NEW JERSEY REPUBLICAN WOMEN 797

This is not an easy thing to do, especially for the elected official
whose political survival depends upon public popularity. But these
are not easy times and there are no easy answers. Yet, to pretend that
situations are less grave or that instant solutions are on hand simply
compounds the problem. We are where we are today because our na-
tion's leaders have attempted to oversimplify, to sugarcoat, to appease
the formidable false god called apparent public opinion. However,
this god is insatiable and capitulation is not only unreasonable, it is
irresponsible.

Our leaders today must face the challenge. And I believe the Ameri-
can public, long victimized by the credibility gap, is far more ready
to hear the truth than our leaders are ready to tell it.

The Republican Party offers the American people a return to
government by principle. Government-by-expedience, the instant an-
swer and the easy way out, has failed.

The American people are not so naive as to believe the instant
answer or the oversimplified solution. We live in a time too com-
plex to require anything less than complicated solutions. We know
that more police patrolmen alone will not totally eliminate crime.
We know that complete withdrawal from Vietnam will not secure
lasting peace in Southeast Asia. We know that a negative income
tax or a guaranteed annual wage is not the way to combat dependence
but to perpetuate it.

The Republican Party reflects reason and profound concern over
the future of a society so permissive it has pointed our nation towards
anarchy. Campus rebellions are symptoms of this permissiveness run
rampant — where students demand and faculties capitulate.

I do not question that a degree of alienation exists. I do not deny
that there is always room for academic improvement. But real or
reasoned progress will never result from the abusive tyranny of stu-
dents who to quote the University of Michigan daily, "take their
tactics from Gandhi, their philosophy from the classroom and their
money from daddy. "

Of even greater concern are the riots in our cities, caused in all
too many cases by evil men and not evil conditions. We must confront
the evil conditions and the evil men that exploit them. Too often and
too long our nation's intellectual, spiritual and political leaders have
countenanced, condoned and even counseled with such men. If our
nation is not to move toward two societies — separate and unequal,