Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-06

Campaign Promises

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n ov THOMAS E. DEWEY made one of the
" last and surely one of the most convincing
speeches of his campaign for the presidency, in
Buffalo Tuesday night.
This speech was convincing, not just because
what Gov Dewey SAID was important but be-
cause the facts he cited were TRUE and the
history he recited is matter of familiar and
ineradicable RECORD.
Gov. Dewey talked about campaign PROM
Uses in Buffalo.
He has very strong conviction about such
promises.
He thinks they ought to be made in good faith
He thinks they ought to be faithfully kept.
For himself, he pledged that he would never
make promise that he does not intend WITH
ALL HIS HEART AND SOUL TO KEEP.
Except for the pledges made publicly to the
American people, he said he would take Office as
president of the United States if elected without
promise, expressed or implied, to living SOUL"
MIHEREUPON, Gov Dewey invited the Ameri
w can people to recall the record of President
Roosevelt's campaign promises, and particularly
to consult THEIR OWN EXPERIENCE with
them.
President Roosevelt, he said, now AGAIN
promises jobs for every American when peace
comes.
"But his olUn peacetime record, said Gov.
Dewey, "is that at the end of eight years the New
Deal had spent fty.eighf billion dollars, it enjoyed
more pot0er than all previous governments, and in
March of 1910 there were still TEN MILLION
AMERICANS UNEMPLOYED.
"On the record, his promise of jobs is
WORTHLESS and it will still be worthless euen
though it is repeated again and again and again..
Furthermore, said Gov. Dewey, Mr.. Roosevelt
now promises to free the nation "from the stran-
Cling bureaucracy he himself has created
But, observed Gov. Dewey
"When a man promises, in trying to .Vin
election, that he sOiU the of every
thing he has done for IL years-then that promise
too, on the record, is NO GOOD eUen though it
is repeated again and again and again"
MR.. ROOSEVELT also promises now to be
1VI mindful IN THE FUTURE of the problems
of business, especially small business, which, as
Gov. Dewey says has been "the field of the FOR
GOTTEN men and women under the New Deal"
Against this promise must be weighed the
FACT as Gov. Dewey admonished, that:
"American businessmen knoD that the NeW
Deal way of being mindful of their problems HAS
BEEN SLOWLY TO DROWN THEM Nth a
rising flood of rules and regulations, question
naires, reports and directiUes"
The reason President Roosevelt, while having
unlimited capacity for MAKING promises, has an
unfailing record for BREAKING Them is also
something the American people can explain out of
their own experience.
THE people know, for instance, as Gov. Dewey
l. said, that the American economic system is a
machine of dependent parts.
"That is tOhat the NeW Deal does NOT
knoO," he observed, land neUer could LEARN.
at had to tinker first With one thing and then
lUith another.
at has changed the tax laDs FIFTEEN
TIMES in IL years -.
at fought first one part of our JOB-MAKING
machinery and then another.
at uOiiling in all its years to let all
the parts of this machine function smoothly"
That is the record BEHIND the New Deal.
It will be the record of the New Deal as long
as it is in power, for the New Deal KNOWS
nothing else, BELIEVES in nothing else, and
would not even TRY anything else.