Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-24

long period. He has to figure
not just a year at a time but
over cycles and spans of years,
as to his soil. his water, his
equipment, the strains of his
stock-and the strains on his
income.
And so, for this man of prin-
ciple, we have designed our pro-
gram of principle. In it. we rec
ognize that we have received
from our forebearS rich legacy:
Our continents basic resource of
soil. We are determined that,
through such measures as the
soil bank and the Great Plains
program. this legacy shall be
handed on to our children even
richer than we received it.
4 We are equally determined
that farm prices and income,
which were needlessly pushed
downward under Surpluses-sur-
pluses induced first by war and
then by unwise political action
that was stubbornly and reck-
Ilessly prolonged, shall in the
coming months and years get
back on a genuinely healthy
basis. Recent improvement in
farm prices indicates that we
are on the right track. This inn
provement must continue until
a rightful share of our prosper
ity is permanently enjoyed by
agriculture-on which our very
life depends.
A second example: Labor rela-
tons.
~. Bargaining without f.
interference is the cornerstone
Of lobor-monoeement re-
Lotions.
| Expediency said: when a
major labor dispute looms. the
Government must do something
-anything-to settle the dispute
even before the parties have fin
ished negotiating. Get an in
junction. Seize the steel mills.
Appoint a board. Knock their
heads together.
! Principle says: Free collec-
tive bargaining without Govern
ment interference is the corner
stone of the American philoSo-
ply of labor management rela-
tons"
If the Government impatiently
charges into every major dispute.
the negotiations between parties
will become a pointless prelimi-
nary farce, while everyone waits
to see what the Government will
do. This administration has
faith in the Brightness of the COL
lective bargaining principle. 1t
believes in the maturity of both
labor and business leaders, and
in their determination to do what
is best, not only for their own
side but for the country as a
whole.
! The results: For the first time
in history a complete steel con-
tract was negotiated and signed
without direct Government in
tervention, and the last three
and-a- half years have witnessed
one of the most remarkable pc
RODS Of labor peace on record.
Another example: Concentra-
ton of power in Washington.
Expediency said: I'VE cannot
allow our fine new ideas to be
at the mercy of 81 separate State
and territorial legislatures. 1t
is so much quicker and easier
to plan, finance and direct all
major projects from Washing
ton"
Geographical boIonce of power
is essential to our form of free
society,""
Principle says: Geographical
balance of power is essential to
our form of free society. If you
take the Capitalization shortcut
every time something is to be
done. you will perhaps sometimes
get quick action. But there is
no perhaps about the price you
will pay for your Impotence: The
growth of swollen, bureaucratic
monster Government in Wash
lington, in whose shadow our
State and local governments will
ultimately wither and die"
And so we stemmed the heed
less stampede to Washington. We
made a special point of helping
build up State activities, State
finances and State prestige.
/ Our Founding Fathers showed
us how the Federal Government
could exercise its undoubted re-
sponsibilty for leadership, while
still stopping short of the kind
OF interference that deadens To-
cal vigor and variety, initiative
and imagination. Today we say
to our young people: The party
of the future will pass along to
you unchanged the unique sys-
TEN of division Of authority
which has proved so successful
in reconsiling our Oldest ideals
OF personal freedom with the
20th-century need for decisive
ness of action.
My second reason for saying
that the Republican Party is the
party of the future is this: It
is the party which concentrates
on the facts and issues of today
and tomorrow, not the facts and
issues Of yesterday.
More than twenty years ago,
our opponents found in the prob
lens of the depression a battle
ground on which they scored
many political victories. Eco
nomic cycles have not been elm
mated. Still, the world has moved
on from the 1905; Good times
have supplanted depression; new
techniques for checking serious
recession have been learned and
tested and a whole new array of
problems has sprung up. But
their obseSsion with depression