The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-23

The trip is the Presidents first
avowed political sally in the current
campaign. The expenses, including
payment for the 45-minute radio
talk tonight, will be borne by the
Democratic national committee.
Text of Remarks.
Following is the text of Mr..
Roosevelt's remarks:
st remember very well my visit to
Wilmington during the election of
1886. Some of the political experts
of those days were somewhat
amused at my visit to Delaware in
a political campaign. They told me
that I certainly was optimistic If I
thought that Delaware would go
Democratic in that presidential cleo
ton.
"They ~ E9riSed at the kaG..sAs
of that election.
-Four years ago Wilmington was
the home town of the famous Lib
erty League. 1t was created for sew
eral purposes, but its major objec-
tive was to defeat the New Deal
and DRIVE It from Office.
TN view of that fact thought
that Wilmington was a good place
to read fror speech made by
President Abraham Lincoln, the
definition which he gave TO the word
Liberty
"This year that definition is OF
even greater significance. This is
what President Lincoln said:
Liberty Is Defined.
The world has, never had a good
definition of the word liberty, and
the American people, just now, are
much in want of one. We all de-
clared for liberty; but in using the
same word we do not all mean the
same thing. With some the word
liberty may mean for each man to
do as he pleaseS with himself, and
the product of his labor; while with
others the same word may mean for
some men to do as they please with
other men, and the product of other
mems labor. Here are wo, not only
different, but incompatible things,
called by the same name, liberty.
And it follows that each of the
things is, by the respective parties,
called by two different and incom-
pa .ible names liberty and tyraz-
n.y.
And then Abraham Lincoln used
this example. He said:
The shepherd drives the wolf
from the sleeps throat, for which
the sheep thanks the shepherd as
his liberator, while the wolf de-
nounces him for the same act, as
the destroyer of liberty. Plainly,
the, sheep and the wolf are not
agreed upon definition of the word
liberty, and precisely the same diff
ference prevails today among us
human creatures. :. And all pro-
Tossing to love liberty. Hence we
behold the process by which thou
sands are daily passing from under
the yoke of bondage hailed by some
as the advance of liberty, and be-
walled by others as the destruction
of all liberty
"And then Lincoln said this:
Recently, as it seems, the peo-
Pile have been doing something
to define liberty, and thanks to
them that, in what they have done,
the VOLTS dictionary has been repu-
dated
/ People Acted in 1886.
"In 1886 the people of the United
States took definite action to define
what they intended liberty to mean
in this country for the next four
years. They repudiated the VOLTS
dictionary.
II am sure that this year the peo-
pie not only of Delaware, but of
the United States are all taking a
renewed interest in that word lib
erty.' There are not so many
countries left where the word has
any real meaning.
"I hope that by their votes on
election day the people of the state
of Delaware will reaffirin their own
definition of Iiberty'-the same
definition they made four years
ago."
The President was accompanied
by Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Lewis Compton, Security Admins
traitor Paul ". MCNutt and Sen. Jo-
semi II. Guffey d. Pa.