Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-04-20
Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg Address)

These Abraham Lincoln, uttered with great
simplicity of the batefeds of the Civil War;
might well be used by the American people their guide
carrying the work for which great President Franklin
Deano Roosevelt, fought and died.
Rather than the passing of former leader
must pick the banner which he unwingly laid down.
and with forward upon the goal which he
set his until at last shall have planted it
upon the heights to which he had dedicated himself
Like President Roosevelt too must set ourselves to the
carrying on the vast unfinished business which must be
pleted the whom called great leader and
great American shall not have lived died in vain
Like President Roosevelt himself too must set ourselves
to to completion the vast unfinished business which
must be completed the whom have called great
leader and American shall not have lived and died
vain.
Our tasks many burdens not light, but
thanks the which President
the plain people, the task will be than had
known the greatness of Franklin D. Roosevelt
HIS FIGHT
Ever the day Franklin Roosevelt spoke of
the forgotten since the day told of his belief in
the destiny and dignity of irrespective of their owliness
in the economic scale Roosevelt has been the Keystone around
which the hopes and aspirations of the plain people have
AS President the fight Franklin D. Roosevelt
against the forces of reaction the blinded stupid of
great wealth. the corporations the changers and all who
had exploited the people of the country and rich and
arrogant in their feeling of power.
Franklin was no revoutonist. preached
new doctrine He advocated form of government
He did not private enterprise profits He
Socialist Communist enemy the banker
the industrialist the fnancier the businessman.
The fight which President Roosevelt carried through his
public life that of extremist fought
extremes both of the right and the left He the foe of
both fascism firmly believed that the
economic system under which this country operates could be
salvaged by reform rather than by revolution.
Basicaly Franklin D. Roosevelt reformer. He
firm in his belief that the economic system could be altered
and that by giving the little people greater share in the fruits
of their productivity the system could be continued
Roosevelt recognized the system
private enterprise he salvage the by
the rights which had been bnly denied them those who
had controlled the system; by bringing to the
philosophy that responsible when the system
through its contradictions inertia failed to
welfare depended their
jobs
FOUGHT EXTREMES
And in order bring which clearly
must be made private enterprise to be be sustained
Roosevelt forced fight only the reaconars the
which controlled the of the the
extremists to the left still believe that
the only to the economic of the world is the
creation of international socialism based the teachings of
Karl Marx.
This war between the fascists governments of the world
and the countries which still maintain the sembances
of democracy the President clearly battle of
ideogies for control is fight of extremes the to de-
termine the world shall be the ultimate in capalc ascism
or the ultimate in socialization- communism.
In this great President vivdy it, true
democracy stands the middle fighting existance
He that the outcome of this not certain victory
opposite He recognized that mill
victory militarism
social PHILOSOPHERS
majority of the nations the world And seeing and knowing
these things the President have been orely troubled
And great President has from great in
fluence the wilderness conflicting found
left to us the task carrying conclusion the work
he has begun Our task indeed to dedicate ourselves to the
unfinished work which zhee fought here has thus
nobly advanced