Evening star., 1939-12-17
DeweyAsksU. 5. Drop
Criss-Cross Policies,
Taper Off Spending
Calls Halt on Halfway
Creeping Socialism and
End Of Fence Riding
By the Associated Press.

oy 9iio ASSoSldbcu 1908.
NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-Thomas E.
Dewey, candidate for the Repub-
lican presidential nomination. de-
clared tonight that the Government
must stop following policies going
in different directions: stop being
halfway for a sort of creeping So
cialism and halfway for private en-
terprise; get down on one side of
the fence"
Another essential. he said, was to
admit that excessive public ex-
penditures have to be tapered off
gradually" and then start doing it."
In the second speech of his cam
paign, prepared for delivery before
the Pennsylvania Society of New
York and broadcast by radio. his
recommendations for a policy de
signed to promote real purchasing
power" asserting that the Roosevelt
administration had concentrated
upon the artificial creation and
transfer of purchasing power by
spending borrowed money"
Things We Must Do"
Among others of the things We
must do," he added, we're:
Adopt consistent tax policies.
Start being wholeheartedly for the
enterprise which makes jobs. De-
clare firm faith in its future and
back that faith with deeds.
Stop making vague, unfounded
charges against American business
men. If any businessman violates
the law, name him, indict him, con-
vict him, fine him, Jail him. But
stop bringing the whole of a group
into disrepute and discouragement.
Stop Furnishing the innocent and the
guilty alike.
Begin to move toward actual econ
omy and actual retrenchment of un-
necessary public expenditure. Stop
raising hopes of a balanced budget
one day, while advocating spending
for its own sake the next day. - =
Start just trend toward solvency.
Start that trend and show it on the
books Of the Government month by
month. What we need is to be
shown that the climb back up the
hard road toward solvency has be-
gun. Show it.
Program for the Jobless.
Make secure the relief of the un-
employed, the needy and the aged.
Adopt policies that will raise our
national income so that the fulfill
ment of our social obligations will
be no longer dependent upon the
hazards of continued borrowing.
This decade is coming to an end.
The 30s are almost over. This has
been the first 10-year period in our
national history in which our indus
trial production has failed to surpass
its previous records. It is time that
we close the books upon this chapter
of mistakes and misery. Let us come
down to common sense and go for
ward with courage into what hope
and believe will be the more fortu-
nate 40s.
Much more than business is at
stake. Much more than material
prosperity is at stake. The chaos in
Europe teaches us that we must re-
store our own free enterprise so that
our own human freedom shall also
survive.
I'm all that we plan and in all
that We do we must keep in mind
the central, vital objective. That
objective is the maintenance of hui
man liberty, of the right of the hui
man being to worship and think
and express himself in accordance
with his conscience and reason. His
tory shows that these basic human
rights can be perpetuated only by
preserving measure of economic
freedom.
II am not interested in bushes.
as such or in profits as such. These
are but a means to an end. They
are the means of giving people ar
economic freedom. For only with
economic freedom can we preserve
the spiritual and moral values which
make life worth living"
Mr.. Dewey, district attorney ol
New York County, accused tn,
Roosevelt administration of having
been proceeding, not in a straight
line to somewhere, but in zigzag'
toward contradictory destinations
toward nowhere"
There were tragic results" h,
added, "of shifting and inconsisten
policies which no amount of smoke
screens can obscure"
"It is clear from the record" h
added, that the Government doe
not know where it is going. But
worse, it doesn't even know the rea.
sons for the contradictory courses
on which it is travelling"