Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-05-17
FOLLOWING is the tert of the
radio address BY Senator Taft,
Republican, OF Ohio, last night:


Fellow Taxpayers:
The President of the United State
has Just completed a 6,000-mile tril
at your expense and made some 81
speeches, most of them political.
He must have had some very i'm
portant purpose in mind, for Their
was plenty to occupy him in Wash
ington. He left Congress in session
rejecting administration plans o.
vital Importance, at least to him
Most of the principal railroads o.
the United States were, closed dowr
while his train ran on. The foreign
ministers in London are considering
the most vital decisions of recen
years in foreign policy.
But the Presidents purpose is nov
clear. He admits that he has beer
on Today crusade to elect an 82ne
Congress in November, which viii
do his bidding in every respect. Ev.
cry obstructionist is to be removed
True, we have Democratic Con.
gress today, but it won't pass thu
socialistic measures which Mr.. Tru.
man has long advocated. He bit.
terly criticized the 80th Republican
Congress because 1t did not agree
with his CIO-PAC philosophy Of
Government. He treats the 81st
Congress more tenderly-for the
present-but promises criticism In
the future.
Program Again Rejected.
But the Democratic Slst Con-
gress, except for the spending OF
money, has rejected the Truman
program as definitely and conclu-
sively as the Republican 80th. don't
believe for a moment the people OF
this country approve the Truman
program. don't believe for a mo-
ment they want an 82nd Congress
subservient to Mr.. Truman pre-
pared to rubber stamp that program.
What is that program as shown
by the speeches of this past week?
A part of it, of course, is just vague
promising. Our annual output Of
goods and services is to be $3.50
billion by 1860. Every American
family is to have an income of at
least $4,000 a year. Everyone is to
be healthy, and rich, and happy as
Harry. OF course this kind of thing
Is bipartisan policy. In fact, I
don't see why the average can't
be 5000 a year.
I don't know about these greedy,
selfish reactionaries that the Presi-
dent talks of. because I have never
met them. The President is always
imagining bogeymen under every
bed. I do know that every Repub-
lican Congressman is just as anx-
ious to reach these goals as the
President himself.
Lesson OF Common Sense.
There is no particular reason why
we shouldn't reach them, for they
do not indicate any greater rate Of
growth and improvement than we
have had since this Government
was founded in 1889. But common
sense tells us we can only count on
the same rate of improvement if we
follow the same principles of liberty
and rewards for ability and hard
work and genius, the free life. on
which American progress has al
ways been founded.
But that's not Mr.. Truman's pro-
gram. He wants to bring the Gov
eminent into every field of individ-
ual and community and national
life. Our governments are already
spending more money that we have
ever spent in peacetime, more than
Is per cent of the national income
We all are working more than one
day in four for Government and
less than three for ourselves.
The Federal Government is spend
ing twice as big a proportion of your
income as 1t did before the last war
The Federal Government is the
biggest monopoly and the biggest
spending institution in the world.
The public debt stands at $256 bill
lion and is increasing at the rate
of Sc billion a year. Every time the
sun sets. our Government is SIS
million deeper in debt. How long
can 1t last?
Just the Beginning.
But that is just the beginning OF
the spending. The President in
sists on the Brannan Plan to pay
the farmers 100 per cent of parity
and sell the crops for anything the
consumers will pay for them, the
difference to be charged to the tax
payer.
If we do it on the same scale as
IN Great Britain, it will cost us SIS
billion more. And who is the tax
payer? Why, of course, the farmer
and consumer who are supposed to
get the benefits. Do you want
Congress which will spend that S.
billion more?
Then we have the program OF
eocialized and nationalized medi-
cine on which the President is
treading pretty lightly on this trip
But he has heretofore Endorsed 1t
three times enthusiastically, ano
We can assume that if he ever gets
a Congress which will do his bid
ding and that of the CIO-PAC that
he will return to his first love.
He proposed that we levy another
Sc billion of taxes, set up vast
Federal bureau to employ all the
doctors and all the hopitals in the
United States to give medical care
to $50 million people, including al
those who are perfectly able Il
pay for 1t themselves.
1t would destroy the freedom
of the medical profession and super
sede the tremendous system o
community and charitable health
service which has given this coun
try the best health Of any com
parable country in the world. D.
YOU want a Congress that will q
out and spend that So billion more
Would Limit Farm Output.
And then you have the field o
Government controls. To carry GU
the Brannan Plan, the Government
must limit the production OF corr
and wheat and cotton and ever
other crop. 1t must limit the mum
Der of hogs farmer can raise, tn
number of beef cattle he can feed
the number of dairy cattle he cal
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