Evening star., 1944-09-20
Text Of Deweys Speech in Portland, Oreg.
SCOTS at Claims Of indispensable Mon' for Prosperity
Points to Il Years Of Strife Among New Deal Leaders

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bring the Congress Of the United
States into popular disrepute. Al
a result, no bill which this admins
tration can propose to Congress Ii
today received with anything less
than suspicion. The Nation Is now
reaping the bitter fruit of executive
arrogance toward the elected repre-
sentatives Of the people.
We need only recall the recent
episode when Mr.. Roosevelt vetoed
the tax bill. On Washington's
birthday he sent to the Congress a
veto message SO savage and unjust
that even the long suffering and
subservient Senator Barkley, Dcm-
ocratic majority leader, rebelled.
You remember the moving and i'm
passioned speech that Senator Bark
ley made. You remember how, pro-
voked beyond endurance, he rose
in the Senate to denounce the words
OF. the veto message of Mr.. Roose-
velt as more clever than honest"
and as "a calculated and deliberate
assault on the legislative integrity
of every member of Congress.
You remember how the other SEN
ators, regardless of party, rose as
one man to cheer this declaration
of independence by Senator Bark
ley, and the members of the House
regardless of party, crowded into the
Senate chamber to shake Mr.. Bark
ley's hand.
Example Of Long Trend.
But this dramatic episode was
only an example of long contin-
ued trend. There exists today a
hopeless division amounting to open
warfare between the Congress and
the President. We cannot enter
this critical period ahead with a
Chief Executive at war with Con-
gress.
1t is part of the Job of
President to work in harmony with
Congress just as 1t Is part OF the
job of Governor to work in har-
mony with the legislature. I can
speak with feeling on that point. l
have worked closely with the legis-
lature of my own State. We have
had many difficult problems to work
out. But we have never found it
impossible to reach agreement when
we sat down together to discuss
these problems. If we cannot agree
at the first meeting we meet again,
and often sit together far into the
night talking the whole thing over
and eventually reaching a meeting
Of minds.
If we have learned any lesson from
watching the rise of Fascism else
where in the world, surely we should
have learned the need for strength
ening. not undermining representa-
tive government.
My opponent has demonstrated
that he cannot work with the pres
ent Democratic Congress. How in
the name Of the future of our coun-
try can he be expected to get along
with the Republican Congress which
will certainly be elected this fall?
We need in this country an ad-
ministration that wants to work with
the elected representatives of the
people and that knows how to do it.
We can get such an administration
only by getting a new Chief Execu-
tive.
Jobs for All Essential
There is a third thing that is
essential to achieving our agreed
objective of world peace and pros
perity. This absolute essential is a
strong and vigorous America with
jobs for all Is a fourth term in
to that? Once again
let's look at the record. =,
When this administration took
office in 1888. the depression was
already more than three years old.
BY 1884 that depression had lasted
longer than any other in the previ-
GUS 100 years of American history.
Yet, there were then 10000 900 un-
employed, in the United States. BY
1910. after the New Deal had been
in office full seven years, it had
enjoyed unprecedented power. it had
spent $1,000, 900 900 and there were
still 100000 unemployed.
My opponent had succeeded only
in the incredible accomplishment of
making depression last nearly IL
years. twice as long as any depres-
sion in the previous century. Under
the New Deal, We had to have war
to get jobs.
What Is the use of going back to
the methods of the New Deal which
failed SO completely for seven
years? We need a whole new ap-
proach to the relationship between
the Government of the United
States and its people.
1 will introduce the new ap-
proach on the radio from San
Francisco on Thursday night OF this
week. I shall present the philos-
ophy by which I believe we can
achieve our two great goals for
America. freedom and security for
all.
New Approach Needed.
Meanwhile it Is entirely clear
that we need a new approach to
the problem Of the operation Of our
Government. We need to revise and
radically reduce the unnecessary
burdens and handicaps placed by
Government upon the job-making
machinery of our economic system.
We need to revise our present tax
policies which now deter every kind
of business enterprise which makes
jobs. We need a drastic change in
Government policies which now in
cite labor disputes and place handi-
caps upon responsible labor leaders
in their work. Some of these