Evening star., 1944-11-03
Text Of Gov Deweys Address in WIkes-Bone
Of Tooioionsm Upward on Rood Freedom at Home

his secret conference with Marshal
Stain. We have been left to learn
from the Prime Minister of England
how much happens between him
and the head Of our own Govern
meft. The small nations of Europe
are being disposed Of without the
American people being told about
what is happening to them.
We In the United States want a
good, sound, and honest and a last
ing peace. We want an organiza-
ton for peace that will achieve IT.
and we do not want an alliance OF
a few strong and powerful to rule
the small and the weak nations in it.
The time has come to put an end to
secret treaties, or to secret deals at
the expense of the American people
everywhere in the world. The New
Deal we find-and 1t is all in the
record now-we find that it Is Offer
ing itself for sale to a few men who
can contribute $1,000, but as I said
last night they are being taken to
the cleaners.
Higher Bidders In Market.
They won't get 1t. There are
higher bidders in the market. The
higher bidders are Sidney Hillman's
Political Action Committee, and Earl
Browders Communist party. They
have been in cynical alliance with
this administration, and the whole
conduct Of this campaign has In
effect been placed in their hands
What do they expect In returni
Why are they SO violent for the
fourth term?
You know what Communism is
Communism means that the gov
ernment owns your home, the place
you work in; it tells you where you
can work and when and for what
wages, and it tells you what you may
do from the beginning Of your life
to the end, and If you disagree YOU
are quietly nquidated, either by
force or by economic strangulation
Moreover. Communism Is specif-
ically and publicly committed as ar
enemy of religion, and the head
Of the Communists in the United
States writes publicly that we con.
slider there Is no difference between
good and bad religions, they are al
bad for the masses, and we propose
to educate the people away from
them.
Those are the people who are now
fighting for the election of Franklin
Roosevelt, and he repudiates them
with very soft words indeed.
This election is going to decide
every major question about our fu-
ture, and one thing we do know, the
Democratic party has been crushed
by one-man rule for IL long years
until it Is easily subject to capture
until as a result of this election Its
machinery will successfully be taken
over by that cynical alliance of the
PAC and Communism.
The Democratic party is in such
weakened condition that we must
consider very strongly the prospect
Of this country slipping into tired
hands, into the hands of those who
will make it over to suit their own
devices. I can give you one assur-
ance which will be very, very good
for a long time to come; no Com
munism, no Fascism, no totalitarian
group is trying to take over the Re-
publican party, and they never will
Our party brought rs fresh, COM
petent liberal progressive admins
trations to this country, governing
two-thirds of the people of the
United States. It Is now prepared
to give that same kind Of govern
ment to the country which your
good Governor, Ed Martin, gives to
the State Of Pennsylvania. And
this is not party contest.
One Thing in Common.
For many years every national
election in this country has beer
primarily a contest between Demo-
Gratis and Republicans. Much Of
the strength Of our system Of gov
ernment has been owing to the ex-
istence Of two rslajor parties, evenly
matched and equally equipped in
leadership to provide the people
with good government, although
they are divided at election time on
political issues, they both have one
essential thing in common.
Both Democrats and Republicans
had an abiding faith in our system
Of representative government. The
country was safe In the hands OF
either party. Today that two-party
system stands in danger. The Dem
ocratic party, weakened by II years
Of one-man rule, is being taken
away from the Democrats. It has
been captured by the coalition
have described.
In past elections when the Demo-
Gratis won the Republicans lost, and
when the Republicans won the
Democrats lost; but 1t won't be &c
in this election. If the Republican
party was to lose this election, the
Democrats also will irrevocably lose
their party. This is not a contest
between Democrats and Republi-
cans; it Is a contest on the one hand
hetween those Who believe IN ~,