Evening star., 1944-09-08
Text OF Dewey's Speech Opening Campaign
New Deal Has Lost Foth Itself and Americon People,
Governor Declares in Address at Philadelphia
By the Associated Press.

TeIt OF GOU. Thomas E. DetDevs
Convention Hall address last
night:
Tonight we open q campaign u
decide the course OF our country TO
many years to come. The next ma
tional administrator will take ofi1c,
January 20. 1945, and will serve unit
1949. Those years 1945 to 1949 viii
be largely and, we pray, who'll!
peacetime years.
For nearly three years our Natior
has been engaged in a world war
Today our armed forces are winning
victory after victory. Total, smash
ing victory is in sight. Germany and
Japan shall be given the lessons Of
their lives-right in Berlin ano
Tokyo.
America-our America which loves
peace so dearly-is proving once
again that it can wage war nightly
-. that it can crush any aggressoI
who threatens the freedom which we
love even more than peace. The
American people have risen to the
challenge. The war is being won on
the battle fronts. 1t is also being
won in the factory, the Office, the
farm, the mine and the home.
Prospects of Success
As Nation at Peace.
Yes, we are proving that we can
wage war. But what are the pros
poets of success as Nation at peace
The answer depends entirely on the
outcome of this election.
At the very outset I want to make
one thing clear. This is not merely
a campaign against an individual or
a political party. 1t is not merely a
campaign to displace a tired, ex-
hausted, quarreling and pickering
administration with a fresh and
vigorous administration. 1t is cam
paign against an administration
which was conceived in defeatism,
which failed for eight straight years
to restore our domestic economy,
which has been the most wasteful,
extravagant and incompetent ad-
ministration in the history of the
Nation and, worst of all, one which
has lost faith in itself and in the
American people.
This basic issue was clearly re-
vealed in the recent announcement
by the director of selective service
in Washington. He said that when
Germany and Japan have been de-
feated it will still be necessary to
demobilize the armed forces very
gradually. And why? Because, he
said, 1--WE can keep people in the
Army about as cheaply as we could
create an agency for them when
they are out"
Asserts New Dealers
Are Afraid Of Peace.
For six months we have been
hearing statements from the New
Deal underlings in Washington that
this was the plan. Now it is out in
the open. They have been working
up to it. Because they are afraid
of peace. They are afraid of a con-
tinuance of their own failures to get
this country going again. They are
afraid of America.
I do not share that fear. I be-
lieve that our members of the armed
forces should be transported home
and released at the earliest prac-
tical moment after victory. I be-
lieve that the occupation of Ger
many and Japan should very soon
be confined to those who voluntarily
choose to remain in the Army when
peace comes. I am not afraid of
the future of America-either i'm
mediate or distant. I am sure OF
our future, if we get a national
which believes in our
country.
The New Deal was founded on the
philosophy that our frontiers are be-
hind us and all we have left to do
Is to quarrel over the division of
what We have. Mr.. Roosevelt him.
self said in 1882: "Our industrial
plant is built our task is not
. necessarily producing more
goods. 1t is the soberer, less dra-
matte business of administering oe-
sources and plants already in hand"
The New Deal operated on that phi
losophy for seven straight peacetime
years with unlimited power and un-
limited money. At the end of that
time, in 1899, the New Deal gave its
own official verdict on its failure by
this cold admission: THE Amer
lean economic machine is stalled on
dead center"
Administration A Knows
1t Was Saved by War.
The administration knows that
the war, with all its tragic toll of
death. debt and destruction, is the
only thing that saved it. They are
deadly afraid that they will go
back to resumption of their own
failures. That is why they are
afraid to let men out of the Army.
That is why they say it is cheaper
to keep men in the Army than to
let them come home.
Now let us get another point
straight for the records right here
at. the beginning. In the last hun
dred years we have had II periods
during which business and en-
ployment were we'll below normal.
During that period, the average
lasted two years. In the
entire hundred years the longest
of all was five years
and the next longest was four years
up to the last one.
When this administration took
Office the depression was already
over three years old. Then what
happened? In 1884 when the de-
preston was then five years old
longer than any other in a CEN
tury-we still had 100000 unem-
ployed. BY 1910 the depression was
almost II years old. This admins
tration had been in power for seven
straight years and there were still
10 900, 900 Americans unemployed.
1t took a world war to get jobs
for the American people.
Made Depression
Last IL Years. =