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Copies of the following pamphlets _and    
other League literature may be obtained
upon application to the League’s nat1ona t B
headquarters:  
Statement of Princ.iples and Purposes
gmericgln Libirtyl Lletaguei-Its gla(tformM I
n An ysis 0 t e resi ent’s u get essage ·
Fcénnomic Security A   of 3.11 EXPBIISIVG
n ation ` _ . . . n
$113e ghirty I·g>urkWee§u V101&t1OI1 of C3.1`D.P3,1gI1
ending an ing i ·
gh; H(q1ding1Company Bill I Pledges, Menacing to the.
r`ce ontro . . .
Ygsterdgy, Today andB'I;{>mcn·ew R-1ghlZS Ellld L1b€1TlZ1€S of
T La or Re ations i ' °
Holivv Inflation Affects the Average Family- CILIZCHS
Speech by Dr. Ray Bert Westerfield
The Bituminous Coal Bill .
Regimenting the Farmers-Speech by Dr. G'. W. * * *
Dyer
Extension of ,the NRA _
$11;; g?/}`§“°KSm£3$;Hg111 "We are not getting an adequate return
The New Drinli Its Unsound ghgtnréei and gire- for the money we are spending in Wash-
concilable o icies—Speech y a p . aw · ·
Is the Constitution for Sale?—Speech by Capt. mgtom on to ?ut It another way round,
William H. Stayton we are spending altogether too much .
Hcgvgrtq Meet the Issue——Speech by William E · mnney for government services which are
The Supreme Court and the New Deal neither practical nor necessary. In addi-
The Duty of the Church to the Social Order- tion to this we are attempting ton many
Speech by S. Wells Utley_ _ . . rn . f
Art} Opeln Letter to the President-By Dr, Neil functions and we need a snmp 1 cation o
arot ers ° ° °
The Revised AAA Amendments what the Federal Government 1S giving to
The Return to Democracy-Speech by Jouett the P°°P1°·
Shouse “ -Fr¢mklin D. Roosevelt, Sioux City, Iowa.
The President’s Tax Program September 29, 1932.
The American Bar-The Trustee of American
» Institutions-Speech by Albert C'. Ritchie
TwolAmazing Years—Speech by Nicholas Roose-
ve t
Fabian Socialism in the New Deal-Speech by `t€ Ig·
Demarest Lloyd - v  
The People’s Money-Speech by Dr. Walter E.  
Spahr _r;     ,4 .
The Principles of Constitutional Democracy and wv -"=·>—ei~ ¤-==~ ¤
the New Deal-Speech by R. E. Desverrline *649,. gv?
Wllgich Road to Take?-Speech by J. Howard Y °"
ew
Tl; lgessings of Stability-Speech by James W. ·
a sworth
Legislation-by Coercion or Constitution-
Speech by Jouett Shame AMERICAN LIBERTY LEAGUE
Recovery by Statute-Speech by Dr. Neil Ca- National Headquarters
A   _rothers NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING
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  AMERICAN LIBERTY LEAGUE * *
NATIONAL PRESS BUILDING .
WASHINGTON, D. C. `
Document N0. 57
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Expanding Bureaucracy   7. Employees of the ten cabinet departments
*   have increased by more than 50,000 since March,
, 1 1933.
"WQ are net getting qa adeqaata return fel' the 8. Emergency and permanent agencies created
money we are spending in Washington, or, to put it Since Mereh, 1933, have 1067659 employees, 21,_
lIn~Olh9T way round, we (ITG spending altogether too   Of them in the District Of Columbia and   _
much money for government services. which are , 327 Outside ’
neither practical nor necessary. In addition to this X ' .
