Evening star., 1936-06-10
ELAND TAKES ON SONlBER RAPPEARANCEIN CONVENTION

than seven and one-half billion dol
lars q year-under two budgets!
Roosevelt On Deficits.
Listen again to Candidate Roose-
welt at Pittsburgh on the subject Of
deficits. He explained it all in Ian
guage very simple and very, very
clear-language that a child might
understand. Again I quote q Pitts
burgh promise
Now the credit of the family de-
pends chiefly on whether that fam
lily Is living within its income. And
this Is SO of the Nation. II the
Nation Is living within its income,
its credit is good.
IF, In some crisis, it lives be-
yond It's income for q year or two
1t can usually borrow temporarily
on reasonable terms.
But, If, like a spendthrift, 1t
throws discretion to the winds, is
willing to make no sacrifice at all
in the spending, extends its tax
ing to the limit of the peoples
power to pay and continues to pile
up deficits, it Is on the road to
bankruptcy"
Now submit TO the American peo-
pie, that that Is the grandest Pitts
burgher OF them all
On the road to bankruptcy we're
we?
When that statement was made
in the 1882 campaign, the Federal
debt was $ll 900, 600, 900 less than it
is today; and it was SIS 1000. 900 900
less than the national debt will be
next January, when the New Dealers
complete the Roosevelt economy pro-
gram.
The Tax Cut Covenant"
Turn to Sioux City, Iowa, where
Candidate Roosevelt made another
stirring economy speech on September
%, 1882. Said he:
Il shall use this position OF high
responsibility to discuss up and
down the country, in all seasons,
at all times. the duty of reducing
nothing l have said in this CAM
paign transcendS in Importance
this covenant with the tax payers
OF this country"
A covenant. mind you!-A cove
nant with the workers of this country.
And how has the covenant been full
filled? Month in and month out for
more than three years, these happy
budget-balancers have spent 81 from
the Treasury for every 81 of Federal
income
They tell us now: I'VE planned 1t
that way"
They may have planned 1t all. but
three years OF reckless seuandering
and political boondoggling have not
provided jobs for the 1lOOO.O 900 I'M
employed.
They may have planned it all, but
after three years Of planned econ
omy' there are more than 10000. 900
citizens on relief!
Such is the economic morass from
which the Republican party is now
called to rescue America.
These three long years have demon
strated beyond all question that Amer
lea cannot sQuander her way back to
sound and sustained prosperity.
They have demonstrated again and
again that solid recovery cannot begin
until Federal finances are put in order.
Calls for End of Squandering.
There must be an end to Federal
squandering
There must be a return to sanity in
Federal fiscal management
That is the great decision the
American electorate will make next
November.
What a fantastic scheme of life We
have been living!
What pattern has been set for the
American people!
What a tangle of confused purposes
and befogged vision
This administra ton has given us the
sorry spectacle of struggling manu-
facturer thrown into jail in York, Pa Il,
for the violation of an executive or
der-of farmer penalized for having
sold his hogs without the proper Ger
tificate from Washington-of the per-
secuted pants-presser in New Jersey
arraigned and convicted for the hum
Bile pursuit OF his trade.
No other administration has worked
so ingeniously and deliberately to in
flame the destructive spirit Of class
conflict among us.
1t has made freedom Of speech q
hollow mockery by its shameful treat
ment Of Gen. Hagood, an Army gen.
eral. who dared to speak his mind