Evening star., 1948-09-26
Dewey Suggests
Curbs,
Hits Spectators
Promises to Gust
Commodity Traders
From Government
(Tert OF Speech on Page A-9)
By J. A. OLeory
Star Stoff Correspondent

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept 25.-
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey declared
here tonight there is no painless
panacea for imitation. He took
a stand for the orthodox rene
dies of more production, less
Government spending and debt
reduction.
Addressing more than 5000 per-
sons in the Civic Auditorium, the
Republican Presidential nominee
also served notice there would be
no room in the Government, If he
is elected, for anyone speculating
in grain or other commodities.
He thus revived an issue that
made headlines last spring, when
congressional committees investi-
gated charges by Harold E. 6tassen
that Government officials were
dealing in the commodities mar
kets. Mr.. Stassen at that time was
one of Gov. Dewey's rivals for the
Republican nomination. Now they
are working together to elect Re-
publican administration.
In Pauley's Home State.
Gov. Dewey reopened the COM
modify speculation question in the
home State of Edwin w. Pauley,
who was one Of the first witnesses
called before a Senate committee
early this year to tell about his
buying and selling in the COM
modify market. Mr.. Pauley was
serving at the time as temporary
assistant to the Secretary of War.
Then followed a demand In both
the House and Senate for lists Of
any other Government officials who
had traded on the commodity mar
kets. In his speech here tonight
Gov. Dewey mentioned no indi-
viduals by name, however.
"One of the first things your next
administration will do-and I will
take considerable pleasure in doing
it's to get rid, once and for all, of
those speculating prof1teers who are
still clinging to the public payroll" "
NOF. oC"CS oCSlolCo.
His audience accorded him one of
the warmest receptions he has re-
ceived anywhere, as he began to
speak.
Gov. Dewey departed from his pre-
pared text to say, Il am mighty
proud of the part my party played
in the passage of the European Re-
covery Program
Backs Stand of Congress.
The Republican nominee made 1t
clear that he stands by the decision
of Republican leaders in Congress
who turned down President Tru-
mans request for a return to price
and wage controls.
Without referring directly to the
Presidents plan, he said "the Ameri-
can people have been led to believe
that imitation could be curbed by
some painless, patented panacea and
that-if only it were not for the
Congress-the secret of that cure
Would be revealed"
II propose to be honest with the
American people," the New Yorker
went on" This imitation cannot be
cured in free country by any trick
devices"
Recalls Soviet Remedy.
Gov. Dewey recalled that Soviet
Russia used a totalitarian remedy
for initiation by simply taking away
nine-tenths of the peoples money
"Other police state methods have
been proposed in this country" he
added. They sound easy. But they
are no less painful and would be
equally damaging to our free society,"
AS in past speeches. Gov. Dewey
did not try to blame the Democrats
for bringing on imitation, but he
contended the Truman administra-
ton "fumbled and hesitated" in
dealing with the question immedi-
ately after the shooting war stopped
in 1945.
Gov. Dewey said there are three
causes for today's high prices. The
first two, he listed as the heavy out
lay for World War II, and the cur
rent "peace-waging" program for
national defense and to help other
free nations get back on their feet.
(See DEWEY, Page A-4J