Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1936 — Page 2

that has ever come to me.

By United Press

CHICAGO, July

Frank Knox accepting the Republican nomination for

You have heard the eloquent words of that stalwart statesman

me by the Republican Party. I am deeply conscious also of the responsibility that rests on me to bear this honor worthily. But I am above all, eonscious of the opportunity for service. Even above and beyond my profound appreciation of the honor and the responsibility that have been given me is my appreciation of the opportunity to serve not only my party but my country. It is customary in acknowledgements of this kind to avoid personal reference. Tonight, I am going to depart briefly from that custom. 1 am a working man. I have always worked. I began to work as a small boy in a small town in Michigan. Throughout my life, I have followed one guiding principle. That principle was to do as best I could the job that lay before me. That prin-

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in a fine New England town. It took me into difficult and responsible work in the great city of New York. It carried me into the service of my country in two wars. It brought me to my work and my home in the great city o Chicago, the metropolis of a great state in a great Middle West empire.

"I ACCEPT CALL"

And I am moved tonight by a

realization that in this crusade for

the restoration of sound government in our land there is before me the greatest opportuity for service Long years ago, I learned as a buck private the lessons of duty and of loyalty. In the years that have passed I have learned the equally important lesson that the greatest achievement of any man is service to his fellow citizens. In this spirit of service I accept the call of my party. I pledge my loyalty to the principles of the Republican Party. I pledge my loyalty to the policies laid down at the Cleveland convention. I pledge myself to the principles of sound and honest government. I pledge my personal loyalty to the great Governor of a prairie state, the next President of the United States, the Honorable Alf Landon.

It is no ordinary campaign that confronts us. It is no ordinary political choice that the country must make next November. In this presidential campaign, as in every other, it is for the nation to decide whether the Administration in office has performed its duty. There is always the question whether the Administration in office has met its responsibilities honestly and fairly and wisley. There is always the questions whether it has fulfilled the stewardship entrusted to it and earned thereby a renewal of its direction of government for four more years. In every election the people must decide whether they shall say: “Well done, thou good and faithful servant." "In this first and ordinary issue the present Administration is found wanting. It has failed to meet its responsibility for the orderly, economical, and impartial administration of the affairs of the nation. More than three years ago the present. Administration took command of the American government. No Administration is the history of the nation has had so glorious an opportunity. The country had already begun to emerge from the bottom pit of a grievous world depression, caused by a calamitous World War. A sore and wounded

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and far-seeing government. The millions of stagnant enterprises needed only the encouragement of sensible government policies to take on renewed life. A stricken agriculture needed only the encouragement of sound agricultural policies and wise legislative assistance. The timid beginnings of renewed investment needed only the encouragement of sound laws of banking and credit. The spirit of American enterprise, discouraged by vanished markets and reduced consumption, needed only the encouragement of economy and moderation and helpfulness in government. No Administration in our history since Lincoln’s time has had so grand an opportunity to lend aid to a distressed people.

CHARGES ABUSE CAMPAIGN

The present Administration in the winter of 1933 had just one imme-

diate responsibility to meet. That the little flame of recovery that had begun to burn in the summer of 1932 before the blessings of a New Deal were even imagined. The present Administration had just one job to perform. That job was to carry out a program that would enable American enterprise to put twelve million unemployed back at work, twelve million men and women workers who were the unhappy and helpless victims of a world depression for which this nation was not responsible. The present Administration had just one moral obligation to keep. That obligation was to fulfill the solemn promises of economy and moderation with which it lured the people in the campaign of 1932. How did it meet that responsibility? How did it do that job? How did it keep that moral obligation? From the day that it took office it embarked on a series of hysterical experiments on the economig life of a burdened people. At a time when universal co-opera-tion was a necessity it initiated a campaign of abuse and villification

