Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1936 — Page 4
Text of President Roosevelt's
CU By United Press LAT SYRACUSE, N. Y., Sept. - 80.—The text of Peesident Roosevelt's. speech "at the ~ fremocratic state convention
last night follows:
Tonight you and I join forces for | the 1936 campaign. We enter it | with confidence. Never was there 4 | greater need for fidelity to the un- . derlying conception of Americanism | than there is today. And “again it is given to our. party to carry the | message of that Americanism to the
| people. The task oi our part is two-fold: | Pirst, as simple patriotism requires,
| to separate the false from the real
| issues; and, secondly, with facts and | without rancor, to clarify the real | problems for the American public.
There will be—there are—many false issues. In that respect, this will be no different from other campaigns. Partisans, not willing to face realities, will drag out red herrings—as they have always done—to divert attention from the trail of their own weaknesses.
This practice is as old as our democracy. Avoiding the facts—fearful of the truth—a malicious opposition charged that George Washington planned to make himself king under a British form of government; that Thomas Jefferson planned to set up a guillotine under a French revolutionary form of government; that Andrew Jackson soaked the rich of the Eastern seaboard and planned to surrender American democracy to the dictatorship of a ' frontier mob. They called Abraham Lincoln a Roman emperor; Theodore Roosevelt a destroyer; Woodrow Wilson a self-constituted Messiah. Z
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‘NOT A CONTROVERSY’
In this campaign another herring turns up. It has been British and French—and a variety of other things. This year it is Russian. Desperate in mood, angry at failure, cunning in purpose, individuals and "1 /groups are seeking to make commu“nism an issue in an election where communism is not a controversy between the two major parties. Here and now, once and for all, let us bury that red herring, and destroy that false issue. You are familiar with my background; you know my heritage. And you are familiar, especially in the state of New York, with my public service extending back over a quarter of a century. For nearly four years I have been ‘President of the United States. A long record has been written. In that record, both in this state and in the national capital, you will find a simple, clear and consistent adherence not only to the Jetter but. to the spirit of the American form of government. "To that record, my future and the _ future of my Administration will “scoriform.” I have not sought, I do e Not seek, I repudiate the support of any other alien “ism” which would by fair means or foul change our ‘American democracy. 12 That is my position, It always has heen my position, It always will be ny position. There is no difference between the malo parties as to what they think about communism. ‘There is a very great difference between the two parties in what they do about ' communism,
‘SHOWS SOCIAL UNREST
~~ Communism is a manifestation of ‘the social unrest which always comes with widespread ecohomic : maladjustment. We in: the Demo‘cratic Party have not been content - merely to denounce this menace. ‘We have been realistic enough to ‘face it. We have been intelligent “enough to do something about it. “And the world has seen the results ‘of -what we have done. +. In the spring of 1933 we faced ‘@ crisis which was the: ugly ‘fruit of .'12 years. of neglect of the causes of i economic and social unrest. It was '@ crisis made to order for all those “who would overthrow our form of government. © Do I need to recall to you ‘the . fear of those days—the reports of : ‘those who piled supplies in their © basements, who laid plans to get ‘their fortunes across the border, © ‘who got themselves hideaways in . the country against the impend‘ing upheaval? £ #Do I need to recall the law-abid-ing heads of: peaceful families, who {began to wonder, as they saw their ! children. -starve,- how jthey could get
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the bread they saw in the bakery window? Do I need to recall the homeless boys who were traveling in bangs through. the country seeking work and ' food—desperate because they could find neither? Do I need to recall the farmers
who banded together with pitchfocks | -
to keep the sheriff from selling the farm home under foreclosure? Do I need to recall the powerful ‘leaders of industry and banking who came
to me in Washington in those early;
days of 1933 pleading to be saved?
‘STARVATION AVERTED’
Most people in the United States remember today the fact that starvation was averted, that homes and farms were saved, that banks were reopened, that crop prices rose, that industry revived and the dangerous forces subversive of our form of government were turned aside. * A few people—a few only—unwilling to remember, seem to have forgotten those days. In the summer of 1933, a nice old gentleman, wearing a silk hat, fell off the end of a pier. He was unable to swim. A friend ran down the pier, dived overboard and. pulled him out, but the silk hat floated: off with the tide. After the old gentleman had been resuscitated he was effusive in his thanks. He praised his friend for saving his life. Today three years later, the old gentleman is berat-' ing his friend because the silk hat was lost. Why did the crisis of 1929 to 1932
| pass without disaster?
