Evening star., 1940-10-27

when this process stops. Then
everything is reversed.
Suppose that some kind of
restriction is placed on the in
ventor or factory builder to make
it impossible or risky for him to
go ahead with his product. Then
his money lies idle in the bank
and no jobs are created. We are
now short of jobs, with billions
idle in the banks.
When there is ceiling on in
dustrial growth, when opportu-
nifty is restricted and jobs become
few. then each mans self-interest
begins to work against that Of
the other man. Differences are
magnified. Jealousies are born.
Antagonistic groups are formed.
Labor, trying to protect itself,
looks at capital with suspicion
and distrust. Capital. trying to
protect itself, is unwilling to
grant labor's most reasonable
demands. The society begins to
break up into hostile factions.
Then self-seeking politicians. avid
of power, fan these dissentions
into hatreds. Then, in order to
furnish scapegoats, racial and
religious groups are blamed. II
you want the proof, look about
you.
Written on the Record
OF Every Modern Nation.
These are not imaginary COM
sequences of continued depres-
sion. They are written on the
record of every nation of modern
times. Depression, high taxes. In
f1ation and fear create antago-
nisms of race and creed and class.
The most fearful example OF all
is that of Germany. that resulted
finally in the enslavement OF
labor and the mass murders Of
innocent citizens.
We may thank God that we
are a brave and a tolerant peo-
pie. We have resisted, at least
till now, the terrible effects Of
continuing our own depression.
Under the New Deal We have
set aside a whole group OF citi-
zens whom we call the unem-
ployed. We have shut them out
from our working lives. and
from the fullness Of their own
lives.
Labor and the employers have
been at strife. In the seven
years before the New Deal. there
were an average of 1876 strikes a
year. In the seven years of the
New Deal. there were 1852 strikes
each year. That is an increase
OF over 200 per cent.
Everywhere in this land groups
have formed to promote their
own interests-at the expense,
if necessary. of any other group.
Even our States. which created
our national Government to
promote free trade among them
selves. are today erecting bar
riers that amount to tariffs
against other States. Over half
of them have restrictions against
out-of State merchants, pro-
ducers. trucks and commerce.
Surely he is blind who has not
observed in recent years the
formation of groups with special
hatreds-racial. religious and po-
litical hatreds.
Here is the issue between the
New Deal and the cause that I
represent.
The New Deal undertakes to
govern America by playing of
each Of these groups against the
other. 1t has encouraged labor
to fight capital and encouraged
capital to attack labor. 1t has
even encouraged labor to fight
labor.
Charges Communists
On Federal Pay Rolls.
1t has created the farm prob
lem as a separate problem. as
if the farmers were OF some
where on an island by them
selves.
1t has kept in Washington. on
our pay roll. men who do not be-
lieve in our form of government
Communists and near-Com-
munists and neo- Communists and
pseudo Communists and their
dupes.
1t has divided our youth from
us by preaching the doctrine that
America can no longer grow.
The political doctrine of the
New Deal is an old doctrine-the
doctrine of divide and rule.