Evening star., 1940-10-17
Hy the Associated Press.

z, the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. IL
FoUoUing is the prepared tert OF
talk bu Wendell L. Willkie. Re-
publican presidential nominee,
last n,ght.
Three quarters OF century ago,
after bloody struggle. millions who
had been helG in slavery were set
free. II his proclamation two years
before the thirteenth amendment
Abraham Lincoln said:
Upon this act invoke the
considerate Judgment of mankind
and the gracious favor of Almighty
God"
Today, a new form of slavery has
been created. This is an economic
slavery, a slavery that We seek to
hide rom our own eyes by calling
1t unemployment. OF this form Of
slavery l say: Let each of us. man
and woman, resolve that it shall
cease: and let us humbly invoke
upon our efforts that same almighty
blessing that enabled us to set these
other people free. This is slavery
that does not shut men init shuts
them out.
They stand outside the gates walt
Ing for a Job. They can hear The
machinery within; they can hear
that men are working. But the gates
are shut against them.
In the morning in our cities, they
Sc l,,, NJ pTnoNta antlN IN
work. They must stand aside and
let those crowds pass. They know
that if they were to follow those
crowds. somewhere a door would be
shut against them.
None Has Right to Office Unless
Pledged to Set Them Free.
This is the new slavery-the
slavery of idleness-that our society
has created No man has a right
to run for Federal Office. in this
wear of 1910, unless he is solemnlv
dedicated, before God and the
American people, to set these people
free-to put them back to work.
We believe in Federal relief; the
Federal Government has certain re-
sponsibilities toward the jobless
which it is not now fulfilling, but
which it must fulfill in the future
MY administration will continue
and will reinforce. Federal relief SO
long as any man in America is out
Of a job.
Concerning relief, three general
principles must be accepted.
First, the support of those who
are on relief is not in any sense
. political matter. A man without
4 lob is entitled to relief no matter
what his political connections.
Second, the support OF those who
need relief is not primarily an eco
nornic problem, except that the final
solution of unemployment lies in the
revival of our whole economy. Our
administration will denounce the
theory that the way to revive econ
omv is to spend as much money as
possible.
Third. the relief problem is pri-
rarily human problem, 1t is a
problem of providing those who
have been deprived of jobs, or who
have no means of support. with a
decent opportunity for the pursuit
of happiness. The Declaration OF
Independence says that that is one
of the fundamental purposes OF
government It will therefore be
one of the fundamental purposes OF
our administration.
Now these three principles. sc
necessary to a successful relief pro-
gram. have not guided the present
administration. Every one Of them
has been abused.
The first and most shocking abuse
has been the injection Of politics
into relief. The New Deal has
looked upon unemployment as ar
opportunity to exchange bread fol
votes. This attitude has been ex'
pressed by Harry Hopkins. He put
1t this way: I'VE got about 100000
people working for us"
Political Pressure Applied
For Both Votes and Money.
Political pressure has been eX.
erted by the New Deal against mer
and women on relief. In many sec
tions of the country relief workers
have been coerced to vote the New
Deal ticket They have been CO.
creed into contributing to the New
Deal campaign fund. We have ac'
tual testimony from a Senate com
m;ttee investigation. Here's how il