The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-09-28
Adapt or Die"
(NeW York World -Telegram)

Il "In this country government in its relation to b siness always followed the principles underlying enterprise system-protecting this system has b, en one of the major problems of our government h the early days of republic most of the laws h ting business enacted by the States As the years went by conditions became more complex and gradually the federal government became active in protecting the economic freedom and the welfare of cur citizens
 "As result we have laws on pure foods, public health banking transportation workmens compen- sation safety appliances monopoies and unfair trade practices, and more recently our laws regulating pub lie utilities and the issuance of securities
 This is imposing list It has marked America progressive nation. For every of these laws designed to protect the public welfare and pre- serve equality of opportunity"
 Then the Governor turns to smite the law-making policies of the New Deal with particular reference to MIRA. He in that sinister plot to establish g ,vernment domination Of industry; and the same i iI7 AAA.
 We wish, in the interest of sane sense of pro- r rton, that everyone who read or listened to the Landon speech would turn back the clock go t history of these federal laws which the Governor so heartily indorses preliminary to his assault cl the policies of the New Dea that for example, eur Times" by Mark Sullivan, ardent advocate of Landon, might be reviewed in those chapters which deal with the pure-food and publc-health statutes flat Lanoon accepts a part of the imposing list" which marks America a progressive nat'on." ;" O., in fact, that the list might be scanned in it's tirety For the same opposition would be found that is being displayed by Landon in his crusade against the reforms of the New Deal-the same op- position, and upon precisely the grounds.
 in 1905 for instance, the big battle for tl,c purefood legislation which Landon now praises was We select this from the Congressional Record of December 13, that year, symbolic:-
 Said Senator Aldrich Republican and large stock holder in wholesale groceries bitter foe of the pure-food bill:-
 "Is there anything in the existing condition that makes it the duty of Congress to put the liberty of all the people of the United States in jeopardy? Are going to take up the question of what shall eat and what shall drink, and put him under penalties if he is eating and drinking something different from what the chemists of the Agricultural Department think desirable?"
 T Does that not have familiar ring when attuneG to the Governors expression of alarm thryone years later about the "coercive hand of government?" J; Or the story of the meat-inspection amendment in the days of the other Roosevelt, for whom Landon , boted the Republican party and became Bull Mooser = the story of "The Jungle and the Nei- Reynolds report and of how the packing plants were finally subjected to limitations of the personal liberty of those who then served the stomachs of free peo- lple as described by of the time:- I Mary had little lamb, ,l And when she it sicken ;I She shipped it off to Packngtown
 And it's labeled chicken.
 The whole point Of the matter as we 1t, is that Landon, originally possessed apparently of pro- gressive urge demonstrated by his earlier adhesion to Teddy Roosevelt is trying today to do extensive job of what is known spiral thinking or the race-track boys put it, round d-booking himself He is strong for those federal regulations that exist including the most recnt New Deal acts affecting public utilities and the issuance of securities but he is dead against everything that isn't already the books and underwritten by the Supreme Court
 To him workmens compensation which was Of itc tna is being fought by the utilities of todayis right is progressive protects the public welfare and preserves equality of opportunity.
 But such legislation as MIRA, designed to create fair competition eliminate sweashops, establish mni- mum wages and maximum hours and give labor the right to collective bargaining or AAA to equalize agricultural with industrial tariffs heading us for dictatorship and making with Mussoini Hit Ter Stalin and Franco
 The whole thing doesn't parse It exhibits Presidential nominee in the role of rationazer for campaign purposes; one whose instinct is to accept the necessity of governmental activity to meet what he himself describes conditions becoming more com plex but who because of the exigencies of his race for office must try to eat his cake and have it. too .l Landon is up against the same memorable force which this very swamped distinguished Senator in Landon's neghbor State. Thomas P Gore Demo- cratic opponent of the New Deal recently defeated for renomination in Oklahoma, made this comment as the returns recorded:-
 'The law of evolution s:-Adapt or die. I didn't adapt
 Food for thought in those words for this Presi- dental nominee attempting the unganly task | of covering both sides of the street