we are attempting too many functions and we need 9; A nee decrease ef needy e>eee m tmpltrtts
a simplification of what the Federal Government is l of Independent efneee exletlng PHO? to _March,
giving to the people."———Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sioux   1933, 1S accounted for by t1"anSi€r‘S to Cablnet Cle-
City, Iowa, September 29, 1982. . T pamlémmihiltls or new tagenioies. f G t
` ¢ . e presen 0 a 0 ovcrnmen em-
T HE mushroom growth of the Federal bureau- ployees 1S far 1n excess of any 1n_the peacetime
cracy during the past two years represents ll1S’t01‘y_ of the Government and 1S rap1d1y ap-
a violation of campaign pledges, an unjustifiable P1`0eeh111g the We1`l¤1me 1`eee1`d·
burden on the taxpayers and a menace to the _ _
liberties, rights and welfare of individthal leiti- . Campzugn P1t‘0m1S€S
zens and business enterprises. New jo s ave .
been distributed as rewards for political service its glggerm adehtgg eyt ehed Elemgjgattt
rather than on the basis of need or efficiency. pe ylek_ leege m een eme e e ew'
The bureaucracy has meddled unnecessarily and me p at '
with injurious consequences in affairs which un- "We adv¤<>ate an immediate and dfastia raduction
der the Constitution do not concern the Federal ef geYeI`Pme¤l¤el eXPe¤d1l¤¤1"eS by ab<>11¤1¤¤e useless
Government. Thousands of workers have been ee‘§“l;*SS1e“S and Oetcee ¤¤¤S¤tdat¤g deperlmente
engaged in tasks which the Supreme Court al- l gsm lglezugévegd Ce1m;e?e1”iheXtg;Vege“°e·tee ,3;*
ready has branded as unconstitutional, while cestpef the Fedeeal Grgeriiilenee per can m e
other thousands continue in activities of doubt- `
ful validity. Money has been spent lavishly to The Democratic presidential nominee repeat-
build up new Government agencies which have edly during his campaign pledged himself to
been unable and will be unable to justify their I carry out the party’s declaration for the abolish-
existence. Profligate methods have prevailed. ment of useless Government offices and the elimi-
Fundamental theories upon which the new bu- nation of extravagance. .
reaucracy is based are unsound and were adopt- In accepting the nomination at the convention  
ed   the face of the advice of the most eminent on July 2, 1932, the candidate said: I
ent OI`n?ieS· "For three lon ears I ha '
The chief statistical facts are: 1 and down this couietrjgei preaching itnatiageelveeiixgntlie
I. Civil oflicers and ”€InplOy€eS in the EXBCU- * Federal and state and local—c0sts too much. I
tivo branch of the Federal Government increased l shall not stop that preaching. I As an immediate pro- A
hy 148,625 between March 1, 1933, and May 31,   gram of aetion we must abolish useless offices. We
1935. 1 must eliminate actual perfunctions of government-
2. The new positions include 35,737 in the Dis- ' §E§m;1§;1&D¥11aI§3;gt’Ol}hztoggenelegneeeemeelylxfligeeleteh tg I
tmgt ht Ctlvmbta and 112,888 m the States- I we must amseiidns subdivisions of gsvsmmsitj
_· ven In May; 1935; the leleeeli month for and, like the private citizens, give up luxuries which
which figugesggre available, there was a net 1n- we can no longer afford?
crease 0 ,1 . _ _
4. Further increases under the work-relief pro- . At the eempelgn advanced the Demeerene
gram will offset the reduction of employees of I pteeldeeidel nemmeeen September 29> 1932. at
the NRA forced by the courts. SIOUX Cltyv Iowa: Send?
