Evening star., 1940-11-03

it has more than doubled the
national debit has never in
any single year balanced the
budget.
In order to free itself for a
career of spending it abandoned
the principle of a sound currency.
1t devalued the dollar.
The ultimate answer OF the
third-term candidate to a very
domestic problem has been:
Spend more money. Spend more
money. Give me more money to
spend! know how to spend it,"
And, speaking on the volume
basis of spending, ! will agree
with him that he is unusually
able in that line.
This has been the greatest
spending administration in our
peace-time history.
So what is the principle that he
stands for? Why, he believes in
an economy dominated by Gov
cIIliIlCIlt SpCIlulliS.
That is the method of the New
Deal. 1t is not the method of
democracy.
Scores Of Government
Bureaus Created.
Under the New Deal scores of
Government bureaus, boards and
commissions have been created.
The number of executive en-
ployes of the Federal Government
has been increased to more than
a million. That is the highest
figure in our history-more Gov
ernment employees than We
needed to fight the World War.
The third-term candidate has
piled up a dead-weight structure
of bureaucracy on the back Of
American agriculture, business
and labor. So he must believe
in the principle OF bureaucratic
regulation.
That is the method of the New
Deal. 1t is not the method of
democracy.
BY the declaration of 81 emer-
gencies, the third-term candi-
date has gathered into his own
hands powers that rightfully
belong to Congress.
BY the device of must" legis-
lation his New Dealers formulate
important laws. These he forces
through the Congress, which
sometimes does not even have an
opportunity properly to consider
them.
So the third-term candidate
must believe in the principle of
a legislature subservient to the
executive.
That is the method of the
New Deal. But it is not the
method of democracy
He has gathered into his own
hands an enormous concentra-
ton of power. He has the power
to close all stock exchanges. to
shut down all radio broadcast
ing stations. to close all banks
BY the full use of his power over
money. he could initiate the cur
rency by II billion dollars.
Through his boards and COM
mission he has power over labor
and agriculture.
Concentration Of Power
Is New Deal Method.
He has secured from Congress
Is billion dollars in blank
checks. In his own words, he
has built up new instruments
of public power" And most Of
these are concentrated In his
own hands or within his close
control.
So he must believe in the prin-
ciple of concentration Of power.
That is the method Of the
New Deal. 1t is not the method
Of democracy.
The men who founded this
Government provided for three
independent branches-the exec
utive, the legislative and the
courts.
The third-term candidate
usurped the powers of the legis-
lature. Not content with that,
he has sought to subjugate the
courts.
When the Supreme Court stood
between him and the unlimited
exercise of his great powers, he
tried to pack it. Our American
Congress prevented that; but he
showed us then and there that
he believed in the principle Of
a judiciary subservient to the ex-
ecutive.
That is the method of the New
Deal. 1t is not the method Of
democracy.
-Four years ago, when the
third-term candidate sought Of
fee for the second time, more
then 5000, 900 of our people were
unemployed. Today more than
1000 of our people are still
unemployed.
And how has the third-term
candidate met this problem?
Not once has he stimulated the
expansion of enterprise Of Amer
lean industry. As q matter Of
fact, he has devoted most of his
time to abusing it. Nor has he
ever done anything for the Gre
alton of new industries that
would give our people jobs.
Instead he has told us that our
Industrial plants are - built.
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