The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-09
Speech Of Alfred E..
 Smith On Jackson Day
(Continued From Page D

Washington, Jan 9.--The text of the speech by Alfred E. Smith fol- lows:
 Mir Toastmaster, members of the democratic natoinal commit tee friends and democrats:
 Drilled In Minds for 50 Years
 For about 50 years 1t has been drilled into the minds of the Amer ican public by carefully prepared propaganda that the republican party contained all the brains and all the intelligence that Is neces- sary for the conduct government and that the republican party, in some mysterious way---not yet made known to anybody but under cover and by association of influ- ence with industry and big busi- ness, is able to produce and con" tinue prosperity and give to the American workman every oppor- tunitly with all the credit.
 Well, what became of the old full dinenr pail?"
 Every four years, according
 to the cartoon, old man 6. O.p
 was found with his sunburned
 cutaway up on the attic of the
 republican household, and was
 engaged In the process of
 cleaning off tho old full din-
 ner pail and bringing it up - once more.
 It wasn't so much the open pro- paganda, because that was easy to discover, and 1t was easy to de. bate against, because paid my re- ypects to "the chicken in the pot and the "sill stockings" in Bos- ton.
 But they were always capable of another form of propaganda that was not so easy to discover be- cause 1t took the form of the sup erintendent or the foreman of the mill, when he handed the work the pay envelope about q week before election and explained 10 him that the owner of the mill really wanted him to exercise his great sovereign right of citizenship |according to the dictates of his own conscience, but at the same time. in the interest of his wife and children, he thought he ought to tell him a possible democratic vic- tory might decrease the size of the envelope if it didn't abolish 1t altogether. Now, don't for minute think that was not effective, and any body that has any doubt about it at all, all you have to do Is con suit the figures in presidential years as against what we call the off years in the great centers of democratic population throughout the United States, and you will see that both kinds of propaganda are very effective.
 Well, in 1928 they touched the high spot.
 Not only did they take credit for all the progress and pros perity, but they even took
 credit for the efficiency with which private business conduct ducted its affairs, and they
 took credit for the number of
 miles of telegraph wire that were either laid or strung with
 in the year, and the number
 of telephones that were in.
 stalled, and they laid the last
 straw on the camel's hack when they attempted tO take
 credit for the increased mum. her of children tn the public schools,
 Claude Bowers spoke about the ne wspaper ad. Remember that the Republican candidate himself went just as far as the ad. He may have used \ little more dlgnifled language than "ehieken tD tho pot and "sIlk stockings" but he went further than the ad,
 Here is what he said "A continuation Of tho policies of the republican party iD fuDda' mentally necessary for the furtheE ladyaDeamsDt Of progress and iha | further building ID Of prosperity"
 Tn the light Of today iet Ds take a look at iii
 Hank failures blagod on ihs headlines Of every newspaper across the country, bankruptcy praeeadlngsi fOrseIospra Of mort. Hasesi depreciation in tha value q fine saeufliiesI paralysis 0f busi, ness and industry and, topping I lail, 1000, 900 men eui of work We'll, of course, that dld Dol hap psn overnight TbiH whole dspf.s