The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-13

''Mr. Roosevelt Is 0 strange figure in the American scene. He has squandered the savings and the future earnings Of not merely Q part of our people-but all our people. He has broken practically every pledge he has even made to the people. He has driven the peo. pie Into another depression at e cost of ten million jobs and at Q loss of some thirty billion dollars in the market value of scurities owned by approximately twelve million, five hundred thousand stockholders. He has weakened the banking structure of the na- ton where some forty.eight mile lion of our people have deposited their savings. He has weakened the insurance companies with their sixty-six million policyholders. He is using the social security funds for daily running expenses Of his administration and, as security for the appropriated savings, is drop ping I. Q. us into special funds in the United States treasury.
 "He has openly taunted the peo- pie about their constitutional rights, and he has ridiculed the supreme court of the United States by adding to its membership 8 common scold, and @ Ku Kluxel to boot.
 "The President, though posing as both, is neither a true Demo- crat nor a true liberal, but an aris- tocratic dilettante with radical leanings and an inordinate appe- tite for personal power. He has sought and received at the hands of a craven Congress, personal powers over the economic life of the American people which he ad- mits are inherently dangerous to our liberties and which are com- parable only to the personal powers of Europe's dictators.
 He has upset our monetary stability, clipped our currency, and diluted our gold reserve with silver.
 By arbitrary grants of federal funds he has corrupted the sover- eighty of the states and under mined the home rule of local gov- ernments.
 "He has erected a multitude of alphabetical agencies and sent among us swarms of bureaucrats to harass us and devour our earn- ings.
 Without solving either the problem of unemployment or the problem of relief he is wasting the peoples substance in extrava- gant and unnecessary experiments, thus placing an excessive strain -on taxes and an excessive burden of debt not only upon us but our children.
 Tn his efforts to secure re- election he has set up nationwide Tammany machine, lending aid and comfort to the most vicious elements in the local politics of our great cities.
 While preaching benevolence and extolling freedom, he has heartlessly authorized or permitted his henchmen to try to frighten or coerce the poor and the un- protected into giving him their votes.
 Tn urging the enactment of laws which he knew to be of doubt full constitutlonality, he has ig- nored the true spirit of his oath of office-that he would, to the best of his ability, preserve. pro- tect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
 "Collectivists of every sort are supporting MT. Roosevelt. That is natural. For at the root of his philosophy lies the view shared alike by Communists and Fascists that conditions have suddenly changed fundamentally and that, in consequence, individual liberty under demccaey, as hitherto prac- ticed In this country, is no longer either desirable or feasible.
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