Evening star., 1940-06-26

The teTt OF the address OF for
rter President Herbert HooDer
before the Republican National
Contention in Philadelphia last
night toHo,Us'
We are here faced with the task
Of saving America for free men.
The whole world is in confusion.
Two-thirds Of the world is at war.
Twenty nations have become the
stamping ground of militant des-
potisms. Almost everywhere in the
Old World the light of liberty for
which men have struggled and died
has gone into a long night. Men and
nations have lost their moral and
spiritual moorings. Even in America
our system of liberty has been weak
ened. We are divided in mind end
fearful. And confusion in liberal
nations is made worse by the spread
OF incompetence in government.
The world has survived con-
fusion before. And men have grown
in soul and safety. But how? Be-
cause some organizations of men
have stood solid. They stood not
because they knew the solutions to
all these confusions, not even be-
cause they have the power to find
solution. They stood firm and they
held the light of civilization-unt;l
the furies passed, because they held
to certain positive principles Of life,
OF morals, OF spiritual values.
In time of confusion the action
OF Republican Convention 80 years
ago saved this Nation for free men,
And free men of two generations
built it into unparalleled greatness.
Responsibility Rests
Upon Party Again.
Upon this party again rests the
responsibility for the freedom and
prosperity Of men for the next two
generations. The Republican party
again accepts that responsibility
here and now.
Our party is not concerned here
with petty or factional issues or
minor criticisms.
This crisis in America is no sudden
blow. We have witnessed steady
sapping of our system of liberty and
the nlismanagement of government
for the last eight years. During all
this time We have had 10 million
chronically unemployed. 1S million
of our fellow Americans have been
continuously on relief. Agriculture
has been held afioat by Govern
ment subsidies, Unending deficits
and huge increases in debt threaten
the financial stability of the Gov
ernment. Our industry and busi-
ness are hesitant and are afraid. In
this decade, we have actually de-
creased in national income and ma
tional wealth for the first time in
$50 years. America has gone back
ward. The human consequence Is
that one-third of our people are
frozen to poverty.
This condition Is not an inheri-
tsnce from the inevitable world de-
preston which followed the last
world War. 1t Is the result of in
competence in government. We
were on the way to recovery in 1882.
Every other democracy had recov-
cred from that depression long be-
fore the outbreak of this war.
Mismanaged Defense
Is Apparent Now.
Now, economically weakened for
the last eight years, we are faced
with mlsmanaged national defense.
And this new world war is no
sudden blow. 1t comes from the de-
struction of systems of liberty in
the Old World. Since the last
World War over billion human be-
fngs in Europe and Asia have been
shaken by revolutions. The insidi-
GUS poisons of mems minds from
this cauldron sweep over us.
And now with this war one liberty
loving country after another has
been submerged. Our indignation,
our sympsthies and our fears are
desperately involved in their heroic
struggles for freedom.
And now France, who tended the
cradle of our liberties, has fallen.
But the spirit of a great race does
not die. France will rise again.
Whatever the outcome of this
world cataclysm, whatever the solu-
ton OF our domestic crisis. the pat
tern of this world will not again be
the same. Dictatorships, totalitarian
economics and militarism will long
continue over large part of the
earth. New economic and political
forces will be, loosened upon the
world.
PART III.
Our Tasks.
To be prepared, We must ct once
undertake seven stern tasks.
First. We must restore and re-
vitalize liberty in America.
Second. We must restore and re-
build morals in America
Third. We must restore decent
life and living to one-third of our
farmers and workers, who have been
chronically submerged by the New
Deal.
Fourth. We must restore compe-
tence to government.
Fifth. We must prepare this Ma
ton to defend the Western Hem
lSphere.
Sixth. We must develop and
maintain foreign policies that keep
us out Of these wars unless we are
attacked We should facilitate all
nations fighting for their freedom
In procuring materials and NUM-
tions, but subject to definite limita-
tions which keep us out of war
Seventh. We must recall our peo-
pie from the flabbiness of the New
Deal. We must re-establish
stamina. character and ideals. We
must regenerate hope and confidence
in America.
PART III.
Weakening Structure of Liberty.
Let us first examine the weakening
Of the structure of liberty in our
Nation.