The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-10
FRIENDS LAUD,
c. 0. P. FLAYS
F. D. R. TALKS
Capital Reacts Along Usual
Partisan Lines to New
Deal Defense.
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the ones who always clamored for
a high protective tariff which wrung
hundreds of millions from the farm
ers without remuneration They now
complain bitterly when the shoe is
on the other foot and they are called
on to reciprocate.. am glad the
President has shown them up"
Black Lauds Speech
Senator Hugo L. Black Cd, Ala.)
THE speech showed that the Presi-
dent intends to move forward with
his farm program in order to bene-
fit not only the farmers but business
generally"
Senator Frederick Steiwer (R.
OreD: 1T is unfortunate that the
President regards American critics
of obvious defects in the Canadian
trade agreement as calamity howl
ers'."
Rep. Kent Keller Cd, nl): 81
think he hit the nail on the head
and showed what the Administra
ton has done for the farmers, not
what might be done"
Rep. Wesley Disney 3D., Okla
He stated what seems to be the
crux of the whole thing, the inter-
dependence OF industry and agricul-
ture."
It was at Notre Dame yesterday
afternoon that Mr.. Roosevelt was
accorded significant tribute by
George Cardinal Mundelein of Chi
cago-a tribute so glowing in its
terms that the President confessed
to choking up" when he heard it.
The Chicago prelate indirectly
rebuked those who have claimed the
Catholic Church disapproves of the
Administrations attitude toward re-
ligious activities in Mexico, and en-
ployed language which many listen
ers believed was intended to dis
credit the political broadcasts of
Father Charles Coughlin, militant
Detroit priest.
Opening the impressive ceremonies
at which the President received an
honorary degree as doctor of laws
Cardinal Mundelein declared:
I'VE are not in politics. Neither
the church nor 1, no individual car
dinal. bishop of priest, no organi-
zation of laymen or Catholic news
paper has the right to speak for the
10000, 900 Catholics in this country
in matters of politics; only the
bishops of the country together in
conference or council, and they
have not done so, and so we do not
want our words to be interpreted in
that sense. Nor have l any inten-
ton of defending the Rooseveltian
policies; the President is perfectly
well able to do that himself, and he
needs no outside help"
The prelate then said Mr.. Roose-
velt, who with faith and invinci-
BILE courage when other brave men
were faltering. took the reins of
government at crisis which
threatened with collapse and chaos
the centuried civilization and in
situations of our country and the
rest of the world, and is now by
achievement even more than by
official position the first citizen of
our republic"
The President journeyed to Notre
Dame from Chicago where he spoke
for a half-hour to $4,000 cheering
farmers attending the annual con-
vention of the Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton. In sharp language, he
struck back at New Deal critics and
charged that 'profiteers" of the de-
preston were attempting to SOW
seeds of discomfort by playing the
city against the farm.
Mr.. Roosevelt found time. during
luncheon at the famed Saddle and
Sirloin Club at the stockyards, to
reiterate his intention to keep this
nation free of European disputes. In
effect, he urged other nations to
follow his npJltra 1jtV nolicieS