Evening star., 1936-06-10
"American Deal'' Is Proposed
In Replacement of ''New Deal"
Politics in Relief, Governmental Regi.
mentation, Bureaucracy, Waste,
Deficits Among Points of attack.

The principle of balance to which
have referred extends throughout
the American system of economics.
The ideals of both the great politi-
cal parties have always had to do
with finding ways and means to
make that system work more pre-
fectly. Our parties have differed
as to these ways and means. but
never until March. 1893, has an
administration elected to preserve
and develop the American system
tried. by the autocratic use of its
executive power, to abolish the
very system that it was sworn to
conserve And no administrat ton
has ever before pretended that de-
struction was reform.
Proposes to Restore
Balance Making Jobs.
Our spstem has not worked per-
fectly, but it has provided more for
the man who works than has any
other system the world has ever
known, and the chief reason for the
present unemployment in this
country is the blocking of the prog
ess of the American system by try
ing out plans and ideas borrowed
from the poverty economics Of
Europe and resorted to by this ad-
ministration in a frantic effort to
catch the applause of the people.
We propose to restore the balance
that makes jobs.
The American system as admin
iStered by the two great political
parties between 1910 and 1929
brought the average annual earn
ings of wage and salaried workers
in industry actually employed from
$670 to 1920 a year. The same
period saw the average annual
gross agricultural income per per-
son actually employed raised from
$3.50 to $3.50 year. Or, to put
it another way, in 1910 it took
years work to buy an automobile,
but in 1929 it took only half
years work. In consequence. where
in 1910 we had less than 100000
passenger cars. in 1929 we had
more than 23.000.00O.
That is the period which the
New Dealers contemptuouslv refer
to as the era of tooth and claw.
There could be no better testimony
of the strength of the American
system and to the character of the
American people than that it has
been able to sustain the orgy of
the New Deal. The people have
created wealth faster than a profit
gate Government could squander
it,
Money System Must Not
Be Toy Of Any Group.
What are the principles of the
American system which must be
put in force if We are to recover
from the New Deal? Here is a
simple statement of some of them:
ID Our Government must pro-
vide an honest money and banking
system which will permit the free
and uninterrupted exchange Of
wealth and will not be subject to
the sinister control of any group.
Whether the group be politicians
in Washington or spectators in
Wall Street. the consequences to
the public are the same. The
money system must not be any
mans toy.
~ Our Government is a vast
business enterprise. But it is not
run as business. Had the people
understood the relation of Govern
ment finance to the national
wealth and to the income and
outgo of the people there would
have been no New Deal.
49, Foreign trade may create
either an asset or liability. If
we import goods which could be
made or grown at home we
deprive American workers or
farmers of the opportunity to earn
livelihoods, and break down the
American standards of living and
thus compel a dependence upon
foreign sources of supply Such
dependence cripples us in peace
and renders us helpless in war.
In effect there is no difference
between receiving goods made by
pauper labor and receiving the
pauper labor itself
Guard Against Losses
Freezes Industry, Halts Progress.
a. Agriculture's prosperity is
fundamental to the prosperity of
the Nation. and farm income must
be kept in balance with industrial
income.
80 Ours is an economy of profit
and loss. 1t cannot thrive without
both. Law or regulation to guard
against the losses inevitable in
competition freezes industry and
prevents progress.
t6) Government regimenta ton
of business works to destroy busi-
ness. Business half-slave, half
free, cannot pay adequate wages
or adequate profits and cannot
adequately serve the consumer.
The direct competition of Govern
ment in business uses the money
of all the people to destroy. the
property of a part of the people.
CD A dollar primarily belongs
to the man who earns 1t. Taxa
tion is seizure of purchasing
power from the hands of its owner.
Taxation to support vast bu-
reaucracy billets bureaucrats on
every family and curtails the abil-
ity of that family to provide for
itself.
90 Under the American system
it is the business of government
to govern according to the will of
the people as expressed in the laws.
No one can excuse the bureaucrats'
use of taxpayers money to write
laws and to buy propaganda in
order to force these same laws on
the people.
Duty Is to Avoid
All Foreign EntangIementS.
t9) Our Nation owes to our
people the duty to take advantage
of our fortunate geographical po-
sition and to avoid all foreign
entanglements.
Are these views liberal or are
they conservative? I must answer