The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-07-30
Gov. Landon Opens
Fight At Topeka
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1T is with a full understanding
of the meaning of this oath that 1
accept this nomination.
The 1886 platform of the Repub-
lican party has my complete adher-
ence. 1t sets out the principles by
which we can achieve the full ma
tional life that our resources en-
title us to enjoy.
There is not time to lay our
whole program before you tonight;
I can touch only upon few phases
of it. The others, hope to discuss
with you in detail as the campaign
progresses.
Il intend to approach the issues
fairly, as I see them, without ran
cor or passion. If we are to go for
ward permanently, it must be wit
a united nation-not with a people
torn by appeals to prejudice and
divided by class feeling.
The time has come to pull to-
gether.
No people can make Roadway
where great numbers are supported
in idleness. There is no future on
the relief rolls. The law of this
world is that man shall eat bread
by the sweat of his brow. The
whole American people want tc
work at full time and at full pay.
They want homes, and a chance for
their children, reasonable security,
and the right to live according Il
American standards. They want to
share in a steady progress. We
bind ourselves with a pledge We
shall not ignore, thrust aside or
forget, to devote our whole energy
to bringing these things about.
The world has tried to conquer
this depression by different meth
DDS. None of them has been fully
successful. Too frequently recovery
has been hindered if not defeated
by political considerations.
Our own country has tried one
economic theory after another. The
present administration asked for,
and received, extraordinary powers
upon the assurance that these were
to be temporary. Most of it's pro-
posals did not follow familiar paths
to recovery. We knew they were
being undertaken hastily and with
little elaboration.
But because the measures were
supposed to be temporary, because
everybody hoped they would prove
successful, and because the people
wanted the administration to have
foip tpiol hn
try united in support of its efforts
at the outset.
Now it becomes our duty to ex-
anime the record as it stands. The
record shows that these measures
did not fit together into any defin-
lite program of recovery. Many of
them worked at cross-purposes and
defeated themselves. Some devel-
oped into definite hindrances to
recovery. They had the effect gen.
orally of extending control by
Washington into the remotest cor
ners of the country. The frequent
and sudden changes in the admin
istration's policy caused a contin-
ual uneasiness.
las a result, recovery has been
set back again and again. This was
not all of the failure. Practical pro-
gressives have suffered the dis
heartening experience of seeing
many liberal detectives discredited
during the past three years by
careless thinking, unavoidable laws
and incompetent administration.
THE nation has not made the
durable progress, either in reform
or recovery, that we had the right
to expect.
For it must be remembered that
the welfare of our people is not re-
corded on the financial pages of
the newspapers. 1t can not be meas
ured in stock market prices. The
real test is to be found in the abil-
ity of the average American to en-
gage in business, to obtain a job, to
be self-supporting and a self-res-
respecting member of his commun-
ity.
Judged by the things that
make us nation of happy families,
the new deal has fallen far short of
success. The proof of this is in the
record. The record shows that in
1888 the primary need was jobs for
the unemployed. The record shows
that in 1886 the primary need still
is jobs for the unemployed.
1.-THE time has come to stop
this fumbling with recovery.
American initiative is not
commodity to be delivered in
pound packages through a gov
ernmental bureau. 1t is a vital
force in the life of our nation
and it must be freed!
THE country is ripe for recovery.
We are far behind in expenditures
for upkeep and improvements and
for expansion. The total of this de-
mand-in industry, in new enter
prises, in our homes and on our
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