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economy and Of the use of property
in industry that just balances shall
measure the distribution Of its pro-
fits. It makes all men citizens Of q
nation Of minds as well as Of bound
ed land and material things, and
members of a government which
gives to every mind the equal oppor-
tunlty to strive for the higher levels
Of enterprise, achievement and
wealth--to excel in service.
Representative democracy is now
exposed to attack in this conflict for
power between the contending forces
Of individual property and COM
munistic collectiYism. The con-
tinuance OF this struggle inevitably
must lead 10 group dictatorship, with
the consequent elimination Of the
individual as the unit of influence
and the ultimate loss of his power
of self-governance. 1t is our eco
nomie complexities and misunder-
standings that are now tending to
the destruction of faith in democracy
as a method, and particularly strain
its political structure; for the ZEAL
otry of Nazism and Facism and the
radical idealism of Communism Of
fer only the solution of war as the
means of destroying opposition to
the purposes of each.
Let the people of the United
States of America and of Western
Europe. to whom individual freedom
is a heritage and the rule of DEM
Ocracy an experience of centuries.
through the triumph of group and
by method of revolution, abandon
the institutions of private property,
profit incentive and capitalism in
economy and an autocratic tyranny
will OVerwhelm and destroy repre-
sentative democracy, with the same
ease that it crushed the shell OF
Italian and Prussian Parliamentar-
ism and succeeded to the absOlutism
of the Cars.
V.
We are today in the face not only |
of one of these perils, but are now I
confronted with the evils of all OF
them. This brings us to the fifth |
peril: The real threat is the con-
tinuance of these perils under the
executive authority of him who is
their author and sponsor, who avows |
his determination to complete this |
destruction of your individualism
and of your democracy under your |
Constitution by seeking your votes |
in opposition to the one safeguard |
which Washington gave to the Am |
erican people against usurpation OF /
power-his farewell refusal to take
a third term and his admonition
against its insidious threat OF ulti-
mate dictatorship.
1t were idle to deny, and time has
not changed, the wisdom of Wash
ington's admonition. The tradition
of almost a century and a half has
made it a part of our unwritten
Constitution, which no President has
ever attempted to break; and only
once in our history did a group OF
designing politicians seek to repu-
diate it by the use of the military
glory Of president. The~RePubli-
can Party overwhelmingly repudl-
ated their unworthy purposes and
refused to nominate for a third
term Grant, who ended Civil War.
Let the partisans of a President
utilize the distribution of public /
funds and the cOercive influences of
to bring about the
of a president for a
third term. let those same influences
be employed for his election at a
lime when billions of dollars are
being expended for national defense.
and let war then follow his election,
and who dare then be bold enough
to avow the possibility of the con-
iinuance of representative govern
ment by an administration that