The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-27

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 Such a committee, he said, could "work out methods within those principles" to be presented "later on or to the 1940 convention" ! T am not concerned over de- tails" he said. T am deeply con- cerned that people who are losing their way shall be given a banner of moral and intellectual leadership around which they can rally as the inevitable day of disillusionment comes to them"
 Docs not the wholesale appoint ment of government officials by politics and not by merit mean a decadence in public morals? What is the morality of the recent return to the spoils system?
 Gan the government repudiate the covenant of its bonds and expect citizens to hold to their obligations?
 Gan the government ruthlessly crush competition and hold the business man to fair play?
 Gan the Treasury deliberately manipulate the market in govern ment bonds and expect the citizen not to do the same thing in stocks?
 "Is it moral for a government to collect hundreds of millions from the wages of workmen under the promise that they are kept in a fund for their security and then spend this fund on its current ex- penses and extravagances?
 "Is 1t moral to evade the corrupt practices act by selling books to corporations for political funds?
 What of governors who obstruct the courts and refuse to maintain public order?
 "Or of workmen beaten and killed by police squads on one hand and beef squads on the other?
 "Is it moral for high government officials to stir hate of group against group, of workman against work man?
 Do you think you can maintain confidence in our institutions and continually pollute the ballot box?"
 Nations Greatness, Its Citizens
 MT. Hoover said that "A nation is great not through dams in its rivers or its ships on the sea or the deposits in its banks. It is great oy the moral fibre and character of It's citizens. Nations die when these weaken"
 The former president said the conflict was between true liberal ism" and the creeping collectivism of the New Deal"
 Collectivism he defined as "any system where the tendency is to make the people the servants of the government" anG true liberalism as liberty organized under law"
 "The term liberal" he said, "haS become the fashionable clothing ct all collectivists, whether they be New Dealers with creeping collec- tiviSm or frank and open Socialists Or the unconscious Fascists. Its fold can apparently even be entered through the Ku Klux Klan."
 True liberalism does not start as an economic system," he said. "An economic system flows from 1t. The only economic system which will not destroy intellectual and spiritual freedom is private enterprise regu- lated to prevent special privilege or coercion"
 New Deal 8 Frankenstein
 He said the New Deal, through government manipulation of mon- ey and credit, government restric- Zion of production, government con- trol of hours and wages, the entry of government into competitive business on large scale, govern ment coercion of upright citizens" and Its attempts to pack the Su- preme Court" undermine the inde- pendence of Congress and weaken state and local government, was creating "a Frankenstein of hate and national disunity."
 He said the Republican govern ment could declare the principles of free enterprise" and become "the conservative party in the sense of conserving true liberalism"
 MT. Hoover said he hoped the day would come when no one would be "underclad or underfed or under housed"
 But America must think also of the other nine-tenths or two-thirds, or whatever 1t is, which are mostly the great economic middle class, he said. Tt is the great economic middle class who have spent years learning to do their job skillfully who must carry these burdens"
 Government policies which tax harry and demoralize the produc- tivity" of the middle class, he said "are the greatest catastrophies which can come to the one-third of underclad, underhoused and un- derfed. Their redemption must come by preserving the two-thirds not by dragging them down."
 New Deal COmOuhages Failure
 He charged that the New Deal employed "the bright colors oi wordy objectives" to "camouhage failure"
 "samuel Johnson" he added, "said the road to the hcs place was paved with good intentions. Truly 1t car be said that the New Deal road to salvation is paved with objectives That road badly needs repavine with practical methods"
 MT. Hoover suggested that the Republican party declare the prin- ciples of economy which will lift a burden from all who toll. It can declare principles of taxation that will not choke enterprise and de- stroy mems jobs"
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