5. The annual payroll of civil employees is “I shall use this position of high responsibility to
nearly $300,000,000 greater than at the end of diSGt{SS up and down the country, in all seasons, at
the Loot administraationo all times, the duty of reducing taxes, of increasing
6. The latest monthly report of the Civil Serv- the eeldeuey Of gevemmeee ef euteeg Out the
ice Commission lists more than 30 new agencies gggeggrailg IiiginpibeirS§1e;;DgeIg°_;°“;I,;tIeL;e§;1;e* eg
`ereeted by the preeene ejmm1eeI`e‘e1en· by taxation. This I pledge you, and nothing I leave I
3

 · , . . . , , , ‘ fiscal year. I give you assurance that if this is done
seed m the .°3‘mpa1gn transcends ui lmpmtsuss sms there is reasonable prospect that within a year the
eerenenr Wuh the ssxpsysrs ef sms eeenhrr ‘‘‘‘ income of the Government will be sufncient to cover
"I accuse the present administration of being the the sxpsiidituies Of the Govsmmsiiiiy I
greatest spending administration in peace times in · e
all our histor , one which has iled bureau on bu- · ·
reau, commission on commissioii, and has failed to NO Warnlng Of Expanslon
girriigireee sie age eeese egi rigdheed earning, rages; _ Either because of lack or vision as to what
aetarueieeiepthe exlpieeriaslssointheuhizigiigrs . s , s Ee " Wenhlhe ne_eeeearya or foreorne other reason, hilie
com my paris I ask you is assign ms iiis task Oi V adm1n1strat1on, 1n presenting 1tS measures to t e
reducing the annual operating expenses of the Na-   Congress SU.l?S€ql1€I1lD_tO the passage of the ECOI1-
tional G0vernm€¤t_" ji omy Act, fa1led to give warning that a reversal
of the policy of the Democratic platform was
The Dernooratie presidential norninee dealt contemplated. No intiroation can be found in
with bnl`€n»n0l`s0Y and eeononny on OCh0b_€I` 19, the hearings before Congressional committees in
1932, dh Pithehnrgh- ln that slnssnh he snldl the spring of 1933 that it was proposed, largely
"Now I am going to disclose to you a definite per. under general authority vested ini the President,
sonal conclusion which I adopted the day after I to create a host of new agencies with many thou-
was nominated in Chicago. Here it is: sands of employees.
‘Before any man enters my cabinet, he must Dr. Rexford G. Tugwell, noW Under Secretary
· give me a twofold pledge of: of Agriculture and at that time Assistant Sec-
1. Absolute loyalty to the Democratic platform, retary of Agriculture, advised the Senate Com-
and eeneeially to its eeonorny plank _ rnittee on Agriculture on March 17, 1933, that
2· Csmlusus eo(;1§1;Itii>(i11\?vi’illi iE‘§`§‘2Lit§esS’ 3L°$*u*23"Ehs°yt3 ee “"
, 1 IS 1S ODE OI1
"0¤r Gerennnense henee ie not in order and for the rental and state cooperaltive plan——it might not
rnanv Ysnsnns no ndnnlnvn aehron has been taken to be in some instances. Then you have got to have all
‘ Ysshdrs It he erll2> ol Whom lo2>oo9 were lh the The Legislative and Judicial officers and em-
District of Columbia and 609,573 outside. p1Oy€€,S number less than 10 000 and their ag-
The gland total Showed ah lhoteaee ol lee? gregate compensation accounte for less than $27,-
ooo from a total ol ooofelort oh Fehtoaty 2o> 000 000 of the civil payroll annual total.
