Evening star., 1936-06-11
Calls on Ne,U Deal to State
= Policy Aims of Future Clearly
Former President Credits Supreme
Court for Preventing Regeneration
Through InuaIidated Ld,Us.
By the Associated Press.


Herbert Hoover's address
- to the Republican Ma
tional Convention:
In this room rests the greatest
responsibility that has come to a
body of Americans in three genera
tions. In the lesser sense this is
a convention of great political
party. But in the larger sense it
Is a convention of Americans to de-
termine the fate of those ideals for
which this Nation was founded.
That far transcends all partisan
ship.
There are elemental currents
which make or break the fate of
nations. There is a moral pur-
pose in the universe. Those forces
which affect the vitality and the
soul of a people will control its
destinies. The sum Of years of
public service in these currents is
the overwhelming conviction Of
their transcendent Importance over
the more transitory, even though
difficult issues of national life.
I have given about four years to
research into the New Deal. try
ing to determine what its ultimate
detectives we're, what sort of
system it is imposing on this coun-
try.
Muddle of SpOils
and Sheer Opportunism.
To some people it appears to be
q strange interlude in American
history in that it has no philoS-
ophy, that it is sheer opportunism,
that it is a muddle of spoilS Sys-
TEN, of emotional economics, OF
reckless adventure, of unctuouS
claims to a monopoly of human
sympathy of greed for power, of
a desire for popular acclaim and
an aspiration to make the front
pages of the newspapers. That is
the most charitable view.
To other people it appears to be
a cold-blooded attempt by starry
eyed boys to infect the American
people by a mixture of European
ideas. favored with our native
prediction to get something for
nothing.
You can choose either one you
like best. But the first is the road
of chaos which leads to the second.
Both of these roads lead over the
same grim precipice that is the
crippling and possibly the destruc-
ton of the freedom of men.
Which of these interpretations is
accurate is even disputed by alumni
of the New Deal who have grad
uated for conscience's sake or have
graduated by request.
Mirage of Utopia
Led to European Dictators.
In Central Europe the march Of
Socialist or Fascist relationships
and their destruction of liberty
did not set out with guns and
armies. Dictators began their
ascent to the seats of power
through the elections provided by
liberal institutions. Their weapons
were promise and hate. They
offered the mirage of utopia to
those in distress. They flung the
poison of class hatred. They may
not have manned the bodies of
men but they manned their souls.
The 1882 campaign was pretty
good imitation Of this first stage of
European tactics. You may recall
the promises of the abundant life,
the propaganda of hate.
Once seated in Office, the first
demand of these European despot-
isms was for power and action"
Legislatures were told they must"
delegate their autorities. Their
free debate was suppressed. The
powers demanded are always the
same pattern. They all adopt
planned economy They regimented
industry and agriculture. They put
the Government into business.
They engaged in gigantic Govern
ment expenditures. They created
vast organizations of spoils hench-
men and subsidized dependents.
They corrupted currency and credit.
They drugged the thinking of the
people with propaganda at the
peoples expense.
If there are any items in this
stage in the march of European
collectiviSm that the New Deal
has not initiated it must have been
an oversight.
Should Be Thankful for
Constitution and Supreme Court.
But at this point this parallel
with Europe halts-at least for the
present. The American people
should thank Almighty God for the
Constitution and the Supreme
Court. They should be grateful to
a courageous press.
You might contemplate what
would have happened if Mr.. Roose-
welt could have appointed enough
Supreme Court justices in the first
year of his administration. Sup
pose these New Deal acts had re-
mained upon the statute books. We
would have been a regimented
people. Have you any assurance
that he will not have the appoint
ments If he is reelected?
The succeeding stages of violence
and outrage by which European
despotiSms have crushed all lib
eralism and all freedom have filed
our headlines for years.
But what comes next in the
United States? Have the New
Dealers dropped their ideas of
Capitalization Of Government?
Have they abandoned the notion
regimenting the people into a
planned economy? Has that greed
for power become cooled by the
resistance of a people with a
heritage Of liberty? Will they re-
sumo if they are reelected?
when we examine the speeches
of Tugwen, Wallace, Ickes and
others, we see little indications
Of repentance.
ColIectivism and Greed
For Power Is in Blood.
Let me say this: America is no
monarchy where the chief Of state
is not responsible for his ministers.
1t has been traditional in our
Governnaent since the hepinninc