The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-08-12

ances that there shall be none to
isuffer from hunger and cold. We
have instituted measures to assist
farmers and home owners. We have
created vast agencies for employ
ment. Above all. we have MAIN
tanned the sanctity of the principles
upon which this republic has grown
great.
People Arc Cared For
In a large sense the test Of sue
cess of our program is simple. Our
people. while suffering great hard
ship, have been and will be cared
for. In the long view our institu-
tons have been sustained intact and
are now functioning with increasing
confidence Of the future. AS ma
ton We are undefeated and un-
afraid. Government by the people
has not been dcfiled.
With the humility or one who, by
necessity. has stood in the midst of
this storm, can say with pride
That the distinction for these accom-
plishments belongs not to the gov
eminent or to any individual. 1t is
due to the intrepid soul of our peo-
pie. 1t is to their character, their
fortitude, their initiative, and their
courage that We owe these results.
We of this generation did not build
the great ship of state. But the pol
ic!eS 1 have inaugurated have pro-
tected and aided its navigation in
this storm. These policies and pro-
grams have not been partisan.
gladly give tribute to those members
of the Democratic party in congress
whose patriotic cooperation against
factional and demagogic opposition
has assisted in score Of great I'M
dertakings. 1 likewise give credit to
| Democratic as we'll as Republican
leaders amongst our citizens for
their cooperation and help
A record of these dangers and
these policies in the past three years
Will be set down in books. Much of
it is of interest only to history. Our
interest now is the future. I d/sll
upon these policies and problems only
where they illustrate the questions
OF the day and our course in the fu-
ture. AS a government and as
people we still have much to do. We
must continue the building of our
measures OF restoration. We must
profit by the Lessons of this exper-
fence.
Depends on People
Before / enter upon discussion of
these policies I wish to say something
OF my conception of the relation of
our government to the people and of
the responsibilities of both, particular
ly as applied to these times. The
spirit and devising of this government
by the people was to sustain a dual
purpose-on the one hand to protect
our people amongst nations and in
domestic emergencies by great ma
| tional power, and on the other to pre-
serve individual liberty and freedom
through local government.
The function of the federal govern
I ment in these times is to use its re-
serve powers and its strength for the
protection OF citizens and local gov
ernments by support to our institu-
tons against forces beyond their con-
troll. 1t is not the function of the
| government to relieve individuals of
their responsibilities to their neigh
bors, or to relieve private institutions
or their responsibilities to the public, or
OF local government to the states, or
OF state governments to the federal
government. In giving that protec-
ton and that aid the federal govern
ment must insist that all of them ex-
ert their responsibilities in full. 1t is
vital that the programs of the govern
ment shall not compete with or re-
place any Of them but shall add to
their initiative and their strength. 1t
is vital that by the use of public
| revenues and public credit in cmer-
gency the nation shall be strengthen
ed and not weakened.
! And in all these emergencies and
crises and in all our future policies
we must also preserve the funda-
mental principles of our social and
economic system. That system is
founded upon a conception of ordered
freedom. The test of that freedom
is that there should be maintained
equality of opportunity to every in
dlvldual SO that he may achieve for
| himself the best to which his char
acter, ability, and ambition entitle
him. 1t is only by this release of in
itiatiye. this insistence upon individual
responsibility. that we accrue the
great sums of individual accomplish
ment which carry this nation for
ward. This is not an individualism
which permits men to run riot in
5eifishness or to override equality of
opportunity for others. 1t permits no
violation of ordered liberty. In the
race after the false gods of material
ism men and groups have forgotten
their country. Equality of opportun-
ity contains no conception of exploit
alton by any selfish, ruthless, class
minded men or groups. They have no
place in the American system. AS
against these stand the guiding ideals
and concepts OF our nation. I pro-
pose to maintain them.
Wants No Experimentation
The solution Of our many prob
lens which arise from the shifting
scene of national life is not to be
found in haphazard experimentation
or by revolution. It must be through
organic development of our national
life under these ideals. It must Sc
cure that cooperative action which
builds initiative and strength outside
OF government. 1t does not follow.
because of our difficulties are stu.
pendous, because there are some souls
tlmorous enough to doubt the valid
ity and effectiveness of our ideals
and our system, that we must turn to
state-controlled or state-directed
social or economic system in order to
cure our troubles. That Is not liberal
ism; it is tyranny. 1t is the regi-
mentation of men under autocratic
bureaucracy with all its extinction
OF liberty, CT hope, and Of opportun-
lty. OF course, no man of under
| standing saws that 0ir s1,Stann x,,orlxc