The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-19
PRESIDENT HITS
 BACK AT CRITICS
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CContinued from Page D speech could Do considered "his an- nounced that ne will fight on" for the administrations supreme court and labor objectives.
 These sources predicted that the address would be followed by othera in behalf of the presidents social- economic program. They pointed ou, that 1t was his first public speech since the senate defeated his su. preme court bill and Q house coni- mittee shelved the wages and hours lneasure-his first opportunity tc carry his case to the public.
 Mir. Roosevelt has another nation- al speaking engagement on Sept. i7 when he will stand in the shadow of the Washington monument to deliver an address celebrating tho i60th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution.
 Nation Supports Him
 Speaking at Manteo yesterday ct the celebration of the 3B0th anni- versary of the birth of Virginia Dare, first white child born in America, MT. Roosevelt asserted he was "of the firm belief that the na. ton, by an overwhelming majority, supports my opposition to the vest- ing of supreme power In tho hands of any class"
 He listed the Chamber of Com. Faeree, tho Liberty league and Man ufaeturers association as opposed to his objeetives, and said:
 "They seek to substitute their own will for that of the majority, for they would serve their own in- terest above the general welfare. They reject tho principle of tho greater good for the ereater nun. ber, which is the cornerstone of democratic government.
 "They do not believe in denoc- racy-f do. My anchor is demoe- Facy-and moro democracy"
 MT. Roosevelt quoted the attitude of an English historian toward Ainerica's attempt to found Q dem. ocratic government co the basis fol his address.
 Refers to New England
 fe read . quotation from . lot. ter Lord Maeaulay wrote in ieb1 to an American friend who had written c book on Thomas Jeffer- son. Maeauiay dlsapproved of Jef- fersonian theories of democracy, saying:
 "'Dut the time will come when New England will be as thiekly pop- ulated as old England. Wages will be as low and will huctuate as much with you as with Us. You will have your Manehestors and Birming. hams, and in those Manchesters and Birminghams hundreds Of thousands of artisans viii assuredly Do sometimes out Of work. Then your institutions will Do fairly brought to the test.
 "'Dlstress everywhere makes the laboror nnutinous and discontented and inclines him to listen with eagernesS to agitaters who toll him that it is c fionstrous iniquity that ono man should have c million while another can not get c full meal.
 Plenty of drumbllng
 Tn bad years there is plenty Of grumbling here Gin England) and sometimes c little riotinR, but it matters little. For here tho sui. ferers are not the rulers. The su. preme power Is in tho hands of tho class, numerous indeed, but select, an educated class, c class which s, and knows itself to be, deeply inter. ested in the security of property and the maintenance of order . the bad time is got over without fobbing the wealthy to relieve the indigent.
 "The springs of national pros. perity soon begin to Bow again and aii Is tranquility and cheerful. ness.'"
 Swinging back to tho recent de-