Evening star., 1940-11-03
Text Of Roosevelt Speech PIedging Efforts to Peace
Asks Vote of Confidence and Promises Continue New Deal
the Benefit of the Common People

strengthen all these dynamic re-
forms In our social and economic
life; to keep the processes Of de-
mocracy side by side with the ne
cessities and possibilities Of mod.
ern industrial production.
OF course we shall continue to
make available the good things
OF life created by the genius Of
science and technologyrto use
them, however, not for the enjoy
ment Of the few but for the well
fare Of all.
For there lies the road to de-
mocracy that is strong.
OF course we intend to preserve
and build up the land Of this
country-its soil, its forests, It's
rivers-all Of the resources with
which God has endowed the peo-
pie Of the United States.
OF course we intend to con-
tinue to build up the bodies and
minds of the men. women and
children of this country-through
democratic education and DEM
ocratic program for health.
For there lies the road to de-
mocracy that is strong.
OF course we intend to con-
tinue our efforts to protect our
system Of private enterprise and
private property, protect it from
monopoly Of financial control on
the one hand and from Com
munistic wrecking on the other.
OF course we shall continue our
efforts to prevent economic die
tatorship as well as political die
tatorshlp.
OF course we intend to con-
tinue to build up the morale of
this country, not as blind obedi-
ence to some leader, but as the
expression Of confidence in the
deeply ethical principles upon
which this Nation and its de-
mocracy were founded.
For there lies the road to de-
mocracy that is strong.
Asks for Cooperation
OF All for Unity.
The progress of our country, as
well as the defense of our coun-
try. requires national unity. We
need the cooperation Of every
single American-our workers,
the great organizers and techni.
clans in our factories, our farm
ers, our professional men and
women, our workers in industry,
our mothers, our fathers, our
youth-all the men and women
who love America just a little bit
more than they love themselves.
And II we can have the as
sistance of all these, we can
promise that such a program can
make this country prosperous
and free and strong-to be a
light of the world and comfort
to all people.
And all the forces of evil shall
not prevail against it.
For so it Is written in The
Book. and so it is written in the
moral law, and so 1t is written in
the promise Of a great era Of
world peace.
This Nation which is arming
itself for defense has also the
intelligence to save its human
resources by giving them that
confidence which comes from USE
full work.
This Nation which is creating
q great Navy has also found the
strength to build houses and be-
gin to clear the slums of dts cities
and its countryside.
This Nation, which has become
the industrial leader of the world,
has the humanity to know that
the people of a free land need
not suffer the disease of poverty
and the dread of not being
wanted.
1t is the destiny of this Ameri-
can generation to point the road
to the future for all the world to
see. 1t is our prayer that all
lovers Of freedom may join us
the anguished common people Of
this earth for whom we seek to
light the path.
Describes a Future
OF Prosperity and Peace.
I see an America where factory
workers are not discarded after
they reach their prime, where
there is no endless chain of
poverty from generation to gen.
Grafton, where impoverished
farmers and farm hands do not
become homeless wanderers,