The answer is found in the record of what we did. Early in the campaign of 1932 I said: “To meet by reaction that danger of radicalism is to invite disaster. “Reaction is no barrier to the radical—it is a challenge, a provocation. The way to meet that danger is to offer a workable program of reconstruction, and the party to offer it is the party with clean hands.” We met the emergency with emergency action. But, far more important than that; we went to the roots of the problem and attacked the cause of the crisis. We were - against revolution. Therefore, we waged war against those conditions which make revolutions—against inequalities and resentments which breed them. In America, in 1933, the people did not attempt to remedy wrongs by overthrowing -their institutions. Americans were made to realize that wrongs could and would be.set right within ‘their institutions.” We proved that democracy can work.
‘EVADED PROBLEMS’
I ‘have said that there is a very].
great difference between the two parties in what they do about communism. = Conditions congenial to communism were being bred and fostered througheut this nation up to the very day of March 4, 1933. Hunger was breeding it. Loss of homes and farms was breeding it, Closing banks:weré breeding it. A ruinous price level was: breeding Jean were. spreading ‘fh sland ; previous n# ; bewildered, did Tothing. In their spéeches they deplored it, but by their actions they encouraged it. The injustices, the inequalities, the downright suffering out of which revolutions ¢ome —what did they do about these things? Lacking courage, they evaded. Being selfish, they neglected. Being short-sighted they ignored When the crisis éame—as these wrongs made it sure to come— America was unprepared. Our lack of preparation for it was best proved by the cringing and the fear of the very people whose indifference helped to make the crisis. They came to us pleading that we should do,. overnight, what they should have been Going through the years. And the simple causes of our unpreparedness were two: First, a weak leadership, and, secondly, an inability to understand the reasons for social unrest—the tragic plight of 90 per cent of the men, women and children who made up the population of the United States.
‘LEADERSHIP UNCHANGED’
It has been well said—“the most dreadful failure of which any form
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cause out of this failure all imaginable forms of evil grow. “Every empire that has has come down primarily because
its’ rulers didn't know whi was]
going on in the world and wee incapable of learning.” It is for that reason thai “American form of governmaen/ will continue to be safest in I):mocratic, hands. The real, acfual™ “undercover Republican lead ship “is the same as it was four years ago. That leadership will ever comprehend the needs for a program of social justice and «i regard for the well-being of the masses of our people.
I have been comparing lead: rship]
"in Washington. This contrasi between Democratic and Repullican leadership holds true througho it the length and breadth of the. std fe of New York. As far back as the year 191), the old Black Horse cavalry in »hany was failing to meet changing :ocial conditions by appropriate acial legislation. Here was a state neted for iis industry and noted for its agricuiture —a state with the greatest miture of population — where the poorest and the richest lived, litera! ly vithin a stone's throw of each ofler— in short a situation made to order for unrest. And yet in this situation the best the Republican leaders "of {hose days could say was: “Let then. eat cake.” What would have hap; ened if that reactionary dominatior: had continued through all these hard years? Starting in 1911, Democratic |cadership came into power, and + th it a new philosophy of governme: I had the good fortine to com: into public office at that time.
‘IN COMMON CAUSE
I found other young men ir the Legislature—men wno held the same philosophy-—one of them was Bob Wagner; another was Al Smith. We were all joined in 4 common ciuse We did not look OIL government as something apart irom the people. We thought of it as something to be used by the people for their own good. New factory legisiation setting up decent standards of safety and sanitation; limitation of the working hours of women (n industry: a workman’s = compensation law: a one day rest in seven law; a full train crew law; a direct primary law—these laws znd many more were passed which were then called radical and alien fo our. form of government. Would you or any other Americans call them radical and alien today?
In ‘later years, first under Gov. Smith, then during my governorship, this program of practical intelligence was carried forward over the typical and unswerving opposition of the Republican leaders throughout the state. Today the great tradition of a liberal, -progressive Democratic Party has been carried still further by your present Governor, Herbert H Lehman. He has begun a program of insurance to remove the specter of unemployfient-from the working He has broadHour: labor legistation:” He has
fextended the supervision of public |, utility companies.
