Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-24

and not performance. He is going
to do 1t in the next four years.
Why hasn't he done it in the past
eight years when he has been in
complete control of government;
when he has mad a majority in both
Houses Of Congress?
He tells us that he Is going to
provide work for every young man
and woman In America, but his own
Democratic National Committee
tells us that no man now living. or
who ever lived, can fulfill such q
promise
The third-term candidate talks
about the social gains that have
been made. They are good, but be-
fore you can become eligible for
social security-before you can have
unemployment insurance, before you
can get the protection of the Ma
tional Labor Relations Act, the
wages and hour law, you've got to
have job.
We believe in those social gains,
but we got farther. We believe that
all the workers of this country are
entitled to job so that they can
participate with their fellow citizens
in these social gains. An admins
tration that passes laws to provide
FOR social security but which fails to
put men back to work has done only
half its job.
The other night when I was speak
Ing in Chicago I put certain ques-
lions to the third-term candidate,
none Of which he answered last
night. I want to put some of the
same questions to him today. The
Democratic platform of 1882 prom
lsed a drastic reduction of govern
mental expenses. 1t promised
Federal budget annually balanced
and the New Deal candidate ac-
cepted that pledge in his own words
100 per cent.
Expenditures Doubled.
But not once in the eight years of
his administration has the Federal
budget even approached a balance.
The Government expenditures have
more than doubled.
The debt has been doubled.
More than so billion dollars has
been spent, two-fifths of all the
money spent by the Federal Gov
eminent since its founding over $50
years ago. And the number of en-
ployes on the Federal pay roll has
been raised from 100000 to more
than a million. Now, third-term
candidate, tell the American people
whether Wendell Willkie falsified
that part of the record
The Democratic platform of 1882
promised a sound currency to be
preserved at all hazards-I am quot
ing its language-but six weeks after
taking office the third-term candi-
date suspended the gold standard.
In the autumn of 1888 he under
took disastrous experiment with a
commodity dollar. Even today he
retains in his own hands the power
to alter the value of the dollar at
any moment. And the monetary
policy of the Nation is officially
stated to be on 24-hour basis.
Mr. Thirdterm Candidate, tell the
people whether Wendell Willkie fall
sified that part of the record.
The third-term candidate when he
was running for his first term said:
I propose to use this position of
high responsibility to discuss up and
down the country the duty of re-
ducing taxes. And he said that
nothing was more important than
(and 1 am quoting his langnage)
this covenant with the taxpayers
of the country.
But under his administration the
Federal tax burden has been trebled;
taxes have been lifted to levels that
have been exceeded only in one
year during the World War.
Mr.. Third-term Candidate. tell
the American people whether Wen
dell Willkie falsified that part of the
record.
Killed London Conference.
The Democratic platform in 1882
said: I'VE advocate an interna-
tional economic conference desiring
to restore international trade and
facilitate exchange. But on July 3.
1888, the third-term candidate killed
the London Economic Conference.
He repudiated the program of sta
bilization which he himself had in
structed our delegates to present.
And, in my judgment, by that act
he contributed more to the fall of
the democracies and the rise of the
dictators than was performed by
any single act of any government
in the world.
1. was the financial bankruptcy,
chaos and degeneration that fol-
lowed the collapse of that confer
ence, where there was so much Of
hope of sterilization, that caused
the beginning of the decline Of the
democracies and the rise of the die
tatorships.
Last night, the third-term candi-
date, referring to the Democratic
platform of 1910, quoted this Ian
guage from that platform:
I'VE will not participate in for
eign wars and we will not send our
Army, naval or air forces to fight in
foreign lands outside of the Amer
icas, except in cases of attack"
hope, hope sincerely, that that
pledge made last night by the third