Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-02-14 | Page 13 | Dewey Scores Fiscal Policy

' DEWEY SCORES 1 FISCALPOLICY Thomaa E. Dewey, "a man who never tried to find a substitute for the multiplication or addition tables." ta-bles." took Issue wkh President Roosevelt on the president's recent national debt speech. In an address before nearly 1000 enthusiastic Republicans Re-publicans at the Newhoose hotel Wednesday afternoon. The president undertook a week ago yesterday to make an explanation expla-nation of what la going on," Mr. Dewey said. ""During the seven years, of the new deal,' the president presi-dent said, 'all debts of federal, state and local governments stayed about the same.' "That meant that state and local debts were reduced enough to balance bal-ance the federal debt, which, he aald, had gone up 'somewhat.' " The dark-muatached New York district attorney, candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, nomina-tion, declared that official figures of the departments of agriculture and the treasury showed President Roosevelt made a "financial error of taS.000.000,000 the biggest II-nandal II-nandal error In history.-That at more money than was spent by the United Statea government from the time George Washington took office until we entered the great war. Mr. Dewey was Introduced by William S. Murray, New York state Republican chairman, who did some metallurgical work at the University of Utah a few years ago. Mr. Murray predicted that New York state would "go Republican" Repub-lican" In the next presidential election. elec-tion. "When this happens It will mean the end of the new deal and the return to sanity in our national life," he said.