Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1936 — Page 2

bg United Press a " DENVER, Codlo., Oct. 12.— e following is the Columbus Day speech delivered here to-

day by President Roosevelt:

. America pauses today to honor Christopher Columbus — a great Italian whose: vision and: leadership and courage pointed the way to this new world. - Once launched upon his great voyage, he did not turn back.

cal way of giving work and at the

same time creating public improve-

ments of a permanent useful character. And in the overwhelming majority of cases your advice was

good

Today it is a pitiful spectale fo see Republican leaders call this great program waste and extrava-

gance for they are the same leaders,

who, when their own state or city or county was involved, were the first to run to Washington pleading

There were those who offered him | for Federal aid. Consistency is still

the counsel of despair. There were those: who. thought that the price they were.paying was too great. But the valiant admiral, firm to his pur- . pose, sailed on and all America pays | him tribute today. The spirit that animated those voyagers four centuries ago is ngt alien. to these Western plains afd mountains.

a virtue in life but when ‘it comes to a campaign year consistency is a word that can not be found in the Republican campaign vocabulary and at that inconsistency is a: mild term to apply to it. Take the effective example of livestock. If we had more irrigation, more reservoirs in the past, fewer cattle and

You are scarcely re-|sheep would have been threatened

moved one generation from men | with starvation on the range dur-

#nd, women who, cast in the same sold, Sought. to conquer nature for e benefit of the nation. It is from the rich’ diversity of climate, soil and people that this ‘country has always derived its ‘gtrength. The lives of you men and women in the mountains and plains are tied up with those on the farms and in the cities. In our unified national economic life, we now know that industry. is not immune if agriculture or mining languishes. The great but uneven prosperity of the nineteentwenties made us neglect for too long a period the growing signs that things were not going right with the farmer and miner. ~ Surely we have learned that lesbn. Surely you remember the idless of your gold ‘and silver, copper and coal and lead” and zinc mines, ur oil flelds, your railroads, your arms and ranches—all of them had suffered together in the collapse of prices and income, : “And when that stream of busi- ~ ness had dried on the farms and plains and in the hills, the stream oh indi through the nation also e In the complete stagnation of business .of mines and of farms there was only one agency. capable o starting . things going . again— ernment—not local government, t 48 state governments, .because ‘they had reached the limit of their resources, but the Federal government itself. And yet up te March 4, 1933, the Federal government held back, doing nothing except to lend dollars to people ‘at the top with the vain hope that some of it would trickle down, . and - except to fold their arms, stand still. and wait for a famous corner to come to.them. . .When this Administration came its first act .was to discover ‘where the corner was and then to turn it, The turning involved action, and the action was based on two “obvious and simple methods of locomotion. First, ‘by spending money to ‘put péople to work, and, secondly, by lending money to stop people from going broke. It meant doing these two things ‘in the industrial East, in the ‘South, in the Middle West, on the Plains, in the Rockies and out on the Coast. We knew that the only practical way to turn the ‘corner was ‘to start the whole country turning it at the same

Mine of the first jobs we undertook “wax the ‘assistance to the minersand farmers in‘the' West. . Those of you who mow: see business Moving again in your local shops and stores and factories know that your merchant's goods began to move off his shelves for the first time—that ‘the wheels of your factories and mills: began to turn for the first time—only after the government had begun to spend money and ‘had provided employment for millions of people on. all kinds of projects. ~ ° course we . spent money. It went to put needy men and women Without jobs to. work, and to buy materials the processing of which put other men “and women to work. You on thé plains and throughout ’ thé . great mountain aréa’ can, judge - for yourselves whether the work was worth doing. © Washington did not originate the projects: "You did. You told us where reclamation projects were . needed. You told us where water should be conserved: You told us where floods should be controlled. You told us where new homesteads should be located. You told us ‘how Denver wanted to get its new water supply. You told us: where roads” needed to.be improved. You told us, in short, in every state and eity and county throughout this great region and indeed throughout the United States the most practiEm

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the drought years. Lack of foresight on the part of former Administrations compelled .us to buy up. sheep and cattle ‘which otherwise would have died in their tracks from lack of food and wafer. This Administration is proud that it spent money to buy cattle and sheep in those days. Republican leaders tell us that

this, too, was a policy of waste. Who benefitted? The

stockmarn found a market and was literally

saved from bankruptcy, the banker who held the mortgage on the stock, the merchant with whom the stocknan and the banker dealt, ihe

packer who processed the meat. But above all those who benefited mos: were the unfortunate men and.

women and children on the relies

rolis—hundreds eof thousands of

families all over the country—io whom the meat was distributed.

