Evening star., 1932-11-06

baseless fears that our firesides are to
| become cold or that our civilization will
disappear We know that by the united
effort of us all, our fear can be dissi-
pated, our firesides protected. our eco
nomic fabric reconstructed and our in
dividual lives brought to more perfect
! fulfillment.
i In that united effort. I make bold
| to include not only you, the members
Of my own party; not only the great
| independent masses who seek relief
from an administration which has serv-
ed them Ill; not only the liberal-minded
elements in all parts of the country who
have Joined in creating the program we
are proud to offer; but also the men
! and women in the ranks OF the Repub-
lican party, whose interests must also
be ours.
The next administration must repre-
sent not a fraction Of the United States,
but all of the United States. No re-
| source Of mind or heart or organization
can be excluded in the fight against
what is, after all our real enemy. Our
real enemies are hunger, want, inse-
rurity, poverty and fear. Against these
there is no glory in victory only par
| tisan.
America Held Safe.
The genius Of America Is stronger
/ than any candidate or any party. ms
campaign, hard as 1t has been, has not
shattered my sense OF humor or my
sense of proportion-1 still know that
the fate Of America cannot depend on
any one man The greatness OF America
is grounded in principles and not on
any single personality. l, for one, shall
remember that even as President. Un-
less by victory, we can accomplish
greater unity toward liberal effort. we
! shall have done little indeed.
Let us turn from consideration OF
| leadership and think of the loyal voters
who constitute the great army that has
brought us to the gate Of victory. Let
us give thought to the men and women
in the ranks There are many millions
of them What have they In mind?
Why have they enlisted?
There is among you the man who Is
not bound by party lines. You vote
according to your common sense and
your calm Judgment after hearing each
party set forth its program. To you
say that the strength OF this inde-
pendent thought is the great contribu-
ton of the American political system
You, and millions like you. have ap-
praised the Democratic program. and
have rallied to its standard. Your
| thought makes wider our vision in
handling our national policies.
Womens Interests Stated.
There is among you the woman-you
who know that women's traditional In
terests welfare. children and the home
rest on the broader basis OF an eco
nomic system which assures her or her
1 husband Of a job. The old expression
4 that "a woman's place is in the home"
has a wider meaning today Your in
/ terests may be in your home, but you
now know that they are no longer dis
associated from the interests OF the
State. Into your home, for instance,
4 comes electricity What you pay for it
is largely determined by the attitude
| of your Government. Your family
budget must provide for tax bill as
well as for your babys clothes. And
/ you know now that your baby's clothes
are apt to depend upon the amount of
taxes your family pays. You who have
| had the clarity OF vision to trace many
of your private problems back to their
roots in Government policy, best ap-
preciate the program we lay before you.
There is among you the man in Dusl-
ness or in trade who has heard the cry
that change was fearful thing but
who, unafraid has decided to change
You know now that when things are
going wrong, only partisan prejudice
and stupidity can countenance con-
tinuance. You know now that the logical
i remedy for mistaken policy is change
in policy. You have decided to make
this change. You have decided to put
the conduct Of affairs into other hands.
All Of you, consciously or not. have
helped shape the policies of the Demo-
/ "a
suffering. Your own experiences and
your own fears and your own problems
all have written themselves into our
program. There is something Of you
in all of U.S.
Hard Work without Gain.
There is among you the man who has
been brought up in the good American
tradition to work hard and to save for
a rainy day. You have worked hard
You have stinted yourself to save. You
now find your savings gone. You now
find your job gone. Your resentment
comes not from discomfort alone, but
from feeling of deep injustice You
have joined us not because of discon-
tent, but because in our program you
find the hope that this cannot come
again. We have not enticed you with
offers Of magic, nor lured you with vain
promises We have given you the hope
Of better ordered system Of national
economy. We have pledged you our
word and our will to do
There is among you the man who
has been brought up to believe that
a livelihood could always be wrung
from the soil by willing labor You
have broken your back in your efforts
to make the soil produce. And when
you have gathered your harvest you
have found that harvest worthless. In
beUilderment, you have learned that
when you had something to buy the
cost was great, but when you had some
thing to sell, the price was low-or
the price was nil For years you have
endured this until at length the
mounting tide Of debt has threatened
your very home. You have entered our
ranks. No promised cure-all led you
there. You came because by careful
analysis you were convinced where
your difficulty lay.
You knew that your difficulties were
beyond your individual control to pre-
vent or cure. Our plan offered to you
a mobilization of the resources OF gov
ernment to bring to you the fruits
which your labor deserved.
1928 Economies Scored.
Inere is among you tne man VINO
has been able to save something from
this wreck. You have joined our ranks
because you, too have come to realize
the falsity OF the 1928 economics and
to look for your safety in a new and
stronger philosophy Of constitutional
government.
All Of you in all places, in all walks
OF life. have joined in proving that only
by true conception Of the interde-
pendence Of the American economic
system can there be hope Of safety and
security for all.
Today there appears once more the
truth taught 1000 years ago-that mo
man lives to himself, and no man dies
to himself; but, living or dying. We are
the Lords and each others"
It may be said when the history Of
the past few months comes to be writ
ten, that this was bitter campaign