Evening star., 1940-06-26

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natural forces Of recovery they sue
ceeded in stabilizing depression.
What is more, in forcing their
economic measures upon us they
have given even deeper wounds to
liberty. Their headlines in history
would be: Vast Powers to President;
Vast Extension of Bureaucracy;
Supreme Court Decides Against New
Deal; Attack on Supreme Court;
Court Loaded With Totalitarian
Liberals; Congress Surrenders Pow
ers OF Purse by Blank Checks to
President; Will of Legislators Weak
ened by Patronage and Political Pie:
Attacks on Business; Stirring Glass
Hate; Pressure Groups Stimulated;
Mems Rights Disregarded by Boards
and Investigations; Resentment at
Free Opposition; Attempt to Dis
credit Free Press.
Certainly the New Deal has not
been allergic to power. And now,
fed fat on power, they demand
third term for Mr.. Roosevelt. That
is not mere violation of tradition.
1t is violation of a fundamental
restraint on power in this Republic.
But we Republicans would well
come Mr.. Roosevelt as a candidate.
For this battle must be fought out
under the guns of debate.
PART Nv.
Restoration of American Living.
One of our Republican tasks is to
restore security of living and hope to
those 10000 900 AmericanS-farmers
and Workers-who are today plunged
into insecurity or destitution. Res
toration OF jobs to 100000 unem-
ployed is the first step to lift this
mass of poverty. 1t is the first step
to relief of farmers. 1t is the first
step to balancing our budget.
Unemployment is not a chronic
disease Of a free system. 1t is
disease of governmental interfer-
ence with that system. These jobs
can be restored alone by the restora-
ton of the vitality of free enter
prise.
Let me say at once I am not inter-
ested in free enterprise because 1t
is a property system. I am inter-
ested in it because intellectual and
spiritual liberty can be sustained
only by economic liberty. They are
indissolubly bound in common
fate. l am interested in free enter
prise because 1t is the one dynamic
force by which We can restore jobs
to our people.
1t was dynamic individual enter
prise which raised the country from
insignif1cance to greatness. 1t was
not government that put these
prairies under the plow. 1t was not
government that flung these rail-
ways across continent 1t was
not government that built these
great factories or cities. 1t was not
government that brought forth
these great inventions. 1t was not
government that builded these mil
lions of churches or added this
wealth OF music, art and literature.
National Workshop
Or Charity Institution?
Is this Nation to be a great ma
tlonal workshop or a vast eleemo-
synary institution? We cannot exist
two-thirds workers and one-third
dependents.
1t is easy to prove that the people
are fearful of the New Deal. The
evidence of their fears and loss of
confidence is when they postpone
the building of homes. 1t shows
when they fail to improve and con-
struct factories to produce the new
goods to which science and invention
oeckon our energies. Let me give
you just one figure.
The New Deal points with pride to
its housing schemes. In the seven
years before the New Deal, and with
no subsidies free America built
3.437 900 new family units of hous-
ing. During the whole New Deal
with all its subsidies, America has
bullt l.737,000 new units. They no
doubt have some more ION order"
There can be free economy in
America which releases the produc-
tive energies of men. Or there can
be dictated economy. These can
not be mixed. A free economy means
sweat, turmoil, competition-hard at
times If you choose. 1t means ever
new wrongs that must be righted,
but it means also resistless growth
and progress.
A Dividing Line
Between Great Reforms.
The restoration of confidence does
not require exploitation or monop-
oily. A free people can no more
tolerate private economic power
without checks and balances than
we can tolerate political power with
out balances and checks. But In
effecting great reforms there is a
dividing line. Upon the right of this
line is cure of abuse and solution of
marginal problems. On the left of it
is dictation and tyranny and dis
couragement of production. We
must now reform the reforms.
A confident, alert, alive and free
people can quickly repair losses, re-
pay debts and bury mistakes.
In the meantime while we are
getting our economic machine back
to work We must care for those
who suffer. 1t was a Republican
administration in 1880 that first