‘less than one-half of what it was in the first six months of 1926 when Canadian imports were larger, but still were only a trickleto domestic production. I believe it

is better to prosper with small im- of

ports from Canada than it is to sink into depression and stay there ‘with no imports at all. Our cattle programs were carried ‘out in co-operation with the stockmen themselves. And now also in the protection -and development of

Even the hides of these animals

were saved. I call that work program and

cattle buying. program an “inyest-

‘cessful future shall be preserved. It has been a part of our pro-

ment to preserve . America —the: whole of American national life—do

you call it waste?

Much talk is heard about imports | hurting the cattle ' industry, The

ports were smallest when prices were lowest, as in early 1933. The income to. cattle men. six months of 1936, when Canadian imports were less than 500 head, was

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through which they run. Way back in the summer. of 1934, dedicating the Fort Peck Dam in Montana, I said: “People talk about the Fort Peck Dam as the fulfillment of a dream. Why, it is only a small portion of a dream. The dream itself covers all the

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in the days to come. were other great res sovcces of this Western country, the development of which we ane dertook as an important and pee essary part of the Tounded objective,”

Take beet sugar: for an example. 1 do not have to recite. the record of steadily declining income ‘of that industry before March, 1933. - World production of sugar, had expanded at such a rate that there was more sugar than the world could possibly consume. What we tried to do, and what we succeeded in doing, was to adjust the supply of sugar so that a farmer who raises it gets a more adequate return, and you, the raisers. of sugar beets, I congratulate

the first | important watersheds of the states|on a substantial reduction in the

employment of hifed children in the fields. gt this Yond of thanks I

But the government has contributed by direct action as well when we laid the ghost of the old gold parity of the dollar, when we purchased gold and -purchased silver too, you in the mountains felt the old thrill of the search for precious metal. Old developments again becanie profitable. New developments sprang up, mining became again ry industry Where men could find

The great bullion reserves now in the United States Treasury are sufficient to redeem every dollar of our currency far more than ote hundred per cent and. yet people for partisan purposes are willing to spread the gospel of fear that our currency is not on a sound foundation. I tell you, and you know, that our monefary system is the soundest in the world today. I tell you, and you will agree, that we are around the corner, private employment is picking up. That means that government oxures for work for the unemployed are coming down. That

Tursing the corner. also. means that government income from existing taxes, without new faxes is going up. I repeat to you that I said in Pittsburgh a week and a half ago, that decrease ‘in expenditures and increase in income means within a year or two a balanced budget and

the beginning of reduction in the

national debt. When Republican leaders speak out here they proclaim the sympathy with all these Western projects-‘and promise you more and more of them. When they speak to audiences in the East they proclaim that they

‘are going to cut government ex-

penditures to the bone. There was an old Roman god named Janus. He faced both ways. He had two mouths, I need. not explain that parable any further. Are you willing to turn America over to those who in past years shut their eyes to the problems of this nation? This Administration

has shown the way because it had

the will to do. We have sought and found practical answers to the problems of indystry, agriculture and mining. We have clung to no outworn method as an excuse for failure to act. We have had faith not in. panaceas, but in the courage and resourcefulness of men and women to meet their problems themselves if given

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people of. this great: nation with all thelr prey diversified interests. ’ We are made firm by the same spirit that made Columbus surge on—by the same spirit that made the ancestors of you who dwell in these mountains and on these plains win through the untrailed wilderness across turbulent rivers and unknown plains and deserts, over unscaled heights, to claim, develop and hold a new and great empire for America. We have shown our determination in the past by action. You can trust us to prove that determination in the future by more action, sound action, action that is saving and will continue to save the Constitution of a representative form of government in which we rejoice.

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