Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-02-23

of wholesale farm foreclosure has
been stopped.
The same improvement has been
noted in the industrial areas. Fac
tory chimneys are again belching
smoke. production is up, in some
cases more than 100 per cent; en-
ployes are going back to work, soup
lines have been abandoned and the
outlook is for a steady and con-
tinued improvement. Millions Of
breadwinners unable to ind employ
ment in private industry are earn
ing a living on projects which will
prove of useful and lasting benefit
to the Nation.
The farmers are getting better
prices and the workingmen more
pay. The tradesmen, the doctors and
the dentists can collect their bills
because the people. have money to
pay them. The American school sys-
tenn, the proudest boast of our de-
mocracy, has been rescued from .
state of collapse.
That, my fellow Americans, is the
three-year record of President Frank
lin D. Roosevelt and we are proud of
1t. We challenge ally political party
to meet us on that record.
The astonishing thing about present.
day conditions Is not so much what
President Roosevelt has accomplished,
because the people have faith in this
man and they know what he can ac-
complish. The astonishing and de-
pressing thing Is that the man who
saved America Is being criticized and
denounced, reviled and condemned. by
certain noisy elements as though he
were a common enemy of his country,
There is an old saying to the effect
that republics are ungrateful and ap-
parently a noisy minority is intent on
making the unhappy saying come true.
Accuses Financial Leaders
Of Changing Front.
The financial and industrial over
lords who a few years ago were sigh
ing aloud for a dictator are now cry
ing aloud that President Roosevelt Is
trying TO take away YOU liberties
Three years ago they agreed that
democracy was helpless in a crisis;
now they complain that the President
Is attempting too much. Well, some
people never are satisfied.
The constant and unsportSmanlike
campaign of distortion directed at the
Roosevelt administration is SO intense
bitter and biased that frankly con-
fess many honest and upright Ameri.
can citizens are confused and be.
wildered. They wonder why such q
campaign is being leveled at the Presi-
own common sense tells them that he
has been laboring night and day tC
preserve and protect their rights and
interests. They want an answer tc
these attacks. For few moments to-
night, want to talk directly to those
troubled people. Let us find the answer
| together. Let us reflect not so much
on what is said but who says it.
First let us take the mis- called
American Liberty League, an organiza-
ton of multi-millionaires which Is
run as subsidiary of the Republican
National Committee. They think alike
act alike, and their leaders are in
constant heavy conference in Wash
ington figuring out ways to de-
stroy President RooSevelt's influence
with the people. A brilliant editoria
writer said it ought to be called the
American Cellophane League and he
gave two good reasons. He said first
it's a Du Pont product and, second
you can see right through it.
A recent examination of its bot
tomless war chest disclosed the fact
that more than 10 per cent of con-
tributions to the American Liberty
League came front the du Pont fam
lily or their allies in the automotive
and other industries. They can well