Evening star., 1936-01-29
Text of Talk.

address last night follows:
Ladies and gentlemen Of the radio
audience: I shall take for my tex
tonight Genesis, the twenty-seventf
chapter, verse %: "The voice il
Jacobs voice, but the hands are tn
hands OF Essau."
Alfred E. Smith sought the presi
dency in 1928, when man who RAISED
his voice on behalf of the great cause:
of social justice and Democratic prin-
ciples was regarded by the stock ticker
patriots with SNUG liberation or as 9
potential enemy of his country.
Gov. Smith in 1928 waged clear
and honorable campaign in behalf oi
common men and women, but he We.
swept down to defeat by greed anc
privilege hiding behind murky ano
malodOrous smoke screen. Greed sup
piled the 80 pieces of silver and pas.
sion brought about the base betraya.
of fundamental American principles.
Finds Smith With Enemy.
Now we are on the threshold of an
other national campaign, with the
same two armies facing each other
along The battle line The prelimi-
nary skirmishing is under way anc
what is our amazement to find Gov
Smith enthroned in the camp of the
enemy, warning like one Of the Jani-
zaries of old against his own people
and against the men snd women with
whom he fought shoulder to shoulder
in the past.
A few nights ago there was held IN
the City of washington banquet by
the miscalled American Liberty
League" and the man attraction on
that occasion was none other than our
old friend. the Happy Warrior" whc
won his spurs battling for the rights
of the plain people.
Let me read to you description of
that occasion from Washington
newspaper:
damned elbow TO elbow, tailcoat to
tailcoat, fluttery oouftant dress to
sleek black velvet dress, the tables set
so closely together in the main pail
room that the ushers in the Confed-
crate cray mess coats and black pants
scarcely could wiggle between the anti
New Dealers, Democrats and Repub-
licans alike gathered to hear the magic
rasplng voice of Alfred E. Smith be-
labor The present administration"
Swell Du P0nt Party.
Another writer in the same paper
described it as a billion-d dollar audi
ence that glanced up with eyes OF
worship and love at the new cham
pion who had come amongst them.
1t was the swellest party ever given
by the Du Points.
Yes, Gov. Smith not only has
changed sides in the great battle, but
his whole outlook SENS to have under
gone a Transformation. He has for
gotten, apparently, the issues upon
which he ran for the presidency. The
brown derby has been discarded for
the high hat; he has turned away
from the East Side with those little
shops and fish markets, and now his
gaze rests lovingly upon the gilded
towers and palaces of Park avenue.
In the old days Gov. Smith was
one of the most constructive and
penetrating critics in American pub
lie life.
But now what change: his hour
long harangue before the miscalled
Liberty League was barren and sterile.
without a single constructive sugges-
ton for meeting the great social and
economic problems confronting this
Government. He laid down a six
point program in which he proposed
somewhat childishly that the Demo-
Gratis should forget about the election
resurrect the platform of 1882. cease
compromising with fundamental prin-
ciples, discontinue efforts to change
the fundamental principles Of gov
ernment, remember oaths of office and
regard the Constitution as a Bible
Not a specific proposal in the whole
batch. Just a rehash of confusing and
meaningless generalities
Upturn Figures Cited.
Why, the Happy Warrior" even
went further than that. He boldly as
serted that our great offensive to over
come the depression and adjust the
Nations economic life had accom-
plished nothing and brought us no
where. Is that serious declaration
or does it come under the heading of
oratorical license? I challenge the
accuracy of that assertion. Why,
table recently compiled shows that in
the three years of the New Deal As
compared to the last three years of
the Old Deal unemployment has de-
clined 30 per cent, cotton. wheat and
corn have increased 100 per cent or
more in value. industrial production
has gone up ST per cent, listed stocks
have increased 134 per cent in value
and listed bonds % per cent.
The progress of our recovery is ap-
parent to every man who looks about
him and the story of its onward march
fairly leaps at you every day from the
pages OF the daily press. Bear in
mind that when the Roosevelt admin
istration came into power hungry and
abandoned men in the cities were
searching the garbage pals for waste
scraps and the American farmers
were halting court foreclosures by
physical force-which borders little
short of revolution. And Gov. Smith
says there has been no progress.
President Roosevelt had not been
in the White House "a hours before
bankers and other big business men
now grouped in the Liberty League ap-
pealed to- him to ''do something" to
do anything" to relieve the paralysis
of business and to save them.
"Save Us" Plea Recalled.
The President and the Congress re-
sponded to their appeals. saved the
banks and in saving them also saved
the insurance companies; saved the
railroads, the farms and the homes.
No sooner had these suppliants been
made secure, than they began to COM
plain of the very processes by which
their fortunes had been preserved
against bankruptcy. They did not
when they needed help brand Gov