1933» leur days bbfbrh bhb bhhhgh ih hdhhhhh- rtg 1934 and 1935 salary mais Walid have
tttatlohe The holhhet ol employees lh the Dle' been greater except for the temporary salary
ttlot ol Colomhla lheleaeed by oo¤7o7 llolh a reductions in force during those years. These
bbbhl ol oo¤oo2 oh Felotoaly 28¤ l933> Whlle the reductions provided in the Economy Act of 1933,
number outside the District increased by 112,888 are ne lenaer in erfeet_
from a total of 4961385. b 1 f
A ootnote in t e ta uation or May 31, '
1935, states that the total for the Department of Number of égcntles
Agriculture does not include 34,780 special em- When the present administratron took office,
ployees hired under letters of authorization. the monthly tabulation of the Civil Service Com-
Another footnote explains that in addition to _ mission listed the ten cabinet departments and
regular employees in emergency conservation fewer than forty independent agencies. The
work, which, according to the tabulation, total most recent tabulation, that for May, 1935, lists
36,369, there are military employees numbering nearly sixty independent agencies. While the
8,845, intermittent employees numbering 4,141 · net increase is about twenty, the latest list in-
and nurses numbering 209. Also outside the cludes 31 agencies which were not in existence
tabulation are an enrolled personnel of the con- at the beginning of March, 1933. Some of the
servation camps numbering 329,193 and enrolled old agencies were absorbed by others._ _
Indians numbering 6,413. If all of these groups There will be additional new agencies in fu-
were added, the total would be nearly 1,100,000, ture monthly tabulations. Only a few ot the new
a figure far in excess of the wartime civilian work-relief aglencies crgacted bjrr Jgxeeutivggrder
total. ( to supervise t e expen iure o e our- 1 ion-
Except for the period of the World War there . dollar fund are included in the May report, and
never has been any such number of Government the building of their orginizations had only com-
employees as even the total of 712,112. On June menced. The work-relief agencies will absorb
30, 1916, the/year before our entrance into the a considerable number of the workers of the
World War, there were 438,057 civil employees NRA besides employing others. No let—up in the
in the Executive branch of the Government. On steady increase in the total Government payroll
November 11, 1918, the date of the signing of the seems in prospect.
V 6 7

 Cablneti Departments _ II1d€PCI1C1€I11Z Ag€1'1Ci6S
The economy drive during the months ]ust .
prior to and immediately following the inaugura- Indopdlldooll agollolos had a llolal of 69228
tion of the present administration resulted in Employees ee Fobluafy 28»1933· The total olo"
very material reductions in the forces of most of ployoos ef lhoso Pamodlal govommoolal bodlee
the regular establishments of the Government. had shrunk le 69766 ee Mer all Iddo-
Payrolls were slashed all along the line. Sev- , Decreased m Some of the old eeeeeieer eeeh ee
C eral thousand employees lost their jobs at the the Im€rSlato.Qommoroo Commlssloo end tho
and Or the Hscai yarr On Jima 30, 1933. Veterans Administration, are more than offset
The most recent figures show that while three bxmiardases ln olllolsi molddmg loo Gevemmeel
of the ten cabinet departments had fewer em- ‘ Prmling Omcei the Rdcdnstructloo Fldadoo Col"
ployees in May, 1935, than at the end of Febru- iltidrdtldni the Fdddrall.Ti`ado Comlllldslooi the ·
ary, 1933, the other seven had greatly increased ddoratl  owor Commlsslooi llllo Civil Solvloo
their totals. Employees of the ten departments Ciammlssloo and dlo Gollolal Aeeeeoims Omoo-
numbered 544,687 on May 31, 1935, an increase fir G dansifar of the old Form Board alld_olllol`
of 50,428 over a total of 494,259 on February naiglsgggggnagr?r§l€°l;i)a°(;’rr;“rirl;aO§o(l;‘i Eia§o%s;d§$(dlga(l?d'
2 m'
28Tl1£le33three departments showing a decrease eieeiee by the now C¤¤lm¤¤ie.eii¤¤e Qommla
in employees are the State Department, which Slolir and tho lieeeier of Pllollo olllldmg and
has to do primarily with foreign rather than do- pg? employees: to the Intorlor Doparlmool ere
