Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1938 — Page 8
Text of Townsend's Address Before Democratic Editors
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lows: The more I learn about: Government and politics, the more I marvel at the many ways in which this great democracy is bringing happiness and security to the
people. If you and I could view our American society through the eyes of one who has come to this country rather recently from his native Europe, I know we would be inspired with a new enthusiasm for ‘ the benefit of democracy. One of the weaknesses of Amerjcan democracy is that today the story of her accomplishments and glories must be told by a comparatively small group of newspapers, the Democratic press. While so many of the large newspapers have become little more than the voice of organized reaction, the majority of our Democratic papers have told, day in and day out, the story of the progress of democracy. I like to go, again and again, to the editorial pages of our Indiana Democratic papers, because there I find the voice ahd convictions of the majority of our people. You editors live close to the people and you know their hopes and dreams. We, today, are keeping faith with ' the dreamers of 1776 who hopefully founded this Government, based on the -idea that free men could govern themselves. Thousands of nationalities and racestocks and philosophies are represented in the millions of Americans who are solving their problems through an enlightened democratic government. Democracy is an ideal, born in the minds of ancient philosophers and carried on down through the ages by men and women who yearned for freedom. Force and cruelty have been used in vain attempts to stifle the thought, and learned men have called it a fool's paradise. Ever since the flame of democracy first flickered in the heart of a man, it has been the wealthy, the powerful, and the autocratic who have been suspicious and fearful of democracy. They have tried to ridicule it, to crush it, and to corrupt it. But the faith and persistence of the common people has kept democracy alive and progressive.
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Democracy is & government of the common people. The ragged army of Valley Forge fought against superior forces to create it, and the common people marched to the polls - to preserve it in 1932.
In early America, the people gathered in town halls to discuss their problems of self-government and to adjust them according to their needs and wishes. Every man had his say, and when the discussion was ended, the issues were solved by the will of the majority. That was democracy in its purest form.
The economic and social independence of the small community has vanished from the American scene. The average workman is no longer a craftsman supplying a local market. He works on the assem-. bly line, and the product of his hands is sold throughout the world. The problems of the farmer are no longer confined to his fields. - Modern transportation and the magic of rapid communication have welded us together, North to South and East to West. The problems of one are the problems of all.
So today we have a representative democracy. You and I elect men and women to represent us as nearly as possible in government. When we were hungry and without a job, we expected our representatives somehow to protect us against starvation and to find work for our idle hands.
In 1932, when it seemed the whole world was infected with a fever of madness, our: faith in democracy wavered. Democracy did not halt the panic. It did not save our homes and our bank deposits. It did not ease the torture of our suffering.
Then, there came to the people a great man who told us simply and piainly that democracy had not failed us. Our representatives had failed us. Obviously, a democracy cannot function for all the people when its representatives turn the Government over to selfish interests and self-appointed politicians.
NO PASSING PHASE
Our President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, has made democracy work. He knew we wanted security, and he set about to bring a more abundant life to all of us. Democracy began
to function for all the people when |
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the hungry were fed, the unemployed were put to work, farm and city homes were saved, collective bargaining became a reality, the stock exchange was cleaned up, electricity was sent to rural homes, bank deposits were guaranteed, and the old and dependent were given security. This new and vital democracy has not been a passing phase. This spirit of looking after the welfare of all the American people has become & part of our national conscience. Last winter when the big factories began to close, and the security of every home was threatened again, a great humanitarian program was outlined by Franklin Roosevelt and passed by Congress. Indiana joined hands with the Na- _ tional Government, and last month the Legislature placed $20,000,000 in the fight against insecurity at a cost of only $7,000,000 to state gov-
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ernment. We have not let the people down! In all this great work, President Roosevelt has not sacrificed one precious bit of personal freedom. Instead, he has increased by many times the ‘liberty you and I enjoy. He has removed the chains that bound us to a selfish industrial oligarchy. Some of the giant corporations dominated their employees as rigidly as any dictator ever ruled his subjects. President Roosevelt has even restored in some instances that pure democracy of e& century ago. Committees of government have toured the nation, going to the people and asking them their probl€ms and views. At a meeting in Indianapolis last fall, the farmers from 13 states told the Secretary’ of Agriculture what sort of policy they waifited for the corn belt. I have attended meetings of the Senate Agricultural Committee and the Interstate Commerce Commission out in the field, and I saw plain, ordinary folks come up and tell their views on farm problems and freight ‘rates.
LEADERS NEEDED
Our President has recognized that democracy must be vital and progressive, that it must keep pace with the ever-changing pattern of society. Almost every day, we hear of some way in which the Government has advanced to’solve
a new problem. This fall when we go before the people, I think our most effective argument is to tell them the simple story of how democracy under a great leader has brought greater security and happiness to all the people.
Democracies require great leaders, men with the heart and courage to understand the problems of all the people and to meet them without fear. A democracy without strong leadership faces one of two grave and often fatal dangers. Either they are taken over by those groups always outside the door seeking special privileges, or they succumb to dictatorship because they have failed the people. Our most beloved leaders, Jefferson, Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, have been cursed as despots by the so-called “ruling class” which feared an end to the inequalities they practiced and sought.
All my life I have been a student and a devoted believer in democracy, so’ when I hecame Governor I resolved that State Government should operate itself with as little suggestion as possible from me. But
I have learned that an executive elected by the people must assume the responsibility of leadership, when he is convinced of the course the majority would have him go. This has not been an easy task for me, or an easy lesson to learn. There have been times when I earnestly hoped that decisions could be made without any action by me, because I wished to avoid any hint of dictation.
