Evening star., 1940-10-08
BY the Associated Press.

NEWARK. N. j., Oct. S.-The
tert of the address by Wendell
L. Willkie, Republican presi-
Dental nominee. in NeiUark City
Stadium last night, tollo,US::
I greatly appreciate the recep-
ton you have given me to-
night. But I do not take it as a
personal tribute. l take it as a
tribute to the fundamental prin-
ciple at stake in this campaign;
the principle that our Govern
ment-city, State, and Federal
belongs not to a few persons but
to all of the people.
You know and I know that
America will be safe so long MS
it is governed by real count
of the real votes of real people.
In the last few months I have
seen and talked with millions of
Americans. l realize that the Re-
publican Party is ahead of a
trend.
This trend is an awakening of
the people to a sense of their
own power. The people of Amer
lea are saying: I'VE don't want
anybody to govern us. We want
to govern ourselves. We want for
ourselves the power (and the
mayesty) of government"
America Started With One
Asset-Free Government.
The Republican party is dedi-
Gated to that principle. 1t wants
free votes. Those are the only
votes it wants.
On that basis, we are going
to sweep this country in No.
vember.
The principle of self-govern-
ment is the only asset America
started with. We moved on from
there. My grandparents. your
grandparents, your parents, and
many of you yourselves, came
here to find that asset. They be-
came Americans by choice be-
cause they knew that if they
were given a share in govern
ment there would be a better
chance for them and for their
children.
That chance still exists. 1t is
still better than any other
chance in the world. And the
Republican party insists that
every man and woman in Amer
lea must have it.
Today, in most of the great
nations, the right of self-gov-
ernment has been lost. Men, in
dividual men in control of po-
litical machines, have taken that
right away from the people.
Adolf Hitler is such a man.
He is not just a man alone. but
a man in control of a political
machine. He is tho head of a
party called the Nazi party. That
party reaches down to every dis
triCt. every block, every house in
Germany.
That party. that total political
machine. is in absolute control
Of Germany. You can't make a
s>oech without its permission.
You can't vote except the Wav it
tells you. You can't question
rhother that party is right or
W'-nc.
70centlv YOUR New Jersey Leg
islature tried to install some
voting machines in Hudson Coun-
ty. What would happen in Ger
nanv IF sono one tried II do
that? Why, the Na2i party would
prevent it. To keep you people
happy it might give some sort
of excuse It might say that vot-
ing machines were too expensive.
I think that excuse sounds
familiar to you here in New Jer-
say
Labor Has Lost Right to
Bargain. Strike and Choose Jobs.
And what has happened to
labor in Germany? Why labor
has lost its rights It cannot bar
gain. 1t has no protection against
long hours of work. There is no
floor under the pay checks. The
German workman cannot even
choose his own job. He cannot
even choose the town that he
wants to work in.
The rights of labor are bound
to suffer whenever a political
machine gets control of govern
ment. 1t is only when the people
can speak that labor is safe.
Because labor is the people-and
the people are labor.
Those personages in Germany
who correspond to labor leaders
here. or to labor delegates, or to
business agents. do not represent
labor. They obey the party, the
political machine. They do not
take orders from the workers.
They take orders from the politi-
cal boss.
And l think that some of that
also sounds familiar to you
people in New Jersey.
Believe me, these principles are
no different on this side of the
Atlantic than on the other side.
If we commit the same errors
here we shall get similar results.
Don't fool yourselves. We are
committing those very same
errors. Right here in the midst
of our free country We have polit-
ical machines just like the Nazi
party. They are operated by little
Hilters.
This morning I toured through
Hudson County, one of the most
populous in the United States.
This county has been dominated
for moro than % wears nv a OOljt-