federal power. The issue is government administered under
law. For if economic and social regulations in our modern in-
dustrial age must be national in scope to be effective, so their
administration must be by law and rule if the citizen is to re-
main free.

The solution lies not in a weakened central government. It
lies in assuring the proper use of the power we have deemed it
wise and necessary to grant to the federal government. That
means a sense of responsibility in administration. It means --
and this is important -- local administration of numerous fed-
eral functions in their local application. And it means primarily
the substitution of government by law for government by
caprice and unlimited discretions. Under such exercise of fed-
eral power, every citizen, rich or poor, labor leader or factory
manager, issuer of securities or wage earner, farmer or business-
man may know his rights and may know that in case of dispute
they will be adjudicated fairly and equitably under law and
rules which at least his lawyer can understand.

The issues involved in federal power and its proper use con-
cern human freedom itself. They are issues which Republicans
should state clearly and fight for -- not behind an out-moded
mask of states rights or in conjunction with those who use that
mask to prevent social and political advance, or those others
who, by a pretense of concern for the rights of the states, really
seek to weaken the federal government to such an extent that
the United States will be unable to play its appropriate role in
the world of today.

They are issues we should fight for vigorously, frankly and
openly. If we prevail we will have a government representing us
abroad with dignity and power, an instrument of the united will
of our people which can lead the world to tangible economic
and political cooperation. And at home we shall have a govern-
ment with power to vitalize our economy, eliminate its abuses,
and, at the same time, preserve and extend the freedom of its
citizens.

To build such a government -- strong centrally and just in its
administration -- is in the finest tradition of the Republican
Party.

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