The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-06
State Democrats
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possible. I am glad to have been postmaster general under ain ad- ministration that balanced the budget of this important depart ment, which has been done only eleven times during the past one hundred years.
 Connecticut Shares
 NowI don't suppose you are any fonder of statistics than 1 am; nevertheless am going to give you few more, so that you may your selves give a verdict as to whether this administration has not dis charged the sacred duty of relief justly, economically and with con- cern alike for the government and for the people.
 You in Connecticut have shared in the distribution to the extent of ninety-two, and half million dol- lars. Of this nearly $26,0O0, ,0O0 | went in the form of loans to pre- ] serve home owners from mortgage | foreclosure. Do you think this money was cast to the winds or do you believe the people of your state, ever with, a true New Eng land habit of probity and pride will pay off these mortgages in the | course of time?
 Twenty-one million, six hundred | thousand dollars went to public | works; new government buildings | and lasting projects of merit. Would you have preferred that this money should not be spent in wages to your working people and for materials of construction, at a time when business was stagnant and unemployment was the biggest problem of the hour? Approx the R. F. c. to your banks ard similar institutions. That will come back to the Treasury with interest. c. W. A. work account ed for $9,600,O00 and eight and 9 half millions went for direct relief. There are other items. among | them, 14 c. c. c. camps which have cost $3,251,000 and have done more than that amounts to for the protection of your woods, the control of your water courses and such things.
 Valuable Training
 | But the main benefit, worth much more than the whole cost lies in the fact that thousands of young men, many of whom have come to age at a time when no places were open to them, have been given healthful employment and a training that will be of value to them and to you, instead of being permitted to drift into the melancholy ranks of the jobless, doomed through no fault of theirs to be a wandering charge on the commonwealth.
 That is the story repeated with minor variations in forty-eight states. It represents one-half. of | the program PrasidSnt Roosevelt conceived for our rehabilitation and restoration. The other half embraces industrial, commercial and agricultural restoration. Mo- body assumes that every detail of it was perfect. As the president | himself announced it would be modified as experience developed its strong points and its weak ones. That process is still going on and must go on if we are ever to get back to where we belong in the economic field.
 New Deal Successful
 I could recite indefinitely the in- stances and examples that demon- I 6tA dlC GAAO S0NGSSS. OA lAC GARCA1- ment--tlae translation of deficits In great industries into profits, the in- crease in payrolls and the dimuni- ton of unemployment and more important than these the substitu- tion of confidence for the psychol- ogy of despair. We are on our way upward but we are still q long stretch from where we must get to but we will make it despite the efforts of our political oppon- ents to recreate panic by de- precating the gains made and pa- rading the ghosts and phantoms of mythical social perils.
 No constitutional government is all-powerful. We cannot prevent such happenings as the drouth that laid waste millions of acres of our farm lands. We cannot always avert industrial disturbances, though the constant effort has been to settle, the controversies that arise and this has been done in many instances. A strike in big industry is dramatic headline compelling thing. A strike settled before 1t becomes acute is only an inside page story for the news papers, if it comes to their atten- tion at all. The administration cannot order an employer to ac- cept the terms demanded by labor: it cannot order labor to forego its right to strive for better condi- tions. If it did either of these things it would most certainly vio- late the liberties guaranteed by the Constitution.
 Support Our President
 fnfn hn and effects of the New Deal be- cause that has been made the is- sue of the pending campaign by the minority party. Our president has been doing his job to the limit. It is up to the democratic organ izations throughout the country to do theirs. You in Connecticut have been his neighbors for all of his life-ti I do not need to tell you that he does his own think ing. He listens to the advice of all and then he acts according to his own conscience, his own good practical horse sense, his own con- cept of his duty to all the people. He cannot do it all, even if he wishes to. He must have the CO., operation of Congress and he needs the cooperation of the state gov ernments.
 This is no ordinary. election. Its outcome will be taken as indicat- ing the faith of the country in the policies that have brought us so far along she trail back to pros- perity. The nominees of this con- vention will. I am sure, do their part in supporting and furthering President Roosevelt's v,lans. .-sAsf people of Connecticut will do t;e:s part in rendering verdict that will answer the campaign of sub- version and detraction which seeks to delay the important processes of economic recovery for our