Evening Star Newspaper, October 27, 1936, Page 9

THE EVE G STAR, WASHINGTON, C., TUESDA OCTOBER 27, 193 —9 Text of Landon’s Philadelphia Address Extravagance, Concentration of Power and Destruction of Local Government Held Threat to American Liberty. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, October 27.—The text of the address of Gov. All M. Landon delivered in Philadelphia last wight follows: It is not only a privilege—it is & great honor—to be speaking to- night in the city where the Consti- tution was written, We are enter- ing the last week of a campaign in which the fundamental issue is the preservation of the Constitu- tion and the American way of life. On November the third we must decide if we want a free and popu- lar government or a government ‘which concentrates increasing pow- er in the Chief Executive. That is the issue in this campaign. The President says this issue is a fairy tale—a political “bogey man.” He underestimates the American people. They cannot be thrown off the track so easily. They can see through reassuring words spoken in an election year. The record since March 3, 1933, is no fairy tale. ‘We know how “planned econo- my” was foisted on us without mandate. We know how the heavy hand of Government forced its way into our daily lives. We know how this administra- tion has ignored the constitution- al checks and balances established by the men who sat in this city of Philadelphia in 1787. Charges Open and Impudent Use of U. S. Funds for Politics. Tonight I am going to discuss a policy that upsets these checks and balances—a policy that could not have been carried out except by ignoring these checks and balances —a policy that violates the Consti- tution. I am going to talk about the waste and extravagance of this administration. I am going to talk about this administration’s open and impudent use of public money for political purposes. Our Constitution is a practical document. One of its objects is to protect the public funds. It recognizes that the public funds are the people’s funds—that they do not come by magic from some inexhaustible source. The only source of public funds is the peo- ple. Too many of us forget this. We forget that the waste of this administration is waste of the people’s money—our money. The extravagance of this administra- tion is extravagance with the people’s money—our money—that has been used to create the most sinister political machine of our history. No words of idealism, no claims of good intention, ecan shift the responsibility for this machine. The responsibility rests upon one man—and one man alone. It rests upon the Presi- dent of the United States. “We Are” Is Answer to Queries On Who Will Foot the Bill. Who is going to pay the bill for all this spending? We are. ‘Who is paying the 12 billions which this administration has al- ready coliected? We are. ‘Who is going to pay the addi- tional 13 billion dollars it has bor- rowed? We are. ‘Who is going to pay if this ex- travagance continues? We are. ‘Who is going to put an end to this extravagance? We are. ‘We are the taxpayers and it is the taxpayer who foots the bill Speaking as a candidate for election in 1932, the President said, “Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.” But speaking as a candidate for re- election in 1936, he would have us believe that taxes are paid only out of the coffers of the rich. How forgetful the President must think we are. Speaking at Worcester last Wed- nesday, he made the statement that consumers’ taxes—the hidden taxes which fall more heavily on the poor man than on the rich—had been reduced during his adminis- tration. This is an amazing statement. It is an amazing statement because only a year ago, in & public letter dated September 2, 1935, he said exactly the opposite. This was the famous letter in which he offered a “breathing spell” to American business. In this letter he wrote these words: “In 1929 consumers’ taxes represented only 30 per cent of the national revenue. Today they are 60 per cent.” Just how forgetful does the Pres- {dent think we are? The record proves the President was right the first time. “Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.” Great Bulk of All Taxation Carrled on the Back of Labor. It is not the well-to-do who are going to pay the piper. They haven't that much money. If the Government last year had confis- cated every penny of all incomes above $5,000 it would not have had enough to pay the cost of our Fed- eral Government., The bulk of the money always comes from the men and women who labor in our work- shops, on our farms and in our offices. It is the little fellow who pays. It is the little fellow who suffers from Government extravagance. It Is the little fellow who needs the safeguards of the Constitution— and particularly the safeguards against waste of the public funds. One of the most important of these safeguards is the provision that all revenue legislation be initi- ated in the House of Representa- tives. This safeguard was put into our Constitution for a very definite reason. It was put in because the House of Representatives is the branch of our Government closest to the people. It was put in because the men who framed our Constitution knew the power of the purse. They knew that if injustice was to be prevented, the people, through their