The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 30, 1895.
ROOSEVELT AT ATLANTA
a scRrPPs-HowARD NEWSPAPER

TT is an interesting coincidence that Franklin D.
Roosevelt delivered his go-ahead message on the
same day that the National Association of Manufac-
turers cried cease and desst" The two declarations
fairly we'll lay the lines for the contest of 1888.
The net effect of the IA points presented by the
manufacturers is either to halt everything or do
everything differently than it is being done. The
tone of the document is doorous. jeremiah might
have prepared tor that other great prophet who
predicted grass for the asphalt.
The tone of the Roosevelt declaration is, on the
other hand, buoyant, cheerful full of the zest of
victories accomplished and more victories to come.
So it will be up to the reader and the voter about
year from to pay his money and take his
choice And one thing is certain-hell pay his
money in either event.
TT has often been said before a salesman can sell
other people he must first sell himself reading
of the Atlanta speech gives the answer to RooSe-
vets power as a campaigner: Roosevelt thoroughly
sold Roosevelt. Not note of doubt; not flicker
Of defeatsm; not harshirt in his wardrobe In
stead highly sustained confidence IN what he has
done, is doing, and will do. The words of a man
who believes in himself, and believes also that you
must believe in him They may beat Roosevelt in
1886 but they'll do it with pessimism Dire
predictions and tidings of disaster won't turn the
trick. If the contest boils down to pointing with
pride against viewing with alarm, optimism will win.
All the world is waiting for the sunrise and this
nation particularly after what it has gone through,
isn't scanning the dim horizon for more bad news.
A S piece of augmentation the Atlanta speech
was compact and powerful. 1t drew upon that
most potent of material-your memory. 1t
called the prosperity" of that time to which many
nowadays, forgetting what time brought forth,
inclined to turn with longing recollections the
Juveniles"
Those are years to remember" he said. Those
fools paradise years before the crash In that
orgy of prosperity the poorest We'd with the richest
in throwing their earnings and savings into
cauldron of land and stock speculation In that orgy
of prosperity slum conditions went unheeded bet
ter education forgotten usurious interest charges
mounted child labor continued starvation wages
too often the rule instead OF the exception.
Mammon ruled America"
A FTER massing the picture that preceded the
crash he came to the present, but not defen-,
svey; always on the aggressive. with such human
interest material this
National surveys prove that the average of our
citizenship lives today on what would be called by
the medical fraternity thirdcass diet If the coun-
try lived a second-class diet we would need to put
many acres than we use today back into the
production of foodstufTs for domestic consumption
If the nation lived a first-cIass diet we would
have to put more than have ever cultivated
into the production of additional supply of things
for Americans to eat.
why, speaking in broad terms in following up
this particular illustration are we living on a third
class diet? For the very simple reason that masses
OF the American people have not got the purchasing
power to eat more and better food" And this
When some of the people of great and wealthy
country are suffering from starvation an honest gov
eminent has choice" And this
Il can realize that gentlemen in well-warmed and
Well-stocked clubs will discourse on the expenses of
government and the suffering that they are going
through because the government is spending money
for work-relief I wish could take some of these
men out on the battle line of human necessity and
show them the facts that we in the government are
facing"
A ND the part which told how the bankers back in
1888 when everybody was yelling to the govern
ment for help estimated for Roosevelt SIS to 70 bill
lions as the debt load the nation could stand with
out serious danger to the national credit-the same
bankers who now are crying bankruptcy at 80
billions
And then conclusion such as this:
But recovery means something more than get
ting the country back into the black You and 7 do
not want Just to go back to the past We want to
lace the future in the belief that human beings can
enjoy more OF the good things in life under better
condltions than human beings ever enjoyed in the
past"
Yes purely as problem in practical campaigning.
its gong to be tough job to go up against such
ouoyancy as that with long face and a flock of
figures