Roosevelt New York speech: peace and justice among objectives (Evening Star, Nov. 1, 1936, p. 6)

Roosevelt New York Speech Peace and Justice Among Objectives of Ad ministration, With Continued Efforts for Recovery, President Says. St the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 31.--Following ]s the text of President Roosevelt's speech in Madison Square Garden to night: On the eve of a national election it is well for us to stop for a mo ment and analyze calmly and with out prejudice the effect on our Na tion of a victory by either of the major political parties. The problem of the electorate is far deeper, far more vital than the continuance in the presidency of any individual. For the greater 1s sue goes beyond units of humanity --it goes to humanity Itself. In 1932 the issue was the restora tion of American democracy and the American people were in a mood to win. They did win. In 1936 the issue is the preservation of their victory. Again they are in a mood to win. Again they will win. More than four years ago in ac cepting the Democratic nomina tion in Chicago I said: "Give me your help not to win votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people." The banners of that crusade still i fly in the van of a Nation that is on the march. It is needless to repeat the de tails of the program which this ad ministration has been hammering out on the anvils of experience. No amount of misrepresentation or sta tistical contortion can conceal or blur or smear that record. Neither the attacks of unscrupulous enemies nor the exaggerations of over zealous friends will serve to mislead the American people. What was our hope in 1932? Above all other things the Ameri can people wanted peace. They wanted peace of mind Instead of gnawing fear. First, they sought escape from the personal terror which had stalked them for three years. They wanted the peace that comes from security in their homes--safety for their savings--permanence in their jobs--a fair profit from their en Desire for Peace In Communities. Next, they wanted peace in the community--the peace that springs from the ability to meet the needs of community life--schools, play grounds, parks, sanitation, high ways--those things which are ex pected of solvent local government. They sought escape from disinte gration and bankruptcy in local and State affairs. They also sought peace within the Nation--protection of their currency, fairer wages, the ending of long hours of toil, the abolition of child labor, the elimination of wildcat speculation, the safety of their children from kidnapers. And, Anally, they sought peace with other nations--peace In a world of unrest. The Nation knows that I hate war, and I know that the Nation hates war. I submit to you a record of peace; and on that record a well-founded expectation for future peace--peace for the individual, peace for the community, peace for the Nation and peace with the world. Tonight I call the roll--the roll of honor of those who stood with us in 1932 and still stand with ua today. Written on It are the names of millions who never had a chance-- men at starvation wages, women in sweatshops, children at Idoms. Written on it are the names of those who despaired, young men and young women for whom oppor iitniitr Kaenma a nrill.A'.fha. wisp. Written on it are the names of farmers whose acres yielded only bitterness, business men whose books were portents of disaster-- home owners who were faced with eviction--frugal citizens whose sav ings were insecure. Written there in large letters are the names of countless other Amer icans of all parties and all faiths-- Americans who had eyes to see and hearts to understand--whose con sciences were burdened because too many of their fellows were bur dened--who looked on these things four years ago and said: "This can be changed. We will change it.'* Justified Faith j And New Support. We still lead that army In 193d. They stood with us then because they believed. They stand with us today because they know. And with them stand millions of new recruits who have come to know. Their hopes have become our record. We have not come this far with out a struggle and I assure you we cannot go further without a strug gle. For 12 years this Nation was afflicted with hear-nothing, see nothing, do-nothing Government. The Nation looked to Government, but the Government looked away. Nine mocking years with the golden calf and three long years of the scourge! Nine crazy years at the ticker and three long years in the breadlines! Nine mad years of mirage and three long years of de spair! Powerful Influences strive today to restore that kind of gov nnfVt its ^A/itvins tWfti tKn f government is best which is most indifferent. For nearly four years you have had an administration which, In stead of twirling its thumbs, has rolled up its sleeves. We win keep our sleeves rolled up. We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that gov ernment by organized money is just as dangerous as government by or ganized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous In their hate for me--and I wel come their hatred. I should like to have it said of my first administration that in It the force* of selfishness and of lust for power met their match: I should like to have it said of my second administration that in It these forces met their master. Front Door Only. White House Entrance. The American people know from a four-year record that today there is only one entrance to the White House--by the front doer. Since March 4, 1933. there has been only one passkey to the White House. I have carried that key in my pocket. It is there tonight. So long as I am President, it will re main in my pocket. Those who used to have passkeys are not happy. Some of them are desperate. Only desperate men with their backs to the wall would descend so far below the level of decent citizenship as to foster the current pay-envelope campaign against America's working people. Only reckless men. heedless of con sequences, would risk the disruption of the hope for a new peace be tween worker and employer by re turning to the tactics of the labor spy. Here is an amazing paradox 1 The very employers and politicians and newspapers who talk most loudly of class antagonism and the destruction of the American sys f-1 Pausing during a tour of the Bronx, President Roosevelt spoke informally yesterday to a group of women Democratic leaders. Among them were Mrs. Herbert Lehman, right, wife of the Governor, and Representative Caroline O'Day. --Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. tern now undermine tnat system by this attempt to coerce the votea of the wage earners. It is the 1936 version of the old threat to close down the factory or the office if a particular candidate does not win. It is an old strategy of tryrants to delude their victims into fighting their battles for them. Every message in a pay envelope, even If it is the truth, is a com mand to vote according to the will of the employer. But this propa ganda is worse--it is deceit. They tell the worked his wage will be reduoed by a contribution to