Evening star., 1940-06-27
New Deal Is CHARGED
With failing 10 Build
Adequate Defense

"V1NNiS SSsS'sS
Social Security Extension
Labor Act Revision,
LocoI Relief Urged
~ the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, June u.
The tollotUing is the tert
OF the Republican platform as
presented to the National Con-
pention By its Resolutions
Committee:
The Republican party, in rep
resentative convention assembled,
submits to the people of the
United States the following dec
laration of its principles and
purposes:
We state our general objectives
in the simple and comprehensive
words of the preamble to the
Constitution of the United
States.
Those objectives as there stated
are these:
"To form a more perfect
union; establish justice; in
sure domestic tranquility;
provide for the common de-
fense, promote the general
welfare and secure the bless
ings of liberty to ourselves
and our posterity."
Meeting within the shadow of
Independence Hall where those
words were written, We solemnly
reaff1rm them as a perfect state
ment of the ends for which we
as a party propose to plan and
to labor.
The record of the Roosevelt
administration is record OF
failure to attain any one of those
essential objectives.
instead of leading us into
more perfect union, the admin
fstration has deliberately famed
the flames of class hatred.
Instead of the establishment
Of justice the administration mas
sought the subsection of the
judiciary to executive discipline
and domination.
Instead of insuring domestic
tranquility the administration
has made impossible the normal
friendly relation between en-
ployers and employees and has
even succeeded in alternating
both the great divisions of Or
ganized labor.
New Deal Left Nation
Unprepared for Attack.
Instead of providing for the
common defense, the adminlstra-
ton, Notwithstanding the expen-
diture of billions of our dollars,
has left the Nation unprepared
to resist attack.
Instead of promoting the gen.
eral welfare the administration
has domesticated the deficit,
doubled the debt, imposed taxes
where they do the greatest
economic harm, and used pub
lie money for partisan political
advantage.
Instead of the blessings of
liberty the administration has
imposed upon us a regime OF
RECOMMENDATION which has de-
prived the individual of his free
dom and has made of America
q shackled giant.
II
Wholly ignoring these great
obiectives as solemnly declared
by the people of the United
States, the New Deal administra-
ton has for seven long years
whirled in a turmoil of shifting,
contradictory and overlapping
administrations and policies.
Confusion has reigned supreme.
The only steady undertaking
characteristic has been the re-
lentless expansion Of the power
OF the Federal Government over
the everyday life of the farmer,
the industrial worker and the
business man. The emergency
demands organization-not con-
fusion. 1t demands free and
intelligent co-operation-not in
competent domination. 1t de-
mands a change.
The New Deal administration
has failed America.
Has Made the People
Dependent on Government.
1t has failed by seducing our
people to become continuously
dependent upon government,
thus weakening their morale and
quenching the traditional Amer
ican spirit.
It has failed by viciously at
tacking our industrial system and
sapping its strength and vigor.
It has failed by attempting to
send our Congress home during
the worlds most tragic hour, so
that we might be eased into the
war by word or deed during the
absence of our elected repre-
sentatives from Washington.
1t has failed by disclosing mill
tary details of our equipment to
foreign powers over protests by
the heads of our armed defense.
1t has failed by ignoring the
lessons of fact concerning mod
ern, mechanical, armed defense.
Must Make America
Invulnerable to Attack.
In these and countless other
ways the New Deal administra-
tion has either deliberately de-
ceived the American people or
proved itself incompetent longer
to handle the affairs of our Gov
eminent.
The zero hour is here. America
= must prepare at once to defend
our shores, our homes, our lives