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Page Four THE SKYSCRAPER Oct. 14,1964 Maj Elect LBJ Or Barry I stands for issues, according to Warren J. Franks, author of A to Z with BMG. While Mr. Franks, distinguishes between trumped up issues such as poverty, civil rights, extremism and the real issues of mother hood, morality and brushing after every meal, the Skyscraper pre sents the major campaign issues in four general categories. In their own words and by their voting records, the Skyscraper has outlined the positions of the Demo cratic candidate. President Lyndon B. Johnson, and the Republican chal lenger on the right, Senator Barry M. Goldwater, on civil rights and the law, the economy, foreign affairs and the welfare state. or Campaign Issues Arizona Conservative Assails Court; Cites Constitution as Supreme Law Republican candidates Senator Barry M. Goldwater and Represen tative William E. Miller have cited scandal in the Democratic admin istration as a major source of crime in the United States today. In Arizona Senator Goldwater said, Choose the way of the present ad ministration and you have the way of mobs in the streets, restrained only by the plea that they wait until after election time to ignite violence once again. Blames Democrats Continuing with his law and order theme, Goldwater blames the Democratic welfare state for an increase in nationwide crime. If it is entirely proper for government to take from some and give to oth ers, he asks, then won't some be led to believe that they can right fully take from anyone who has more than they? The more the fed eral government has attempted to legislate morality, the more it has actually incited hatred and vio lence. Representative Miller, campaign ing in Denver, said the Democrats have given us Bobby Baker and Billie Sol Estes; and Lyndon John son had the colossal nerve in Atlan tic City to go before the American people and say 'Let us continue'. In Lincoln, Neb., Miller added that Johnson would probably appoint Bobby Baker as Secretary of the Treasury. Citing the Constitution rather than the Supreme Court as the su preme law of the land, Goldwater has referred to today's Court as that branch of the government Goldwater Urges Mutual Security Senator Barry M. Goldwater be lieves The United States must lead the free world, not retreat from the hard obligations of that leadership. We must reject as vain and out moded any suggestions that we hide behind a Fortress America or Ma- ginot Line concept. The aggressive thrust of Communism will not per mit it. Goldwater feels that the United Nations is basically good in that it can still provide machinery for invaluable conciliations among na tions. But I want to see the U.N. do more. However, his position in placing the United States within the U.N. structure is vague. I have come to the i-eluctant conclu sion, he said, that the United States no longer has a place in the United Nations . . . The world is not ready for a UN, and it may not be for a hundred years. I can't get excited about our staying in or get- ing out. Goldwater has said that he would ... recognize a Cuban govern ment in exile. He would help a revolutionary force to free the Cu ban people by giving them supplies, arms and the United States' politi cal support. The candidate would also ... vigorously press our OAS partners to join the U.S. in restor ing a free and independent govern ment in Cuba. This country, he said, must not think the Commu nists have forgotten their goal of world domination. Goldwater says that action must be taken against Cuba. If we don't do this soon . . . we . . . will someday have to repeat what we did in 1898. Goldwater has consistently re ferred to total victory as the only solution to the crises in South East Asia. There is no substitute for victory. The basic requirement for an effective U.S. policy in S.E. Asia is the decision and the will to back it up that victory is our goal. The senator feels that the American people have been kept in the dark concerning the situation in Viet Nam. He believes that se crecy in foreign policy must be at a minimum, public understanding at a maximum. Foreign military aid and tech nical assistance, says Goldwater, are valuable adjuncts to our over all program of mutual security the former to protect our friends against Communist aggression, and the latter to help free nations help themselves. In the Senate, he has voted against every major foreign aid appropriation in the past 11 years including the Alliance for Progress. I would rather see this foreign economic aid money chan neled into technical assistance and the Peace Corps ... In August, 1961, Goldwater voted to reduce the Peace Corps authorization from 40 million to 25 million. On military status, the Sena tor said on June 17, 1964, We are in second place and I defy the czar of the Pentagon to dispute that statement. However, by June 30, 1964, the U.S. forged ahead and Goldwater announced, at this mo ment . . . the United States is strong enough militarily to do pretty much what she wants to do with Russia. 