mestic affairs; the Department of Justice, which C lady rdspdnslbld for a rodllolloo of oiooa lo
was able to curtail its staff with the repeal of tho omldloyoos of old agolaoloo olllsldo of lrllo
prohibition, and the Post Office Department, oabmoa . ,
where operations reflect business conditions. . Comparative lolals of. omplolfoos ei malol
Whiis revenues Of the Post Oriica Department independent agencies, which continued in exist-
decreased 10 per cent from the Hscal year 1933 to Endo bolwooo Fobrdary aoi laddr end May BL
the fiscal year 1934, the decrease in the number 1935l alo ee follows: F b M I
of employees has been less than 5 per cent. Bigguy 19;;  
D€P&I`tm€Ul»S Showing lnCI`€&S€$ are the Troasuryr Veterans Administration ............. 34,501 33 415 —1086
War, Navy, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce and Govt. Printing omee ................ 4,719 5;841 ,622
L&bOI·_ Reconstruction Finance Corp ......... 2,177 3,447 1,270
Comparative totals for the ten cabinet de- ;‘;‘;$;?;tsA§;;“t;“g gmee ··········   2**82 713
partments are shown as follower I , Civil Service c?rei;ieeie;d?ij]ZiZjZZ ,620   digi
I1CI`88.S€0I' · · · ·
rermeieee  ieee o ecre   i’r‘;‘;Z‘3§{’“i§§;.ri“i§?;‘f;§§;er5;ii;;;:i;ii iii 233 ri
state ............................... 4,664 4,517 -147 Neiiorlel Advis. Comm. Aero ........ 308 331 23
rreeerrry ........................... 52,266 54,975 2,709 . Federel Reserve Board .............. 210 330 120
wer ................................ 44,188 65,572 21,384 ‘ Teriii Commission ................... 306 310 4
Jrrerree ,... . ..,.................... 9,022 7,197 -1,825 Fed- Home Loan Bank Board ....... 96 297 201
Peet omee ......,................... 272,550 260,045 --12,505 Federal Power Commission .......... 54 296 242
Navy ............................... 46,879 58,499 11,620 Employees Compensation Comm. .... 175 264 89
nrrerier ............................. 15,018 28,200 13,182 » Boerd of Tex Appeals .............. 140 131 -9
Agriculture ......................... 26,132 37,459 11,307
m rc .......................... , 71 0,10 ,1 4 ’
 . ..,,. . ..,. , ,,,,....,. *;,2e     New Aeeeeiee
———— —— ———— Thirty-one new agencies created under the
TOTAL ........................ 494,259 544,687 50,428 present admiiiistratirm have been adding to their r
In the above tabulation only civilian ern- , fnuggizyeerirhzir ilggairzga tif S§`i€I?$arE’h°uSa1i°ri)6a
ployees of the War and Navy Departments are q 659  cms Or the a smi er T ’ r ’ was it
included. The Agricultural Adjustment Admin- A Character While Othsias ree a ado di perfntaneil
istration, the only one of the important emer- durin this sriod V r tha 8 m ee E 0 ems (my
gency agencies attached to a Cabinet Depart- Thg tOta£ b no S €m?rg€3a°y‘ i ,0 .
ment, is omitted from the figures of the Depart- tum as to the Y a Ornif ES gwed S cgglpé B pm`
ment of Agriculture. The increase would be ment The pig, O S ratiancg d yi § °V€m` r
much greater if it were included here instead of Raimi Ad drill; {aes O re B ere mergency
in the iist Or new agencies. minis ra 1on as isted are _fewer than
8 , 900 but there are thousands of relief workers
9

 receiving Salaries from funds given by the Fed- cent expansion of bureaucratic power. Expendi-
Gml Government to the States. tures for salaries have been wasteful. The cre-
Thc number Of employees Of the ,0hi1_ty_OH€ ation of many new agencies has nullined _the
agencies created under the present administra— movement Jwwaiid Cocrdmalilon and reorganiza-
mm as Of Ma 31 last fOHOWS_ tion of the previously existing bureaucracy.
* Y ’ ‘ The e-conomy plank of the Democratic party
Diseeroei. outsieieoo. Total ` for 1932 was based on sound principles. The
Emergency eeesewsees were ......... 1,129 35,240 36,2.66 ` arguments advanced by the Demccratic presi-
neme owners Loan oerpeamee ...... 2,148 17,224 19,372 dential nominee in the 1932 campaign for the
Tempessee vsuey Authority..·..· .....   16 16,467 16,483 fulfillment of that pledge were good then and
Agr1cultural·Ad_1ustrnent Administration 5,504 2,370 7,874 are doubly good today AS the Candidate as-
Farm Credit Administration ........... 1,488 5,324 6,812 , . . . ° . .
