Evening Star Newspaper, October 26, 1936, Page 25

THE EVENING STAR Text of Landon’s Baltimore Address New Deal Has Betrayed American Form of Government and Democratic Party, Says G. O. P. Standard Bearer. By the Assoctated Press. BALTIMORE, October 26. — The text of Gov. Alf M. Landon’s address Bere today follows: It is a pleasure to be in the Maryland Free State. I'm only gorry I'm not reaching Baltimore at meal time. I hear it's the best place in America to eat. But there is this consolation: After Janu= ary 1 I'm going to be your neigh- bor. You can expect me over now and then to get some really high- toned rations. Maryland has a great history of devotion to States rights under the Constitution. This is a fitting background for what I have to say to you today. In essence, this campaign boils down to one issue: Do you believe in the fundamental New Deal policies? Do you believe in a program that is directed toward undermining con- stitutional Government and the American way of life? As the campaign progresses the administration’s strategy has be- come plain. You must have ob- served it. Mr. Roosevelt and his spokesmen are trying to confine at- tention to the first three or four months of his administration, the first three or four months before the New Deal started on its un- trodden paths. Beyond that they speak only of relief and recovery. The rest of the major issues devels oped under the New Deal they de- liberately evade. They do none of the usual pointing with pride. They ask for another four years of power because back in 1933 for a few weeks they remembered their platform pledges. They hope the country will forget how those pledges were then thrown out of the window. They ask for another mandate because of their warm hearts and humanitarian instincts. As if they and they alone possess humanitarian instincts and they alone would keep our fellow Amer- icans from starving. They hope the country will forget what every com= munity knows—the waste and ex- travagance and the humiliating political coercion involved in the handling of relief. N. R. A. Held Instrument to Foster Monopoly. In their platform this year as in their platform four years ago, they denounce monopoly and promise to enforce the anti-trust laws. They hope the country will forget that in their great recovery measure, the N. R. A, they fostered monopoly and suspended the anti-trust laws. They talk of preserving American business. They hope the country will forget the promise of a breath- ing spell that was broken wWhen Congress met last January and that was remembered again only when the election loomed ahead. They profess their concern in the prosperity of the little fellow. They hope the country will forget what millstones they hung about the little fellow’s neck in the N. R. A, the invisible taxes, and in the lat- est tax act which will hold back the growth of small concerns by penalizing the use of earnings for expansion, They tell us & balanced budget is on the way. They hope the country will forget that six times in the last four years the Fresident has promised to balance the budget, and only last week he promised the seventh time. They tell us they have made our savings safe. They hope the country will forget that their con- tinued squandering threatens to destroy the value of all savings. They dwell on social security legis- lation. They hope the country will forget that this measure is a gross betrayal of social security. They give lip service to the American form of Government. They hope the country will forget that nine out of 11 major statutes enacted by their administration have been held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. They boast that busniess is bet- ter. They hope the country will forget that it went into a slump after the New Deal measures be- came operative and became really better only when the Supreme Court of the United Sthtes knocked oft some of its shackles by holding the N. R. A. unconstitutional. They talk of recovery and they hope the country will forget that in spite of improvement, 11,000,000 persons are still unemployed and 20,000,000 are still on the relief rolls. Present Campaign Packed Full of Major Issues. So I might go on enumerating New Deal policies, every one of which would be a major issue in any ordinary campaign. Waste and extravagance in Gov- ernment. The debauching of the Civil Bervice. The alliance with corrupt city machines. The extending of Farley meth- ods throughout the States with the W. P. A And, finally, the illegal use of your money, the taxpayers’ money, the propaganda to build up class hatred and entrench the New Deal in power. But for the moment we can put all these issues aside and turn to what I said at the beginning is the overwhelming issue in this cam- paign—the preservation of consti- tutional Government and the American way of life. On the one side, on the side of the New Deal, we find a strange new group. Its adherents believe that the principles upon which this Nation was founded and has grown great no uonger can serve us. They believe in an all-power- ful Chief Executive and subserv- They believe in the concentra- political and economic au- ple which frowns across the park that separates it from the Capi- tol.” This is their position, stated in lieve in the American form of Gov- ernment. In addition to Repub- licans we find the Democratic nom= inee for thg presidency in 1924 and the Democratic nominee for the presidency in 1928, and following them we find millions of Demo- cratic men and women of courage and integrity who all their lives have supported the principles of Jefferson, Cleveland and Wilson. These people are Americans be- fore they are partisans. They rec- ognize that this strange New Deal has betrayed the principles of the Democratic party and of the Amer- ican form of Government. In the last analysis, that is the question upon which you will cast your ballots on November 3d. But when you ask Mr. Roosevelt about this and try to pin him down, he says we Republicans are telling . bedtime stories. I have asked him and asked repeatedly. Does he in= tend, if re-elected, to revive the N. R. A. and the A. A. A. which the Supreme Court has declared to be contrary to our American form of Government? So far his reply has been a long, loud silence. They believe in the destruction of State rights and of home rule. There can be an honest difference of opinion as to whether the pro- posals of the administration for one-man government hold the so- lution of our social and economic problems, but there can be no dif- ference of opinion on this: The President’s theory of government should be presented frankly to the people at the polls. He has no right to ask for votes without tell- ing the