The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-25
Deceit Continues.

The result of it all has been just this: the democratic platform plank has put the democratic party in the bright light of intelligent understanding on the part of intel ligent people throughout the United States, and it leaves the re- publican party today where it was in 1928, the party of bigotry, of de- ceit. and of hypocrisy. Applause ]
 What brought this on so fast? We have been discussing this ques- ton for about twelve years. wrote memorandums against pro- hibition as far back as 1923. I spoke against it. What brought it on so fast? Economic conditions. It came and hit the people of America between the eyes, and there has been more accomplished on that side of it than there was talking on the moral side of it in all the five years that preceded last year. .
 The American people have walked up to find out that our first families. our society people, our speakeasies of high and low char acter, are dealing with bootleggers. The bootlegger is waxing fat, and no revenue is coming into the government. The sale of this stuff is going on all over the country in every state of the Union. The bootlegger is cheating his Uncle Sam. He pays no income tax. He does a cash business. There Is no way of checking him up, and meanwhile the wise solons of the government in Washington are tossing out of the window billion dollars that could be lesitimately taken from this traffic, and they are roofing around the family cupboard and in the small business stores and trying to find enough money in taxation to keep the gov- ernment going.
 I just ran across this yesterday. "Tax yield rising, but still short of the estimate" \
 Up to a couple of days ago we were only $600,000,000 overheard. We have got to find, up to date, $500, 100000.
 Watch that figure grow. By the time congress gets ready to pass some more nuisance taxes, 1t will probably be a billion. And then we are going through the senseless performance down there of in- creasing the income tax at a time | when nobody has an. income. They absolutely forget, going back to the elementary principles of math> matics, that twice nothing is nothing. Laughter and applause.
 Now, I confess that most politi- cal issues are confusing to the av- craze mind. Few people under stand the intricate question of the tariff; few people understand our foreign relations, our foreign debts. or the inter-governmental debts. But everybody, even the children in the high schools, dis tinctly understand that the 18th amendment did not prohibit. and the Volstead act did not prevent and that conditions are worse to- day that they were before the en- actment of this amendment, and the federal government and the various state governments are get ting absolutely no revenue from it. And if you think that the chil- dren don't understand 1t, why when I was down in Florida went across to West Palm Beach to visit an old lady that came from the old neighborhood in New York and went down to live with her daugh- ter, and she told me that her grandchildren could spot the air. planes that were bring the booze over from the Bimini Islands every highland Florida is supposed te | be dry.
 Now, this is the time to settle this question. Let me impress upor my listeners in every part of thii country that if you don't settle thil question on the sth of November there ia no use of holding any pro
 test meetings in January. (Ap
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