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WICHITA, Kan. Oct. 10 (IN.SD.-The tert Of Pres-
dent RooseveIts address delivered here today fooWS:

dent ROOSeUettS GddreSS Get
II I ever write another book l
am going to have chapter IN 1t
about bedtime stories - political
bedtime stories. 1t will be very
amusing chapter. I am going 10
fill it with whispering ghosts and
stalking bogeymen, and 1 am
going to end the chapter by telling
how the American men and
women on the Third Of November,
1886, refused to be frightened by
fairy tales. You folks do not look
a bit scared to me.
The Republican leaders nave
told you all kinds of things about
what this Administration is trying
to do. They have tried to spread
the gospel Of fear not only IN the
factories, which is an old shop
worn trick, but this year they are
even trying to bring fear into the
homes and firesideS of America.
But I know that the people OF
this country have not such short
memories. They remember only
too we'll the real fear-the justl-
fled fear-felt all over the Nation
in 1892, to be frightened by this
silly false fear which is now being
preached. The leaders who are
trying to do it are the very ones
whose blindness to facts and re-
fusal to act caused the real fear
and the real danger of national
disaster in 1882.
Only Spectators Gained
What this Administration has
done since 1888 to clear up the
debris which had been left over by
IL years Of neglect need not be
repeated. You know what 1.-The
devil take the hindmost" policy OF
the 1920s brought down upon our
heads. You know that the vast
speculative gains of a few were
made without any regard to the
deep injuries which they were
causing to the great masses OF our
people.
In the spring of 1888 these same
spectators pleaded with me for
help-help of any kind-juSt so
long as it would save them from
bankruptcy. Most people thought
that they had learned their les
son. We hoped that they would
join with our average citizens in
working for some kind of security
against a recurrence of those
panic years.
Yet here they are-three years
later-giving vague lip service to
that word security and, at the
same time, seeking to block, to
thwart and to annul every meas
ure that we have taken to restrain
the kind of individualism which
hurts the community itself-indi-
vidualiSm run amuck.
On Broad Basis
used this word security" not
in the narrower sense of old-age
pensions and of unemployment
inSurance-finea as these detectives
are. I use it in the broader sense
confidence on the part of men
and women, willing to carry on
normal work and willing to think
of their neighbors as well as them
selves, that they will not have to
worry about losing their homes,
about not having enough to eat,
about becoming objects of charity.
Add to that one more objec.
tive-that all Americans may
have full opportunity for educa-
ton, for reasonable leisure and
recreation, for the right to carry
on representative government and
for freedom to worship God in
their own way.
That philosophy has been the
philosophy and the practical OBJ.
jective of your national admins
tration at Washington. I do not
seek to discuss with you the pros
and cons of your local govern
ment or Of your State government
in Kansas. You know more about
that than do.
U. S. Saved Kansas
Let me say only, and in very
simple terms, that I do not believe
that Kansas would have pulled
through the difficult problems Of
the last four years as Splendidly
as it has, had it not been for Fed.
eral cooperation and Federal as.
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