Evening star., 1944-07-20
voted IA to 8 to reduce the appro-
priation for the Army Air Corps.
Against Embargo Repeal.

voted IA to 8 to reduce the appro-
priation for the Army Air Corps.
Against Embargo Repeal.
In September, 1899, after war
started in Europe, they voted six to
one against the repeal OF the arms
embargo.
In September. 1910. after France
had fallen and the blitzkrieg against
England had begun, the Republicans
in the House voted 112 to So against
the Selective Service Act.
In February. l941, the Republi-
cans In the House voted l35 to "a
against lend-lease.
In August, 194l, four months be-
fore Pearl Harbor. the Republicans
in the House voted 1873 to 81 to dis
band that part of the armed forces
built from selective service per-
sonnel.
They fought every person who
came forward with courage to de-
clare the danger that threatened
the world and us. and every person
who sought to prepare this Nation
to meet the conflict that loomed
across the worlds horizon.
Program Of Opposition.
The Republican party has no
program today, except to oppose.
Let us limit them to that role.
They have played partisan pol
itics with one of the most deadly
dangers confronting our Nation
the danger@of imitation! They have
offered no program to prevent 1t.
Yet with reckless abandon they
sought to destroy the one adopted.
Our Republican opponents are
not even united among themselves.
Millions of them favored Willkie.
and deeply resent his being driven
from the party.
Conf1dentially, my fellow Demo-
Gratis, real battles are being fought
among the tall timbers of the Re-
publican party. I have never seen
a group more keenly suspicious of
each other. nor have I ever seen
suspicious better founded.
Praise for Roosevelt.
Most Americans, Democrats and
Republicans alike, agree that our
President has done a great job as
a war leader. Our opponents at
tack him and seek to defeat him
on domestic issues.
I take it that none here is too
young to remember the tragic years
of 1929 through 1882. The awful
depression and Republican unem-
ployment of those four years,
brought on by the unsound policies
of Coolidge's administration and
intensified by Hoover's inadequacy
and insufficiencies, created more
suffering in this Nation. destroyed
more wealth. caused more poverty
and left our Nation in the most
weakened and hopeless condition
ever known.
What American is not grateful for
the gains our people have made
since those dark days? A prosperous
Nation now demonstrates it's mighty
power as its factories. mills and
farms year after year set new rec
ords of production. They are the
wonders of the world. / share your
pride in the unparalleled peacetime
advances won under the matchless
leadership Of our great President,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt!
Cites Chamber of Commerce Plea.
If you truly favor private enter
prise and equal opportunity to all.
can you support the Republican
party, under which these suffered
most and came the nearest to de-
struction?
Do you remember when the presi-
dent of the National Chamber of
Commerce publicly urged that the
President revive and restore the
crushed and broken structure of
private enterprise?
Do you remember when the cap-
tains of industry throughout the
land, struggling to free themselves
from the quicksand in which thev
were sinking, plead for the National
Government to save them? Hoya
often must they be saved from the
flames of depression and bankruptcy
brought on by the shortsighted pol
icy of the Republican party when
in power before they will seek to
avoid the cause OF their trouble
with as much vigor as they strive
to be relieved of its consequences?
How many whirlwinds must thev
reap before they learn the folly Of
sowing the wind?
If we truly favor private enter
prise how can we fail to support the
Democratic President, under whom
the greatest advance In material
prosperity by the largest percentage
OF our people in all of the Nations
history has been achieved?
Bankers Complaint.
A few weeks ago I read a news
story as follows: "'The 1925 in.
sured commercial banks reported
net profits after taxes Of $638, 900 900
for 1943, the largest total since the
inauguration of deposit insurance. {"
Yet, I know q few bankers SO con.