Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1935, Page 7

MONOPOLIES HELD MENACE TO NATION Senator Wheeler Condemns Dictator Control in Radio Forum. (Continued From Sixth Page.) they are out for all they can get, then I think that the public is entitled to know just where they stand, so that when the representatives of the people are called upon to choose between selfish propaganda and the public in- terest they can make an honest choice without thought of political expedi- ency and knowing that the public sppreciates the real issue involved. Lobbying Speeded Up. Any idea that these great combina- tions of power can be effectively regu- lated in the public interest under any device we have yet discovered is wish- ful thinking. When any reform legis- lation comes up in Congress they descend in a body and lobby furiously against it. They tell their stockhold- ers that they will be ruined, they order their employes out to spread the sad news that every one will be ruined. ‘They cause a flood and barrage of letters to be written to their Repre- sentatives and Senators. If we get any legislation through at all it is finally so full of loopholes that they ean get around it. These corporate managers prate to you that you are losing your liberty under the New Deal. I am sure that none of you is being taken in on just whose liberties they are referring to— eertainly it isn't your liberties. Why, in their rush for size they take men from the farms and small towns and crowd them together in huge indus- trial centers. They make them de- pendent absolutely on a highly special- ized job, because they know that if the worker can do only one thing and if he is set down with his family in a place where there is only one thing to do he is absolutely aependent upon that job, no matter what the pay, no matter what the hours of work. If they want to cut costs they lay off men, put them in the breadline. Slaves of Production. ‘That is where the bulk of the relief load is going today, to people who had been slaves to the routine of mass production. Are they free? Not on your life. Do they constitute a Red menace, a Communist threat? Not on your life they don’t. They know that complete subjugation of any form, whether it be by a political dictator or by an industrial dictator, is essen- tially unsound. I hope that this gets to Mr. Hearst because they are not the Red menace, The Red menace is In the spreading tentacles of cor- porate centralization. If corporate growth goes unchecked, we won't have to worry about the Government taking them over—they will be the Govern- ment. Lately, there has been a trend of thought which has felt that there should be a decentralization of these combinations of power, a feeling that with smaller units real ability would be more surely brought out and indi vidual initiative restored to many c: pable people who are now practically servants. Certainly it seems to me to be the only alternative to Govern- ment ownership qr fascism. If, as| we have every reason to believe, their | assets increase so that in 20 or 325 years they own all business wealth, . they will have to be merged with the Government. We can have no other alternative, nothing else can happen, because if they own all business wealth | they will then be the Government. Quick Decision Advised. This is a second choice that we can- | not escape. 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