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I have learned that many times when I have remained silent, others have tried to take over the leadership of state. This delicate balance between dictatorship and democracy is the most difficult problem faced
by any public executive today. I. tell you with all my heart that I will never assume the burden ot dictating to the people or to government, but that I gladly assume the responsibilities of leadership. Perhaps the most. significant statement made yet during the campaign was voiced at the state convention by our nominee for U.S. Senator, Fred VanNuys, when he said,” “We. must stand shoulder to shoulder together to meet the common problems of today.” And I, as a soldier‘in the ranks of the Democratic Party, wish to tell Fred that from: this/day on, I am going to exert every effort to send him back to the U.S. Senate and to elect the entire Democratic ticket. or This election is important to every American and every Hoosier. It means the continuation of honest, progressive government meeting and solving the problems of all the people, or it means a tragic return to the type of government which ignores * hunger, unemployment and
inequality. America cannot afford |
to turn back. We can be grateful for at least one thing coming out.of the meeting a few miles away financed by the sugar daddy who made his money during the Roosevelt Administration and now talks about killing the New Deal. The new. Republican angel and the nominee for Senator labored like a mountain and brought forth a mouse. I am referring to the plan to rehabilitate the nation, an unusually frank document. It is frankly a doctrine of complete reaction, designed to please just such people as the new sugar daddy. . First, the plan favors relief only as a temporary measure and proposes that private industry absorb the unemployed. My friends, indus-’ try, as a whole, is not putting men to work. It is putting machines to work. When we see men and women out. of work and hungry, I suppose the Republicans would have us close our eyes and recite, “Let industry find a place for them.” Mr. Hoover tried that."
“IGNORES BARGAINING”
Second, the plan goes back to the old high tariff policy for a labor policy and completely ignores collective bargaining, job security, and
wages and hours. I wonder if the Republican nominee believes that the worker will forget 1931-32, or that the Republicans tried to defeat the Wagner Labor Act, the Wage-Hour Bill and other progressive labor legislation. Third, Mr. Willis believes in a sound governmental finance policy. Swell, so do we. But we believe that it is more important to balance the individual budget and protect all against insecurity, than to bow down before those who hesitate to pay their fair share of the cost of Government.
When Mr. Willis talks about sound |.
governmental finance, I suppose he
refers to the Republican financing |
which left the State with a seven-million-dollar deficit, without making any effort to take care of human needs. Fourth, Mr. Willis believes that the farmer should manage his own affairs without any supervision from those “who have never pitched
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W. B. TOWNSEND TO TALK
LOGANSPORT, Aug. 29.—Dr. W. B. Townsend of Butler University, Indianapolis, will speak Friday at the Cass County teachers’ institute here. He will present plans for the district reading clinic, one of four
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|to repeal the laws stabilizing the ‘banks, and the laws protecting: the
hay out of a haymow.” I don’t know how much hay Mr. Willis has pitched, but I'll venture that the members of the farm organizations who developed the AAA know a lot more about their problems than he does. t he proposes is a continuation of the policy of 1832 which left the farmers bankrupt and with a surplus that rotted. in the fields. The present AAA. program gives the individual farmer every opportunity to determine what policy he and his neighbors should: follow from their township meetings to their elections on policy. : The nominee also favors: elimination of restrictions on business: That is nothing new, that sounds like Hoover. I suppose Mr. Willis wishes
investor against Wall Street manipulators. 1.suppose: he: would: throw out the Public Service Commission and let the utilities charge Whatever they please for services. : Lastly, he is for tax reductions. I
advise Mr. Willis to get out his own property tax receipts and check on
his reductions of property tax. If
Mr. Willis wants tax reductions, he certainly got them under two Democratic state administrations. |; Seriously, this so-called rehabilitation plan would wipe out the security that has been given the com-
.mon man under the Democratic ad-
ministrations. There is one issue and one issue alone in this coming campaign, the welfare and security of the people.
‘As we look forward to new achievements let us not forget what we ‘have already done to increase the |:
security of every home.
(COMPARISONS MADE
Let me, therefore, make a few
comparisons of the era B. D., before the Democrats, and of the era A. D,, after the Democrats. The National ‘Industrial Con-
ference Board estimates that the total accountable income received by individuais in Indiana was $995,000,000. in 1932. But in 1937 the income had increased to $1,820,000,000. That means that last. year the people of our state had $825,000,000 more than they had B. D. In other words, income was almqst doubled. That means that the people of Indiana had $825,000,000 mere to spend on food, on clothing, on shelter, on medical care, and on the things that make life more livable. In plain cold figures our economic security was increased by $825,000,000. Total salaries and wages in Indiana were estimated by the National Industrial Conference Board at $655,000,000 in 1932, and $1,240,000,000 in 1937. In plain cold figures the workers: of Indiana received $585,000,000 more in wages in 1937, A: D, than they did in 1932, B. D. The total farm income in Indiana in 1932 was $135,000,000. In 1937 the total farm income in Indiana
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in Indiana were $120,388,430 greater in 1937, A. D, than in 1932, B. D,, although the number of these institutions was less by 129. All these figures which seem so hard and cold spell Progress and Security. We have not let the people down! It is our responsibility, as Democrats, to carry these issues and these facts to the people,
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