Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-14

Under the Republicans 1t has
now reached So billion.
And looking at those mortgage
figures again. we can quite well
understand that about all, the
American farmer can do when
he comes in from the fields is
to sit before the radio or tele-
vision and sing mournfully along
with Tennessee Ernie Ford:
sold sixteen cows
And what did / get?
Another Republican promise
And deeper in debit"
/. :. Republican triple BEN
son, Below Pority and Bonk-
ruptcy =.
Deeper in debt. of course, under
a party that substituted for the
Democratic triple-A. the Re-
publican triple-B-Benson, below
parity. and bankruptcy!
And speaking of bankruptcy,
look what has happened to the
small businessman of America
under the BBG-big business
government-of the Republican
Party.
Again 1 quote from the
statistical abstract of the United
States:
Bankruptcies in 1850 under
Democratic administration-33,-
1872. In l95l-35,l93. In 1852
34.873; for a total those three
years of Democratic administra-
ton of 103.458.
Then along comes the Re-
publican administration and the
small businessman gets elbowed
away from the equal opportuni-
ty table, and the number of
bankruptcies sky-rockets as fol-
low:
again I quote from the sta
tistical abstract Of the United
States.)
1935-40,087
1954-53.136
1955-59,404
A total of 152 .627-or approxi-
mately one-third more than I'M
der an administration of the
Democratic Party.
.Frailties and failures of the
Republican Party have not been
limited to the domestic scene.
New vision is needed in for
eign affairs.
The one word that accurately
describes our present foreign
policy is drifting.
The foreign policy which the
Democratic leadership of Amer
lea tried so desperately to keep
in proper perspective on a nom
partisan basis has suffered under
itinerant, nomadic leadership of
the Republican Party to the
point that our standing among
the nations of the world has
reached an all-time low.
We have permitted the Soviet
Union to foist itself on the
Asiatic peoples as the champion
of their rights and liberties. to
their detriment, to the detriment
OF the free world, and at the ex-
pense OF the prestige of America.
We have permitted the Soviet
Union to achieve major diploma
tic victories in India and Burma
and have seen Russian leaders
cheered by the teeming masses.
while our own leaders in some
instances have required police
protection.
We have permitted the coun-
try of Israel to be placed in
jeopardy by ineptness and in
activity and the failure to APP
proach this great problem on a
bipartisan basis.
=. While Foster fiddIes, fritz
ters, frets and fits :"
We have been embarrassed by
the developments in the Middle
East, and when the Prime Min
lister of England sends us an
urgent message, two weeks later
our President doesn't even know
of its existence. While Foster
flddles. fritters, frets and fits,
the Russians make a dramatic
and vigorous entry into the
Middle East and again score a
victory to the detriment of our
national prestige and leadership.
Tonight the Democratic Party
opens its campaign for return to
the direction of the country's
affairs on the home and foreign
fronts-basing our claim not
merely upon the uneasy atmos-
phere that prevails around the
Republican Party and its prin-
cipals today-but because we be-
lieve that no other party in
America is as well equipped to
serve you as the party Of Jeffer-
son, jackson, Wilson, Roosevelt
and Truman.
OF course. our record is not a
perfect one.
We humans who compose it lay
no claim to perfection.
But one thing is indisputable !:
1t is the best record ever COM
piled by any political organiza-
ton in the history OF the world.
And another thing:
1t has never promised you two
chickens in every pot. and then
forced you to sell apples on the
corner Of a street!