The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-01
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lens of unemployment and re- lief. The money measures were going to aolve the problems of the producer, Che exporter, the farmer and the merchant.
 And what came from 1t all? Just plain loss, waste, disturbance, lin- certainty, injury to business, and delay in recovery. Some of the things in the New Deal are posi- lively funny, such as the Potato Act. But the results of the New Deal are not funny. They are tragic. It slowed down natural recovery the way water in your gas will slow down your car. If there are still 10 million unem- ployed, 1t Is no longer the depres- sion that is responsible. It is the So-called recovery program. If n1il- lions are still out of jobs and still on relief, you can find the cause in Washington. A dozen leading nations that did not have Q New Deal have swung out of the de- precision into yeviving prosperity many months ago. We also are coming out by the unstoppable processes of natural recovery, but 1t has been cruelty delayed.
 The New Deal has married busi- ness and paralyzed investment and reduced private enterprise and in- creased living costs and created labor strife. It has laid Q burden of doubt on this generation of Americans. And no one knows what the future holds. No house. wife can guess what Q pound of butter will cost | year from now. No business man can guess what his taxes will be . year from now. No head of Q family can guess what his life insurance policy will be worth to his family We live in the shadow of uncertainty and in the atmosphere of unrest.
 Financial outlook
 Even beyond these concrete In. jurles and interference and blum. ders of an irresponsible govern. ment there are less specific but even more menscing conditions for the future. Two only of these can I refer to here. ono is the uncertain financial outlook. When one after another of the New Deal experiments collapsed or was thrown out by the courts, the ad- ininistration in desperation at- tempted to create an artificial prosperity by Q general policy of Squandering public funds, squan- dering for public works, for relief, for rnade-work, for farm benefits, for dog-pounds and community poultry houses, for tree-planting and tap-dancing. How far this has gone in undermining the mos rale of tho people no man can say. { How far this has gone in under mining the solvency of the govern- ment tho most qualified expert cannot tell.
 But it is the sad record of all history that Q government once embarked on Q policy of squander- ing goes on to the bitter and log ical end. Caught in the torrent of it's own making, 1t is carried out to the sea of insolvency. Its lav- ish outlays to favored groups gives rise to demands by other groups, and in the end 1t becomes . prey of every subsidy. hunting interest in the land. Consider tho record of the past three years. Consider how the original subsidy for not producing cotton and corn and what and hogs grow into Q subsidy to sugar corporations and tobacco plantations and peanut growers and potato raisers. And when the A.A.A. was destroyed by the courts Q new scheme was de- vised. And when that has been wrecked by the second drouth, we now have Q new scheme of crop insurance and An over-normal granary. When the MIRA. was destroyed by It's own weakness and by the courts an attempt was made to revive it by indirection. Bureaucracy grows by what 1t feeds upon. It is like the camel. Once It's head Is in the tent the rest of the animal is coming in,