of business men. At a time when

the credit of the country should have been strengthened it inaugurated a policy of credit adulteration and currency experiment that demoralized foreign trade and frightened domestic finance. It set up a system of regimentation of industry that reduced production and prevented re-employment. By coercion of Congress it forced the passage of reform measures so recklessly drawn that they hamstrung the revival of enterprise and paralyzed the renewal of investment. It installed a regimentation of agriculture that destroyed food and reduced foreign markets and increased the cost of living and multiplied the expense of relief. At a time when private industry was struggling desperately for a new start it set up governmental enterprise to compete with private business. At a time when the burden of taxation was already hard to bear it embarked on a policy of squander-

ing public funds and increasing thé weight of taxes. At a time when

united effort and mutual good-will would have completed recovery it promoted sectional hatred and class strife. At a time when returning business confidence was ending depression it began a campaign to terrorize business and subjugate the banks. in the character of government was vital, it established a spoils system. At a time when the economic system was worn and emaciated it performed major surgical operations upon the industrial body to see what was inside. It adopted an economic philosophy of scarcity and forced it upon a hungry and distressed people.

‘ADMINISTRATION FAILED'

The present Administration ignored its responsibility, failed in its job, defaulted in its obligation. I do not need to tell you the results. The inevitable recovery could not be permanently blocked by governmental error. But it was retarded and discour-

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of government by guess, officially explained by President Roosevelt as founded on a philosopjy of try-anything-once, was initiated under

one of its proponents has‘even been

able to define the New Deal or to

explain what it is aimed at or where it is going. No one of them has been able to make clear what the economic plan is. It began with a proposal for a belt of trees in a territory that nature had decided should not have trees. It is ending with the use of public funds to conduct classes in tapdancing. No one can explain the New Deal, or economic planning, but every one knows what come from it. The major measures were the NRA, the AAA, the PWA, the CWA, the WPA and devaluation of the dollar. Such measures are not new. They were old in history before America was discovered. They failed in Babylon and Rome and England centuries ago. Not one of these New Deal measures is mentioned in the 1936 platform of the Democratic Party. There is no reference to the fate of these strange experiments. There is no reference in all that platform to the New Deal or to economic planning. But in this omission they are entirely consistent. There was no mention of them in the 1932 platform either. They are a strange interlude between the solemn promises of the 1932 platform and the vague generalizations of the 1936 platform.

‘WE CONDEMN ABUSE’

It is constantly asserted that the Republican Party has always stood for a strong Federal government. The assertion is correct. It still stands for a vigorous Federal au-

thority. But it advocates this authority within the limits set by the Constitution. It has always exercised that authority by legislation constitutionally. tutionally executed. It always will. It always has exerted that authority without passing the boundaries of states rights and local self-govern-ment. The Republican Party recognizes that changing social and economic conditions call for increased Federal activities. But it always insists that such activities shall be legalized by proper constitutional amendment. It always will. It approves the horse-and-buggy method of changing the Constitution, and it disapproves a philosophy that laughs at the horse-and-buggy method and wants to use only the buggy whip. It condemns the abuse of Federal power to invade local rights. It does not believe in putting a New Jersey pants-presser in jail for charging less than the amount dictated by a board in Washington. It disapproves a government of men instead of a government of law. It

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the issue of the kind of econ omic

system the American people will live by. For more than three years the economic life of the country has

e been at the mercy of a crew of ama-

teur experimenters, hacking at the vitals of American industry, agriculture, commerce and finance. Driven by a fanatic impulse to shape our economic structure to their fantastic designs, they have usurped the powers of Congress, insulted the authority of the courts, invaded the powers of Congress, and undermined the institutions of local self government.

