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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 18
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PARLEY CONCLUDED.
Both men were speakers at the
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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
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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 '
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“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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