Evening star., 1932-08-12
,CLARES SALOON AND SPEAKEASY ARE BOTH INTOIERABLE

their anxieties and hardships before
him day and night. They would be
more than human If they were net
led to blame their condition upon
the government in power. have
understood their sufferingS and have
worked to the limits Of my strength
to produce action that would really
help them.
Much remains to be done to at
tain recovery. The emergency
measures now in action represent an
unparalleled use Of national power to
relieve distress, to provide employ
ment, to serve agriculture, to pre-
serve the stability of the Govern
ment, to maintain the integrity or
our institutions Our policies pre-
vent unemployment caused by floods
Of imported goods and laborers. Our
policies preserve peace. They en-
brace cooperation with other ma
tions in those fields in which we can
serve. With patience and persever-
ance these measures will succeed.
Despite the dislocation Of eco
nomic life our great tools Of produc-
tion and distribution are more effl-
cient than ever before: our fabulous
natural resources, our farms. our
homes, our skill are unimpaired.
From the hard-won experience Of
this depression we shall build
stronger methods Of prevention and
stronger methods of protection to
our people from the abuses which
have become evident. We shall
march to far greater accomplish
ment.
With united effort We can and
will turn the tide toward the restora-
tion of business. employment and
agriculture. Il will call for the ut
most devotion and wisdom. Every
reserve Of American courage and
vision must be called upon to sus-
tain us and to plan wisely for the
future.
Through it all our first duty is to
preserve unfettered that dominant
American spirit which has produced
our enterprise and individual char
acter. That is the bedrock of the
past, and that is the guaranty Of
the future. Not regimental mechan-
iSms, but free men is our goal.
Herein is the fundamental issue. A
representative democracy, progress
sive and unafraid to meet its prob
lens, but meeting them upon the
foundations of experience, and not
upon the wave of emotion or the
insensate demands Of a radicaliSm
which graSpS at every opportunity
to exploit the sufferings of a people.
With these courses we shall
emerge from this great national
strain with our American system Of
life and government strengthened.
Our people will be free to reaSsert
their energy and enterprise in a So
ciety eager to reward in full meas
ure those whose industry serves its
well being. Our youth will find the
doors of equal opportunity still open.
Hopes to See Country >
On Way to Prosperity.
The problems of the next few
years are not only economic. They
are also moral and spiritual The
present check to our material sue
cess must deeply stir our national
conscience upon the purposes Of life
itself. 1t must cause us TO revalue
and reshape our drift from mate
rialism to higher note of individ-
ual and national ideals.
Underlying every purpose is the
spiritual application of moral ideals
which are the fundamental basis of
happiness in a people. This is a
land of homes, churches, school
houses dedicated to the sober and
enduring satisfactions of family life
and the rearing Of children In an
atmosphere of ideals and religious
faith. Only with these high stand
ards can we hold society together,
and only from them can government
survive or business prosper. They
are the sole insurance to the safety
Of our children and the continuity
Of the Nation.
If it shall appear that while I
have had the honor of the presi-
dency I have contributed the part
required from this high Office to
bringing the Republic through this
dark night, and if in my adminis-
tration we shall see the break Of
dawn to better day, shall have
done my part in the world. No
man can have a greater honor than
that.
I have but one desire-that is,
to see my country again on the road
to prosperity which shall be more
sane and lasting through the lesson
of experience, to see the principles
and ideals of the American people
perpetuated.
I rest the case of the Republican
party on the intelligence and the
just discernment of the American
people. Should my countrymen
again place upon me the RESPONSE
pilitieS of this high Office, I shall
carry forward the work Of recon-
struction. I shall hope long before
another four years have passed to
see the world prosperous and at
peace and every American home
again in the sunshine of genuine
progress and genuine prosperity. I
shall seek to maintain untarnished
and unweakened those fundamental
traditions and principles upon which
our Nation was founded and upon
which it has grown. I shall invite
and welcome the help of every man
and woman in the preservation of
the United States for the happiness
Of its people. This is my pledge to
the Nation and to Almighty God.