The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-06-29
RUSH OF MODERN CIVILIZATION
RAISES NEW PROBLEMS, SAYS
ROOSEVELT in ACCEPTANCE
Mammoth Crowd Attends
Notification Ger e m ony
With President and Gar
ner Present

and Vice President John N. Gar
ner accepted denomination at the
hands of the Democratic party in
mammoth notification ceremony
at Franklin Field here Saturday
night.
81 accept the commission you
have rendered me-" the president
said, and the last two sentences
of his speech-"I join with you.
| am enlisted for the duration of
the wal" were omitted when the
great crowd broke into demon
stration.
In brief acceptance Garner
said: al am soldier and my duty
is to follow where the commander
leads. | renew the pledge of feal-
ty I gave four years ago."
In opening his address, Presi-
dent Roosevelt thanked the many
Americans for their loyalty and
sympathy in his hours of grave
responsibility, and declared that
America would not forget the past
years when the nation rose to-
gether to conquer fear.
"But | can not, with candor,
tell you that all is well with the
world. Clouds of suspicion, tides
of ill-will and intolerance gather
darkly in many places. In our
own land. we enjoy indeed full
ness of life greater than that of
most nations. But the rush OF
modern civilization itself has
raised for us new difficulties, new
problems which must be solved, II
we are to preserve to the United
States the political and economic
freedom for which Washington
and Jefferson planned and fought.
"The very word freedom lin it
self and of necessity, suggests
freedom from some restraining
power. In 1776 we sought free
dom from the tyranny of pOliti-
cal autocracy-from the 18th
century Royalty who held special
privileges from the crown. 1t was
to perpetuate their privilege that
they denied the right of free as
sembly and free speech; that they
restricted the worship of God;
that they put the average mans
property and the average man s
life in pawn to the mercenarles OF
dvnastic poWer-that they regl-
mented the people.
"Since that struggle, however,
mans inventive genius + eleased
new forces in our land which re-
ordered the lives of our people.
The age OF machinery, of rail-
roads, of steam and electricity; the
telegraph and the radio; mass pro-
duction, mass distribution--all OF
these combined to bring forward
a new civilization and with 1t a
new problem for those who would
remain free. -.
"For out of this modern civill-
cation economic royalists carved
new dynasties. New kingdoms
were built upon concentration OF
control over material things.
"There was no place among this
ROYALTY for our many thousands
of small business men and mer-
chants who sought to make a wor-
thy use of the American system
of initiative and profit. They
,yera no more free than the work
er or the farmer.
st was natural and perhaps
human that the privileged princes
of these new economic dynastles,
thirsting for power, reached OUT
for control over government u
self They created a new despo-
tism and wrapped it in the robes
of legal sanction.
"The hours men and women
worked, the wages they received
the conditions of their labor
these had passed beyond the con-
troll of the people, and We're I'M
nosed by this new industrial dc
"Those who titled the soil no
longer reaped the rewards when
were their right. The small meas
ure of their gains was decreed by
men in distant cities.
Throughout the nation, oppor-
tunitv was limited by monopoly;
Individual initiative was crushed
in the cogs of a great machine.
Liberty requires opportunity
TO make a living-a living decent
according to the standard OF the
time, a living which gives man not
only enough to live by, but some
thing to live for. Ill:
"For too many of us the polltl-
cal equality we once had won was
meaningless in the face of eco
nomic inequality. A small group
had concentrated into their own
hands an almost complete control
over other peoples property, other
peoples money, other peoples Ia
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