The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-26
ENDORSES
WENDELL WILLKIE
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Appealing to prospective draftees,
Lewis said:
you, who may be about to die
in a foreign war, created at the
whim of an international meddler,
should you salute your Caesar? In
cold, common sense, I think you
should vote for Willkie."
Wide Appeal
He appealed too to labor, to the
farmers, to youth, and other
groups, and said MI. Roosevelt had
failed to solve the nations eco
nomic troubles.
ut is auth~oritatively stated
he said, that 20, 0o0, 600 people in
the United States are able to spend
only five cents per meal per per.
son . this in a land of plenty,
with its agricultural %granaries,
overlooking with surplus farm com.
modities, which the farmer is I'm.
able to sell. Where now are the
tears for the .ill.housed, ill-clothed
and ill.fed'?"
If MI. Roosevelt is reelected, he
said, "it will mean that the mem.
bers of the Congress of Industrial
Organizations have rejected my
advice and recommendation. I will
accept the result as being the
equivalent of a vote of no conf.
dence and will retire as president
of the Congress Of Industrial Or.
CARNATIONS, at its convention in
November"
No nation, he said, should light
ly endow any politician or states
man with a brief Of authority that,
for all practical purposes, runs in
perpetuity." 49,
, Forbears Paid Price
"Our forbears," he added, paid
the price in blood, agony, priva-
ton and sorrow, requisite for the
building of this republic.
Are we now to cast away that
priceless liberty, which is Dur her
itage? Are we to yield to the ap-
petite for power and the Wanting
ambitions of a man who plays with
the lives of human beings for a pas
time?
IF President Roosevelt is re-
established in office in the forth
coming election, he will answer to
no man, including the congress, for
his executive acts, that may create
a dictatorship in this land"
Lewis enumerated a list of rea-
sons for his opposition to MI.
Roosevelt's reelection.
The first, he said, is that his
motivation and objective" is
war" Of the third term issue, he
said: America needs no super
man."
Quoting from a speech he made
in January of this year saying that
a coalition had been formed be-
tween labor and the administra.
ton, and that a political coalition
presupposes a post-election good
faith between the coalition inter-
ests." he added:
The democratic party and its
leadership have not preserved that
faith" Then, departing from the
quotation of the previous speech
he said it had never been refuted
and that ''there is no spokesman
in the democratic party, or in the
Roosevelt administration intellect
ually capable Of this task"
Raps Gun Making
Indicting the administration for
failing to solve the unemployment
problem, he said it was trying to
create prosperity by the making of
guns and lethal weapons" This,
he added, points to increased vol
urne of production but ''forgets to
state that the productivity of the
individual worker has vastly in
creased since 1929, and that in
creased volume does not cores
pondingly mean increased employ
ment of workers." There are, he
said, 9,115,0 900 men and women in
America still unemployed" and
the national defense program will
still leave 5000, 600 out Of work.
He questioned where the coun-
try would sell its goods when the
nation was returned to peaceful
pursuits, and asked what was being
done by the present administration
Ito safeguard our population from
such an impending economic dis
aster."
Turning from the reasons for his
opposition to Roosevelt to the rea-
sons for his supporting Willkie he
asserted:
HE is a gallant American. He
has opened his heart to the Ameri-
can people. He is not an aristocrat.
He has the common touch. He was
born in the briar and not to the
purple. He has worked with his
hands, and has known pangs of
hunger. He has had experience in
various fields of American enter
prise, and is an administrator and
an executive"
DEMOCRATS PAY
NEW YORK, Oct. 25-RH The
national committee Of democrats
for Willkie announced tonight it
was sponsoring and paying ap-