Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1936, Page 7

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, NOVEMBER 1, 1936—PART ONE. A—7 —— e e e - A7 Landon’s St. Louis Speech Courage, Sacrifice and Industry of People Them- selves Credited for Better Conditions, Government for Hindrance. ‘BY the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, October 31.—Following is the text of Gov. Alf M. Landon’s address tonight at Municipal Audi- torium here: I come to this city of St. Louis and to my neighboring State of Missouri tonight with deep pleas- ure. Next Tuesday the American peo- ple make a fundamental choice. We must choose the system and ideals of government under which we will live for many years to come. The present administration has tried to conceal that our form of government is an issue in this cam- paign. It has tried to run from its record instead of on its record. The present administration has a record of broken promises that has never been explained. It has a record of waste and extravagance that threatens us with inflation and bankruptcy. It has a record of trying to supplant our system of free initiative with what it calls “planned economy.” Now let us examine the claims on which the President seeks re- election. He has not revealed his program for the future. He has asked for a blanket mandate to proceed for another four years as he may see fit. And he has tried to justify this request on the plea that he has won recovery for the Nation. Two weeks ago, in Chicago, he said that when he came into office he found the train of this coun- try's business and industry in the ditch. He said he pulled it out of the ditch. He said he put it on the rails and ran it into the shop. He said he repaired it. He said that now, as a resuit of his efforts, the train is running again. People’s Big Part in Achievements. I should like to make a few comments on this parable of the derailed train. The President as- sumes that his administration de= serves all the credit. Surely, the courage, industry and sacrifices of our people had something to do with getting the train out of the ditch. Further, the President fails to state that after the train got into the shop it stayed there for nearly two years. It stayed there nearly two years because the repair work was entrusted to thumble-fingers who were long on theory but short on practical experience. And it wasn't this administration which finally got ‘he train out of the shop. It was the Supreme Court, when it decided the N. R. A. was unconstitutional. Then there is the repair bill, which is not taken into account. This bill is a large part of the $25,000,000,000 spent by this ad- ministfation of which $13,000,000,- 000 has not been pald. Finally, the train was in the #hop so long that it is far behind its schedule. It is so far behind that 11,000,000 unemployed men + and women are still standing along the tracks, waiting to be carried to their destination—the destina- tion of full time work and full time pay. < The two biggest jobs befor€ the country today are getting these 11,000,000 unemployed back to work and stopping the pouring of | our money through the great po- litical sieve at Washington. The { two jobs are wrapped up together. ‘We cannot live forever off tomor= row's income. We cannot live for- ! ever by borrowing from our chil- | dren. And we cannot live forever & united Nation with one-fifth of our working population dependent upon the Government. | No Future Offered ' By Relief Rolls. It is not fair to those on the relief rolls that they should be 1 forced to live in a world apart— & world in which whatever work ! they get comes from the Govern- ' ment—a world in which their wages are set at a subsistence level by the Government. In this isolated ! world of the unemployed there is neither hope nor opportunity. There is no future on the relief rolls. To ask for re-election on the basis of recovery, when 11,000,000 , of our fellow citizens are thus stranded, is shocking. Now, make no mistake about it. We in this country are going to get our train back on schedule. We are going to pick up the un- employed and get them back to work. And we are going to do this without breaking our backs and the backs of our children with i billions of debt. And we are going to do this ‘without abandoning the American system of free and popular gov- ernment. We are going to do it under the American Constitution. It's time we started to apply some commer. sense to our prob- lems. It's time we stopped the 1ll-considered experiments that are shackling American industry and American agriculture. ‘What is wrong, what is holding us back? Why are there still 11,000,00 unemployed? ‘The answer is that enterprise and initiative are afraid of the present administration. They don't know what the administration is going to do next. They lack confidence in their own Government and without this confidence they dare not plan for the future. Let us see why there is lack of confidence—the kind of confidence that enables people to do the kind of planning for the future that will create new jobs. Economy Preached, And Spending Practiced. The present administration was elected on a program of economy. During its first few weeks in office it continued to preach economy and actually practiced it. Then, with- out warning, it did an about-face. It marched this country into the most profligate course of spending we have ever seen. And now, in another election year, it has done another about-face. Again it is talking economy, although the budget has never come within $3,- 000,000,000 of being balanced dur- ing its term of office. Is this the way to inspire confidence? The administration complained when it came into office about a condition where we had scarcity in the midst of plenty. To remedy this condition it did not do away with scarcity; it did away with plenty. It restricted production in industry and agriculture. It took the do- mestic farmer out of the foreign market and put the foreign farmer into the domestic market. 