Evening star., 1936-05-10
bORAHFLAYSR|CH
LEADERS OF C. O.P.
Charges Few Republicans
Fostering MonopoIies to
Detriment of Public.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
CLEVELAND, May 9.-Senator
Borah, Republican, of Idaho tonight
asserted a segment of the Republican
leadership was fostering a monopo-
hstic system which brings "a Scanty
meagre living for the vast majority
and almost incalculable wealth for the
few"
Appealing in g. radio speech for the
support of the Ohio electorate in Tues
days Republican presidential primary
he said:
The Republican organization and
the men who are making every effort
to seize control of the Cleveland con-
vention, the oil companies, the utility
magnates, the du Points, the Browns Of
Ohio, the Edges of New Jersey, the
Hilles of New York, believe in the
(monopol:Stic) system and are its de-
tenders. ssa-
1.-The OK knoweth his owners and
the ass his matters crib!"
Scores MonopoIies.
Devoting most of his address to an
attack on monopolies, he said:
I'VE will either drive monopoly and
price fixing out of our system and re-
store to the disinherited millions their
rightful opportunity in the economic
world, or we will move to absolute
governmental RECOMMENDATION. And,
under either, the reign of monopoly
or the reign of governmental regimen
tation, the free American citizens, who
made this country and without whom
this republic cannot exist, will diSap-
pear as certainly as the free citizens
disappeared in Germany and Italy,
The Idahoan said his critics had as
serted he was simply out to make
trouble" and his answer to that was i
should like to see my party win" He
predicted that "if the leaders of the
opposition In Ohio and their asso-
ciates elsewhere" controlled the Re-
publican convention next month il
would be defeated.
Speaking Of conditions in 1928 and
1929. Borah said that while fortunes
were piled on fortunes for few
''the majority of our people had only
means enough to sustain a bare ex-
iStence.
Seventy per cent of our people
struggled through with nothing but
the bare necessities of life" he said,
land over half the population had
less than an adequate diet"
Blames Price-Fixing.
1T was during this period, as We
now know" he added, that $4,000
families at the dizzy top of the
economic ladder enjoyed a greater
income than 100000 families at the
foot Of the ladder"
Blaming this on the monopoly
ridden, price-fixing system" Borah
turning to present-day conditions, as
serted that although there is evidence
OF recovery" the American Fedora
ton of Labor reported 1880, 900 un-
employed and newspapers said that
I'VE have 24,000,00O on relief, 5000 600
more than in 1884"
He said that under past Republi-
can leadership the party has for
feited the confidence of the average
man and woman to a degree never
before experienced in history =
I oppose them and their policies. That
is the kind of trouble I am making
l confess my limitations and I shall
not likely be able to do all I should
like to do"
In his assault on other Republicans,
he compared them to Alexander Ham
ilton, who "nourished the belief that
things would swing back and the old
Federal principles and policies would
again prevail"
Not Equal to Hamilton
They are not equal in genius, many
of them, to Alexander Hamilton he
added. But in their limited way they
are making the same mistake. They
may sink the Republican party in
their effort to return to it (the high
peak Of 1920 but they will net re-
return to this condition-the people
will not let them.
How indicative this is of the kind
of recovery we speak of as recovery!
That which drove us into the depres-
sion now proposes to give us recovery
for only a small portion of our
people.
If we are travelling back on the
road of so-called prosperity ulti-
mately to arrive at the destination of
1928-29, there will be no recovery for
half the population of the United
States. There will never be any re-
covery for them. They will always
be hewerS of wood and drawers of
water"