The Washington times., 1936-08-01
Give Business a Chance
Landon Urges
Good Wages and Lower Living Cost
Blocked by Administrations
Meddling, His View


In the present depression this demand for
work has not yet appeared.
Few new ventures have been started
BEcAUsE THE SMALL BUSINESS MAN, THE
WORKING MAN WHO WOULD LIKE TO BE-
CONE HIS OWN B0SS-THE AVERAGE AMERl-
cAN-HAS HESITATED TO START OUT FOR
HIMSELF.
he LACKS COINCIDENCE IN THE SOUND
NESS OF FEDERAL POLICY; he IS AFRAID OF
WHAT MAY CONE NEXT.
We must dispe his fear, restore his conf
denee and place reliance more in the initi
ative, intelligence and courage Of these makers Of
jobs and opportunities.
:. That is why say, in all sarnestness, that the
time has come to unshaekIe initiative and free the
spirit Of American enterprise.
We must be freed from ineessant govern
mental intimidation and hostility.
We must be freed from excessive exPendi-
lures and crippIins taxation.
Once these things done, the energies Of
the American economic system will remedy the
TsVagss Of depression and restore FULL ACTIVITY
AND FULL EMPLOYMENT.
From Governor Alfred NJ. LGndON's speech
accepting the Republican Presidential nomination.
Topeka July %, 1896.
Common sense is the outstanding trait of Gov
ernor Landon, and common is the outstanding
trait of MAJORITY of the American people,
That majority does NOT include the Climatic
fringe" the followers of every quack panacea; the
academic theorizers; the gentlemen who think that
two minus two equals four.
It DOES include most American business men,
salaried workers and wage earners.
It CERTAINLY includes most AMERICAN
HOUSEWIVES-those business managers of the
American household who know that high prices, high
taxes and low wages, will not feed and clothe and
shelter a family.
To this common-sense majority, the common
de Of ms q
genuine appeal
This majority knows that if American business
were permitted to DO business, it would mean lower
prices and higher wages for all.
It means further, that the average American
family would be BETTER CLOTHED, BETTER
HOUSED, and BETTER FED.
Mr. Roosevelt, as you are reminded by the
"Breathing Spell" picture on this page, seems for
a time to have grasped that simple truth himself
After "cracking down" on business for more
than two years. he promised to let up business,
temporarily at least.
Had he let up on business PERMANENTLY, =,
GllOuVed it to make plans for the future, giUen it a
chance to produce and expand, and to furnish
Jobs, there wOuLd be little unemployment nOUV.
There IUOuLd be no necessity nor excuse for
gigantic OutIGyS for relief, to say nothing of OGste
full bOOndOggling.
There wOuLd have been IOlUer prices of food
stuffs, money for each family to spend, more
purchasing pOIUer in eUeTy dollar that the American
yorker earns.
But the breathing spell, as we know, did not last
long.
Indeed, Mr.. Roosevelt, if reelected gives every
Indication of CONTINUING HIS WARFARE
against business.
One of Mr. Roosevelt's most tragic and dis
asrous attempts to interfere with business is shown
in the pictures in the lower half of this page.
Let us remember that high-handed governmental
dictation to ANY private enterprise, if not always
so CHASTITY, can be more COSTLY
In the aggregate, it has plunged America twenty
five thousand million dollars into the red, increased
taxes, raised the price of living lowered wages, and
kept millions of the American people on charity
disguised as relief.
Governor LGndOn thinks that UVhen this dictG
tOriaI policy is reUersed "the energies of the Aner
can economic system WiU remedy the raUGges of the
depression and RESTORE FULL ACTIVITY AND
FULL EMPLOYMENT"
Omitting the lunatic fringe, the American people
think that Governor Tan1on is RIGHT