Evening star., 1940-11-02
Hoover Says Issue
Is Preservation
Of Democracy
ldeus of New Deal Held
InimicoI to Free Society;
Personal Power Hit
~ the Associated Press,

~ the Associated Press,
SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. Her
bert Hoover said last night the
fundamental issue In the present
campaign still is "the preservation
Of democracy"
Discussing "the major issues" in
an address to a political meeting
that was nationally broadcast, the
former President asserted:
IF we are to save democracy we
must save the roots of democracy.
We must save the philosophy. This
is the battle of America"
The New Deal started, he said,
with three economic ideas:
First, the whole American system
was q wreck and wrong and must
be made over. Second, new from
tiers of enterprise were gone and
the Job was to divide the existing
pot. Third, the Federal Govern
ment should be exalted to control OF
economic life. They adopted the
European words OF planned eco
nomy, economic planning
TOtalitarian Ideas.
you will find every one of these
economic ideas somewhere along the
Berlin n-Rome-Moscow axis and to
force these ideas on America you
have seen attempts to control our
courts, to control our Congress, to
control our elections, to control our
public opinion with mass propa-
ganda and slogans and finally to de-
mand third term. All that at
least has a pronounced odor of to-
talitarian government.
You cannot mix these ideas into
q society of free men and women.
Are men free when there is po-
litical manipulation of currency,
credit, wages, prices and production?
Does free enterprise consist of the
Government in business in COM
petition with the citizen? Are men
made free by changing regulation
to prevent abuses by minority of
bad men into dictation to good men
as to conduct of their business? Are
farmers freemen when it is dictated
to them what they can SOW and
reap?
They have driven our economy
on fear, not upon faith; upon tied
men, not on free men.
Depression Made Chronic.
1.-The end result was to fix de-
preston rs a chronic way of Ameri-
can life. This munitions boom may
obscure it momentarily. But the
consequences are inevitable. 1t is
only by a change in national direc-
tion that there lies the moral as
we'll as the economic regeneration
of America.
Mr.. Willkie has been bravely
crusading this country from one end
to the other, demanding change
of national direction back to free
men. That issue would be enough
for one campaign, but there are
others"
Recalling that he discussed the
third-term issue last week, Mr.. Hoo
yer remarked I'VE are not concerned
with an empty tradition-We are
concerned with a vital check on the
rise of personal power"
He noted that the Labor Depart
ment has said there are about
100000 persons on the Federal
pay roll throughout all its agencies
and asked:
Dangers of New Deal.
do you think that, in another
four wears YOU have chance to
defeat such presidential power for
himself or his successor?"
Mr.. Willkie, he added, 'is, by
character and temperament, no
seeker for personal power. His
dominant hope is public service"
Describing the administrations
ideas of public spending as frantic
efforts to stimulate deadened enter
prise by pump printing" he warned
that the end is trebled taxes, huge
deficits and the dangers of printing
press credit"
Mr.. Wilkes mentality, he said,
"is not the kind that promotes such
policies. His constant inSiStence is
to get this economic machine func-
tioning, produce, give jobs, make a
market for farm products in full
stomachs instead of half-full stom-
schs, build up national income,
create the production out of which
taxes can be paid and deficits over
come. And above all, open the win
dowS of hope to American youth"