The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-19
Tariff Assailed,
 Hoover Relief
 Plans Criticized
Mentions Smith But Once in St Paul Speech and Then in Favorable Terms Explains Forgotten Man"
 Speecf-West Gives Candidate Warm Reception

St Paul, April 19-Following is Sfhe text of Governor Roosevelts s address here last night:
 What is the real reason that Jeff ferson Day dinners are being giv- en Throughout the length and breadth of the land, century and a quarter after Thomas Jefferson was at the height of his career?
 No doubt it is in part because democrats use the opportunity Of the anniversary to assemble In lur- therance of party plans and for the advancement of candidates. but, in a larger sense, they are held to give renewed allegiance to the foun- dation principles of which Jeffer- son was the chief builder and on which still rest the social and po- litical structure of the republic.
 It is not necessary for us in any way to discredit the great financial genius of an Alexander Hamilton or the school of thought of the early Federaiist to point out that they were frank in their belief that certain sections of the nation and certain individuals within those sections were more fitted than others to conduct govern ment.
 The Federalists, as Woodrow Wilson so wisely put it, were a group possessed of unity and i'm formed by conscious solidarity of interest
 It was the purpose of Jefferson to teach the country that the soli- darity of federalism was only a partial one, that it represented only a minority of the people and that to build great nation the inter- ests of all groups in every part must be considered; that only in large, national unity could. real security be found.
 The whole life and all of the methods of Jefferson were an ex- republication of this fundamental. He has been called a politician be- cause he devoted years to the build ing of a political party. But this labor was in itself definite and practical act, aimed at the unifica- tion of all parts of the country in support of common principles.
 Need for the Party System
 When people carelessly or snob- bishly deride political parties, they overlook the fact that the party sys- tenn of government is one of the greatest methods of uniflcation and of teaching people to think in com mon terms.
 Vie have had in our own history three men who chiefly stand out for the universality of their interest and of their knowledge-Benjamin Franklin. Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt. All three knew at first hand every cross- current of national and of interna- tioEal life. All three were possessed of a profound culture in the best sense of the word, and yet all three understood the yearnings and the lack of opportunity-the hopes and fears of millions of their fellow beings. All true culture finally comes down to an appreciation of just that.
 And of the three, Jefferson was in many ways the deepest student the one with the most inquiring and diversified intellect, and above all, the one who at all times looked the furthest into the future. ex- amining the ultimate effects on humanity of the actions of the present.
 Jefferson's methods were wholly illustrative of this purpose of gov ernment based on universality or interest. I can picture the weeks on horseback when he was travel ing into the different states of the union, slowly and laboriously ac- cumulating an understanding of the people of his country. He was drinking in the needs of the people in every walk of life. He was one of the first to recognize the com lnunity of interest between the shipowner in New York and the boatman on the upper reaches of the Ohio.
 Jefferson A Concilliator
 He was one of the first to recon cile the problems of the South with those of the North. He was one Of the first to preach the interdepend- ence of town and country. and he was one of the first to bring to the conservation of leaders of the East ern Seaboard the hopes and aspira- tions of the pioneer.
 He was willing to stake his for tunes on the stroke of a pen which purchased the imperial domain that trebled the size of the nation over night. He was no local American: he was no little American
 Jefferson was so big in mind and in spirit that he knew the average man would understand when he said "I shall often go wrong through defective Judgment, and when right, shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your support against the errors of others who may con- demn what they would not condemn , if seen in all it's parts. His. after all, was the essential point of view that has been held by our truly great leaders in every generation.
 Andrew Jackson had it. like his blunt statement that "The spirit of equity requires that the great interests of agriculture, com merce and. manufactures should be equally favored"
 Abraham Lincoln had it. He could say to-day. as he said In lSSl' s .Physically speaking. we cannot separate. We cannot remove oui respective sections from each other HOT dH ilHP1SSetOiS Noii " tween them. A husband and wife may be divorced. and go out of the presence and beyond the reach o1 each other. But the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face"
 Quotes From Theodore Roosevelt
 Theodore Roosevelt brought home to us once more the fundamental point of view when he said: : "The kind of business prosperity that blunts the standard of honor, that puts an inordinate value on mere wealth. that makes a man ruthless and conscienceless in trade. and weak and cowardly in citizenship, is not a good thing al all, but very bad thing for the nation. This government stands for manhood first and for business only as an adjunct of manhood"
 Tn the past the most direful among the influences which have brought about the downfall of re- publics has ever been thei growth of the class spirit, the- growth of the spirit which tends to make a man subordinate the welfare of the public as a whole to the welfare of fhe pnrticular class to which he