Evening star., 1936-10-31
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
NEW YORK. october 31.-Follow-
ing is the text of President Roose-
velts address last night at Demo-
cratic rally in the Brooklyn Academy
Of Music:
During the last month have
seen a great deal of our country
and a great many of our people.
Both the America and the Ameri-
cans I have seen look very dif-
ferent from three and half years
ago.
Many important things have
happened to them in these three
and a half years. could talk to
you for hours about this better,
happier America. What am 60
ing to talk to you about for few
minutes. however, is some of the
things that have brought that bet
ter, happier America to pass.
want to tell you in terms OF actual
achievement what we in Washing
ton have done-what we have
done to restore prosperity-what
we have done to end abuses.
The first thing was to give aid
to those overtaken by disaster.
We did that, and we are not
ashamed of giving help to those
who needed help. We furnished
food relief, drought relief, flood re-
lief, work relief. We established
the Federal Emergency Relief Ad-
ministration; the Public Works
Administration: the Civilian Con-
servation Corps; the Works Prog
ress Administration. Some people
ridicule them as alphabetical agen-
cies. But you and know that
they are the agencies that have
substituted food for starvation;
work for idleness; hope instead OF
dull despair.
And on November 3, America
will say that that was a job well
done!
Helped Stalled Economic
Machine Get Under Way.
The second thing we did was to
help our stalled economic engine
to get under way again. We knew
enough about the mechanism OF
our economic order to know that
we could not do that one wheel
at a time. We had had enough
of one-wheel economics. We pro-
posed to get all four wheels started
at once. We knew that it was no
good to try to start only the wheel
of finance At the same time we
had to start the wheels of argicul-
ture. of workers of all classes, OF
business and industry.
BY Democratizing the work OF
the Reconstruction Finance Corp.
and redirecting it into more prac-
tical and helpful channels. we fur
nished fuel for the machine.
We primed the pump by spend
ing Government money in direct
relief, in work relief, in public
works.
We established the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration, the
National Recovery Administration,
the Farm Credit Association, the
soil conservation program, the
Home Owners Loan Corp, the
Federal Housing Administration,
the Tennessee Valley Authority.
We set up a sound monetary pol
icy. a sound banking structure, re-
ciprocal trade agreements, foreign
exchange accords.
Sought Industrial Peace
and Cooperation to Raise Pay.
We set up a National Labor Re-
lations Board to improve working
conditions and seek industrial
peace. We brought the business
men of the Nation together to en-
courage them to increase wages,
to shorten working hours, to abol-
ish child labor.
With labor's aid and backing
we took the first great step for
workers security by the social Sc
curity act-an act which is now
being misrepresented to the work.
ers in pay-envelope propaganda
by a few employers whom you will
easily recognize as old-time ex-
ploiters of labor who have always
fought against contributing any,
thing themselves to a sound Sc
curity for the laboring man and
his wife and children.
That act is a new Magma Charta
for those who work. In its prep
aration and in its enactment it
was supported not only by or
ganized labor, but by those other
liberal groups-workers employers,
churches, private charities, educa-
tors who for many years have be-
lieved that modern government
can make provision against the
hardship of unemployment and
the terrors Of old age.
On the passage of this law, in
addition to overwhelming support
on the part of Democrats in both
the House and Senate, the country
should note that II Republican
Representatives voted for it and
only 18 against it, and that in the
Senate Is Republican Senators
voted for it and only S against it.
Republican Leadership
Repudiates Its Own Members.
This fact is perhaps illustrative
Of the paradox that in the closing
days of the campaign Republican
leadership, driven to desperation
and urged on by the same sinister
forces which generation after gen.
Grafton have opposed all social
legislation, now repudiate their
own Representatives and Senators
in the halls of the Congress and
leave them looking positively silly.
The people of the State of New
York recognize in this issue in a
National campaign only another
form Of the struggle to which we
have become accustomed in this
State for many years past. Every
man and woman here knows that
We have been blessed with these
great social reforms because we
have had liberal government in Al
bany. We know that we would not
have had them If the old guard
Republican leadership had been in
power.