Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-20
WiIkie Charges Triple Failure to New Deal
Attacks Farm Program Defense ounderng and Spending Record
In Speech at Minneapolis; Here Is Text

troll program, farmers in the
Middle West are instructed to
restrict the acreage of corn.
They are told that this will re-
duce the corn surplus. But then
we discover the farmers in the
South, who have been instructed
to restrict the acreage of cot
ton, are planting corn.
That is bad management. In
stead of crop control it produces
a crop merry-go-round.
And what I'd like to know is:
who gets the brass ring?
A sure sign of bad management
is an unnecessary increase in
personnel. The New Deal has
added to the Government pay
roll on a scale unprecedented in
history. 1t now has more than a
million employees on the pay roll
which is more than Woodrow
Wilson needed to fight the World
War.
Undue Capitalization
OF Authority Criticized.
Another sign of bad manage
ment is undue Capitalization Of
authority. The good manager in
charge of a big job finds good
men and delegates authority to
them. The New Deal has Concen-
trated authority in every branch
of the Government. 1t has tried
to run everything from Washing
ton under the mistaken notion
that it alone-the New Deals
indispensable.
Now let me reasSure you on this
point. I do not think 1 am the
only man in America who can
manage competently the ad-
ministrative affairs of this coun-
try. There are no indispensable
men in America There are lit
orally many thousands who would
make effective managers of the
great business of government.
If I am elected to the position
of Chief Executive, I will retain
in Washington those men of
competence who are already
there working on the defense pro-
gram. I will also 60 out into the
country and bring to your serv-
ice the best and most competent
leaders Of agriculture, labor and
industry.
The foundering and aimless
MANAGEMENT of the New Deal has
doubled the national debt in less
than eight years. That debt is
now approaching so billion dol
lars. 1t is debt against this
entire Nation
BIames New Deal
For Lack of Defenses.
The f1oundering management
of the New Deal has also failed
to build us a defense system.
The New Deal candidate started
talking about defense nearly five
years ago-in January. 1886. to
be precise. But still. after five
years, We are deficient in all the
essential items of defense-the
airplaneS, the guns, the tanks,
and even the ability to make
them.
On top of that record of mis-
management, the New Deal is
asking you to violate one of the
most necessary traditions of our
democracy 1t wants you to elect
it for a third term.
NV fellow citizens, rally to this
cause OF ours. Don't risk the
future of this country by deliver
ing it back again to a small and
powerful group of men Don't
give it back to men who have
shown time after time their in
ability to manage the huge job
that has been their RESPONSE
bility.
Don't let them waste this coun-
try away With their extravagant
schemes and their windy talk.
Let us Join together here in a
deep resolve to save our country.
Let us join together to make it
strong. Let us start the wheels
of industry going; let us put the
people back to work; let us open
up new markets for the farmer;
let us have the courage that we
once had, that we have always
had, to make our American
dream come true.
Truly, truly a new America
awaits us. 1t lies just ahead of
U.S. 1t calls to us to have the
courage to build it and make it
live.