Evening star., 1952-03-30

lit Is just as immoral for the Con-
'Igress to enact special tax favors
Unto law as it is for d tax Ofiicial
Ito conniye IN q crooked tax re-
,lt1rn. 1t Is just IS immoral to
IiIse the Law-making power OF the
/ Government to enrich the few at
1.-THE expense Of the many, as it
lis 70 steal money from the public
treasury.
Legislation Was Corruption.
AL uf us know, Of course, about
1.-THE scandals and corruption Of the
Republican ofiicehOld In the
l1920's. But To my mind the vet
ierans Adminisit ation scandals, ii
those days. and the Teapot Dome
lsteal were no worse no more inn
moral than the tax laws Nof
Andrew Mellon. or the attempt to
lsell Muscle Shoals to private IN
iterests. Legislation that favored
1.-THE greed Of monopoly and the
ltrickery OF Wall Street was q form
LOT corruption that did the country
more harm than Teapot Dome.
Private selfish interests are
always trying to corrupt the Gov
ernment In this way. Powerful
financial groups are always try
ling to get favors for themselves.
Now. the Democratic admins
ltrati0n has been fighting against
these efforts to corrupt the powers
lot Government. We haven't always
won. but we have never slrren-
fdered, and we never will.
For all these years. we have been
fighting to use our natural re-
sources for the benefit OF the pub
lie, to develop our forests and pub
llic oil reserves and water power
lfor the benefit Of all, to raise the
incomes Of an our citizens, "a
protect the farmer and worker
against the power of monopoly. /
And where have the Repnbli-
cans been in this fight for NOR
ality in Government? Do they
come out and vote with us to keen
1.-THE special interests from robbing
the public? Not at all. Most OF
them are on the other side.
/ Conduct 81 OfYicials.
It's the same thing when you
come to the question OF the con-
duct Of Government officials. The
Republicans make q great whoop
land holler about the honesty Of
Federal employees, but they are
usually the first to show up In a
Government Office asking for
special favors for private interests,
and raising cain IL they don't
get them. These Republican
gentlemen can't have 1t both ways
they can't be for morality ca
Tuesday and Thursday, and then
lbe for special privileges for their
clients on Monday, Wednesday
land Friday.
I'm disguised with these efforts
to discredit and blacken the char
acter and reputation OF the whole
Federal service. We have a higher
percentage of Federal employees
under civil service than ever be-
fore. and, on the whole, they are
q liner, better type of men and
women than ever. It is lust as
much our duty to protect the
innocent as it Is to punish the
guilty. II q man is accused. he
Iodght to have his day in court
and / don't mean q kangaroo
court.
/ ! hate injustice just as much
as ! hate corruption.
Or course, we must always work
Ito keep our Government clean.
Jour Democratic Senator's al1d
IGongressmen have been working
land I have been working to clean
up bad conditions where they
exist. and to devise procedures and
systems to prevent them lii the
future. And I would like TO have
.lhelp in this fight from everybody
Democrats and Republicans alike,
II have just got one re-organiza-
tion plan through the Congress
and ! am going to send up more
lplans to Congress soon-to put
more of our Federal officials un-
] der civil service and out Of poll
tics. I would like to see all The