Evening star., 1932-07-02
ROOSEVELT WANTS
WEALTH EQUAL|zED
Favors State Liquor Control
and Reorganization of
Federal Government.
BY The Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
| ALBANY, N. Y, il ,e 30-Franklin
D. Roosevelt, the presidential nominee
OF the Democrats, on the record Of his
| past utterances, favors State control
| Of liquor, reciprocal tariffs a wiser and
more equitable distribution of wealth."
and reorganization Of the Federal
Government. He holds that modern
society. acting through its government,
owes the definite obligation to prevent
starvation or dire distress of its fellow
men and women who try to maintain
themselves but cannot"
| MIR. Roosevelts diversified public life
brought him into contact with many
national and international problems
and gave him opportunities for express
sion upon them.
| Until he makes his acceptance speech
/ they may serve as a guide to his posi-
ton.
1929 Speech Quoted.
Speaking IN Chicago in 1929, Roose-
| velt said:
"Progressives, in the right sense Of
| the word, mean those who realize that
a government must grow and change
as its people grow and change; that
what is wise government today may be
| foolish government tomorrow"
! At Atlanta last May he remarked con-
corning the present social and political
situation:
ut is common sense to take a method
and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly
and try another, but above all try some
| thing"
In the same speech he asserted
wiser and more equitable distribution
OF wealth" is demanded, and warned
| that millions in want will not stand
by silently forever while the things to
satisfy their needs are within easy
reach"
When prohibition became an issue In
the 1880 New York State campaign, he
| wrote United States Senator Robert F.
Wagner that the eighteenth amendment
should be repealed and replaced by an
other providing for "the restoration Of
real control over intoxicants to the sew
eral States" Several times this year
he reiterated his belief in that method
of meeting the prohibition problem.
Mr.. Roosevelt and James M. Cox, the
presidential nominee in 1920 when the
| former was his running mate, cam
paigned ON the League Of Nations is
sue. In his acceptance speech Of that
year. Roosevelt said:
1--WE must see that it is impossible to
avoid, except by monastic seclusion,
those honorable and intimate foreign
relations which the fearful hearted.
shuddering, miscall by that devils
catchword, international complica-
| tions'"
Early this year, however. he advo-
Gated remaining out of the League Of
Nations ''as it is now made up" de-
claring it was not "the League Of
Woodrow Wilson,"
Mr.. Roosevelt, himself farmer, has
-. g.
relief, in one asking for the elimination
of the Farm Board and the setting UP
of machinery to handle surpluses mar
| keted abroad.
n In February, 1929, speaking at Syra-
cuse, he suggested devoting land to the
crops best raised; aids to marketing
conditions; redistribution of taxation to
relieve agriculture of its burden and
greater State aid to impoverished
countries.
Favors State Power Control.
The New York Governor is an advo-
cate of State owned and operated
hydro-electric plants. In his inaugural
address of 1929, he summed up his be-
lief when he referred to the st. Law
renee River electrical development pro-
ject.
1.-THE title to this power Gin the
WdJClS Vi LIE 81. l1tW1CllCCJp A4C ocLdg
must rest forever in the people OF this
State. No commission, not the Legis-
lature itself, has any right to give, for
any consideration whatever, single
potential kilowatt in virtual perpetuity
to any person or corporation whatso-
ever"
Mr.. Roosevelt once wrote to the Sem
ate Subcommittee on Naval Affairs that
the congressional system Of making ap-
preparations would put any private
business firm out Of business"
AS an indication of what kind Of
campaign Mr. Roosevelt conducts, In
the vice presidential campaign Of 1920
he made almost 1000 speeches Run
ming for Governor in 1928 and 1880 he
visited every county in the State. Many
communities he touched had not seen
a Democratic candidate for Governor
since Tilden's day.