representa- tives, must control the purse. This is as true now as It was in 1787. But under this administration revenue bills have not originated in the House of Representatives. They have been drafted by the executive branch of the Govern- ment and driven through Congress without adequate debate. Hand in hand with the violation of this constitutional safeguard has gone the demand of the President that Congress transfer to him its control over the spending of public funds. Checks Signed by Congress Filled in for $13,000,000,000. Year after year the President has gone to Congress and de- manded vast sums to be spent at his discretion. He has demanded blank checks totaling over $13,000,» 000,000. Congress felt the political power of these billions. It sur- rendered its responsibility over the public purse—its duty to protect the people’s money. And what happened when Con- gress surgendered this responsibil- ity? What kind of spending did we get? To describe the kind of spending that deluged the country we had to invent & new word— “poondoggling.” Public money was spent to count the trees in the capital of your State. Money was spent to measure the cubic contents of buildings. Public money was spent to build a giant concrete checker board. It seemed to matter little so long as public money was spent. We got exactly the kind of spending the President assured us we would not get. When he de- manded a blank check for $4,- 800,000,000 he said it would be used for useful projects. In fact, he said, “To put a thousand men to work with picks and shovels 1o dig up a water. main*on one side of the highway, and lay it again on the other side of the highway, is not only a silly project, but it destroys the morale of the men who are doing the job.” Resettlement Project Held ‘Worst Type of Boondoggling. The President was right. This kind of work does destroy morale. But taking up & water main on one side of the highway and lay- ing it down again on thé other is not as bad as taking up people from part of the country and put- ting them down in another. Two hundred and seventy-five million The Best GRAY HAIR RemedyisMadeatHome 'OU can now makeathome a better fny hair remedy than you can bu by following t! imple recipe : To hal pint of water add one ounce bay nufi a small box of Barbo Compound an onefourth ounce of glycerine. 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All the new soak-the-rich taxes of 1935 could not pay for this one piece ot extravagance alone. When we do things like that we have lost all sense of proportion. No government can afford such waste. It can afford it least of all when its people are struggling out of a great depression. But there is an even more serious side to this violation of the con= stitutional rights of Congress. This is the enormous power which money gives the President. It en- ables him to short-circuit State governments and thereby to exer- cise powers not granted to him by the Constitution. But even this is not all. This administration has used the power of the purse to do more than break down home rule. This ad- ministration has used it to coerce voters. No one knows better than the people of Pennsylvania the brazen manner in which this policy has been applied in the name of relief. The unemployed have been told that if they do not support the President they will be thrown off the relief rolls. Scores of millions of public money have been poured into Pennsylvania in a desperate effort to carry the State in the coming election, No one knows better than the people of Pennsyl- vania the growing resentment of the public against an administra- tion so callous to public decency that it tries to force people to sell their votes for bread. Promises to Use No Relief Funds for Political Purposes. When I take office as Chief Ex- ecutive I shall put an end to the use of relief funds for political pur- poses, And I shall put an end to the use of public funds for political purposes. And I shall put an end to the use of public funds for the build- ing and maintaining of a propas ganda machine in Washington. This been a growing evil for (Ceor illustrated is Nask Ambassador Six) many years, but never before has it ever approached its present size. It is time to call a halt to this grownig abuse. The National Com- mittee of the party in power should pay its own bills. It is also time that we restored the Bureau of the Budget to its proper place in our Government. Fifteen years ago this bureau was established to hold down expendi- tures and weed out waste and ex- travagance. It is supposed to be an independent agency. Its job is to take the budget estimates of the various departments and pare them down to the minimum. But since August, 1934, when Lewis W. Douglas resigned in protest against the financial policies of the ministration, we have had only an acting director of the budget. The bureau has become a part of the White House spending machine. I intend to restore this bureau to a position of independence with a competent director at its head. Promises to Fill Office Of Comptroller General. And unless the present Chief Executive acts in the meantime, I shall fill still another office which 13 vacant—the office of comptroller general, The comptroller general is the legal = watchdog over expendi- tures. 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