The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-07

come along with Q plan and slffi. cient backbone to put that plan into effect. Tn the few years previous to the advent of Roose- welt to the White House there had been 5000 bank failures. Since he strengthened out the banking situation, as I read in c recent speech delivered in congress, there have been just five federal bank failures, and thanks to the bank insurance act which was part Of the program, practically all of these failures were unaccofnpanieo by loss to the depositors.
 Yankee Courage
 Our history is full of examples of Yankee courage. The way you New Englanders met the hard ships of the recent flood and the cheerfulness with which you remedied the damage Is an incl" dent of that proverbial courage. Brave people love brave men. I think that the trait in our Presi" dent that most appeals to my audience of today is the calm Sortitude with which he has met every situation that has arisen since he tackled as tough prob lem as ever confronted Presi. dent of the United States. He was not Mustered when the whole nation acclaimed him. Nobody has ever seen him rattled because a certain element of our pcpula- ton, greedy for special favors, de. nounced him as an anarchist ana socialist, and Q dictator, and prophesied that not welfare but disaster must result from what nc has been doing. He has taken the hurdles as he came to them. Per: haps he has not been successful in every detail of his program. Nobody, not even Q great presi:. dent. can score Q hundred per cent in performance, but if he scores d hundred per cent in intention and turns out to be right ninety per cent of the time he has made his mark in history and M the gratitude of the people.
 Liberty League
 gift the criticisms that are being made by the so-called Liberty League and its collateral branches that are seeking to break down the Roosevelt policies and what do they amount to? Absurd gene araittias a,,ch aa that he Is Seeks ing to Bolshevize the government, to destroy business, and other tommyrot of that sort. Undoupt" edly. 1t is very probable that in the distribution of emergency relief to the extent of billions or dollars some small soul got four dollars' worth of groceries TOT nothing when he could have paid for them. Undoubtedly aii oc. casional idler has not performed Q full days work for his releif pay. What of it? Work had to DO provided for men and women inc capable of digging ditches or driv- ing trucks, but just as subject to hunger and other suffering as the sturdiest among us. Work within their capacity had to be provided, and hence the stories of boon" dogRling that make up 50 large Q part of the literature and oratory of the administrations enemies. What, I ask you, could be done with e manicure girl out Of work. a music teacher without pay ana without pupils, an artist with no market for his pictures, an actor or actress unemployed and tnou- sands of other individuals quite capable of supporting themselves in normal times but destitute ot a market for their services m such times as we have beer. going through? They were given such work as they were, accustoined 70 and other ';nfortunates were served by theri.
 Re-eIect Roosevelt
 But, as 1 say, what do these fly specks on the fair canvas on which a statesman has inscripeo n wonderful recovery for a shaken people amount to anyway
 The nation itself knows what has been done. The nation ape nreciates that the unceasing, elSort of its President has brought about these results and next November you will find that the States oE our Union will vote the Te.eiec- tlon of Franklin D. Roosevelt ana that among these states VIII DO yo,ir own Connecticut.