1Is this the way to inspire confidence? Four years ago the President said: “It is no time for delay when 11,000.000 honest, industrious and willing men and women are tramp- ing the streets and roads of our country looking for work.” Then he sponsored the A. A. A. whieh, by admission of his own Department of Agrieulture, destroyed work op- portunities for 1,000,000 men in the cotton fields alone. Is this the way to inspire confidence? The President started the N. R. A. with the excuse that it would give business men an opportunity to co-operate with Government if* they so desired. Within three months co-operation was gone and the N. R. A. had become an instru- ment of coercion. Is this the way to inspire confidence? On repeated occaslons the Presi- dent, or his spokesman, assured the country there would be no new taxes. Yet this administra- tion has passed 14 laws involving new or increased tax levies, Savings Threatened By Infiation Policy. The President professed a deep interest for the forgotten man, the litfle fellow. Yet the N. R. A. sus- pended the operation of the anti~ trust Jaws and legalized ‘monopoly. The administration has almost doubled the proportion of consum- ers’ taxes, which fall most heavily on the little fellow. And by its inflationary policy it is threaten- ing the security of the savings of -~ tens of millions of our people. Is this the way to inspire confidence? The President professed a deep interest in providing security for the working man. He sponsored and approved the so-called social security act—a law which is sup- posed to provide old-age pensions. el atmssll DRIVERS WANTED With or without cars to as- sist in carrying the ab- sentee voters to their poll- ing places on election day, November 3rd. Those wishing to volun- tarily serve in the cause of President Roosevelt, report to 1500 Rhode Island Ave. N.W. and register Monday between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. _Any Democratic voter de- siring to go home to vote, within a radius of 100 miles, can be accommodated by registering at the above address. Transportation Bureau of the Democratic Central Committee ‘This act was signed by the Presi- dent on August 14, 1935. But for some strange reason, the provisions for taxation and administration do not go into effect until after this . election. In consequence the workers are only now beginning to find out the real extent of this deception. Only now are they discovering that what they have been given is not the security of a pension for their old age, but the certainty of a tax burden throughout their working lives. And this, as Roger Sherman Hoar, long an active member of the Democratic State organization of Massachusetts and & member of President Roosevelt's social security conference in 1934, pointed out—this without any as- surance that the workers will get back what they put in. Only now are they discovering that deduc- tions will be made from their pay starting next January 1. Only now are they discovering that in the long run they will also bear a large part of the tax levied on employ- ers’ pay rolls. As I said in Madi- son Square Garden: “Even the Democratic attorney general of New York admits this. Last March, before the New York Court of Ap- peals, he said that a tax on em- ployers’ pay rolls, although levied on the employer, will be—and I quote—'shifted either to wage- earners or consumers or both.'” Whole Story Still Deep Mystery. But even now the workers don't know the whole story. Nobody does. The administration so far has refused to reveal how it is go- ing to keep the life records of 26, 000,000 of our working people. Be- e, under this law, records must i g be kept showing every job each and every dollsr he has earned. How could any administration keep track of these 26,000,000 of our fellow citizens? ' Imagine the vast army of clerks that would be necessary. Imagine the boost for bureaucracy. Imagine the fleld opened for Federal snooping. Are these 26,000,000 going to be finger- printed? Are their photographs going to be kept on file in a Wash- ington office? Or are they going to have identification tags put around their necks? Does a law like confidence? These are a few of the reasons why our people do not know what to expect next. These are a few of the reasons why people are re- luctant to invest capital in new ventures and in the expansion of their businesses. Yet it is upon capital and initiative that re-em- ployment must rely. If we are to have full recovery and re-employment, confidence must be restored. There must be some assurance that money in- vested today will not be destroyed tomorrow by an erratic adminis- tration. This administration boasts that its spending has brought recovery. But it is not a solid recovery. It is a spendthrift delusion, the de- lusion of a Nation that is running through its capital and mortgag- ing its future. If a man earns $2,000 a year but spends $4,000 a year, he can obviously live better than if he were living on his earnings alone. But he cannot keep this process up forever. The same thing is true of a Na- tion. It is ridiculous to believe that this inspire the way to real and lasting pros- perity is by the spending of bor- rowed money. It is financial madness to delude ourselves into thinking that the more we borrow the easier it will be to get out of debt. Recovery Depends on Balanced Budget. If we are to have a recovery that will give real work to the unem- ployed, we must cut out Govern- ment waste and extravagance. We must balance the budget. We must Testore confidence in the Govern- ment’s credit. But this is not all. We must also open the way to individual initiative. We must re- store the principles of free compe- tition. We must strengthen and enforce the anti-trust laws which are designed for the protection of the little fellow. We_must stamp out unfair trade practices which work to the disadvantage of the little fellow. And we must do this without treating every man who makes a profit as if he were a criminal against society. At the same time we must pro- vide real old-age pensions for our people. We must repeal the present tax on pay envelopes and pay the cost of these pensions as we go along by a direct tax, widely dis- tributed. We must not depend upon a reserve that would have to be larger than our present national debt—a reserve that would be a constant temptation to continued waste and extravagance by future Congresses—indeed, a reserve that Congress could use as a means to pay off the national debt out of the pay envelopes of our workers. The time has come to restore good Government in this country, I pleds myself to the appoin ment of competent and able ficials and I pledge myself to extension of the merit system der civil service from top to bot- tom. The choice is clear. Let us look forward to a greater and happler America. An America with real recovery; with finances sound; with credit unquestioned. An America that sees its farm- ers free to plant what they want, raise what they will and with a market for their products. An America that sees its work- ers content because jobs ar: plen- tiful and secure, with wazes rising. An America that is united— united because our people are mak- ing common sense as Americans and irrespective of race, color or creed. Let us look forward to an Amer- ica with faith revived; faith in our Government; faith in those qualities of heart and soul and mind that have given us so proud a history; and above all, faith in the Eternal God through whose mighty power our fathers won their liberties of old. of- the un- More Persons Employed. More persons are employed than in 1929 in Great Britain, Bulgaria, Lat- via, Sweden, Esthonia, Yugoslavia, Ja- pan and South Africa. JOE HIGHY INCORPORATED- 'OUR PLUMBER’ |SPECIAL TRAIN TO TAKE LANDON HOME TO VOTE G. 0. P. Nominee Will Go to In- dependence Early Tuesday Morning. 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