some vague form of old-age in surance. They carefully conceal from him the fact that for every $1 of premium he pays for that Insurance, the employer pays an other $1. That omission is deceit, celt. They carefull conceal from him the fact that under the Federal law. he receives another Insur ance policy to help him if he loses his job. and that the premium of that policy is paid 100 per cent by the employer and not 1 cent by the worker. They do not tell him that the insurance policy that is bought for him is far more favorable to him than any policy that any private insurance company could afford to issue. That omis sion is deceit. Employer Pays Three te Worker's One. They Imply to him that^he pays the cost of both forms of Insur ance. They carefully conceal from him the fact that for every $1 put up by him his employer puts up $3--three for one. And that omission is deceit. But they are guilty of more than deceit. When they imply that the reserves thus created against both these policies will be stolen by some future Congress--diverted to some wholly foreign purpose, they attack the integrity and honor of Amer ican Government itself. Those who suggest that, are already aliens to the spirit of American democracy. Let them emigrate and try their lot under some foreign government in which they have more confidence. The fraudulant nature of this attempt Is well shown by the rec ord of votes on the passage of the social security act. In addition to an overwhelming majority of Democrats in both Houses, 77 Re publican Representatives voted for it and only IS against it and 15 Republican Senators voted for it and only 5 against It. Where does this last-minute drive of the Republican leadership leave these Republican Representatives and Senators who helped enact this law? I am sure the vast majority of law-abiding business men who are not parties to this propaganda fully appreciate the extent of the threat to honest business contained In this coercion. I have expressed Indignation at this form of campaigning and I am confident that the overwhelm ing majority of employers, workers and the general public share that Indignation and will show It at the polls. Aside from this phase of It, I pre fer to remember this campaign not as bitter, but only as hard-fought. There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought Is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he Is President of all the people. It Is because I have sought to think in terms of the whole Nation that I am confident that today. Just as four yean ago. the people want more than promises. Our vision for the future contains more than promises. I* Cantinas Efforts For Working Class. This is our answer to those who, silent about their own plans, ask us to state our objectives. Of course we will continue to seek to Improve working oondi a tlons for the workers of America-- to reduce hours overlong, to in crease wages that spell starvation, to end the labor of children, to wipe out sweatshops. Of course we will continue every effort to end monopoly In business, to sup port collective bargaining, to stop unfair competition, to abolish dis honorable trade practices. For all these we have only just begun to fight. Of course we will continue to work for cheaper electricity In the homes and on the farms of Amer ica, for better and cheaper trans portation, for low interest rates, for sounder home financing, for better banking, for the regulation of security Issues, for reciprocal trade among nations, for the wip ing out of slums. For all these we have only Just begun to fight. Of course we will continue our efforts In behalf of the farmers of America. With their continued co operation we will do all In our power to end the piling up of huge surpluses which spelled ruinous prices for their crops. We will persist In successful action for bet ter land use, for reforestation, for the conservation of water all the way from Its source to the sea, for drought and flood control, for better marketing facilities for farm commodities, for a definite reduc ■mmam 1 non or rarm tenancy. Tor encour agement of farmer co-operatives, for crop insurance and a stable food supply. For all these we have only just begun to fight. Of course we will provide use ful work for the needy unemployed; we prefer useful work to the pau perism of a dole. Here and now I want to make myself clear about those who dis parage their fellow citizens on the relief rolls. They say that thoae on relief are not merely jobless-- that they are worthless. Their solution for the relief problem Is to end relief--to purge the rolls by starvation. To use the language of the stock broker, our needy un employed would be cared for when, as and if some fairy godmother should happen on the scene. For Education And Opportunity. You and I will continue to re fuse to accept that estimate of our unemployed fellow Americana. Your Government is still on the same side of the street with the Good Samaritan and not with those who pass by on the other side. Again--what of our objectives* Of course we will continue our efforts for young men and wom en so that they may obtain an education and an opportunity to put it to use. Of course we will continue our help for the crip pled, for the blind, for the moth ers--our insurance for the unem ployed--our security for the aged. Of course we will continue to pro tect the consumer against unnec essary price spreads, against the costs that are added by monop oly and speculation. We will con tinue our successful efforts to In crease his purchasing power and to keep it constant. For these things, too, and for others like them we have only just begun to fight. All this--all these objectives-- spell peace at home. All our ac tions, all our Ideals, spell also peace with other nations. Today there la war and rumor of war. We want none of it. But while we guard our shores against threats of war we will continue to remove the causes of unrest and antagonism at home which might make our people easier victims to those for whom foreign war la profitable? Those who stand to profit by war are not on our side In this campaign. "Peace on earth, good will toward men"--Democracy must cling to that message. For It Is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live without that true religion which gives a nation a sense of Justice and of moral purpose. Above our political fotums, above our market places stand the altars of our fslth--altars on which burn the fires of devotion that main tain all that is best in us and in our Nation. We have need of that devotion today. It Is that which makes it possible for government to per suade those who are> mentally prepared to fight each other to go on instead to work for and to sacrifice for each other. That is why we need to sty with the prophet, "What doth the Lord re quire of thee, but to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy Ood." That is why the recovery we seek, the recovery we are winning is more than economic. In it are included justice and love and humility--not lor ourselves as individuals alone but lor our Na tion. That is the road to peace.

