Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1936, Page 5

Text of Roosevelt Speech President, Speaking in New York City, Says Gains of Last Three and a Half Years Must Be Consolidated. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, October 31.—Follow- Ing is the text of President Roose- velt's address last night at a ‘Demo- cratic rally in the Brooklyn Academy of Music: During the last month I have seen a great deal of our country and a great many of our people. Both the America and the Ameri- cans I have seen look very dif- ferent from three and a half years 2go. Many important things have happened to them in these three and a half years. I could talk to you for hours about this better, happier America. What I am go- ing to talk to you about for a few minutes, however, is some of the things that have brought that bet- ter, happier America to pass. I want to tell you in terms of actual achievement what we in Washing- ton have done—what we have done to restore prosperity—what we have done to end abuses. The first thing was to give aid to those overtaken by disaster. We did that, and we are not ashamed of giving help to those who needed help. We furnished food relief, drought relief, flood re- lief, work relief. We established the Federal Emergency Relief Ad- ministration; the Public Works Administration; the Civilian Con- servation Corps; the Works Prog- ress Administration. Some people ridicule them as alphabetical agen- cies. But you and I know that they are the agencies that have substituted food for starvation; work for idleness; hope instead of dull despair. And on November 3, America will say that that was a job well done! Helped Stalled Economic Machine Get Under Way. The second thing we did was to help our stalled economic engine to get under way again. We knew enough about the mechanism of our economic order to know that we could not do that one wheel at a time. We had had enough of one-wheel economics. We pro- posed to get all four wheels started at once. We knew that it was no good to try to start only the wheel of finance. At the same time we had to start the wheels of argicul- ture, of workers of all classes, of business and industry. By Democratizing the work of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. and redirecting it into more prac- tical and helpful channels, we fur- nished fuel for the machine. We primed the pump by spend- ing Government money in direct relief, in work relief, in public works. We established the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, the National Recovery Administration, the Farm Credit Association, the soil conservation program, the Home Owners' Loan Corp., the Federal Housing Administration, the Tennessee Valley Authority. ‘We set up a sound monetary pol- icy. a sound banking structure, re= ciprocal trade agreements, foreign exchange accords. Sought Industrial Peace and Co-operation to Raise Pay. We set up a National Labor Re- lations Board to improve working conditions and seek industrial peace. We brought the business men of the Nation together to en- courage them to increase wages, to shorten working hours, to abol- ish child labor. With labor’s aid and backing we took the first great step for workers security by the social se- curity act—an act which is now being misrepresented to the work- ers in a pay-envelope propaganda by a few employers whom you will easily recognize as old-time ex- ploiters of labor who have always fought against contributing any- thing themselves to a sound se- curity for the laboring man and his wife and children. That act is a new Magna Charta for those who work. In its prep- aration and in its enactment it was supported not only by or- ganized labor, but by those other liberal groups—workers, employers, churches, private charities, educa- tors who for many years have be- lieved that modern government can make provision against the hardship of unemployment and the terrors of old age. On the passage of this law, in addition to overwhelming support on the part of Democrats in both the House and Senate, the country should note that 77 Republican Representatives voted for it and only 18 against it, and that in the Senate 15 Republican Senators voted for it and only 5 against it. Republican Leadership Repudiates Its Own Members. This fact is perhaps illustrative of the paradox that in the closing days of the campaign Republican leadership, driven to desperation and urged on by the same sinister forces which generation after gen- eration h#ve opposed all social legislation, now repudiate their own Representatives and Senators in the halls of the Congress and leave them Jooking positively silly. The people of the State of New York recegnize in this issue in a Mational campaign only another form of the struggle to which we have become accustomed in this State for many years past. Every man and woman here knows that we have been blessed with these great social reforms because we have had liberal government in Al- bany. We know that we would not have had them if the old guard Republican leadership had been in power. Gov, Lehman has not merely exemplified in his splendid objec- tives this spirit of far-sighted progress, but he has practiced 80 Years of Proof For over 80 years Father what he has preached and thereby has continued to strengthen the civic conscience of the people of this State. There are none among you who belleve that on Tuesday next there is one chance in a thousand that New York State will turn its government back to the old guard. To go back to what the Federal Government has done in the last three and one-half years, Some people call these things waste. You and I know that they are the means by which our stalled ma- chine was started again. Takes Steps to Banish Evils Which Brought on Crash. And on Novembed 3 America will say that that was a job well done! The Third thing we did was to look to the future—to root out abuses—to establish every possible defense against a return of the evils which brought the crash. We established the Securities Exchange Commission; banking reforms; a sound monetary policy; deposit iff- surance for 50 million bank ac- counts—all aimed to safeguard the thrift of our citizens. By our tax policy and by regulat- ing financial markets, we loosened the grip which monopolies had fastened upon independent Ameri- can business. We have begun also to free American business and American labor from the unfair competition of a small unscrupulous minority. We established by stat- ute a curb upon the overweening power and unholy practices of some utility hold*,x companies. By the rural ele #fication act, by the Tennessee Valley Authority - and similar projects we set up yardsticks to bring electricity at cheaper rates to the average Amer- ican farm and the average Ameri- can home. Through loans to private enterprise we promoted slum-clearance and lost-cost mod=- ern housing. We set up a nae tional youth administration to help keep our youth in school and to hold open for them the door of opportunity. By a successful war on crime we have made America’s homes and places of business safer Don‘t Leave Your Car Out —A Target for Hallowe’en Prank Players THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1936. WOODWARD & LOTHROP against the gangster, the kidnaper and the racketeer. Some people call these things meddling and interference. You and I know them to be new stones in a foundation—a foundation on which we can, and are determined to, build & structure of economic security for all our people—a safer, happier, more American America. On November 3 the American people will say that that is a job well begun! Three and a aHIf Years Crowded With Better Life Achievement. @These are the things we have done. They are a record of three and a half years crowded with achievements; significant of better life for all the people. Every group in our national life has benefitted, because what we have done for each group has produced benefits for every other group. In our poli- cies there are no distinctions be- tween them. There will be none. If we are in trouble we are all of us in trouble together. If we are to be prosperous, if we are to be secure, we must all be prosperous and secure together. Unfortunately, those who now raise the cry of class distinctions are the very leaders whose policies in the past have fostered such dis- tinctions. When they were in power, they were content in the belief that the chief function of [ovemment was to help only those A% top in the pious hope that the few at the top would in their benevolence or generosity pass that help on. That theory of government has been banished from Washington. It did not work. It was pot and cannot be the answer to our prob- Jem. We have united all classes in the Nation in a program- for the Nation. In doing that, we have bridged the gulf of antagonism which twelve years of neglect had opened up between them. An equally important task re- mains: to go forward, to consoli- date and to strgngthen these gains —to close the gap by destroying the glaring inequalities of opportunity and of security which, in the re- cent past, have set group against group and region against region. By our policies for the future we will carry forward this program of unity. 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