The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-20
FOLLOWING is the tert

Il OF me G0GreSS OF EOUeT-
nor Franklin d. Roosevelt IN
Indianapolis today:
My friends, we are passing
through no ordinary campaign. 1t
is my belief that this campaign
marks the beginning of new deal
in American politics, and in the
conduct of American government.
The American people, conservative
and peace loving, have had an ex-
perience under the present Repub-
lican leadership that they do not
wish to continue. The unsound and
unintelligent venturing into
economic policies that this admins
tration, and that the present
candidate for President sponsored,
has brought terrible retribution.
His economic heresies have all
come home to roost, and this adj
ministration stands convicted OF
having produced this brood of dis
disappointing CANDLES with ma
tional prosperity.
It will be the purpose of the new
administration to bring order out OF
this chaos, to institute sound and
progressive and humane policies, to
repair the damage that has been
wrought, to return, if you will, the
people of the United States to the
ways If economic soundness and a
more widely distributed prosperity.
These ways of prosperity and
soundnesS are assured if we will
order our economic and govern
mental life properly In spite of
the ruinous policies of the present
Republican administration the
country still stands, the richest in
the world-a nation of the greatest
of opportunities and potentialitieS.
MATURE has given us rich soil,
IN precious minerals and a great
network of invaluable waterways.
The progress of migration has given
us the best of the, man power of
the old world. There have come to
us from other chimes in the course
of the generations people with
enough of tradition and enough Of
genius to build here civilization
the like of which no one has
dreamed.
The old world has given us a
population of strong men and wom-
en-, a population willing to work,
and willing to serve in the orderly
building of civilization. Even in
the deep pessimism of this depres-
sion this population has kept it's
temper. has held steady in the face
of adversely. And even now it is
remaining calm in the face of or
ganized and ruthless propaganda,
the propaganda of eleventh hour
political desperation which bangles
the old ghost of panic before our
eyes.
Think of these facts, my friends,
before the decision which you must
make on Nov. 8. Remember that
the unwise policies of this admin
istration have made it impossible
for the people of this country to
profit by the rich products OF the
richest soil on earth.
THESE policies have permitted
Il also the uncounted riches of
our mines to lie unusued, while
those who stand ready to work
these mines in Pennsylvania and
West Virginia and Ohio and Mis-
souri,, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Mon
tana and Idaho starve in the very
presence of riches.
A selfish policy of pernicious pri-
vate monopoly has permitted water
power that might bring happiness
to millions of homes to remain un-
used.
Far out on the Pacific coast, a
great population facing the Orient
is unable to trade with the Orient
because of the unsound policies
sponsored by men so narrow ard To-
Called in Washington that they
were too selfish or too Indifferent to
realize the needs of people so far
away.
What we need, what I constantly
have preached in terms of unified
national thinking, is a grasp of all
our economic problems, genuinely
inclusive of all these : diversified
needs--a concert OF interest" 1
have called it.
l want to add, too, that the financ-
ial system of the United States in
October Of this year, while badly
managed and hideiously gambled