Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-11
Text of Hoover Attack on u. S. Spending Policies

ruin of our national family life.
Think 1t over.
Away From European Systems.
Along this road of spending, the
Government either takes over
which is socialism, or dictates In
stitutional and economic life which
is fascism.
The American mind is troubled by
the growth of collectivism through
out the world.
We have a few hundred thousand
communists and their fellow travel
ers in this country. They cannot
destroy the republic. They are q
nuisance and require attention. We
also have the doctrinaire socialists
who peacefully dream of their utopia
But there is a considerable group
of fuzzy-minded people who are
engineering a compromise with all
these European infections. They fail
to realize that our American system
has grown away from the systems
of Europe for $50 years. They have
the foolish notion that collectivist
economy can at the same time pre-
serve personal liberty and constitu-
tional government.
The steady lowering of the stand
ard of living by this compromised
collectivist system under the title
"austerity" in England should be
a sufficient spectacle. 1t aims at q
fuller life but it ends in a ration
Last Mile To Collectivism.
Most Americans do not believe In
these compromises with collectivism
But they do not realize that through
governmental spending and taxes
our Nation is blissfully driving down
the back road to it at top speed.
In the end these solutions of ma
tional problems by spending are
always the same-power, more pow
er, more Capitalization in the hands
of the state.
We have not had a great socializa-
ton of property, but we are on the
last mile to collectivism through
governmental collection and spend
ing of the savings of the people.
Think it over.
A device of these advocates of gi-
gantic spending is the manipulation
of words, phrases and slogans to
convey new meanings different from
those we have long understood
These malign distortions drug think
ing. They drown it in emotion. We
see Government borrowing ano
spending transferred into the soft
phrase deficit spending" The slo-
gan of welfare state" has emerged
as disguise for the totalitarian
state by the route of spending
Thomas Jefferson would not rec
ognize this distortion of his simple
word welfare" in the Constitution
Jefferson,s idea of the meaning OF
welfare lies in his statement ito
preserve our independence we
must make a choice between econ.
orny and liberty or profusion and
servitude If we can prevent
Government from wrestling the labors
of the people under the pretense OF
caring for them we shall be happy
Another of these distortions is by
those who support such a state and
call themselves liberals" John
Morley would not recognize them.
Out Of these slogans and phrases
and new meanings of words come
vague promises and misty mirages
such as security from the cradle
to the grave" which Illustrate those
basic human impulses to production
which make a dynamic nation.
Think it over.
Multitude Of Pressure Groups.
It Is customary to blame the ad-
ministrations or the legislatures for
this gigantic increase in spending,
these levies on the Nations work.
days, and this ride to a dead-end of