Evening star., 1939-03-07

1t In the National Radio Forum.
ocratic policy in the Senate and
the House of Representatives"
And here is what the Democratic
joint committee of the House and
Senate then agreed upon:
1T Is of primary Importance that
the budget be balanced promptly"
National Debt Doubled.
That is the end of the quotation
from Mr.. Garner-"that the budget
should be balanced promptly"
And that, as have said, was on
January 6, 1882. exactly seven years
and two months ago!
Since that time, the national debt
has been doubled-increased from
roundly $20,000000,O0O to 400O0,-
100000.
Nor is this the whole story of
fabulous New Deal spending.
For the fiscal year 1888 total
receipts OF the Federal Government
from all forms of taxes and Gus
toms were exactly $1,000 900, 900.
But for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1888, the actual Treasury
receipts from taxes were S6,242 ,OOO.-
900.
These are the official Treasury
flgures, taken from the Presidents
budget message to Congress on Jan
uary 5th of this year.
They show that in 1888 Federal
taxes were three times the 1893
total; yet in the intervening years
the national debt nevertheless has
been doubled from approximately
$40, 900 100000 to $4,000 100000.
Taxes are paid, as President
Roosevelt has so we'll said, 'in the
sweat of every man who labors."
And our experience has been
during these last six years that even
more taxes are paid in the anguish,
worry and fears of the men who
can't find jobs. The more taxes and
spending-the less recovery!
That is why we still have 10000, 900
unemployed today.
Answer to Export Decline.
That is why we have lost so much
of our former large export market
for farm products.
Do these problems bear directly
upon the larger issue of the preser-
vation of balanced constitutional
government?
I think they do.
First, the inordinate expansion of
our Federal bureaucracy flows di-
rort1y fropo tho fopororo wy ovortk rouy
of constitutional forms in the hys-
terical rubber-stamp sessions of
Congress between 1888 and 1888.
Likewise, the great increase in
Federal spending, the runaway ex-
travagance and shameful waste, all
flow directly from the system of
blank-check appropriations granted
the President by those rubber
stamp Congresses.
Here we see the direct practical
results of violence to our funda-
mental constitutional principles.
Had the New Deal adhered faith
fully to our Constitution in the days
when the New Deal controlled Con-
gress, we might have avoided many
of the difficulties in which we now
find ourselves.
Moreover, had the Constitution
been defended and sustained faith
fully by every department of the
Government during these last six
years we would not face today the
task of restoring national confidence
in the permanence and vitality OF
our basic institutions and processes
of government. We would not need
a new breathing SPELL to eradicate
from the minds of the people the
unhappy recollections of court
packing, breakdown, and purge.
To this degree, at least, are the
problems of our day related directly
to the fundamental issues of gov
ernment expounded in the Constitu-
tional Convention of 1887 and in the
First Congress of 1889.
Accepts Responsibility.
That is why hold that the chal-
lenge before America today is to
redeem once more the sacred cove
nant of liberty and freedom and to
restore our American Constitution
in all its vigor as charter of
honest government.
The Republican minority in Con-
gress accepts this responsibility to
man!
It has been our duty in Congress
to analyze carefully the election re-
turns of last November, to determine
exactly what the American people
voted for, and what they voted
against.
The uniform sweep of that elec-
ton, as protest against reck-
less extravaganza in government,
against the astronomical public
debt, against continued unem-
ployment, and against increasing
cheap imports of farm products from
all directions-these demands for
change are not to be evaded or
ignored.
Our studies show that in gaining
80 seats in the House of Representa-
tives, the Republican congressional
campaign converted Democratic
majority of approximately 100000
in 1896 into Republican majority
of 100000 in 1898.
These figures are for the 80 "con-
test States" outside the South. They
mean that in point of popular vote
throughout the entire two-party
area, the Republicans are the major
ity party of the United States today
Although our candidates carried
more than so per cent of the vote
in SO States, we have only 80 per cent
of the roll-call in the House today.
More significant, the Republican
congressional candidates carried
! more than half of all the counties