The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-24
Administrations Policies EuIOgized in Senator
 Barkley's Address

Convention Hall, Philadelphia, June 23.-(UP)-The text of Sen. Alben w. Barkley's keynote ad- dress to the democratic national convention follows in part:
 Ladies and Gentlemen of the Convention:
 We have assembled, as we have done for more than @ century, to justify in government a liberalism designed to promote those primal and inalienable rights which out- weight all political Journalism and all conceptions of special priv- ilege.
 We are assembled here not merely to defend but to proclaim the New Deal, as the surest highway to that life, liberty and the, pursuit of happiness to which Thomas Jefferson devoted his life and Franklin D. Roosevelt is consecrating every fiber of his immortal spirit.
 No Apology to Make
 we meet in the fullness of na- tional responsibility in all branch es of the government save one, and with a record of performance never equalled in the history of the republic; and on that record we stand before the American people without apology and with. out retreat.
 we meet to rename, and Sub- sequcntly to re-elect, to the highest office within our gift @ man whose build-up is his rec ord.
 Franklin Roosevelt has not dallied with defeat nor taken counsel with cowardice lest his feet be found on untraveled ground. He has sought to dedi- cate the powers of this govern ment to the service of the peo- pie who support 1t with their sub- stance and their blood. He has resorted to them faith In 1t and control over 1t.
 "Why was 1t essential that the powers of government be exerted in a new way on the daily life of the American people?
 Because for 12 years-yea, 12 long years-the ancient doctrin- aries of special privilege had stood at the pilots wheel on our ship of state.
 Tn four years-yea, four long years'--under the guidance of the man who was applauded but not re-nominated at Cleveland, we saw our trade with the world de- cline from ten billions to three billion dollars per year, setting the feet of three million men upon the streets and turning their faces toward the lengthening breadlines.
 Ten Long Years!
 For ten long years the condi- ton of the American farmer had steadily declined in spite of the hectic flush of prosperity found on other portions of the economic body.
 Tn the realm of finance chaos greater than was ever seen in this or any other nation spread its shadow across the country. |.
 Industrial production had de- clined to 53 per cent of normal while industrial employment de- clined to 6l per cent.
 Archaic and unethical methods of business competition obtained illegitimate profit regardless of merit and strangled small units of production and distribution.
 "In 1929 the debauch of the Coolidge Hoover revelry and the twelve long years of Hamiltonian exploitation. were over. The dance was ended at last. The gaunt pipers of bankruptcy, starvation and unemployment had come to claim their fee.
 "Three long years of normalcy and they had wiped out half the values accumulated in this nation since Christopher Columbus, and half the total income of all the people of these United States. "'Three long years and
 "'We did not dare to breathe a
 prayer
 Or to give our anguish scope, Something was dead in each of us, And what was dead was hope
 "Then came Franklin Roose- welt and assumed the heaviest burden that ever descended on any man since Washington knelt in the snow and Lincoln watched the Confederate flags across the Potomac.
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 ssWhere were his detFactors then? They had sought refuge in the Etorm-cellar. They now cry the republic is in peril The