fellow citizen the period for a new election of a citizen to administering the executive government of the united states being not far distant and the time already arrived when your thoughts must be occupied in designating the person who is to be clothed without him putting trust if we need that responsibility the people will make the man what we are now not a their next president in november government they refuse to believe that here the door of opportunity afloat they have made in america i'm very thankful i'm also over well i don't think any man in my position could be but over while it's just the beginning of the fight a price for the preservation of american ideals a fight to bring about unity in america for the restoration of our domestic economy and the building of a great defense no dictator may strike i thank the convention i thank the american people few minutes about the problems confronting our american i would like very much to talk to everybody in this country first about the issues of this campaign but you understand that the size of the country and the time i have to devote to this campaign makes that impossible but i do take this method presenting to you by views on some of the fundamental issues of this campaign on which my convictions are very strong and very clear because i am a a businessman which incidentally i am very proud and was formerly connected with a large company the doctrinaires of the opposition have attempted to picture me as an opponent of liberalism but i was a liberal before many of those men heard the words and i fought for the reforms of the i'm theodore roosevelt and woodrow wilson before another roosevelt's adopted and this started the word liberal i believe that the farces of free enterprise must be regulated i'm opposed to business monopolies i believe in the rights of collective bargaining by labor without any interference and protection of that obvious rights i believe in minimum standards for wages and maximum standards for hours and i believe that such standards should constantly improve i am in favor of the regulations interstate utilities a banking of the security markets i believe in federal pensions adequate old age benefits and unemployment allowances i believe that the federal government owes a duty to adjust the position of the farmer with that of the manufacturers if this cannot be done by parity prices and some other method must be found without too much regimentation of the farmers a fair i believe in the encourage amount of cooperative buying and selling and in the full extension of rural iraq and liberalism does not consist merely in reforming things it consists primarily in making things we much substitute for the philosophy of distributed scarce today the philosophy of on limited productively i stand for the restoration of all production and reemployment in american private enterprise present administration has spent sixty billion dollars the new deal stands for doing what has to be done by spending as much money as possible i propose to do it by spending as little as money as possible this is one issue in this campaign that i intend to make crystal clear before the conclusion of the campaign so that everybody in this country may understand the tremendous waste of their resources and money that they can place in the last seven and a half years there is another very vital issue which i would like to debate with franklin d roosevelt face to face and that is the assumption by this president in seeking a third term of a greater public confidence that there is any such thing as the in this sense about man we are engaged in a sacred cause the preservation of american democracy i cannot leave this cause alone i need the help of every american republican democrat independent you protestant catholic people of every race creed and color if we all join together each doing his utmost dedicating ourselves to the principles of american liberty a revitalized and reunited america will triumph over every enemy within or without i thank you and god member that he knows our names because these weren't worked with us