AMERICA’S EXPERIMENT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 21 April 1934, Page 12

AMERICA’S EXPERIMENT

THREATENS PERSONAE LIBERTY

Mr John; W. Davis, ; 10 years, ago the, Democrat candidate for tlioi Presidency, opened a debate on the proposals .put forth'by the Secretary of. .Agriculture, Mr Wallace, in, h/s pamphlet,; '‘America Must. Choose," ..with • a declaration that the regimentation of American industry contemplated by Mr Roosevelt’s “new deal” "threatens, if it docs not'seek to destroy, that personal liberty which Americans of past and present days have

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'ben taught to hold, as the mosL precions of earthly possessions.” Mr Dav‘went on to. say that- there were natural laws-in •the sociaHand economic, as well as in the physical worlds. . The law of supply and demand, for example, could not lie thwarted by governmental price, fixing or even bv experiments with the currency:• “Those who bite, oh 'that' rock' are sure (o break their ■foeth.” Wisdom in govermheut consisted in discovering those natural'laws'aiid followbig them— noth in' devising hasty expedieiits 'whereby they ‘might be . eircumvented. Not miracles, hut reason, cornwon sense,,and the .past experience of

mankind should bo'relied upon to extricate . the", Country from, depression. These,' gtiidieafed that there..should be "less 'restraiiit on humaii'activity, not more; a freer .exchange, of goods and services with other nations, not increased . prohibitions • more .economy in government and lower- taxes, tpot higher

taxes and increasing spending —and so on down the line.” Discussing tile regimentation of agriculture involved in the adoption of nil out-and-out nationalist economy, Mr,Davis said: “Every Socialist and every advocate ol social discipline, of a planned economy or of i, nationalist veginienlation--call it what yon will—must answer in the end this ■< quest ion: Who is to sit in the- drivers , seal and hold the reins and whip ! And tho answer cannot bo made in such vague collective terms as the State, the Government, or .society, for these only 'move by human hands. Who are the men, gentlemen, you would set to rule j over us?”