Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 6, DeMotte, Jasper County, 2 January 1948 — U.S. LIBERTY FACING NEW PERIL-TAFT [ARTICLE]

U.S. LIBERTY FACING NEW PERIL-TAFT

Declares Police-State Powers Asked By Truman Not Needed;. Flays Leadership Kansas City, Dec. 30 Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio declared tonight that the federal government “does not need the ! police-state powers which the president demands’’ to check in-

flation. “It can stop the increase in' prices if it really wants to stop it,’’ He said in an address prepared for delivery before a mass; meeting of Republicans on his two-day swing into the home state of President Truman. “The Republican, approach,” the presidential aspirant said, “is to j solve this inflation crisis by getting at the causes, by pursuing. sound policies in the ordinary conduct of government, by spending less and taxing less and preventing inflation. The Democrats want more power to impose arbitary controls which won’t w r ork.” He declared that when Congress returns to Washington “we face a demand from the president for the greatest possible peacetime control over economic freedom which this country has ever faced,” but added that Republicans believe it is not power that the government lacks, hut the ability ; to furnish leadership.” “The New Deal remedy, backed by the political action committee and therefore by the persident, is to solve every problem by creating a federal bureau, and give it more power and more money.” He continued. “If anything goes wrong, pass a new law! This has always been the policy of the New Dealer.” The great issue in the election

next November, he said, is whether the American -people desire to set up a “totalitarian government, a state which will direct every detail in the lives of its citizens.” Miss Dodie Pantzer of'lndianapolis is spending a few days here in the home of Dr. and Mrs. Leon Krosier.