The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-08-22
WILLKIE ASKS ROOSEVELT
TO DEBATE The ISSUES
Continued from Page One)

problems OF domestic economy, dSfl-
culture, labor, industry and finance,
as we'll as problems of national de-
Tense.
"And also l would like to debate"
he said, "the question of the as
sumption by the President, in seeking
a third term, of greater public con-
fidence than was accorded to our pres
idential giants, Washington, Jeffer
son, Jackson, Lincoln, Cleveland, The
odore Roosevelt and Woodrow Will
son."
Coupled with Wilkes criticism of
New Deal foreign policies was de-
nunciation of its domestic program.
"This administration stands for
principles exactly opposite to mine,"
he said. at does not preach the doc
trine of growth. 1t breaches the doc
trine of division.
81 Pass Doctrine"
eve are not asked to make more for
ourselves. We are asked to divide
among ourselves that which we al
ready have. The New Deal doctrine
does not seek risk, it seeks safety.
Let us call it the 4 Pass doctrine"
He termed the New Deals view
point exactly the course France fol-
lowed to her destruction" and ad-
ded:
GAS in France, so here, we have
heard talk of class distinctions and of
economic groups preying upon other
groups. We are told that capital hates
labor and labor capital"
But Willkie asserted "there is no
hate in my heart" said he stands "for
new companionship in an industrial
society,""
He called for a check of the "con-
centration of power" in government,
but added, 81 believe that the forces
of free enterprise must be regulated
l am opposed to business monopolies.
I believe in collective bargaining by
representatives of labor's own free
choice, without any interference and
in full protection of those obvious
rights.
Federal Pensions
81 believe in the maintenance of
minimum standards for wages and a
maximum standard for hours. l be-
lieve that such standards should con-
stantly improve. | believe in the fed
eral regulation of interstate utilities,
of securities markets and of banking.
| believe in federal pensions, in ade-
quate old age benefits and in unem-
ployment allowances.
81 believe that the federal govern
ment has a responsibility to equalize
the lot of the farmer with that of the
manufacturer. If this cannot be done
by parity of prices, other means must
be found-with the least possible reg
imentation of the farms affairs. | be-
hive in the encouragement of coopera-
tive buying and selling, and in the full
extension of rural identification"
Appearing before an audience that
included not only many childhood boys
and girls of his home town but persons
from all parts of the middle west,
Willkie began his address with an APP
peal for the preservation of Ameri-
can democracy"
He recounted the fact that his an
cestors were "humble people" in cen
trail Europe, his grandparents lived in
Germany and fled to the United States
when democratic revolution" in that
country failed.
Party Lines Down
Declaring that party lines are
down." he said:
Nothing could make that clearer
than the nomination by the Republi-
cans of liberal Democrat who
changed his party affiliations because
he found democracy in the Republican
party and not in the New Deal party"
Turning to the European situation,
he said he would pledge wholehearted
support to the President in whatever
action he might take on two princi-
pies, quoting Mr.. Roosevelt as follows:
eve will extend to the opponents of
force the material resources of this
nation, and at the same time we will
harness the use of those resources in
order that we ourselves, in the Amer
icas, may have equipment and train
ing equal to the task of any emer-
gency and every defense"
He said, however, that he could not
follow the President in his conduct Of
foreign affairs.
Willkie declared that if the British
fleet were lost or captured, "the Al
lantic might be dominated by Ger
many, power hostile to our way of
life"
"This would be calamity for us"
he said. eve might be exposed to at
would be weakened until we could
Dullu navy anu dlI lOICe SCIOHS
enough to defend both coasts"
Trade Periled
"Also our foreign trade would be
profoundly affected we might
have to change our methods to some
totalitarian form"
Willkie said he would not analyze
the CONSUMPTION legislation now be-
fore Congress or examine the admin
istration's intentions in that regard,
but assered that the latter should be
closely watched
Nevertheless" he said, "in spite of
these considerations, | cannot ask the
American people to put their faith in
me without recording my conviction
that some form of selective service is
the only democratic way in which to
secure the trained and competent
manpower we need for national de-
Tense"
He said that although Americans
turn aside from the recurring con-
f1icts in Europe, eve know that we
are not isolated from those suffering
people"
"No man." he continued, "can guar
antee to maintain peace, X In the
foreign policy of the United States, as
in it's domestic policy, | would do
everything to defend American democ-
racy and would refrain from doing
anything that would iniure it.
"We must not permit our emotions
our sympathies or hatreds-to