Evening star., 1934-08-09

progressive but who declines 70 Co
operate or even TO discuss methods
of arriving at the detectives because
he insists on his own methods and
nobody else'a
the other type TO which refer
ia the individual who demands some
message to the people Of the United
States that viii restore what he calls
confidence. When I hear this /
cannot help but remember the pleas
made BY government and certain
types Of so-called big business al
through the years 1880, 1891 and
1882 that the only thing lacking In
the United States was confidence.
Before / left on my trip. l re-
ceive1 two letters from important
men, both Of them pleading that
say something to restore conf
dence. To both OF them / wrote
identical answers. What would you
like 70 have me Eay2" From one
OF them have received no reply
at all six weeks later ! take II
that he Is still wondering how to an
swer. The other man wrote me
IL HI4AAy AAkaA lfA iAb 9HA5At~AAh NA*~
way 10 restore confidence was for
me 10 declare that all supervision
by all forms Of government. Federal
and State. over all forms OF human
activity called business should be
forthwith abolished.
Laws Which Would Be Repealed.
asr,- a4tox ..-nxS~ tn u,as frauk
TO imply that he would repeal
all laws. State or national. which
regulate buEineSs-that a utility could
charge any rate, reason
able or otherwise that the railroads
could go back TO rebates and other
secret agreements that the professors
1f foodstuffs could disregard all
rules Of health and Of good faith:
that the unregulated wildcat bank
ing of a century ago could be re-
stored; that fraudulent securities and
stock could be palmed off on
the public; that stock manipulation
which caused panics and enriched in
siders could go unchecked. In fact.
II we were to listen to him, the old
law OF the tooth and the claw would
reign once more.
MY friends, the people Of the
United States will not restore that
ancient order. There Is no lack of
on the part Of those bust
ness men, farmers and workers who
clearly read the signs of times Sound
economic improvement comes from
the improved conditions of the whole
population and not small fraction
thereof.
Those who would measure conf
dence in this country In the future
must look first to the average citizen.
Declares Confidence Returning.
Confidence is returning to our agri-
population who. in spite of
and uncomfortable
drought in large area is giving un-
cooperation to practical
planning and the ending of the use
less pickering and sectional thinking
Of the past. Confidence is returning
10 the manufacturers who, in over
numbers, are comparing the
black ink of today with the red ink
1f many years gone by; to the workers
who have achieved under the National
Recovery Administration rights for
which they fought unsuccessfully for
4 generation; to the men and women
whose willing hands found no work
md who have been saved from starva-
ion by Government relief; to the
whose childhood has been
saved to them by the abolition Of
child labor; to the fair and sincere
bankers and flnanciers and business
men, big and little, who now, for
,he first time, find Government CO.
operating with them in new attempts
20 put the golden rule into the tenn
pies of finance; to the home own
RS who have been saved from the
tark threat of foreclosure and to
he small investors and savers of the
Nation who. for the first time. right
v believe that their savings are Sc
cure.
Demands Justice for All.
These are the elements that make
'or confidence in the future. This
Government intends no injury to hon.
st business. The processes we fol-
ow in seeking social justice do not
n adding to general prosperity take
rom one to give to another. In this
modern world, the spreading out of
opportunity ought not to consist of
'obbing Peter to pay Paul. We are
with more than mere sub
raction and addition. We are con-
,erned with the multiplication Of
wealth through cooperative action
wealth in which all can share.
''These high purposes must be ac-
by cooperation among
hose charged by the people with the
iuties of government. I am glad to
De in a State from which / have
yreatly drawn in setting up the
and temporary agencies of
"Your two Senators, both old friends
" mine, and many others, have
worked with me in maintaining excel
ent cooperation between the e~ecu-
i've and legislative branches Of the
I take this opportunity
If expressing my gratitude to them.
mot only in Washington, but in
he States there has been cooperation
" public officials in the achievement
# the purposes VIC seek. I thank
Gov Schmedeman, another old friend
If mines for his patriotic cooperation
With the national administration.
Quotes Definition of New Deal.
Eve who support this new deal do |
10 because it is a square deal and |
because it is essential to the preserva- |
ion of security and happiness of a |
rec society. I like its definition by
/ member of the Congress. He said: |
The new deal is an old deal-as old |
IS the earliest aspirations of humanity |
or liberty and justice and the good |
ife. 1t is old as Christian ethics, for |
its ethics are the same. 1t
S new as the Declaration of Inde-
)endence was new, and the ConStitu- |
ion of the United States; its motives