Evening star., 1936-06-11

posed by the boom and depression.
But I stated our first job was to
restore men to work. The New
Deal has attempted many reforms.
They have delayed recovery. Parts
of them are good. Some have
failed. Some are tainted with COL
lectivist ideas. That task must be
undertaken anew by the Repub-
lican party.
A new danger is created TO the
Republic in that the swing from
the foolishneSs of radicalism will
carry us to the selfishness Of re-
action.
Social Measures Must
Be Built on Real Approach.
The Republican party must
achieve true social betterment.
But we must produce measures
that will not work confusion and
disappointment. We must propose
a real approach to social ills, not
the prescription for them, by
quacks, of poison in place of
remedy.
We must achieve freedom in the
economic field. We have grave
problems in relation of Govern
ment to agriculture and business.
Monopoly is only one of them.
The Republican party is against
the greed for power of the wanton
boys who waste the peoples saw
ings. But it must be equally ada
mant against the greed for power
and exploitation in the seekers Of
special privilege. At one time I
said: I'VE can no more have eco
nomic power without checks and
balances than we can have political
power without checks and balances.
Either one leads to tyranny"
Party Must Accept
Challenge Of New Day.
The Republican party must be
q party that accepts the challenge
of each new day. The last word in
human accomplishment has not
been spoken. The last step in
human progress has not been
made. We welcome change when 1t
will produce a fairer, more just,
and satisfying civilization. But
change which destroys the safe
guards of free men and women
are only apples Of sodom.
Great calamities have come to
the world. These forces have
reached into every calling and
every cottage. They have brought
tragedy and suffering to millions of
firesides. I have great sympathy
for those who honestly reach for
short cuts to the immensity of our
problems. While design Of the
structure of betterment for the
common man must be inspired by
the human heart, it can only be
achieved by the intellect. 1t can
only be builded by using the mold
of justice, by laying brick upon
brick from the materials of scien-
ttf1c research; by the painstaking
sitting of truth from the collection
of fact and experience. Any other
mold Is distorted, any other bricks
are without straw, any other
foundations are sand. That great
structure Of human progress can
be built only by free men and
women.
The graveSt task which confronts
the party is to regenerate these
freedoms.
There are principles which nei-
ther tricks Of organization, nor
the rigors of depression, nor the
march Of time, nor. New Dealers,
nor Socialists, nor FasciSts can
change. There are some principles
which came into the universe along
with the shooting stars Of which
worlds are made, and they have
always been and ever will be true.
Such are the laws of mathematics,
the law Of gravitation, the existence
Of God and the ceaseless struggles
Of mankind to be free.
Must We Condemn Future
To Die to Regain its Freedom?
Throughout the centuries of his
tory mans vigil and his quest has
been to free. For this the best and
brayest of earth have fought and
died. To embody human liberty
In workable government, America
/ was born. Shall we keep that
faith? Must we condemn the un-
born generation to fight again and
to die for the right to be free?
There are some principles that
cannot be compromised. Either we
shall have q society based upon
ordered liberty and the initiative
Of the individual, or we shall have