Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-05-16
1r Truuns Address at Democratic Jubilee in Chicoqc

that. They said there was no one
there to Use electric power except
coyotes and jack rabbits.
wish they could see the place
now.
I wish they could see the homes
and farms, the cities and plants.
that are using the power from
Grand Coulee today.
| wish they could talk to the
people out there about the plans
they have for the future.
| The people in the Northwest know
what the Democratic Party means
when 1t talks about progress-about
an expanding economy. And so do
the people in the rest of the country.
Some sour critics have been saying
lately that my hopes for the future
of the country are just idle dreams.
admit that I do have some ideas
about a wonderful future for Amer
lea. I do dream of making our
country a better place to live in.
And what's more, there are a lot
of Americans who share these
dreams. I believe every American
| family has a dream of q better
future, and Is working to make it
come true. I want those dreams to
come true.
More Than Dreamers.
| The Democratic Party would de-
serve to be retired from ONCE, and
hustled off to the ash heap of his
tory. If 1t ever stopped dreaming of
what we can do to make our country
better.
But we in the Democratic Party
are more than dreamers. We know
that it takes hard work to make
dreams come true.
The Democratic Party has never
tried to tell the American people
they could make their dreams come
true simply by sitting still and
wishing.
Right now, the two biggest jobs
this Nation faces are to assure an
increasing standard of living for
our people. and to achieve peace
in the world. To do those jobs is
going to take the hardest kind of
work.
To achieve peace, we must CO.
operate with other free nations in
maintaining a strong common de-
Tense against aggression. To achieve
peace, we must cooperate with
other free nations in building a
prosperous world. To achieve peace.
we must cooperate with other
countries in Strengthening and i'm
proving the United Nations.
Won't Shrink From Tasks.
These. tasks are all difficult, long
and expensive. But we will not
shrink from them, for they are
the way to peace. They are the
way to create q community of
nations, at peace with one another,
working for the good of all men.
And that is one Of our greatest
dreams.
To assure an ever-expanding
standard of living for the Ameri-
can people, we must have better
farms and better factories, more
businesses. and more jobs. We must
have better health, education, Sc
curity and recreation for all the
people.
We in the Democratic Party know
that these things will come about
only through progressive action and
hard work. But we know they can
come about-that we can make our
dreams come true. We know that
because of the progress we have
already made.
Look at the progress that business
has made recently.
You often hear 1t said that the
Democratic Party is unfair to bust
ness, Is taxing it to death, and has
taken all incentives away from pri-
vate enterprise. A great deal Of
propaganda is issued to try to make
you believe that private initiative
and private profit are on the last
mile to extinction.
What Are the Facts?
But what are the facts?
In 1949, corporate profits. after
taxes, were double what they were
10 years ago. In 1919, industrial
production was so per cent more
than 1t was in 1899. In 1919, new
investment in plant and equipment
for business purposes was more than
doubl. what it was 10 years ago.
These increases are in terms Of real
income, not just dollars.
Business was never so productive,
vital and energetic as it is today.
All this talk about weakening pri-
vate enterprise is sheer political
bunk.
One of the reasons why business
is strong and prosperous is that the
income of the average American
family has greatly increased in re-
cent years.
Since 1899, the real income of the
typical wage earner's family has
gone up so per cent.
The same kind of progress has
been made by farm families. Their
real incomes have risen as much as
those of wage earners.