Evening star., 1938-07-13
Roosevelt Text
Cites Marks of Progress
In Platform Talk
In Hn1oroIo
In Colorado
BY the Associated Press.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo, July 13.
"A stenographic report of President
Roosevelt's talk from his special train
platform here last night follows;
My friends. am glad to come back
here. haven't been here for a num-
Der of years, but know this route
across the continent very we'll, and
am glad to see what looks like real
signs of prosperity throughout the
State of Colorado.
You know this method of travelling
is very wonderful thing The reason
I delayed coming out on the platform
was because I have been talking on
the long distance telephone right here
from the end OF the car to Washington.
d. c. I was talking with Harry Hop
kins, the administrator of the Works
Progress, and before I leave here I
probably am going to talk to one Or
more high officials in the National
Capital. 1t is just one illustration of
how closely in touch every part of
the country is with every other part.
Seeks Composite Prosperity Picture.
I have been on this trip paying
special attention to the subject of
water. You know what water means.
You know the need of 1t, and we be-
lieve In Washington that it isn't only
cotton and wheat and corn that are
major crops in the United States. but
there are a lot of other crops. fruit
crops and lot of other things like
mining that really come down to the
position of major industries, and that
Is why We are trying to include them
in the picture of our national pros
perity. Not in spotted picture that
hits just one area of the country, but
the kind that reaches down into every
single State and every section of every
State. And that is why we are doing
what we call national planning.
There are good many people who
take the snobbish side of view that
there isn't any such thing as national
planning, that every man for himself.
They ought to 90 back to the good old
days.
Since the fourth of March, 1898,
your national administration in every
State has been trying to give help,
well.rounded help, tying in the pros
perity of one section with the pros
perity Of another.
Not Realized in 1888.
1t is a very interesting thing to me
that five years ago if had made a
speech in the City Of New York and
told them in New York that their
prosperity was definitely tied in with
the prosperity Of the miner of Colorado
or with the fruit or beets or other
crops of Colorado, they would have
expressed a mild interest, but very
mild. They wouldn't have seen the
connection and in the same way five
years ago If had gone out through
this territory and told you that this
prosperity here is pretty closely tied
up with some of the great industrial
centers of the country, you would have
expressed mild interest, but it wouldn't
have meant very much to you.
In these years we have come to
realize all over the country, I think,
that agricultural prosperity is def
nitely affected by industrial prosperity.
In other words, If the workers in
the great industrial plants in Pitts
burgh, New York, Cleveland and
Chicago and other places have pur-
chasing power-if the plants are run
ning-they can buy more things you
produce on the farms and in the mines,
and in the same way, if you are pros
porous and have purchasing power,
you can buy more products of the
great industrial centers. That is what
I call the successful working out of
processes Of democracy, and you and
I are trying to make a democratic
government work.
Governors on Train.
We are not only delighted to have
the Governor Of Colorado and the
Senators with US and some of the
Congressman, but I am also glad that
my old friend, the Governor of Utah.
has joined the train. On this trip
had to pass through most of Utah by
night, and know the State pretty
well, and when wake up in the morn
ing my daughter and her husband
from Seattle will be on board. So
you see this is very happy family
trip.
It has been good to see you all. I
didn't come out here for political rea-
sons. but to take my annual look-see
around the country. So I hope to be
back to see you good people in the
Western part of Colorado again very
soon. Many thanks.