Evening star., 1940-11-03
~ the Associated Press.

CLEVELAND, Mop. 2-The
tert OF President Roosepelt's
campaign speech here tonight
jolIotUs.:
In making this. my final ma
tional address of the campaign,
I express once more my deep re-
gret that ] could not carry out
my wish to go to other States
in the great Middle West. in
the South and across the Mis-
sissippi River. 1t has been solely
In the interest of peace and the
maintenance of peace that your
great Secretary of State and I
have felt that we should both
remain within easy distance of
the National Capital in these
trying days.
Tonight in Cleveland, I am
happy, through this great audi
ence Of my old friends, to give
this message to America.
For the past seven years I
have had the high honor and
the grave responsibility of lead
ership of the American people.
In these seven years, the Amer
ican people have marched for
ward. out of a wilderness of de-
preston and despair.
They have marched forward
right up to the very threshold of
the future-a future which holds
the fulflllment of our hopes for
real freedom, real prosperity, real
peace.
I want that march to continue
for four more years. And for
that purpose, I ask your vote of
confidence.
Calls Reds and 'Girdlers'
Forces of Dictatorship.
There are certain forces within
our own national community,
composed of men who call them
selves American but Who would
destroy America. They are the
forces of dictatorship in our own
land-on one hand the Commun-
lists, and on the other the Grid
lers.
1t is their constant purpose in
this as in other lands to weaken
democracy, to destroy the free
mans faith in his own cause.
In this election all the repre-
sentatives of those forces, with
out exception, are voting against
the New Deal.
I am proud of this opposition.
1t is proof positive that what we
have built and strengthened in
the past seven years is democ-
racy!
This generation of Americans
Is living in a tremendous mo-
ment Of history.
The surge of events abroad has
made some few doubters among
us ask: Is this the end of a story
that has been told? Is the book
of democracy now to be closed
and placed away upon the dusty
shelves of time?
Sees Greater Story
Ahead for Democracy.
My answer is this: All we have
known of the glories of democ-
racy-its freedom, its efficiency
as a mode of living, its ability
to meet the aspirations of the
common man-all of these are
merely an introduction to the
greater story of a more glorious
future.
We Americans of today-al1 Of
us-are characters in this living
book Of democracy.
But we are also its author.
1t falls upon us now to say
whether the chapters that are
to come will tell a story of re-
treat or a story of continued
advance.
I believe that the American
people will say: forward.
We look at the old world of
Europe. 1t is an ugly world,
poisoned by hatred, greed and
fear. We can see what has been
the inevitable consequence OF
that poison-war.
We look at the country in
which we live. It is q great
country, built by generations Of
peaceable friendly men and
women who had in their hearts
faith that the good life can be
achieved by those who will work
for it.
We know that we are determ-
ined to defend our country-and
with our neighbors to defend
this hemisphere. We are strong
in our defense. Every hour and
every day We grow stronger.
Denies Any Secrecy
In Foreign Policy.
Our foreign policy is shaped to
express the determination of our
Government and the will of our
people in our dealings with other
nations. Those dealings, in the
past few years, have been more
difficult, more complex than ever
before in our history.
There is nothing secret about
our foreign policy. 1t is not a
secret from the American people
and 1t is not secret from any
government anywhere in the
world. I have stated it many
times before, not only in words
but in action. I now re-state it.
The first purpose of our foreign
policy is to keep our country out
of war. At the same time we
seek to keep foreign conceptions
of government out of the United
States.
That is why we make ourselves
strong; that is why we muster
all the reserves of our national
strength.
The second purpose OF this
policy Is to keep war as far away
as possible from the shores of the
entire Western Hemisphere. Our
policy is to promote such friendly
relations with the Latin Ameri-
can republics and with Canada,
that the great powers of Europe
and Asia will know that they
cannot divide the peoples of this