Public Works Administration .......... 2,307 4,164 6,471 S€i“l»€d in hre P1l»tSbi~U'gh SD€€0h, 9· 1”€dU0}¤1011 IH
National Recovery Administration ..... 3,791 1,279 5,070 F€(l€I`31l Sp€I1dlI1g is “l`7l'1€ H1OSl`» (llI`€CI0 31Ild effec-
  §1;;i;i;iCyAgnjnginiiggnhiéégéL Lili 14843 **984 tive contribution that Government can make to
tion .................................. 689 185 874 buSm8S$· Instead dl Saving "rnany hundreds
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 231 512 743 Of mllllcns Of dollars 3* Y€aI",”   he Said
Securities and Exchange Commission. 548 112 660 could I`€Sl1ll'2 liI'OII1 3. I`€OI`g&I1lZ31l3lOI1 of l3ll€ GrOV€I‘Il—
§i3§L'i‘;?‘e€E.“i§§$.?§.i’,4.§’.2“‘ElL.;;4;;;;.;" il? Q3 223 niann ina nnaaani aanninianaiinn ia nannnainia
National Resources Board ...........   157 199 356 for an lnqreaise In paiyrous Of nearly three hun-
Federal Surplus Relief Corporation .... 335 11 346 dred mllllOnS• Desplts Campaign pledges “bu'
Resettlement Administration ............ 192 4 196 I` GBUS &IlCl l[)l.1I`€81l1CI'3»l1S have b€€I] I'€l`»2l.lI1€d at l)l'l€
i4Z°l?§ZL1A}Z°§t`§l $Z?§§$¤§`“}4“3Z.‘l$i’iii°“ iii 166 iii Expense ai iiii i.aXi’ai"iiT»" a iiiiiaaa aaai aniiy
Federal Coordinator of Transportation 104 25 129   the pI‘€S1d€nl-ilail DOH/Huge tihI`€€,y€3’?S ago  
Special Adviser on Foreign Trade ..... 102   102 S_lOuX   The Gnd cf sxpanslon IS not IU
Central Statistical Board ............... 94   94 sight. If the public is to have confidence in the
 Oprgiigtigggpgrgsjgn ........       pledges of the administration in the next cam-
,,,...,1 El e,,. ification 2dm1.1,.;.s;.;ii: 64   64 palm nan time that a Start aiinnid be,aade,¤¤
National Railroad Adjustment Board.. .. 38 38 rddemptlon Of those glvsn in   Ellmlnatlon
National Archives ....................... 28   28 of lJ.I1I1€C€SS2LI`y 31g€1'lCl€S 31Ild €lCI]plOy€€S   31
Railroad Retirement Board ............ 24   24 Consgquent ygduction in administrative costs Of
EXn°ii·iniPni'i Banks ··················· iii   12 the Government would constitute a substantial
Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Cor- . .
pereaee .............................. 10   10 Contribution tc i“€COV€i“Y·
Alley Dwelling Authority .............. 9   9
Steel Labor Relations Board ........... 6   6
Total ............................... 21,332 85,327 106,659
Only a few of the agencies were created by J
specific statute. Some were established by Ex-
ecutive order under laws providing in general
terms for administrative organizations. Others
were set up by Executive order under broad pow- ·
ers of emergency statutes. Some of the new
agencies are super-commissions conceived by
the Executive for the purpose of supervising
others.
Bureaucratic Control
The new bureaucracy has sought to exert an
influence over all branches of industry, agricul-
ture and finance. The ramifications have been
very far-reaching. A restraining hand has been 4
placed on the liberties of individual citizens. The
existing bureaucracy, as invariably is true, has
tried to widen its activities. Only the authority · 4
of the courts has proved able to check the re- 11
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