The Pittsburgh Press (September 20, 1944)
Bricker charges ‘broken promises’
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (UP) –
President Roosevelt has left in his three administrations a trail of “broken promises” of abundant life, economy, security and unhampered private enterprise which prove the New Deal “cannot be trusted,” Ohio Governor John W. Bricker charged here today.
The Republican vice-presidential nominee charged that Mr. Roosevelt had “broken up” the London International Economic Conference of 1933 which “aggravated the worldwide economic maladjustments which led to a second great world war.”
Under the New Deal’s promise of an “abundant life,” Governor Bricker said, the nation faced long before the war “restrictions, orders and taboos.”
Security, he said, brought the “CWA, the FERA, or the WPA with their doles and made-work.” The “economy” which President Roosevelt promised increased the national debt “by 100 percent” during the first seven years of his administration, he added.
Charging that the New Deal was not prepared when war broke out, Governor Bricker said that the President “frantically appealed” to capital and labor and agriculture, which pitched in and “are saving America in spite of the New Deal.”