The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-09
President Spoke At
 Tluo Places To-day
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While this mornings speech was regarded as of the utmost political importance, this afternoons will not be without its political significance, it was believed. Observers thought MT. Roosevelt would choose one of the leading Catholic universities of the country to reaffirm America s traditional policy of religious free- dom.
 The president looked the picture of health as he boarded the train. accompanied by secretary Marvin H. Mcintyre, Col. Edwin M. Watson, senior White House military aide, and Dr. Ross T. McIntire, White House physician.
 When he finishes his talk at Mo- tre Dame and accepts the honor ary degree, MT. Roosevelt will head back for Washington immediately.
 Speech to Farmers
 They are playing city against farm in attempts to discredit the New Deals recovery program, he charged in his second fortnight speech in defense of his administra- ton and in attack on his critics in little more than 8 week.
 Today the chief executives re- marks were even more pointed than in his speech in Atlanta week be- fore last when he inferred that bankers and indpstrialists were cry- ing wolf while the countryS econ- omic gains increased.
 He spoke in the international am- phitheater in the stockyards before l2,500 farm delegates and their guests. Loudspeakers carried his voice to overflow audiences in two adjoining walls.
 He reviewed the achievements of his administration as blanket re- ply to all critics and. hailing the upward trend of farm prices, which he credited to his measures design ed to save agriculture from the old policy of tooth and claw" he said:
 Opposed by Few
 Lifting prices on the farm up to the level where the farmer and his family can live is opposed chiefly by the few who have profited heav- fly from the depression.
 "It is they and their henchmen who are doing their best to torment city people against the farmers and the farm program. It is that type of political profiteer who seeks to discredit the vote in favor of a continued corn-hog program by comparing your desire for fair price for the farmer to the appe- tite of hogs for corn.
 "Yet I know that the great mass es of city people, are fair minded. They, like yourselves, suffered deep- ly from the depression. And be- lieve with all my heart that mill lions of these city people, struggling back towards better days, resent the attempts of personal adyan- tage seekers and profiteers to heap ridicule upon the recovery efforts that all of us are making"
 Hits at Critics
 MT. Roosevelt singled out critics of the recently negotiated Cam adian American Trade Treaty. They were termed dispensers of discord" and calamity howlers." Agriculture, he said, rather than having been harmed by the agree ment, was benefited by it.
 Continuing, he said:
 '"The thing we all are seeking is justice in the common sense inter- pretation of that word-the inter- pretation that means do unto your neighbor as you would be done by That interpretation means justice against exploitation on the part of those who do not care much for the lives, the happiness and the pros- perity of their neighbors.
 What Nation APplauds
 ''The nation applauds the efforts of its agencies of government to deal swiftly with kidndappers, gangsters and racketeers: that is justice. The nation applauds the efforts of its agencies of govern ment to save innocent victims from wildcat banking, from watered stocks, and from all other kinds ot confidence games: that is justice.
 "The nation applauds the efforts of government to obtain and to maintain fair rewards for labor, whether 1t be the labor of the far- mer or the labor of the factory worker or the labor of the white collar man: that is justice.
 "The nation applauds efforts through the agencies of govern ment, to give Q greater social se- curity to the aged and to the un- employed. to improve health. and to create better opuortunitioo for