Show people alarmed by new powers 4 pr admission of peril to liberties stirs critics president roosevelt Roosevel ts s statement in his message to congress in which he be said he be had built up DP v instruments ot of power has caused widespread dis amon th se criticizing the presidents assumption of authority and his public defense of it are individuals who previously lave 1 ave supported certain of his other policies these critics point out that mr nir roosevelt admitted tl e I 1 ower he had I 1 built up would endanger I 1 bertles berties of the people if transferred from him to a successor in the presidency one of the discussions of this threat to constitutional safeguards appeared as its an editorial in a recent issue of the topeka dally daily capital owned by senator arthur capper farm leader and publisher of kansas hansas senator capper has been notably friendly to ward most of the new deal policies citizens will protest the editorial declares that every citizen of the united states who loves liberty will protest against the adais slon ion of the president that he has built up instruments of power that threaten the peoples liberties the editorial te le entitled an astounding declaration portions of it follow in his remarkable message to con gress last friday evening president roosevelt made the following aston ashing statement in 34 months we have built up new instruments of public cover po ver in the hands of a peoples people s government this power Is wholesome and proper but in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such po ver would provide shackles tor for the liber ilber ties of the people charges fascist regime in other words we see the prest dent of the united states boldly and defiantly declaring that he and his associates have built up a fascist regime wl ich by inference safeguards the liberties of tt ti e people of the united states only so long as he mr roosevelt continues in power every dictator in the world makes exactly tl e same claim neither sta alln nor mussolini nor hitler will ad mit that he Is making slaves of the people he rules or Is placing shackles on their liberty liberty already lost if what he says Is true then we have already lost our liberty and there Is no longer a government of the peo pie but it Is a government of an autocratic organization headed by frank alln D roosevelt the editorial concludes with this paragraph president roosevelt s own adais slon mon that he in the last 34 months has built up new instruments of power that makes it possible for any prest dent no matter how bow autocratic autocrat le to shackle the liberties of the people ought to defeat him pm for election reelection re |