Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-08-09
.PLEAFOR LEAGUE.
BY ROOSEVELT
People Willing to Do Their
Part Says Democratic Vice
Presidential Nominee.
TELLS OF BIG PROBLEMS
Relations With World and Or
ganized Progress at Home
Cox Needed by Nation.

BY The Associated Press.
HYDE PARK, N. Y. Aug. 3.
Two great problems will confront
the next administration" said
Franklin ID. Roosevelt in his accept
ance speech of the Democratic vice
presidential nomination here today.
They are our relations with the
world and the pressing need of
organized progress at home"
In regard to the former problem
he said: I'VE must either shut our
eyes, sell our merchant marine to
more far-seeing foreign powers,
crush utterly by embargo and har-
RAISING legislation our foreign trade,
close our ports and build an I'M
pregnable wall of costly armaments
and live hermit nation; or, we must
open our-eyes and see that complex
civilization and the Interviewing of
the lives of the men of all countries
makes l. impossible to be In this
believes that il is impossible TO
avoid honorable and intimate foreign
relations. called by some Inter
national complications" except by
'monastic seclusion.
The home problem requires the
guiding hand of a president who can
see his country above his party. Mr..
Roosevelt said, and who also has
the independence, courage and skill
to guide us along the road to things
as they should be without swerving
one footstep at the dictation of
partisans who whisper party or of
selfish interests that murmur
profits
Mr.. Roosevelt believes that the
war has awakened this country into
a realization of the shortcomings of
our governmental machinery and of
the need for reorganization He
states that the men who represent us
in the affairs of our government
should be more than politicians o.
the errand boys OF politicians; that
they should subordinate the In
dividual ambition and the party
advantage to the national good.
The nominee spoke concerning the
treaty of peace offered by the De-
mocratic party and upheld that il
order to be a real treaty for a real
peace 1t must include league of
nations; because it should not be a
peace masked by cynical statesmen
as a preparation for further wars
but lasting practical peace which
shall be anti-war.
The league will not die. An idea
does not die which meets the call of
the hearts Of our Mothers he de-
clared.
To-day we are offered a seat at
the table of the family of nations to
the end that smaller peoples may be
truly safe to work out their own
destiny" Mr.. Roosevelt believes
that we shall take that place be-
cause ''the people are looking into
the years to come for better things.
and that they are not afraid to do
their part"
The nominee believed that inter-
national association "can never be
principles which. one applies to cur
own purely internal affairs. Con-
tinuing he said:
Among the most pressing of the
national needs I place the bettering
Of our citizenship, the extension of
teaching to over 100000 OF our
population above the age of ten who
are illiterate. the strengthening of
our immigration laws to exclude the
physically and morally unfit. the i'm
provement of working conditions es-
pecially in the congestsd centers. the
extension of communications to
make rural life more attractive, the
further protection of child life and
of women in industry. All of these
demand action. If we raise the
standard of education, of physical
fitness, of moral sense. the genera
tions to come will have no diff
Guilty in coping with the problems
of material economies"
In regard to further developments
OF natural resources the nominee
believes that every dollar of our
expenditures shall be expended only |
hut inc ~, r0h n.
ner that each year will see progress |
along definite lines.
"As a nation we have been waste
full of our opportunities. Our efforts
in the past have been scattered" he |
declared.
Contrary to statements of some
people that they are tired of pro-
gress and want to go back to where |
they were before. Mr.. Roosevelt be-
lieves that this is not the wish OF |
America. Our eyes are trained |
ahead to better days and under the
circumstances we can not and do not |
want to go backward. the candidate |
declared. I'VE must go forward or
founder" In his estimation he be-
lieves that the votes of the women |
of the nation will promote pro-
gress.
THE Democratic program offers a
larger life for our country, richer
destiny for our people. 1t is a plan
of hope" the nominee believes, ad-
ding, that a greater America is the
objective, and that the time has
come when everyone must determine
for themselves wherein our future
lies.
Il look to it for progress. In the
establishment of good will and mu-
fual helm among nations in the end
ing of wars and the miseries tnat
wars bring. in the extension of hon
orable commerce, in the iL-ernation-
al settlement which will make II un-
necessary to send again two million
OF our men across the sea. look 10
our future for progress; in better
citizenship, in less waste, IN rairer
remuneration of our labor. in more
efficient governing, in higher stand
ards of living.
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