Evening star., 1938-04-13
Pump Prining.

passed between the President and the
Vice President regarding the proposed
new Government spending program.
Vice President Garner, however, does not
believe that the outlay of more billions of
dollars-Which the Government has not
and which the people will have to pay in
taxes eventually-is the way to bring
this country out of the new depression.
The Vice President did not believe, either,
in President Roosevelt's plan last year for
increasing the membership of the Su-
preme Court. He said So quite effective
ly, and took command while the Senate
gave that measure IT'S coup de grace last
summer.
The Vice President believed that a
prolongation of the fight over the Su-
preme Court packing bill would tear the
Democratic party to pieces. He believes
today that new spending program, put
forward by the administration will have
the same tendency. But far above and
beyond such reasons, the Vice President
believed in the case of the court plan that
1t was not in the best interests of the
country. He believes today that an out
pouring Of billions of dollars in a new
effort to spend" the country out of de-
preston would be not in the interest of
the people. On the contrary, it would
sink the country still further in the
slough of debt. May he be as effective
In the pump printing fight as he was
in the court fight!
If there is pump primlng to be done,
why not let the pump have say in the
matter? The pump is business, in this
case. If the administration would con-
sent, for once, to let business help itself.
the country might take long step to-
ward recovery under its own steam.
To strictly conforming New Dealers the
idea that business or any other group
can do anything without Government as
sistance and that necessary corollary,
regulation, is just dangerous nonsense
The planners have planned for the un-
employed. They have planned for the
farmers. Business, big and little, has
resisted the planners, urging that it be
allowed to work out its own salvation.
Business is making last stand against
RECOMMENDATION.
Gradually the planners are planning
the initiative out of the American peo-
pie. All these plans have become tre-
mendous financial burden upon the coun-
try. In all this planning, the taxpayer
has been given little consideration. Yet
the taxpayer is the American people
although the New Dealer tries to impress
upon the great mass of men and women
that the tax burden is falling only upon
those OF great wealth. The people are
waking to the fact that this is not so.
They are feeling the pinch of the tax
collector in the things they buy and in
various activities.
In the face of the opposition now de-
veloping in Congress to a new Govern
ment spending program, President
Roosevelt has hesitated, for a time at
least, to 60 forward with such program.
He may come to it. He will if he listens
to the advice of some of his more init
mate counsellors. The country can de-
feat this newest financial planning and
spending if it will, as it recently defeated
the attempt of the President to obtain
greater concentration of Government in
his own hands
Mr.. Roosevelt's earlier spending pro-
grams have plunged this country into
debt as never before But conditions
today are growing worse The spending
experiment-likeo other New Deal expert
ments-has proved failure. Why make
the same mistake another time?