Evening star., 1936-06-10
~ the Associated Press

text OF the keynote speech Dy
Senator Steiwer of Oregon to
. the Republican national con-
ention last night follows:
We meet tonight as the conven-
hon of great and honorable
political party. We do not meet
as partisans. but as patriotic
Americans, solemnly determined to
proceed in the American way to
launch a campaign TO restore
America to the American people.
Our purpose here is not only to
adopt a Republican platform and
to nominate Republican Pres
ident-a deeper and thoroughly
American purpose is to start the
drive to put an American deal
into the place now usurped by a
self-styled New Deal"
In this service to our country we
invite the aid and counsel of all
Americans. regardless of political
party. There are no party lines
when human liberty is at stake.
all party differences. The duty of
the united patriots of all parties
is TO restore to the American peo-
pie their political and economic
freedom and to provide them with
a competent Government founded
on conviction and conscience.
It can be done But it will not
be done if we permit ourselves to
be deceived by the defeatiSt talk
OF our enemies. The Nation knows
by this time that the administra-
ton is equipped with monstrous,
reckless propaganda machine op-
Grated with the taxpayers money
to advance its own ends.
Political Morality Needed
After Three Years.
No matter who the choice Of
this convention and no matter
what the platform, this machine
will be set in operation. In the
face of our advances in the cam
paign we will hear the false cry
that our efforts have fallen fiat.
These falsehoods will be recog-
nized and rightly resented by the
people. The people will make the
world know that this Nation cam
not be bluffed and cannot be
bought.
Political morality must be re-
stored.
For more than three long years
We have had a Government with
out political morality. l propose
to show you that a Government
endowed with conscience will bring
us a prosperity not built on prom
ise and pretense, but built with the
bricks and mortar of fundamental
principles.
This prosperity will not be
measured with the crooked lines
and crooked trick phrases of un-
constitutional legislation, but by
lines that square with the rules of
honesty and morality.
When this convention shall have
finished its laborS, we shall offer
the country a candidate with
sense of duty, and platform that
binds his conscience to guarantee
to America that the Nation shall
not be again deceived by political
adventures who have perverted
the most sacred fundamentals Of
our Government.
Privilege of Work
For Slaves of Dole.
We propose to carry forward the
lamp of American progress; the
lamp which has been dimmed by
the depression and which the New
Deal has tried to extinguish. We
propose to show those who have
waited for more than three long
years for real job how that job
Is to be obtained We propose to
show further to those who have
Jobs how those jobs can be pro-
collapse which is inevitable under
the New Deal. The 10000, 900 un-
employed shall at last get the
which they deserve
and with 1t the privilege of honest
work. They must be permitted to
work again as free men and not
languish as vote-slaves, nor as
slaves of the dole.
We propose to show the 100000
700 now in gainful employment
that economic freedom depends
Upon adherence to a system under
which their pay envelopes will not
shrink and under which their life
insurance policies and savings bank
deposits will be protected If this
great group of Americans will as
sert their heritage as Americans,
they need never again fear de-
oscle such as we had in March,
1893. when a President-elect with
out a conscience refused for four
months to cooperate with Presi-
ient who had a conscience, result
ing in bank crisis and a panic of
fear and fright. This Nation de-
serves Government by conscience.
In order that its free institutions
may be maintained, we have
right to insist upon President who
puts the interests of the people
above considerations of personal
politics.
Trick Formulas Tried
Ind Found to Be Worthless.
A primary function of our Gov
'rnment is to keep open the way
% employment at wages which will
provide an increasingly higher
tandard of living.
How can we achieve this objec-
i've? Not by trick formulas and
sharp practices. They have all
,een tried and found worthless,
or they have only made worse
he disease they set out to cure.
That could not be otherwise, for
his administration has never
diagnosed the disease they said
hey could cure. Like the leeches
# old, they have bled a patient
Who was already suffering from loss
# blood ....
Let us see how We as Nation
arm our living. In 1890, the per-
entage of our people engaged in
griculture was about % and in
was about 80. The other