Evening star., 1944-09-10
Text Of Gov. Brickefs Opening Address
Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Insists American Business
Must Be Unshucked Soon Provide Postwar Employment

residential Cundidute In!
sled Soon to Provide Pos'
1 on an enlarged and nationalized
police power for enforcement. We
shall have to give up Q distinction
. : between private and public
employmcnts. There = no private
business =. exempt from confusion
to serve q planned public interest.
State Control Ineffective.
| Furthermore we shall have 70
recognize that only the Federal
area, and often not even that. Is
large enough to be coextensive with
modern industry, and that c0nse-
quently the States are wholly in
effective instruments for control,
It has already been suggested that
business will logically be required to
disappear. This is not an over
statement for the sake Of emphasis,
lit is literally meant"
Mr.. Tugwell, the New Deal
prophet, uttered those words In De-
cember, 1881. He has occupied, and
he still occupies, high administra-
tive post. His words embrace the
master pattern of the New Deal.
The President lost no time in
adopting that pattern. Our task
now" he said in 1888, "is not dis
coveries or exploitation Of natural
resources or. necessarily of produc-
ing more goods. 1t is the soberer,
less dramatic business of admin
less dramatic business of admins
tering resources and plants already
Program Of Management.
And so the New Deal launched q
program Of management. II was
unintelligent, uncompromising, DOM
mating and incoherent manage
ment. Governmental planners were
hostile to risk capital. They stifled
small business, forced distribution
OF their earnings and made 1t. i'm
possible for them to expand. They
repeatedly devise tax legislation, not
primarily to raise needed revenue,
but as an undercover method of
promoting dangerous social theories.
They saddled upon the individual
and business complicated question:
naires, reports and red tape. They
placed both industry and agricul-
ture In a governmental straitjacket.
But that is not all. In fulfillment
OF prophecy, the New Deal planners
laid rough, unholy hands on many
sacred precedent" and they called
on IAN enlarged and nationalized
police force for enforcement" They
constructed a gigantic bureaucracy
and used 1t for their own political
ends. The Congress was relegated
to an inferior position by a servile
New Deal majority. Even the purse
strings were surrendered to the
Executive through lump-sum appro-
priations.
Boards, Bureaus Multiplied.
They likewise sought to make over
the executive branch OF the Federal
Government. To quote the Dec
laration Of Independence, they
erected, multitude of new Of
flces and sent hither swarms of Of
f1cers to harass our people and eat
out their substance" Boards, bu-
reaus and commissions multiplied.
Our people have been literally del
uged with orders, DEGREES and di-
receives that pour from these agen-
cies day and night. The Federal
payrolls skyrocketed until now there
are some 3,500,000 Federal civil
employees.
The traditional cabinet depart
ments are overshadowed and have
almost been supplanted by agencies
undeEthe direct controkpf the Pres-
ident Lines aof authority and re-
sponsibility became confused and
even obliterated. Every conceivable
political device was employed to
build the power of the Executive.
Attack on Supreme Court.
Then came the attack on the Su-
preme Court. 1t failed. but through
continuing presidential tenure its
purposes were finally achieved. A
substantial majority of all the Fed
eral judges now have been appoint
ed by the New Deal President. Too
often those appointees possessed
nothing more than the doubtful
qualification of being New Deal po-
litical followers.
The program likewise included the
constant suppression and oppression
of State and local governments
Local authority was circumvented
and usurped. Money was granted to
State and local governments upon
condition that control be surren-
dered to Washington.
The New Deal in 1885 even want
ed to divide the Nation into 10 or
IL districts or Little Washingtons. :"
Each district, of course, would have
been under the jurisdiction of a
Federal administrator. The real
purpose was to relegate the States
to obscurity.
Cites Resources Groups Report.
The report of the National Re-
sources Committee said that many
citizens might consider themselves
as belonging to one region for one
purpose and to an adjoining region
for another. In other words, there
was to be paramount, if not ex-
elusive, loyalty to the Federal Gov
ernment. Fortunately. the proposal
was not adopted, even though the
National Resources Committee
which advocated it included five
cabinet members and Harry Hop
kinS.
So bold did the planners become
that the Attorney General of the
United States recently had the au-
dacity to declare: mo business In
this country is immune from
seizure"
Here, then, is the New Deal rec
ord of almost IL long years. The
New Deal candidate recently made
his only recorded admission of fault
when he said:
I'VE have made mistakes"
I say to you that these were not
mistakes. They were the cold, CAL
culated and deliberate acts of an
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