Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1936 — Page 8

Text of President”

By United Press

WICHITA, Kas., Oct. 18.—

Roosevelt's address here to-

day follows: If I ever write another book I am going to have a chapter in it about bedtime stories—political bedtime stories. It will be a very amusing chapter. I am going to

fill it with whispering ghosts and stalking bogeymen, and I am going to end the chapter by telling how . the. American men and women on the third of November, 1936, refused to be frightened by fairy tales. You folks do not look a bit scared to me. "The Republican leaders have told you all kinds of things about what this Administration is trying to do. They have tried to spread the gospel of fear not only in the factories, which is an old shopworn trick, but this year they are even trying to bring fear into the homes and firesides of America. But I know that the people of this country have not such short memories, They remember only too well the real fear—the justified fear— felt all over the nation in 1932, to be frightened by this silly false fear which is now being preached. The leaders who are trying to do it are the very ones whose blindness to facts and refusal to act caused the real fear and the real danger of national disaster in 1932. What this Administration has done since 1933 to clear up the debris which had been left over by 12 years of neglect need not be repeated. You know what the devil take the hindmost policy of the nineteen twenties brought down upon our heads. You know that ‘he vast speculative gains of a few were made without any regard to ‘the deep injuries which they were causing to the great masses of our people. In the spring of 1933, these same speculators pleaded with me for help —help of any kind—just so long as it would save them from ‘bank~ruptcy. Most people thought that they had learned their lesson. We hoped that they would join with our average citizens in working for some kind of security against a recurrence of those panic years. Yet here they are — three years ater. — giving vague lip service to (that, ye rd security and, at the same €, seeking to block; to thwart and to annul every measure that we have taken to restrain the kind of _ individualism which hurts the community itself — individualism run amuck. ’ *

SECURITY DEFINED

I used this word security not in the narrower sense of old-age pensions and of unemployment insurance—fine as these objectives are. I use it in the broader sense of confidence on the part of men and women, willing to carry on normal work, and willing to think of their neighbors as well as themselves, that they will not have to worry about losing their homes, about not having enough to eat, about becoming objects of charity. - Add to that ‘one more objective, that all Americans may have full opportunity for edugation, for, reasonable leisure and __xecreation for the right to carry on representative government and for freedom to worship God in their own way. . * That philosophy has been the _ philosophy and the practical objective of your national Administrationf at Washington. I do not seek . to discuss with you the pros and cons of your local government, or of your state government, in Kansas. You know more about that than "I do. Let me say only, and in very simple terms, that I do not ‘believe that Kansas would have led through the difficult probems of the past four years as endidly as it has, had it not been Federal co-operation and Federal assistance in many fields of your endeavor. ~ If you think we were wrong to give this assistance, then, to be “logical, you must ask that in the days to come every state in the “union shall set itself up as an ' individual entity for the solution "of all the problems of all its in"habitants, save possibly the maintenance of the Army, the Navy “and the handling of our foreign "affairs. Our broader interpretation of se_eurity and of the methods of procuring it is well illustrated by what ‘you have seen us do. Our endeavors have fallen into three broad ciassifications. © Pirst, immediate and direct astance—including work for the un‘employed; help for drought areas; buying of drought-stricken cattle; building of ponds and irrigation jects; seed loans; assistance to = youth of the nation, and dozens of other instances. Secondly, protection against rec‘ognized abuses of many kinds, inuding the battle of the Federal : against kidnaping, ‘blackmail, bank robberies and ‘other menaces to life and liberty; afeguarding innocent investors against fake securities; the regulation of stock exchanges; regulation ; over-reaching practices of some ‘utility companies and the establish‘ment of power-yardsticks to force ‘yeasonable electric rates; elimina‘fion of unsafe banking practices.

- OTHER OBJECTIVES

And thirdly, the reduction of in-

est rates; the saving of farms &nd

pmes from mortgage foreclosures, » insurance of bank deposits; the

halnutrition and to ease many of se functional pains of menstrua-

‘The full text of President| needed, useful public works; old age

loans that have been made to keep railroads going

pensions; unemployment insurance; assistance to rural schools; the CCC camps; farm to market roads, these and many more like them give you a broad picture of the more permanent and long range measures, many of which will improve not only your lives but those of your children. : : There has been at one time a school of thought in this country that would have us believe that those vast numbers of average citi-

the economic ladder do not deserve the security which government alone can give them. And in the past, unfortunately, the philosophy has had too large a hand in making.our national economic policies. That school of thought left Washington on March 4, 1933. The farmers of the nation are a good example of what government can do, not only in direct help but in providing security for the future. From a state of collapse in 1932, agriculture has not only been brought back to life but has received the encouragement of government which enables it to face the future with confidence. Is there among the many farmers in this audience, a single one who would want to go back to the unco-operative formula ~—the rugged individualism, the economic freedom of 1932? Don’t you and your wife and your children look forward to a safer, better future today than you did three and a half short years ago? I have used farming as an illustration of greater security because Kansas is a great farming state. You know, however, that the mining areas and the livestock areas and the industrial areas of the country are likewise receiving their share of a greater security. Every part of the nation shares it together. Last April in New York I dared to talk farming to a New York City audience. I fold them that one of the best things that had come out of these three years was the realization by city dwellers that could not: be prosperous until the farmer was also prosperous. In the same way I have dared to talk to people in great agricultural states about the needs of the industrial workers in the big cities, and how

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SELF RESPECT RETAINED

The people who talk about these

who are encouraging class antagonism. For they tell one story in the East and another story in the West; one story in the city and another story on the farm. That is not my way and never will be my way. We are coming through a great national crisis with flying colors. We have not lost our self respect. We have not changed our form of government. We have a net national debt which though greater in dollars is actually less in proportion to the income of the nation and in proportion to the wealth of the nation than the national debt was on March 4, 1933.

From the point of view of national income and national wealth we are better able to bear our debt now than we were then. And within a year or two with income increasing and expenditures declining, we shall be able to balance the budget and start paying down on the debt. There is one final form of security on which I have not yet touched. In addition: to security at home and in the home, we have sought for security from war with other nations. We. have not ‘been content merely to talk about peace, we have done something about it. We are trying to break down the economic barriers, to soften the economic

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We have taken the lead among the nations of the world in restoring economic peace which is so essential to military peace. In the whole of the Western Hemisphere we have preached and gained recognition of the doctrine of the good neighbor. We have extended the right hand of fellowship. Many nations of the earth have taken that outstretched hand. We pro- , of course, no interference with the affairs of nations. We seek only by force of our own example to spread the gospel of peace in the world. . We are gaining peace and security at home. I am confident that I have the support of the American people in seeking peace and security abroad.”

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