The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-09

way to restore confidence was fo, me to declare that all supervision by all forms of government. federal and state, over all forms of human activity called business should be | forthwith abolished.
 Tn other words, he was frank enough to imply that he would repeal all laws, state or national, which regulate business - that q l utility could henceforth charge any rate, reasonable or otherwise; that the railroads could go back to re- bates and other secret agreements; that the prOcessors of foodstuffs could disregard all rules of health | and good faith; that the unregu- lated wild cat banking of a cen- tury ago could be restored; that | fraudulent securities and watered stock could be palmed off on the public; That stock manipulation which caused panics and enriched | insiders could go unchecked. In l fact, if we were to listen to him, | the old law of tooth and the claw 1 would reign once more." | No Ancient Order Again | At this juncture, MT Roosevelt l paused and slowly remarked: My friends, the people of the | United States will not restore that ancient order. There is no lack of | confidence on the part of the bus 1 mess men, farmers and workers l who clearly read the signs of the times. Sound economic improve l ment comes from the improved 1 conditions of this whole population | and not a small fraction thereof" | The president then went on to l explain that confidence was return ing to agriculture, bringing in spite l of the drought, practicable plan l ming in place of useless pickering and sectional thinking. Confidence | also, he added, was returning to the manufacturer, the workers, bus | mess big and little, the banker | and even the children, whose childhood has been saved them py l the abolition of child labor" 1 In conclusion, Mir Roosevelt also | extended his thanks to Governor l Schmedeman of Wisconsin, whom | he termed another old friend of ! mine for his patriotic cooperation l with the national administrations. | "We who support this New Deal do so because 1t is square deal and because it is essential to the preser-
 vation of security and happiness Of
 a free society" he concluded.
 Text of Speech
 Green Bay, Wis, Aug. 9-(UP)
 Following is the text of Presi- dent Roosevelt's address here to-
 day:
 am glad to take part in this
 ccommemoration of the landing
 in Green Bay of the man who
 can truly be called the hrst white pioneer of Wisconsin. 1 over all the years the purposes
 of the men and women who es-
 tablished civilization in Wiscon-
 sin and in the northwest were the same as those that stimu-
 lated the earlier settlers of the Atlantic seaboard. Men every where throughout Europe had
 suffered from the imperfect and l often unjust governments of | their home lands, and were | driven by deep desire to find security and enlarged opportunity
 for thefnselves and their chill | dren. The new population flow | ing into our new new lands or l opportunity was a mixed popula- | tion differing often in language, | in external customs and in habits | of thought. But in one thing | they were alike--they shared a l deep purpose to rid themselves
 forever of the jealousies, the | prejudices, the intrigues and the | violence, whether internal or ex- | ternal, that disturbed their lives l abroad.
 They sought life less fettered | by the explorations that selfish men set up in governments that
 are not free. They sought
 wider opportunity for the aver
 age man.
 They Moved Forward
 Having achieved the initial
 adventure of migration to new homes, they moved forward to
 fishing forms of government and
 methods of operating these
 forms of government that might
 assure them the things that
 they sought. They believed that
 men, out of their intelligence
 and their self discipline, could
 create and use forms of govern
 ment that would not enslave the
 human spirit, but free it and
 nourish 1t. They did not fear | government, because they knew I that government in the new | world was their own.
 I They built here in Wisconsin | a state destined for extraordinary
 achievements. They set up insti- l tutions to enforce law and order, to care for the unfortunate, to promote the arts of industry and agriculture. They built a uni versity and school system as en- frightened as any that the world
 affords. They set up against all | selfish private interests the or- l ganixed authority of the people | themselves through the state.
 They transformed utilities into | public servants instead of private | means of exploitations.
 l The average man in Wisconsin waged a long and bitter fight for
 his rights. Here, and in the na-
 ton at large, this battle has been | two fold.
 1 He has had the fight nature I From the time that the settlers
 started to clear the land until
 now, he has been compelled to ' kAa V.Axsrar AN hfu hrnixao