He has proved himself an untiring seeker for the public good; a doer of social justice; a wise, conscientious, clear-headed and businesslike administrator of the executivé branch of our government. And be it noted that his’ opponents are led and backed by the : ame forces and the same individ uals who, for .a quarter of a cent ury, have tried to hamstring proguess
within our state. The overwhelming:
majority of our citizens, regardless of party, propose to return him and his administration to Albany for another two years. -
ISSUES WARNING
His task in Albany, like my ask in Washington, has been to maintain contact between statecraft and rcal-
crashed :
we believe in social security; we believe in work for the unem ployed; we believe in saving®, homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die, we believe in all
" these things, but we do not like
the way the present Administration: is doing them. Just turn them over to us, We will do all of them—we will do more of them _—we will do’ them better; and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything.” But my friends, these evaders are banking too heavily on the shortness of our memories. No one will forget that they had their golden opportunity—twelve long years of it. Remember that the first essential of doing a job well is to want to see the job done. But make no mistake about this: The Republican leadership today is not against the way we have done the job. The Republican leadership is against the job being done. Look to the source of the promises “of the past. Gov. Lehman knows and I know how little legislation in the interest of the average citizen would be on fhe statute books in the state of New York, and of the Federal government, if we had waited for Republican leaders to pass it.
‘REFORM TO PRESERVE’
The same lack of purpose of fulfillment lies behind the promises of today. You can not be an. Old Guard Republican in the East, and a New Deal Republican in the West. You can not promise to repeal taxes before one audience and promise to spend more of the taxpayers’ money before another audience.
_ You can not promise tax relief for those who can afford to pay, and,
at the same time, promise more of:
the taxpayers’ money for those who are in need.” You simply can not make good on both promises at the same time. Who is there in America “iio believes that we can run the risk of turning back our government to the old leadership which brought it to the brink of 1933? Out of the strains and stresses of these years we now. come to see that the true conservative is :the man who has a real concern for ‘injustices and - takes - thought against the day of reckoning. The true conservative seeks to protect the system of private prop-
| erty and free enterprise by correct-
ing such injustices and inequalities as arise from it. The most serious ‘threat to our
SETS RECEPTION FOR QLD TRAIL PILGRIMS
Times Special : BATTLEGROUND, Ind, Sent 30. —A program of speeches and tours will mark the arrival here Sunday of the WPA pilgrimage over the Harrison Trail from Vincennes, The program, arranged by : the Tippecanoe County Historical Association, is to include speeches by William Henry Harrison, great.great<grandson of the famed general, Ross Lockridge; Prof. Robert T. Phillips, Purdue University, and Mrs. Charles B. Kern, Lafayette. ‘Other “events are to include. an Indian dance by Boy Scouts, a basket dinner and tours of the battlefield and Prophetstown, Indian village.
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Additional Land, Hospital Required, Governor Is Informed.
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swimming pool. Lack of additional. land for the expansion of farm and garden operations “is a serious handicap to the institution. both: financially and as a means of training children,” the trustees said in their annual report to the Governor. “The institution iis in need of a service building to house the bakery, ice plant and commissary department in addition to furnishing rooms ‘for male: employes,” the repe- 4 said.
Hospital Is Needed
“A new 50-bed hospital with all the necessary departments to care for new children, contagion, opera-
'is needed. The institution is badly in need of a swimming pool, which would be of great assistance in the recreational program.” Enrollment June 30 was 478 girls and 511 boys. No new children ean be admitted because the capacity Ba been fitted, according to the re0 The trustees are Joseph A. Minturn, H: Nathan Swaim, Mrs. Edith Jackson and Elmer Sherwood.
SET MILK PRICES IN 2 INDIANA COUNTIES
New milk marketing areas were established today in Cass and Miami Counties by the State Milk Control Board. Producers are to be paid
milk in Cass County and $2.30 a hundredweight in Miami County. Consumer prices are to be 11 cents
areas. The state board also set the price of milk in Wayne County at 11 cents ‘a quart and 7 cents a pint to the consumer.
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