The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-12
resident IS GiUen Welcome By Texas
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 adiuln, made c vigorous bid for continued liberal political support, ze if in an answer to the Tepubli- <n assault on him at Cleveland. me president arrived by special
 ain early today to visit the ex- N0sition.
 His remarks were viewed by many
 . defense of four years of exper-
 uentation in economic reform and
 aiast charges that the adminis-
 atlon has slowly strangled small
 gfvate enterprise.
 The president lauded Texas 8Adership in antitrust legislation nnd said:
 You found that certain forms of
 monopoly = the combinations of public utilities and other businesses
 hich sought their own ends-were andemccratic becauss they were Bearing down heavily on their smaller competitors and on the peo- De they served. Because of this ney were raking away opportunity.
 'aToday we have restored democ- xacy in government. We are in the rfOcess of restoring democracy in opportunity"
 A6r. Roosevelt said "Sle very na- ftire of free government demands that there must be 6 line of de- fense held by the yeomanry of busi- ness and industry and agriculture"
 He said that "any elemental pol- fey. economic or political, which tends to eliminate these depend- able defenders of democratic iIlsti- fhtions, and to concentrate control tll the hands oi . few, small power 1nl groups, is directly opposed to the stability of government and to oem- Ocratic government itself"
 Ti1e chief executive reiterated the posnt he made at Little Rock, Ark, the first major stop on his "non- rblitical" tour of the southwest, that certain complex problems are 50 broad in scope they can be solved only by federal action.
 He said:
 'Tndividual states attempted cour- ageously to regulate the sale of SC" ctirities or the control of stock ex- changes, but you and I know that from the point of view of the ma" ton as whole, the effective curb. ing of abuses was made possible only when the congress of the United states took Q hand by passing the securities act and the Stock Ex- change act.
 "So 1t goes with constructive re- form of many other abuses which, ir, the past, have limited or pre- vented democracy in opportunity. The more progressive of the states nay do their share, but unless the action of the states is substantially uniform and simultaneous, the ef- 1ectiyeness of reform is nullified and crippled by chiselers, who, like many other evil-doers, are, alas, still with sig."
 MT. Roosevelt,s listeners read a Tinted reply by the president to the republican national conventions at- tack on the administrators busi. -iess regulatory measures when he aid:
 "Tt is, as I recall in my history, Jact that there were many prophets Of evil who foretold the ruins of Texas by the enactment of legisla ten to curb these (corporation) abuses. Yet 1t is @ matter of record that several years later an author ttatiye survey reported this: NO Hhrt of the Union is more prosper osis, no other state has 50 syste- matically pursued a policy of cor- npgation regulation, and no other state is so free from the domir1a- 0f special interests
 "Why did the people of Texas do this more than a generation ago?' he asked. "They believed in de- i5ocracy in government. But they discovered that democracy in gov efnment could not exist unless, at the same time, there was democracy ta opportunity"
 If the tendency in the dozen years following the World War had been permitted to continue" the nresident declared, "the inevitable consequences would have been the destruction of the base of our form of government. For it's splendid structure there would have been substituted as a natural result an autocratic form of government" < MT. Roosevelt received a tumultu- Ois welcome at the beginning Of his visit of Texas since becoming president.
 At San Antonio, President and Mrs. Roosevelt were greeted by a cheering throng estimated at 10000 rersons. Officers were 20 minutes tn clearing way for the presidential party.
 \ Mir. Roosevelt spoke at the Alamo, little mission-fort where 182 Texans died a century ago, while resisting the Mexican forces of General Santa Anna. He paid tribute to the men -