Evening star., 1935-05-05
MCCORMICK HITS
RADICAL POLICIES
Declares Extremists il
Washington Can Bring
Only universal Ruin"
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, May 4.-Col. Robert r.
Mccormick, editor and publisher Of
the Chicago Tribune, assailed admin
istration policies, radicals and share
the-wealth advocates tonight in an
address at Faneuil Hall.
1--WE meet in this hall. sacred to
liberty" he told "Sentinels Of the
Republic" mass meeting, ito take no
tice of our threatened institutions and
our threatened civilization to send an
alarm to our fellow citizens and in
Vte their cooperation in preserving
. republican form Of Government.
Cultivate Feeling Of Envy.
Col. Mccormick asserted politicians
were cultivating the feeling OF envy.
He added:
"Not the elevation of the lowly, but
the tearing down of the well-to-do,
has been the alibi behind political
manipulation of late The plea has
been made to the farmer against in
dustrv. Immigrants from continental
Europe are led to direct their old
world hostility to social superlors
against Americans. Foreign agitators
have repaid us for asylum by agitation
against our Government until today
their policies. not those of the great
Virginia and Massachusetts, philos-
ophers and of the great economist,
Hamilton, dominate action in Wash
ington."
The publisher cited historical share
the-wealth undertakings and said:
Look through history and you will
And these teachings have always led
to the pillage, murder, horror and
universal suffering. These are the
inevitable consequences of mass rob-
berry as preached by Marx and his
American followers"
Cites Hypothetical Case.
He set forth hypothetical case.
How shall we divide the wealth
that Henry Ford has made. among
all of us. who have none of it?" he
asked. Shall We take apart the
edifice he has builded and give piece
to each-the furnaces, forges, fac
Torres!
be far greater than the spoil. Would
not the simplest way be for us to con-
fscate the Ford business and oper-
ate it as the post Office is operated,
for the benefit of all: to let Congress
legislate the number and design OF
cars and the administration appoint
a manager"
Col. Mccormick presumed the man
ager would be Jim Farley" who
"does not know anything about au-
tomobiles Just as he does not know
anything about conducting the post
ONCE"
The net result. he added. would be
"another of Mr. Farley's deficits, and,
If generally applied, would bring
universal ruin"
Sees Starvation and Ruin.
shall we, therefore, exacerbate the
tax confiscations which are now
carrying on?" Mr.. Mccormick in
ouired. Shall we increase the rates
of income and estate taxes to 70 and
80 per cent. make assurance doubly
sure that the owner of every useful
industry shall not save enough in his
lifetime to pay his estate tax? Then,
perforce, the Government will have
to take all the revenue producing
properties in forfeiture for taxes
which cannot be paid and administer
them with reckless. incompetent and
conscienceless politicians. There will
be no profits, no wealth, no taxes;
universal starvation and misery such
as exists in Russia Such is the in
evitable outcome of the policies of
the extremists in Washington. Such
is the result of every dictatorship.
For two years the courts has been
under constant coercion. Statutes
have been written by young men in
executive departments inflamed with
the policies of Moscow and sent for
enactment not only to Congress, but
to the State governments. which are
being reduced to the status of prov
inces. And 1t has been boldly pro-
claimed that the executive now stands
above the legislative and judicial
branches of government.
There can no Longer be doubt in
the minds of thoughtful men that
ambitions are cherished antagonistic
to our Constitution and fatal to our
freedom"