Evening star., 1935-08-17
DEATH Of LIBERTY
WS|ONED BY MILLS.
Coercion Economic System
in Wake of New Deal,
Says Ex-SeCretary.
BY the Associated Press.

CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y. August IT,
Ogden Mills, Secretary of the Treas
ury under former President Hoover, in
a speech today pictured the New Deal
as sounding the death knell of indi-
vidual liberty in the country by Gre
ating an all-powerful economic Sys-
TEN based on coercion"
Mills for the most part confined his
remarks to analysis of the New Deal
and told his audience at Chautauqua
Institution that I'VE find ourselves
confronted with issues that cut so deep
as to threaten not only the form, but
the spirit of our institutions"
He did. however, suggest remedies
for what he described as "the in
equalities, defects and weaknesses that
exist"
These included reforms in the bank
ing structures and financial practices.
encouragement of increased produc-
ton. suppression of crime and all un-
fair predatory practices, stable none
tary system. higher wages and stricter
immigration laws.
Transformation Seen in U. S.
"The Roosevelt policies he said,
both in their immediate consequences
and ultimate implications, mean a
revolutionary transformation of our
form Of government and of our eco
nomic life. When Mr.. Roosevelt says
he means to establish a new social
order, he must mean that America is
to abandon its free institutions and
It's voluntary economic system in favor
OF an authoritarian government and
an economic system based on coercion,
on the obedience of the many TO the
few. There is no other social order
to which to turn, and there is no mid
die ground"
The authoritarian government, the
former Treasury head said. means
the death of individual liberty"
Taking direct issue with New Deal
claims that administration policies
were intended to meet emergencies,
Mills said he could not accept that
explanation as the determination to
push forward even as the emergency
waneS' is too obvious to permit any
such interpretation
The New Deal is gaining control,
he said. over agriculture, industry and
the banking system through such leg
islation and agencies as the Agricul-
tural Adjustment Administration the
Wagner labor law, the Guffey coal bill
and the banking bills.
L. S. Held in Business.
I'm addition, the Federal Govern
ment has gone into business on its
own account in competition with pri-
vate Industries, it has sought directly
and indirectly to bring purely local
enterprises under its jurisdiction and
it has used its mammoth relief fund
to bring political pressure on and to
weaken the authority of the local and
State officials.
The aim is clearly to create an
an-poWerful central government ex-
ercising complete control ever the
economic life Of the Nation through
control of credit, control of business,
control Of labor and control of agri-
culture. State and local governments
will become mere shadows"
He struck at the Presidents dis
tribute-the-wealth program, citing the
case of Henry Ford.
Prom a modest start" Mills said,
"this one man, Ford, has added i'm
mensely to the national wealth. first
through the creation of immense
productive establishments, and in the
second place, through the annual ad-
dition Of units of new wealth. That
wealth is truly shared, first, by the
hundreds of thousands that partici-
pate in the progress of its production
and, in the second place. by the mil
liens within whose reach he has
brought the inestimable boon of low
cost transportation"