The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-05

uICts 4bS uAbVAtAAbhlbbSs VT bIlOSc WI1 dwell in the past, nave tried [, block them. The wise who live il the present have recognized thei innate justice and irresistible press ure-and have sought to guid them.
 In some countries, . royalist forn of government failed to meet thes 6emandS-and fell. In other coun tries, a parliamentary form of gov ernment failed to meet these de inands-and fell. In still othe countries, governments have man aged to hold on, but civil strife ha fiared or threats of upheavai persist
 Democracy in many lands hai failed for the time being to mee human needs. People have becom, 50 fed up with futile debate ant party bickerings over methods tha they have been willing to surrender oemocratic processes and principle! ill order to get things done. They have forgotten the lessons of history that the ultimate failures of dicta' torship cost humanity far moro than any. temporary failures o1 democracy.
 Tn the United States democrac, has not yet failed and does not neee to fail. And we propose not to lei 1t fail!
 Complete Candor
 Nevertheless, I cannot tell you with complete candor that in these past few years democracy in the United States has fully succeeded Nor can l tell you, under present circumstances, just where American democracy Is headed nor just what 1t is permitted to do in order to ii- sure its continued success and sur- yival. I can only hope.
 For as yet there IS no definite as- surance that the three horse team of the American system of govern ment will pull together. If three well-matched horses are put to the task of ploughing up a field where the going IS heavy, and the team of three Full as ono, the field will be ploughCd. If one horse lies down in the traces or pluhges of in an- other direction, the field will not be ploughed.
 What you and call the principles of the new deal did not originate on the fourth of March, 1033. We think of that date as their beginning, be- cause 1t was not until then that the social demands they represented broke through the inertia of many years of failure to improve our .po- utical and economic processes.
 What were those demands and needs? How far did we succeed II, meeting them! What about them today?
 Ever since the World War the farmer of America had been beat- ing of ever-mounting disasters This administration tried to helr them effectively where no other ad- niniStration had dared to take that risk.
 The Agricultural Adjustment Act testified to our full faith and con- fldence that the very nature of our major crops makes them articles ot commerce between the states.
 The A. A. A. testified also to our full faith and confidence that the preservation of sound agriculture is essential to the general welfare = that the congress of the United States had full constitutional au. thority to solve the national econ- oInic problems of the nations agri- culture. By overwhelming votes, the congress thought so too!
 '36 Campaign
 You know who assumed the power to veto. and did veto that program
 In the campaign of 1936, I said of course we will continue our ef- forts in behalf of the farmers oi America. With their continued CO., operation we will do all in our power to end the piling up of huge surpluses which spelled ruinous prices for their crops. We will per- sist in successful action for better land use, for reforestation, for better marketing facilities for farm commodities, for 8 definite reduc- ton of farm tenancy, for encour- agement of farmer cooperatives, for crop insurance and 8 stable food supply. For all these things we have only just begun to fight"
 Neither individually nor as a party can we postpone and run from that fight on advice of defeatist lawyers. But defy anyone to read the majority opinion invalidating the A. A. A. and tell us what we can do for agriculture in this session of the congres.; with any reasonable certainty that what we do will not be nullified as unconstitutional.
 The farmers were not the only people in distress in 1882. There were millions of workers in industry and in commerce who had lost their jobs, young people who had never been able to find their first job, and more millions whose jobs did net return them and their families enough t0 live on decently.
 The democratic administration and the congress made a gallant, sincere effort to raise wages, to re- duce hourG. to abolish child labor, to eliminate unfair trade practices.
 We tried to establish machinery to adjust the relations between the employer and employe.
 And what happened7
 You know who assumed the power of veto. and did veto that program.
 varieus Acts
 The Railroad Retirement Act, the National Recovery Act and the ouffey Coal Act were suceesslvely outIawed as the Child Labor statute had been 0utlawed twenty years bee fore.
 Soon thereafter tho nation was told by a judicial pronuneiamento that although the federal govern ment had lhiis been rendered pow. eFiess to touch the problem 0l hours ene cages. the eGates wGHs equally helpless; and taine C plsnes ed Che @psFEonal economic psedilecs tons" of c majority of the court that we liye in 6 nation where thaFe