'least faithful to the constitutional principal of limited government. In November, 1963, Senator Gold- water said, I do not think any de cision of the Supreme Court is nec essarily the law of the land ... In recent decisions the Supreme Court, says Goldwater, has exer cised raw and naked power. Senator Goldwater voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He believes, We must always make a sharp distinction between civil rights guaranteed under the con stitution and those rights of asso ciation that are basically moral is sues and cannot be resolved simply by passing new Federal laws. The key to racial and religious toler ance lies not in laws alone, but ulti mately in the hearts of men. Desegregates Facilities The Goldwater businesses have been desegregated. The senator assisted in the desegregation of public facilities in Phoenix and supported a local public accommo dations ordinance. He supported the federal civil rights acts of 1957 and 1960. He would have voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but We cannot resolve those great moral problems by recourse to demagogy, to violence, or to con tempt for law and order. Republican Nominee Voting Record Attests to Consistent Conservatism At a rally in Spartanburg, S.C. in 1960, Senator Barry Goldwater said, I fear Washington and cen tralized government more than I do Moscow. During his 12 years in the United States Senate, the Republican presidential candidate has voted against the war on poverty pro gram, matching grants to states for an expanded vocational education program, the Manpower Develop ment and Training Act to provide unemployed workers the opportu nity to learn new skills, the exten sion of emergency unemployment compensation and the National Service Corps, a volunteer public service act. His voting record is rated 100 per cent conservative by the Americans for Constitutional Action. The senator considers Social Se curity basic protection for the aged. I favor a sound Social Secu rity system and I want to see it strengthened. I want to see every participant receive all the benefits the system provides. The only question I throw at my opponents is: If I'm opposed to Social Secu rity, why have I been so active in my voting? By our votes you can judge us, not by our talking. Since 1956 Goldwater has voted against a social security amendment to provide pay ments to the totally disabled Candidate Promises Preservation of Dollar Value; Barry Assimilates Program of Annual Tax Reduction After attacking the present ad ministration's tax cut system, Sena tor Barry Goldwater pledged tax cuts of his own and promised to preserve the value of the dollar by prudent budgeting of national funds. The Senator's program would in clude a proposal to Congress of a regular program of automatic an nual cuts in income taxes. This program could and would be accomplished free of political manipulation, and would offer a safe, sane and regular program of tax reductions. Not proposing a cut in the tax rate but a reduction in the amount one pays, the Senator's program would be completed over a five-year period. At the end of the first year, five per cent would be deducted from the income tax figure and an other five per cent for each of the following four years until each person's payment is reduced 25 per cent. The Senator states that he does not promise a balanced budget every year but insists that it would balance over the five-year span of the program. Mr. Goldwater also says that the growth of economy will provide enough new revenue every year to permit such reduc tion. His tax cut program is allied to holding federal expenditures at a constant level, if not reducing them and will be tied in with a program concerned with spending restraint. Senator Goldwater has advocated the abolition of the graduated in come tax. The graduated tax, he says in The Conscience of a Conser vative, is a confiscatory tax. Its ef fect, and to a large extent, its aim, is to bring all men to a common level. Many of the leading pro ponents of the graduated tax frankly admit that their purpose is to re-distribute the nation's wealth. We are all equal in the eyes of God, but we are equal in no other re spect. Government has a right to claim an equal percentage of each man's wealth, and no more. Arti ficial devices for enforcing equality among unequal men must be re jected if we would restore the char ter of this Republic and honor its laws. at age 50 instead of 65, against an amendment to permit re cipients to earn 50 a month or less without having that amount deducted from benefits, against an amendment to in crease benefits by ten per cent, against an amendment to estab lish a program of health care for the aged under the Social Security system. In 1960 Goldwater was one of two senators to vote against the Kerr-Mills Bill, an alternate pro gram of medical care for the eld erly. However, on April 28, 1963 he said, I don't think medicare is the answer. We already have a pretty good approach to this on the books . . . it's the Kerr-Mills Bill. Senator Goldwater has con sistently opposed federal aid to education, the farm subsidy program, the rural electrifica tion administration, federally sponsored housing programs, and national conservation proj ects (except one portion of the Pacific Southwest Water Plan which benefits Arizona). My constant hope, says Sena tor Goldwater, is to put new life and meaning into the dynamic use of local and state government, to help people achieve some of their most deeply felt needs in such areas as education, social welfare and community life. If we deem public intervention necessary, let the job be done by state and local authorities that are incapable of accumulating the vast political power that is so inimical to our liberties.
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1964-10-14 (4)
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