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on relief whether the support that
the government gives him Is
enough Is It enough for the free
and able-bodied American TO be
given a few scraps Of cash or
credit with which to keep himself
and his children just this side Of
starvation and sss.isssssisss : La.
what the forgotten man wanted Us
to remember
What that man wanted US 10
remember vas his chance - his
right-to take part in our great
American adventure.
CARRIED ON PROPAGANDA
But this administration never
remembered that. It launched a
vitriolie and well-planned attack
against those very industries in
which the forgotten man wanted a
chance.
1T carried on q propaganda
campaign to convince the people
that business Is iniquitous.
'Tt seized upon It's taxing
power for political purposes.
II has levied taxes 60 punish
one man, to force another to
do what he did not want to
do, TO take n crack Mt a third
whom some government
agency disliked, or TO promote
the experiments of n BRAIN
trust. The direct effect Of the
New Deal taxes has been TO
inhibit opportunity.
1T has diverted the money of the
rich from productive enterprises
to government bonds, so that the
United States treasurer-and no
one else may have plenty to
spend. Thus. money of the rich
is invested in tax-exempt securi-
ties
HIS TAXATION POLICY
I'm this connection let me say
that, in its plan for tax revision,
the Republican party win follow
two simple principles. Taxes shall
be levied in accordance with each
ones ability to pay. And the prim-
airy purpose of levying them viii
be to raise money.
I'VE husband can-raise
more money Mt less relative
cost TO the people. We must
do II without inflicting on the
poor the present dispropor-
tionate load of hidden taxes.
THE new deals attack on bust
ness has had inevitable results.
The investor has been afraid. to
invest his capital, and therefore
billions Of dollars now lie idle in
the banks. The business man has
been afraid to expand his oper-
atoms, and therefore millions of
men have been turned away from
the employment offices. Low in
come in the cities, and irrespons-
ible experiments in the country,
have deprived the farmer of his
market.
JOBS STILL TOO FEW
For the first time in our his
tory. American industry has re-
manned stationary for a decade.
1t offers no more jobs today than
it did ten years ago-and there
are 100000 more persons seek
ing jobs. AS nation of producers
we have become stagnant. Much
Of our industrial machinery is OBJ
solete. And the national standard
of living has declined.
cit is a statement Of fact,
and no longer a political ac-
cusation, that the new deal
has failed In Its program of
economic rehabilitation. And
the victims of Its failure are
the very persons whose cause
IL Processes to champion.
The little business men are VIC
Tins because their chances are
more restricted than ever before.
The farmers are victims be-
cause many of them are forced TO
subsist on what is virtually a dole,
under centralized direction from
Washington.
DEFENSES NEEDED
THE nine or ten million unem-
|ployed are victims because their
chances for jobs are fewer.
Approximately 100000 fam
lilies are victims because they are
on relief.
"And unless we do some
thing about Il soon, 100000
900 peoplc--an entire nation
viii become victims. Because
they stand In need of q de-
Tense system which the ad-
ministration has 30 far proved
itself powerless to create any
where except on paper.
ITO accomplish these results.
the present administration has
spent six billion dollars.
And say there must be some
thing wrong with a theory Of
government or a theory of eco
Monies. by which, after the ex-
penditure of such a fantastic sum.
we have less opportunity than we
had before.
"wHERE is RECOVERY
The new deal believes. as fire.
quently declared. that the spend
ing of vast sums by the govern
ment is a virtue in itself. They