The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-10-01
Recalls Days of 1882 When This
Country Was on Brink of
Serious Revolution
1886 CAMPAIGN HAS BEGUN


President Roosevelt opened his
campaign Tuesday night for another
New Deal victory at the November
election with reputation in SYRIA
clse N. Y, of communist support
and an assault on present and past
Republican leaderships.
Voicing confidence in the result of
tie campaign, Mr.. Roosevelt told
delegates to the New York state
Democratic convention packed into
every corner of the national guard
almory that the Republican leader
81 ip would never comprehend the
need for program of social justice
aid of regard for the well being of
tt masses of our people"
Referring to the Republican COM
m and, he spoke of "these evaders"
al d said that under cover" the
lie adership is the same as that of
fo ur years ago.
"The same lack of purpose of full
fl lment lies behind the promises of
to1ay," he said.
''You cannot be an old guard Re-
publican in the East and New Deal
r ,publican in the West. You cannot
p omise to repeal taxes before one
al dience and promise to spend more
OF the taxpayers money before
another audience.
The initial sentence of his prepar-
eel speech brought applause from the
crowd crammed into the farthest
reaches, of the chamber. He said:
Tonight you and join forces for
tie 1886 campaign"
''In the spring of 1888 we faced
crisis which was the ugly fruit of
twelve years of neglect of the causes
Of economic and social unrest. It was
a crisis made to order for all those
who would overthrow our form of
government.
''Do I need to recall to you the
fear of those dyas-the reports of
those who piled supplies in their
Easements, who laid plans to get
their fortunes across the border, who
got themselves hideaways in the
country against the impending up
heaval?
do need to recall the 1aw-abid-
ing head of peaceful families, who
began to wonder, as they saw their
children starve, how they could get
the bread they saw in the bakery
window?
do need to recall the homeless
boys who were travelling in bands
through the country seeking work
and food-desperate because they
could find neither?
"Do I need to recall the farmers
who banned together with pitch
forks to keep the sheriff from selling
the farm under foreclosure? Do I
need to recall the powerful leaders
of industry and banking who came
to me in Washington in those early
days of 1888 pleading to be saved?
"Most people in the United States
remember today the fact the starva-
ton was averted, that homes and
farms were saved, that banks were
re-opened, that crop prices rose, that
industry revived and the dangerous
forces subversive of our form of
government was turned aside.
"a few people-a few only-un-
willing to remember, seem to have
forgotten those days.
"In the summer of 1888, a nice
old gentleman, wearing SILK hat,
fell off the end of pier. He was
unable to swim. A friend ran down
the pier, dived overheard and pulled
him out, but the silk hat floated off
with the tide. After the old gentle
man had been resuscitated he was
ELUSIVE in his thanks. He praised
his friends for saving his life. Today,
three years later the old gentleman
is berating his friend because the
silk hat was lost"
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