‘RECOVERY RACES CREDIT'

As one experiment after another has ended in ignominious failure or repudiation by the courts, new experiments have been attempted, from laws to put producers of potatoes in jail, to proposals to cut Florida in two. Driven to desperation by failure the present Administration undertook to gamble with fate. Realizing that recovery was inevitable, in time, it undertook to overcome the depressing effects its experiments by an artificial prosperity to be created by the squandering of public funds.. It is now a race between the exhaustion of Federal credit and the coming of natural recovery. It is a race be-

tween inflation and the revival of |

normal business activity. The race is not yet decided. The fundamental issue is now clear. No one can define the New Deal or even describe it. But we know what it means. It means Federal control over local business over local bank credit, over local wages, over local conditions of work. It leads to Federal regimentation of the labor, the business, and the home of every American citizen. It leads to price fixing and production control by Federal authority. It leads inevitably to the extinction of the small business man, to the end of free enterprise in America. There is no half-way house in which American enterprise can take shelter. The coercive control of bank credit leads unavoidably to control of investment and that leads to the end of competitive industry. and free enterprise. The country must choose between the regimentation of the economic life of a hundred and thirty million people by politically appointed Federal bureaucrats and the continuance of the American system of free enterprise under a government of constitutional powers. It is not a question whether Federal regimentation of the:economic life of a great nation can be successful or not. It is the verdict of history,, from Diocletian in Rome to Mr. Roosevelt in Washington, that no one man can successfully guide the course of industry for a great nation. All the major New Deal experiments have ended in failure and economic loss. There are known and. true principles of economic life. There. are, for that matter, competent economists, if you will look for them outside of Washington. There are limits to the abil-

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“The people want recovery, mot rhetoric. They want dignity | exchange our economic system for the rainbow

: “The President has recently told the American people they have a rendezvous with destiny. As ] understand the term, a rendezvous 2. .'« « Under. present conditions, the most likely rendezvous As a receiver for the Treasury. . . » When the American people have a- date with- destiny they want to know what the lady:

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economic life of a people. When it blindly passes these limits, it does not encourage industrial production, it destroys it. Such interference always encounters a drought or some other force beyond the control even of a New Dealer. There are limits beyond which Federal regimentation would not go, even if it could be efficient. When it passes these limits it destroys personal initiative and individual liberty. The American people do not want Federal regimentation of their economic activities even if it could be efficient and fair. As Al Smith has expressed it, the American people do not want a dictator, not even if they could get a good one.

'HERE IS THE ISSUE'

Here we have the issue that must be decided next November. It is whether the American people shall have. an orderly and economical government recognizing the limita-. tions of Federal power or a government determined to reorganize the American economic system by experiment. We know what the decision will be. The people want recovery, not rhetoric. They want economy, not waste. They want work, not relief. They want co-operation among the partners in production, not industrial strife. They want order in economic life, not an occasional breathing spell. They want dignity in government, not a merry-go-round. They do not believe that all bankers are scoundrels, that all employ-

men are motivated by greed, that all working people are victims of oppression. They do not believe that the American system was a failure until the New Deal came along to save it from its sins.. They

dustry is a jungle of cut-throat competition dominated by entrenched greed. The people know that with the election of a New Administration next November the dammed-up forces of recovery will burst forth in a magnificent prosperity. The American people know that in man's long and troubled journey through the ages he has faced flood and famine, pestilence and drought, conquest and slavery, tranny and injustice, poverty and depression. They know that he has overcome these savage enemies through his unrelenting determination to work out his own economic salvation. Poverty and insecurity are not yet exterminated in our land. Economic hardship and economic injustice are not yet eliminated. But in the United States, in the last hundred years, the American people have come nearer to these goals than any other people anywhere in history. Brave pioneering and hard work and patient saving have made this the richest and fairest civilization

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ers are exploiters, that all business

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by sleight-of-hand tricks. With the American (system preserved, we shall, in dye time, have a free peo-' ple, livingZin plenty and security, without oloitation of destitution. The Anierican people are not going to surrender this prospect to the regimentation of visionaries and amateur economic planners. They are not géing to exchange our economic .system for the rainbow millenium of political magicians. The President recently has told the American people that they have a rendezvous with destiny. As I understand the term, a rendezvous is a date. ‘What is this rendezvous? Under present conditions, the most likely rendezvous is with a receiver for the Treasury. After the acceptance by the people of the promises of the 1932 platform, what unexpected rendezvous did the penple have? They had a rendezvous with the NRA. They had a rendezvous with Farley They had a rendezvous with the tax collectors. The American people want no rendezvous with a destiny plotted on blue prints in a Washington office. When they have a date with destiny they want to know what the lady looks like! They want to have a word to say about it.

