Evening star., 1936-06-10

New Deal and its candidate are
alike destructive of the basic es-
sentials OF popular government.
You and l know, and all should
know. that the security OF our
liberties and economic opportuni-
ties demands that the constitu-
tional balance of the American
Government shall be restored.
Centralized AutOcracy
Builds on Ruins Of Liberty.
Capitalization of power is the
Siamese twin of bureaucracy. Ex-
pensive and arbitrary, its supreme
evil is greed for money and power.
History shows that centralized au-
tocracy invariably seeks to build
itself greater and stronger on the
ruins OF the peoples liberties. 1t
reaches for control OF the educa-
ton of children and the formation
of thought, and finally all human
rights. including religious freedom.
must yield to its tyranny.
When Chief Executive finds
unconstitutional concentration OF
power in himself, he should exer-
else his constitutional power to
recommend that Congress take
back its authority. This whole
some recommendation will be made
in January, by an oath-keeping
Republican President.
The New Deal has driven
wedge between what it calls the
''underprivileged" and the business
man. the professional man and the
producer. To strengthen its polit-
ical hold 1t has adopted the un-
American attitude Of setting class
against class. 1t asserts that 1t
has driven the money changers"
from the temple. Where are these
money changers? They are still
in the temple. For the present
administration. by its tax bills, has
tried to abolish thrift in business
and to put every concern, big or
little, into the hands OF the money
lenders Indeed, the only business
successfully fostered by this admin
istration has been the debt business.
That has prospered.
Agitators Coddled
And Interest FOstered.
1t promised to preserve the merit
system in Government service, yet
every day brings an accretion of
New Deal spoilsmen to the Fed
eral pay roll. Fine public servants
have been ruthlessly replaced by
favorites and the Government to-
day is literally the worst. most
conscienceless employer in the
land
The New Deal pretends it would
protect American interests. yet
harbors aliens who are not entitled
to remain in America, but are per-
mitted to remain. and who COM
pete with the American working
man. increase the cost of our
struggle against crime and add to
our relief burden. 1t coddles agi-
tators and encourages the purvey-
ors of unrest at a time when the
Nation needs firm and dignified
leadership. Not content to employ
professors and theorists as eco
nomlc advisers, the New Deal has
placed the affairs of Government
in their hands. 1t depends on
bookWOrms for practical experience
and on hooku orms for energy. 1t
renounced the purposes and ideals
OF the great party whose name it
bears and threw away the oppor-
tunity for service which that party
long had sought.
The New Deal sgandiSts boast
of its humanitarian purpose and
support this boast by pointing to
Federal aid of those in distress.
Such aid was and is an obvious
duty OF civilized nation. But the
irony Of it is that the administra-
ton made only one gesture of a
permanent character toward full
filling its pledge to balance the
Federal budget. That was an act
to reduce compensation and to
withhold disqualification from the
disabled veterans of our wars,
while at the same time the New
Deal planned lavish spending for
other purposes. In order to trap
congressional support for its bill,
justly with the veterans and that
1t would continue a program of
genuine economy. The poor and
the manned who suffered the
admistrations ingratitude are far
from convinced that it has actu-
ated by humanitarian purposes.
''PeisOn of Politics
in Bread of Relief"
Their program of aid to the
distressed is further condemned
for its abuse Of great national
purpose in order to serve the venal
desires Of New Deal politicians.
This has been characterized as
the poison of politics in the bread
of relief" Reform In the methods
of relief will result in more relief
to the destitute at less cost to the
taxpayer.
The Republican party will not
turn its back on those in distress,
but it will make sure that public
funds voted to feed hungry mouths
will be used for that purpose and
will not be employed for the en-
richment Of political straphangers.
The money provided for work relief
is not the personal gift of any
politician. but is the money of the
people of the United States. Every
consideration of decency in politics
condemns the politician who would
make private or partisan use Of
the distribution Of the peoples
money. If the Salvation Army had
used its good works to build q
political organization, as was done
by the New Deal army, it could
have claimed the whole world-not
merely the 48 States claimed by
Farley.
New Deal noliticianS tell ne