Evening star., 1940-10-10
az the Associated Press

The tert of Wendell WILKES ad-
dress in NetU Hapen last night
jollo,Ds'
am delighted to be here in New
Haven, in this New England city.
1t is in the heart of an industrial
region whose prosperity and success
are vital to America, and especially
to the defense of America.
The essential quality of the
American character is nowhere bet
ter exemplified than here.
We don't pick fights, but once in
we fight until We have won.
Ours is not, and never shall be, g
policy of appeaSement. We will not
appease dictators. And on the other
hand, I can promise this for the
Republican party: We will not ap-
pease Communists-in Washington
or anywhere else.
We believe in peace and we want
peace. But we shall have our kind
Of peace only by becoming strong
You people Of Connecticut have
rallied to the defense of your coun-
try. time after time, since the days
of the Indian wars. You have given
your blood to win freedom for Amer
ica. and to keep that freedom.
You will do it again, If necessary
Prom your busy shops have come
small arms, ammunition, brass. ma
chine tools and a thousand and one
items that have enabled our armies
to fight, and always to win.
Know the Word Production,
And Produce Defense.
You know what the word produc-
ton means. You know how to pro-
duce defense.
But you know, too. that today the
United States is not being defended
We are not producing fast enough
The New Deal has put a brake on
production.
I intend to put my foot on the
acCelerator.
When the average person thinks
OF defense. he thinks mostly of fin
ished products. He thinks of long
lines of tanks, big squadrons of air
planes, great piles of shells and
thousands of pieces Of artillery,
Yes, those are the things we need
real tanks, real airplanes, real
shells and real artillery.
For the most part, they are
turned out by huge assembly plants
But those final products cannot
be made out of thin air Behind
the big assembly plants there lies
another world, a world of special
products and special skills, world
of little industries and little bust
nesses.
This world of little industry and
little business is all-important to
American enterprise. 1t is impor-
tant in manufacturing and it is i'm
portant in distribution.
If this world of little industry
and little business does not flourish
then America cannot prosper. If
this world is not harnessed for de-
fense. then America cannot be de-
Tended Little business is the back
bone of America, in peace or in war.
The only people in America who
have failed to see the Importance
of little industry and little business
are the minds of the New
Deal. These master-minds have one
simple formula for prosperity-the
more deeply you go into debt-the
more prosperous you are-and the
more power you need.
Simple Formula Has Not
Worked and Never viii.
It is a simple formula. There are
only three things wrong with it. 1t
never has worked, it isn't working
and it never will work.
1t has produced more unemploy-
ment and worse depression in every
corner of the land. And yet now
the New Deal master minds are
using it in the name of American
defense.
Last Friday in Philadelphia
showed that the third-term candi-
date has been talking about defense
for nearly five years.
In those five years he has enor-
mously increased his own power and
has spent S43,O0O,0O 900, and yet he
has no defense system to show for it.
We are going to abandon that
formula.
We are going forward under the
philosophy of our forefathers to
rebuild unified America, with agri-
culture, labor and industry working
together for the common good.
In Omaha, in my speech to the
farmers, I said I would call a con-
ference of all groups in America i'm
mediately after my election, to solve
the problems of America.
I repeated that pledge at Pitts
burgh in my speech to labor.
Of all the groups I had in mind,
none is more important than the
: small independent merchant, the
small businessman.
Small business in America needs
help, and it will get help from me.
Now let us look at this thing
squarely. Who are these small busi-
nessmen?
Small Businesses Vital
Part in American Life.
They are men of all sorts. They
are men in charge of shops that are
turning out the specialties of in
duStry. They are men with new
inventions that may someday
change our lives. They are the small
producers.
But there are also the small dis
tributors-the butcher, the baker,
the garage owner-the men We trade
with every day They are doing
business all over the country. They
are an absolutely vital part of our
American life.
These men stand for certain def
inite values without which we can
not exist as a democracy. They
stand for independence and the