Evening star., 1946-10-16

bureaucrats to make those decisions
Don't you see, 1t isn't only meat?
People understand the meat short
age when 1t comes to them. But it's
everything-it's control of interest
rate. it's housing, it's exports and
imports. it's labor, it's management
In short, it's the American system
that is at stake. The President last
night even said that he and his
advisers had seriously considered
confiscation of livestock on the
ranges. Imagine it, he said that step
was seriously considered.
Nothing could more strikingly en-
phasize the fundamental conflict
between control of our economy
from Washington and the Republi-
can viewpoint. The Republicans be-
lieve that Congress should pre-
scribe the standards by which our
Government agencies should func-
ton. Whoever President Trumans
advisers may be, they certainly this
time, have served to point up the
true issue before the American
people.
1t is unfortunate that the meat
shortage, and other shortages-for
meat is only one as any housewife
can testify-should have been a po-
litical issue. But the President re-
jected the advice of his own Con-
gressional leaders. 1t became pc
litical issue because the group of
radical advisers to whom Mr.. Tru-
man has listened insist upon re-
tanning unjustified bureaucratic con-
trolls over our productive system. The
fact that Mr.. Truman elected to tie
up practically all of the radio ia
cilities of the Nation to explain his
action proved that he realized he
was dealing with an explosive po-
litical issue. 1t was not at all neces-
sary for him to go on the air in
order to de-control meat. That was
accomplished by executive orders
issued in Washington, and the peo-
pie would have been very adequately
informed of that action through the
normal channels of press and radio
news.
Useless Shortage Created.
However, since Mr.. Truman chose
to make political speech on this
subject. have felt impelled to pre-
sent the Republican side of that
issue. Briefly, that viewpoint is that
if the administration had listened
to the advice of Republican men,
bers of Congress instead of to
the advice of the radical fringe, this
present situation would never have
developed and, therefore, meat
would never have become a politi-
cal issue. Now, however, the Ad-
has created a shortage
which need not have developed at
all. In all probability some time will
elapse before we have an adequate
meat supply and-due to the Ad-
ministra tion-created s. or age
prices of meats will rise substan-
TALLY. I am sure that Republicans
regret this situation as much as do
the Democrats. After all, Republi-
cans are just as fond of meat as
anyone else.
While you are waiting for hams
and chops, the unfortunate dilem-
ma gives the American people 4
chance to recognize that there is a
principle at stake. There is an ir-
reconcilable difference between the
Party and the present
represented by the
PAC-Democrat Party. The once
great political alignment that fol-
lowed Jefferson and Jackson and
Wilson has fallen under control
at the policy-making level-of per-
sons who believe that Government
should run the people-that our
citizens do not have sense enough
to govern. themselves. That is the
philosophy OF Wallace and Pepper
and Kroll. The old-line Democrats
never believed that, but those in
control OF this Admjnistration do.
The Republican Party has sought
increasingly to protect the rights of
the individual against bureaucratic
domination. The Republican Party
the real liberal party-in America
believes in fighting against en-
croachment by Government and
Federal domination over the life
of the American people.
There is only one way you can
preserve a voice in your own Gov
ernment that is by electing to Con-
gress those who really believe in the
American system. Let's restore the
Government of the United States
to the American people. Let's elect
a Republican Congress November 5