Recreation Unit to Meet. The nrst Pall meeting of the Recrea tion Committee of the Council of Social Agencies will be held Thursday in the Commerce Department, C. Mar shall Finnan, superintendent of Na tional Capital Parks and committee chairman, announced yesterday. Lewis It- Barrett, co-ordinator of recreation in the District, will speak. "Sober Sense of American People" Triumphs, Chi cagoans Told. By the AuocUted Free*. CHICAGO, October SI--Conclud ing nearly 34,000 mile* of campaign travel, Col. Prank Knox, Republican vice presidential nominee, averted tonight the "sober sense of the Amer ican people" has "won this election" for his party. "Only in our time," Knox aaid In a prepared address at a mass meeting at the International Amphitheater in his home city, "has our Government been seized by alien forces bent upon reorganizing the American system. "And the American people have met this test. I have seen the answer in the faces of determined men, angry At this threat to American way»." "They still believe in the American system. They still believe in the American Constitution. They still believe in the Supreme Courts "They sense the sinister advance of Government tyranny. They mom the danger of dictatorship. They see the shadow of regiment-action moving over the world. They know what has happened in Russia and Germany and Italy. They see what is happen ing in 8pain. "And they are sternly determined that it shall not happen in America." Shot at Roosevelt. For his parting shot at President Roosevelt, Knox renewed charges, fired repeatedly in recent weeks, that the President is making a "campaign .e -»«-tt OUMIvV a "No word about the future" comes from Mr. Roosevelt, Knox declared, "even In these very last days before the election." "For the first time in history, a candidate is running for the presi dency on the platform: 'I know, but I ain't gonna tell.' Charging the administration "knocked the fundamental institu tions of America into a cocked hat," Knox said the voters have decided they "will give no more blank checks." Called Minnesota's political devel opments one decisive factor, saying the President chose the Farmer Labor party there in preference to the Democrats. Hits "Mianesota Shift" "The President still boasts that he is a good quarterback,'' Knox jibed, "but when he called the Minnesota shift, the game was over. "The people are no longer deluded by a sham solicitude for the common man. On Tuesday next they are going to cast out the motley crew of amateur dictators, haywire experi menters and Santa Claus squan derers." YOUTH HELD IN MURDER Colored Boy Accused of Stabbing Man in Fight. Levi Parker, 17. colored. 1300 block of Huntoon Court southwest, was charged with murder last night in connection with the fatal stabbing of Sidney Thompson. 33. colored, 1330 Union street southwest. Thompson, stabbed in the chest with a knife during a fight at Sixth and K streets southwest, was dead on arrival at Providence Hospital. The Parker boy was arrested a short time later. --For Lack Of Ready Cash? I We will lend you from $100 to $500. according to the table below. All you need is a good character, regular income, II a satisfactory record for meeting obligations and 2 co- a signers. I You I You Total Monthly You 4o not koYO to ko Aooly lUeclve Coat Pay _tor to Ca»h_l_Year_mint_ fapotitor in any konk 108.00T 101.52 6.48 9JO 216.00 208.041 12J9 18.00 **ur 2 04.86 1 184 J6 1 19.44 I 27.80 tifiwn. HAMILTON NATIONAL BANK o 14th A G St*. N.W. Daooat Circle 1100 Wl*. Are. N.W. f? Main Office 800 St. N.E. *th A N St*. N.W. 1J ltth A Ncwtan N.E. 10th A Pa. Atc. N.W. *0*7 K. L At*. N.E. eaae .a 1,1 F°r FREE H°ME DEM0NSTRA* Ws Many models to choose from. for your LIVERY. 7 '^pi&frsu ALL WAVE ^^W\vv Foreign L ******'r **V*^ 4*:• I W.6»J. Sloane fl 711 Twelfth St. I *111 111 r/jjjj;) 111 Mw 1 An Exceptional Opportunity to Buy (Rare Oriental (Rucjs We are just opening a marvelous collection of Semi-Antique Orientals You have the assurance of complete exclusiveness, for there isn't another group like it to be seen anywhere. Each and b every one is intriguing in design and coloring--and is being offered at a price enticingly interesting. The collection comprises: Serrebends Khorassans Sennehs Met beds Feraghans Tabrizs Sarouks Kermans The sizes are approximately 9x12--with a few larger sizes, 20x10, 10x14.9, 19x10.8--selection is offered at From *385 to $850 Included are a few in 4x7 size--products of the same skilled artists-- *49 to $175

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