APPEALS TO DEMOCRATS

_ The issue before the country is the ‘preservation of free enterprise. On this issue the Republican Party appeal§ to the whole people, It appeals to the millions of sincere Democrats who have been outraged by the appearance of un-American practices in the garb of ancient Demecratic principles. It appeals to the millions of business men who have for years. faced the .adversities of depression and are now facing the regimenter - and the taxgatherer. It appeals to the real forgotten men and women of the nation. The millions of workers in agriculture and personal service and small enterprises who have been ignored in all the pretense of social legislation of the New Deal. It appeals to the women of erica, ‘who

have borne the hardest blows of de-

pression and unemployment and

now face the problems of household

management under a rising cost of living in an economy of scarcity. “The Republican Party does not promise to solve all these problems that you face. It has no patent nostrums to cure every economic ill. There is no royal road to the solution of all our economic problems. But: the Republican Party does make certain promises. It does promise a fair and honest government. It does promise that this government will be as economical and efficient as it can be made. It does -promise to make every effort to install sensible and praetical measures to help in the solution of the problems of trade and industry

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“TWO WAYS LIE AHEAD'

blazes along the trail run out. Two

ways lie ahead. One lies along the

apparently easy valleys of a regi. mented “society, maintained by a paternalistic = government falsely promises to provide its subJects with a security that men were wont to purchase in‘ the past by their own efforts. The other lies along the “rugged heights of selfe pport, self-government and selfe respect. Which will we choose? We know the path our fathers chose. More often than not the right way of life is not the easy way. Because we have always taken the self-reliant way, the self-respecting way, American character has emerged as our greatest national asset. Take from us every vestige of three hundred years of progress, leave only the raw materials that God placed here, give us the American character, and we would swiftly reconstruct here a civilization as great as that we have today. America is too young, ied vigorous, to be deceived by false promises of an easy way. And so I preach to you the doctrine, not of the soft. and spineless kept citizen of a regimented state, but of the self-respecting and self-reliant men who made America. Which way shall we go? ' The answer is in your hands. I know what it will be. Next November, you, will choose the American way.

CATCH ALLEGED THIEF

Victim, Volunteer Apprehend Suspect After Washington-St Chase.

Looking back after he had parked his car in hte 1200 block on E. Washington=st last night, James E. Nicely, Greenfield, said he saw a man. open the door and remove a suit and a bag: - Shouting as he sped after the alleged thief, Mr. Nicely, with the assistance of Charles Collins, 1611 E. Washington=st, captured and held for police a nian who gave his name as Herbert Sullivan,” 48, Philadel phia. Sullivan today faced chargés of vagrancy and grand larceny. G. 0. P. CLUBS TD MEET First, Second Ward Groups to Hear Alexander G. Cavins,

The First and Second Ward Republican Clubs are to hold their fourth outdoor meeting at 8 p. m. today at the home of Scott Gehring, 2009 Nowland-av. Alexander G. Cavins, former U. S. district at-

torney, and N. A, Junip are to speak.

Victim Identifies Suspect Melvin Crouch. 19. was arrested on a vagrancy charge last night after James Krieger, 44, of Hamilton, O., pointed him out to police as

the man who had slugged and ate tempted to rob him in Camp Sulli. van a few minutes before. Police said rouch refused to give his address, | : ily : h

Again we reach a point where the

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