The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-12-27
Roosevelt at Atlanta.
(New York World -Telegramo

(New York World Telegraph
 It is interesting coincidence that Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his go-ahead message on the same day that the National Association of Manu- lecturers cried Cease and desist The two declara- tions fairly well lay the lines for the contest of 1886.
 The net effect of the fourteen points presented by the manufacturers is either to halt everything do everything differently than it is being done. The tone of the document is doorous. Jeremiah might have prepared t-or 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 zest of vic tories accomplished and victories to come
 So it will be up to the reader and the voter about year from now to pay his money and take ms choice And thing is certain-he'n pay his money in either event
 It has often been said, before salesman can sell other people be must first sell himself read ing of the Atlanta speech gives the answer to Roosevelts power as a campaigner Roosevelt, thor oughly sold on Roosevelt. Not note of doubt not flicker of defeatsm, not hair shirt in his ward robe Instead, 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 tidngs 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.
 As a piece of augmentation the Atlanta speech was compact and powerful It drew upon that most potent of material-your memory. It recalled the prosperity" of that time to which many nowadays forgetting what that time brought forth. are inclined to turn with longing recollections- the "twenties" Ii Those are years to remember" he said. Those fools paradise years before the crash came. In that orgy of prosperity the poorest ved with the richest in throwing their earnings and savings into caudron of land and stock speculation In that orgy of prosperity slum conditions went unheeded, better education forgotten usurous interest charges mounted child labor continued, starvation wages too often the rule instead of the ex- ception. Mammon ruled America
 After massing the picture that preceded the crash he came to the present, but not defensvey; all ways on the aggressive, with such human interest material as this:
 National surveys prove that the average
 of our citizenship lives today on what would
 be called by the medical fraternity third
 class diet If the country lived on second
 class diet we would need to put many more
 acres than we today back into the pro-
 duction of foodstuffs for domestic consump-
 tion If the nation lived on a first class
 diet we would have to put more acres than
 we have ever cultivated into the production
 Of an additional supply of things for Amer
 jeans to eat.
 Why speaking in broad terms in follow ing up this particular illustration, are we
 living 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 a great and
 wealthy country are suffering from starva-
 tion an honest government has no choice
 And this
 I can realize that gentlemen in we'll
 warmed and wel-stocked clubs will dis
 course the expenses of government and
 the suffering that they going through
 because the Government is spending money
 for work relief I wish I could take some
 of these men out on the battle line of human necessity and show them the facts that we in the Government facing And the part which told how the bankers back in 1s33, when everybody yelling to the Gov ernment for help, estimated for Roosevelt 55 to 70 billions as the debt load the nation could stand without serious danger to the national credt-the same bankers who are now crying bankruptcy at 30 billions.
 And then conclusion such this
 But recovery means something more than
 getting the country back into the black
 You and I do not want just to go back to
 the past. We want to face the future in the
 belief that human beings enjoy more
 of the good things in life under better
 conditions than human beings ever enjoyed in the past. N Yes purely as problem in practical campaign ing it's going to be a tough job to go up against such buoyancy as that with long face and a flock of figures.
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