Evening star., 1936-10-25

story some weeks ago about an old
man who fell of the pier in the
ocean, was saved and then blamed
the man who rescued him because
he did not also save his high silk hat.
Pants Taken by Taxes.
"When the New Deal rescued that
man." Smith said, land got him out
Of the water, they also took his pants
by taxation and other ways"
Turning to the unemployment prob
lem, he said the New Deal was trying
to solve it without knowing anything
about it,
'They have never made any census
of the unemployed" he said.
Coming back to the Governments
relations with business, he said:
THE New Deal has not helped busi-
ness. It has retarded 1t. An atmos-
phere was created hostile to business
and hostile to banking for the pur-
pose of carrying out reforms, as they
called them"
Government went into business
in competition with business" he as
serted. Agencies set up by the Gov
ernment under the pretext of aiding
recovery went into business in COM
petition with business"
They are using the money of the
people OF the United States to put
the Government itself into COMPETE
tion with business men who pay the
taxes to run the Government" he
continued.
Another instance, he said, was the
use of w. P. A. funds in Minne-
sofa to put a private telephone COM
pany out of business.
"An Things to ALL"
He said the New Deal was trying
to be "all things to all men" during
the campaign. After the administra-
ton had banged away" at business
for three and a half years. he assert
ed, "the President out in Chicago
last week tried to square himself"
do you remember in the early
days of the New Deal administration
when every business man was black
guarded and the terrible things were
said about bankers everybody was
ashamed to be banker for a little
while?" he asked.
There had been an atmosphere
created hostile to business and hostile
to banking for the purpose of carrying
out the future intentions OF reform,
as they spoke of it, suggested by the
brain trust.
"Why the President out in Chicago
tried to square himself, he tried to
square the New Deal with the busi-
ness man and he brought him to his
arms and embraced him and told him
| that the American business man was
all right, and, just as the great Teddy,
when he referred to manufacturers
lust he only meant the bad ones and
that the good ones were in the ma
jority, and that therefore the Presi-
dent proceeded to suggest to business
men in Chicago that he felt very nicely
toward them.
"The next day he was in Detroit,
and in Detroit, when he didn't have
a national hook-up, he was just talk
ing to the laborers in the automobile
factories, the business men were not
SO good that day.
"You know, I picked up a paper
here the early part of the month and
I read this: The President was over
in Jersey City and he was speaking
at the dedication Of the Medical Cen
ter, and what do you think he said
to the doctors? He said to the doctors
over there, The medical profession
can rest assured that the Federal ad-
ministration contemplates no action
detrimental to their interests
Now, what is the necessity for
assuring q number of doctors when
you meet them that the Government
is not going to do anything to them?
Now, you know no man walks up to
another man in the street, and before
he says a single word, notifies him
that he does not intend to sock him
in the eye. Listen-there is only one
reason for that. and that is because
everybody else that he met that day
got socked."
Tonight's speech was the fourth
made by the former New York Gov
ernor since he started campaigning
against the Roosevelt administration
the first of the month. It was his
second speech in Pennsylvania. Smith
Is scheduled to make his final address
of the campaign at Albany. N. Y,
october 81, the night President
Roosevelt speaks in Madison Square
Garden. New York City.