labor be-
come much easier with restoration
of economic common sense. Indeed,
a score of economic and social ques-
tionS must be solved. and in their
answers are locked the real advance
ment Of life and the attainment Of
security and contentment in the
mate expression of American life.
But their solution will not be found
in violation of the foundations Of
human liberty.
Family Is Foundation.
5. It Is well that we pause q mo-
ment to examine what objectives We
wish to secure from the vast COM
plex of invisible governmental, eco
nomic and social forces which domi-
nate our civilization. The objective
OF american lie must De TO upDullu
and protect the family and the home,
whether farmer, worker, or business
man. That is the unit Of American
life. 1t is the moral and spiritual
as well as the economic unit. With
its independence and security come
the spiritual blessings of the Nation.
The fundamental protection of these
homes is the spirit as well as the
letter of the bill of rights, with the
supports from the framework of the
Constitution. They must be given
peace with the world. There must be
confidence in the security of the job,
Of the business, of the savings which
sustain these homes. Increased stand
ards of living, leisure and security can
come to that home through unshack-
ling the productive genius of our people.
The advancement of knowledge must
be translated into increasing health
and education for the children. There
must be constantly improved safe
guards to the family from the dis
locations of economic life and of old
age. With the growth of great in
dustrial forces we must continue to