people his intentions. Repeatedly I have stated my po- sition with all the force at my command: I am for the preserva- tion of American Constitution and the American system of free enter= prise. I link constitutional gove ernment with the American system of free enterprise because they be- long together. Servant or Master Held Real Issue of Campaign. Every government is adapted to the sort of social system the people have built up and demand. After all, there can be only two systems of government: The one where the government is the master of the people and the other where it is the servant of the people. May I say again this is the real issue in this campaign. In certain countries the people are accustomed to being directed from above; they would be lost if they were on their own. So they get the kind of government that gives them direction, that tells them what to do, that regiments their daily lives. That kind of government is dictatorship. Do we want that here? There are some who do. Listen to what a high official of this administration has to say: “Planning will necessarily become a function of the Federal Govern- ment. Either that or the planning agency will supersede that Gov- ernment. * * * Business will log- ically be required to disappear. This is not an over-statement of the fact for emphasis. It is liter- ally meant. * * * Planning ime plies guidance as to capital uses, This would limit entrance into or expansion of operations. Planning will not just happen; as the auto- mobile industry did. They will have to be foreseen, to be argued, for * * * the future is becoming visible in Russia. * * * The new kind of economic machinery we have in prospect cannot function in our present economy.” Do you want the kind of dictatorship this New Deal leader advocates? The builders of the American system were not of this breed. They valued freedom, freedom of worshiping God in their own way, freedom to speak as they pleased so long as they did not infringe the rights of others. They did not want any Government to tell them how to manage their affairs. They wanted the sort of constitutional Government best adapted to the way of life they had already es- tablished. This sort of Govern- ment the founding fathers worked out at Philadelphia, Government that gave free scope to the energies of the people. But it enabled them to take collective action against all foes abroad and all exploiters at home. It recognized that the Gov- ernment to be set up in the Federal City would too removed to man- age many of the detailed affairs of a vast and diversified country. So it sharply limited Federal pow= ers and reserved all other powers to the States and to the people. For protection against tyranny it set up the three independent branches—the executive, the legis- lative and the judicial. Finally, because the people .demanded it before they would ratify, it proe - vided the great bill of rights to safeguard the liberties of the people. Threat to Constitution Declared Very Real Issue. And the Constitution has worked as our forefathers planned. It was the most liberal plan of Govern- ment in the world when it was adopted. It still is because it is & living thing that can grow and change with the changing needs of the country. Under its protection our country has gone forward to constantly higher and higher social and economic standards, it will continue to do so without any fun- damental change in our American form of Government. Why do I recall this history? Because it bears directly on the tre- mendous issue that confronts us in this campaign. Because the threat to constitutional Government that now menaces our country in the New Deal is a threat as well to the American way of life on which our present and future welfare depends. Because it is the essence of the New Deal that the Consti- tution must go in order to give mep in Washington the power to make America over, to destroy the American way of life and establish a foreign way of life in its place. Let us not deceive ourselves. The President may not see where his policies are leading, but the men in the intimate circles of his advis- ers see perfectly well where he must come out. ‘They have the pattern of their planned economy before them. What at first seemed a confused jig-saw puzzle to those outside of that charmed circle, has been tak- ing shape in the last three years. Our homes, our communities, our job and our businesses are to be directed from Washington. The profit motive is to be eliminated. Business as we know it is to dis- appear. Observe how one piece after ane other of the jig-saw puzzle is moved into place. Here is a piece labeled “N. R. A" It tells men how their businesses must be run. Here is another piece labeled “A. A. A.” It tells farmers what they shall plant and limits the food production of the Nation. Here is another piece, the latest tax measure, that will hinder business institutions from building up reserves to see them through another depression and that in the event of such a depres= sion will force them into bank- ruptcy or into the hands of the Government. And here is another piece, one huge blank check after another, given by a rubber stamp Congress to an all-powerful Presi= dent, which, if continued, will make Congress a mere arm of the Executive, And, finally, comes the last piece, the most jagged piece of all, that of deficit spending and de~ liberate inflation, which go hand in hand and which eventually create the misery, the poverty, the hope- lessness out of which dictatorships arise. Yes, the pattern is gradually bee coming clearer. Shall we give four years more to the men who are working on this foreign pattern? Shall we give them what they will construe as a mandate to finish the job? Or shall we vote to return to the American system under the American Constitution? I know what your answer will be on the third of November, GYPSY WOMAN KILLED AS TRUCK OVERTURNS BY the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, October 26.—A gypsy woman, Mrs. Patience S. Hicks, 33, of Richardson Park, Del, died be- neath her husband’s truck on the Baltimore-Frederick road near West Friendship. The husband, Richard Hicks, 33, said two speeding automobiles forced his vehicle from the highway. He and two small sons received cuts and bruises. > Room and Living Room Furnitu i Excellent Condition, Victorian Sofas and Chairs, Mahogany Chests of Drawe: China, Glasswa: ISTERED Bric - a-Brac, Bool Pictures, Blankets, Mattre Pillows, Lamps, Trunks, Rad Oriental and Domestic Ru Metal Beds, C P r Rug, etc. At Public Auction at Sloan’s 715 13th St. Wednesday October, 28th, 1936 at 10 A.M. From Estates, St Other Seurces, T C. G. Sloan & Co. 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