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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 18

99 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Eleanor Roosevelt · 99 pages OCR'd
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4 { ‘ ‘ ' 7 — ae ee ~ Ciare i oumen con "6, as one! . : ‘ ): : _* ot ~re tei which creates security"in place of - a. . : opportunity. and ntects the poorer Worker and jrings the geod mechanics.” PARLEY CONCLUDED. Both men were speakers at the @inner of the Bureau of Advertis- ing of the A. N. FL A. which eon- eluded last night the convention | 2 of the publishers at the Waldor?-| = 07" Astoria. - . Wilikie began his speech with @ Bumorous reference to his atatus Bs a “dark horse” Presidential candidate. He went on rigorously |. to denounce ‘the Roosevelt New Dea] administration for its ‘soak She rich’ theory of taxation, for its Dureauecracy and its regulatory Suppression of enterprises, He said: . “Our forefathers believed that a * f: ltt TE “ - . came trem ihe enerpes) Spc 27a5¥) 2 Ng SRM SE as ROR gree | precren: of the peeple, the funclion ef gov- a a] ermment was merely te preveni those energies from getting out of bounds. Teday the government publicity preclaims the fallere of the people's enterprises and hat adopted the princiie (hat progress comes from the government iteelf. DIGCOURAGING BUSINESS. c “If we examine the goternment'’s i. Somesiic activities — regulation, = r the tax program, the spending /At sci a. tiny), 4, pregram——we find no evidence ef vant any desire te promote the business (State V2 @f the peopie.” “Welther the New Dealers, whe|? wrote the lows regulating busines |" enterprises, nor the commisieners |“ who administer those laws, seems fe de interested im enceeraging |! Ieniness.” f On the subject of taxes. he said} it is not the amount but the kind ef tax that hurts business. "The bees ef « ocientific tax procram,” he sald, “is to rate the meceuary money Wilh the least pomible interference with the en terprises of the people. Admlited- |j ly that is mot the purpose of)' . the present tax pretram. ‘ : 5 ' @CATITAL DRIED UP." ' . . : “The tden has been to ‘onek ihe /! rich’ ef ‘le redistribute income oe in order te force certain reform t : As 2 result, our tax sbhem tends te dry up the seurces frem which fmdusiry gets ite coplial.” ‘Wiltkle said he was in agreement t ‘ with many of the New Deal socia! . _ . A controls, although he criticized) _ . A them as bound by a “vast network of regulation.” He discussed the definition of a Hberal, and ssid: “Te the bibers!, the purpose of 1 geverament fs wachangenbls, Bf fa te beave men free. . “The reactionary may Gesire, with equal sinceriiy, 3 precperens society, but he believes ff eam be ‘ achieved only by the epncestra- en of ecsnemic or petitical peer. “The Hberal dees nol sve in the t sdminisiration ony will ?
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