Evening star., 1937-09-28
HAMILTON ASSA|LS
NEW DEAL RESULTS.
Publicly Controlled Monopoly
Being Effected, G. 0. P.
Head Says in Forum Talk.
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the people and in getting the chance
to run the Government the way they
think it ought to be run. And be-
lieve in it. So can't and won't COM
plain about what the New Dealers say
about Republicans. Only, don't
believe what they say on this par
ticular point and I'm going to con-
tradict 1t.
What party established the govern
mental regulation of the radio broad
casting channels in the ether? What
party took the chaos which used to
exist on the ether and reduced 1t to
law and order? What party estab-
lished the Federal Radio Commission
which is now called the Federal Com
munications Commission? 1t was the
Republican party. Just exactly as We
passed the first law to regulate the
manufacturers of foods, just exactly
as we passed the first law to regulate
the owners Of stockyards, just exactly
as we passed the first law to regulate
the spectators in the grain exchanges,
just exactly as We passed many other
such first laws, so We passed in 1927
the first law to regulate the operations
Of private interests on that great new
public domain, the ether.
We are a party, ladies and gentle
men, think I may say, OF competitive
enterprise publicly regulated. will
freely acknowledge that we have not
always perfectly lived up to that
principle. You know It, know It,
But now will accuse my friends the
New Dealers Of something. I hope
they will bear with me. They have 4
right to their views. We have 4 right
to ours. Let's compare them and us
on this basic problem Of freedom and
Of government.
Public Monopoly.
We Republicans. I repeat, have
proved by long line Of laws that We
believe in competitive enterprise pub
licly regulated. The New Dealers tend
TO believe, I think. and I charge, in
monopolistic enterprise publicly con-
trolled. There is vast difference,
there Is an immense difference, there
IL . vital difference, between those
two ideals. The New Deal ideal was
exhibited in its most ambitious way
in the National Recovery Administra-
ton, the N. r. A., with its codes Of
monopolistic practices controlled by
governmental bureaucrats. 1t is ex-
hibited today in the Guffey law, the
law named after the New Deal Senator
from Pennsylvania, which allows coal
operators, under governmental bureau
cratic control, to fix the prices Of all
the soft coal that you will buy this
Winter. And this ideal will appear
again in several quite new bills which
the Roosevelt administration will in
troduce into the next session OF
Congress next January.
So let me say it again. We Repub-
licanS want competitive regulations.
The New Dealers want monopolistic
controls. And thereupon they some
times actually oppose the enactment
Of new and better regulations.
Let me give you An Illustration.
Right out of radio, which We have
been talking about, some evils have
appeared in some parts Of the Ameri-
can radio broadcasting system. Some
evils have appeared in the work OF
the Federal Communications Com
mission. Our Republican Senator
Wallace White of Maine and our Re-
publican Representative Richard Wig
ellsworth of Massachusetts, introduced
resolutions into the last session Of
Congress for investigating these evils.
They wanted to put the light Of day
on all bad practices whether by pri-
vate operators of radio stations or by
public members of the Federal Com
munications Commission. Such an
inquiry. they believed, and they con-